ScarletRose: Sorry. I was offline when you posted this. Yes, could be because of that.

Whatever they're using it's quite strong in blocking the sites. I don't know weather it is sensitive to words related to sexual cases or just knows what sites are related to that. I suppose it must be the first one since it's hard to feed the system with ALL site names related to sexuality.

bry, the last few days my game moves take ages, this is especially irritating in backgammon.. sometimes 2-3 mins, per roll

stevie with a stella....

Right, must just be my aol connection at the moment then. Never mind...

its fast for me still also

Youll have to sort out the slowbies LOL

Stevie: Absolutely not, it's fast for me even on very slow GPRS line. Bry probably hit a peak time.

Bry: could be the reason :oD

reza: could be blocked?? Could it not??

Is BK running slow for anyone else? in between making moves on games?

Actually angelfire is a set of "free websites" which anyone can go and set up a website for free - so you can guess many "bad" sites have been made in the past - which is why I would guess someone in Iran just blocked "all angelfire" sites to be safe.

Antje: LOl! don't be too picky. Yes, that's it and I still can't see the site. There must be something there that the blocking system in Iran has discovered is not 'good' for me to see!

In anycase, thanks for the reply. I bet right now a moderator comes and says : OFF TOPIC

if its angelfire you mean, Reza, its about photo sites and blog builders. nothing pornographic or chess related that i saw!

here's the link http://angelfire.lycos.com/

haha! the most interesting part is that when I click on the link for the questions, I go to no sites!

the browser shows a windows saying : Dear customer, accessing that site is impossible.

Is that site related to sexual or pornographic things?

those sites are blocked in Iran.
Can someone tell me besides chess, what other topics are available on that site named 'anglefire'

But at least this way it gives everyone the option and oppurtunity.. for those that wouldn't normally look at the chess db's. The prize may be an incentive for some to get interested in it, and as pafl said, it was only one post

well, i agree with chuck, as it is highly unlikely that anyone will get this correct who does not play chess.
therefore i can see why it maybe a better idea to post it in teh chess secion of discussion boards

Czuch Chuckers:
1) Similarly you could say not all feature requests are related to BK as they deal with various games that we do not even know
2) It is only Chessmaster's business what kind of contest he offers
3) The contest is a good thing for the site and the players too, perhaps and opportunity to start studying gothic chess for some and to have the biggest impact it should be posted here not only because
4) it is just ONE post

I had to respond because I think your critique is very unfair.

Chessmaster1000: This doesnt relate to the general Brainking population. Most/many of us have no idea what gothic chess is, much less able to answer some unique problem related to the game. Maybe you could offer a contest that is more appropriate to the whole Brainking population, or keep it to the chess/gothic chess boards only :)

Well since last time nobody succedded, i will increase the prize..... So here is your chance to win a one year membership here, with a lot of effort of course........

The first one who will post at
Gothic Chess discussion board and only there, the correct answers to the above 4 questions, will win a 1 year Rook membership...........

The 4 questions are here.


***If there are no answers or any correct one until 10/02/2005, there will be no winner.......
***If someone posts more than 1 answer, then the accepted one, will be ONLY his last one. That means even if someone posts a correct answer before everyone, but posts another one later, not correct this time, he would not win as the accepted answer will be the last one. Even if anyone else hasn't answered correctly.......
***In the extremely rare case when there will be 2 or more correct answers at the exactly same time, the winner will be the one whose post will appear first at the Gothic Chess discussion board.
***I will post if there is a winner or not at 10/02/2005.

arghhh what is the matter with this site this morning, it keeps going off and now when I open my games there is nothing there

using the back button after visiting links still works for me

I generally open in new window now. But Most of the time till recently Ive just clicked links...then used back button. It always seemed to work the way that Bernice would like it to for me :oD But not done recently..so dont know if it doesnt work now

Btw, if you use Firefox (recommended), you can open a target page in a new tab by middle-click on the link. Very handy feature.

Thad: Thank you and Harley as well....HTML i am familiar with but PC short cuts i have never been interested in before...thanks...Im sorry Fencer if i have caused you stress in your terribly busy life:( this is one thing fixed...for me at least :)

BerniceC: Sorry, let me try to explain what I meant before a little better...

When you click on a link from a discussion board, hold down the option key (or whatever the proper key is), so that the link you've just clicked on opens in a new window (like having the target="_blank" tag, even when there isn't one). Won't that solve the problem you have?

BerniceC: Are you on a PC? Right click and "open in new window". Then when you're finished, you can just close the window.

Harley, please do not delete this....it is BK related, and I want an answer, because it was great before and it is POO house now:)

Thad: the pages open in the same place because most people do not know about the target="_blank"> html option....
Stevies link all open in place of the BK page...and so do most other links posted by MEMBERS...therefore...ggggrgrrrrrrrrr.... you HAVE to use the back button.
How often do I have to say the same thing over and over.....isnt my english any good....Can some one with a knowledge of HTML please enlighten someone on here....It might even be me...I can send you to my graphics site and you can stay there forever while you surf the different categories with out using the back button.....THIS is what im talking about....:(

BerniceC: On the contrary. In the past it worked as you describe because the page was always loaded from the server. Now it's not.

BerniceC: Option-click on links like that so that your window with the DB discussion on it stays intact. Then you don't need to go back, just close the other window when you're done and you'll be right where you left off.

Fencer: You misunderstand what I'm saying....
example....
Stevie directs me to his scooby site...I go look...no probs.....In the past when I hit the back button to come back to BK it came back to Stevie's posted link....now it doesnt it comes back to the top of the current page for that DB or F/s...which mean i have to scroll down to find the link again.....all the RED NEW have gone so I cant use that to navigate either, and if there has been a couple hundred posts it makes it even harder....I hope Im not confusing thing :(

BerniceC: You have the left column menu to go anywhere you want. There is no reason to use the back button.

i got windows....only 98SE but it is windows LOLOL and it worked until recently.....about 6-7 days ago maybe?? even shorter??

I have the same problem on the Mac but it works fine on the windows machine.

Fencer: OK :) tell me what to do then? there isnt a link saying "take me back to where i was"

BerniceC: Don't hit the back button. It's a bad practice on all dynamically generated sites.

why is it when i hit the back button, i then have to hit refresh to go back a page?
Also if someone puts a live link on a DB or in a fellowship, you click on it and in the past when you have hit theback button to return it has taken you back to exactly where you clicked on the live link...not anymore..it takes you to the top of the page....so you have to scroll down and find where the link is to continue reading the board! ummm is that clear? :)

ok Fencer, what did you break???

i couldnt connect either

nope, it was me too

What happened to the Brainking? I couldn't connect for the last half hour but now it seems OK.
Is it only me or it was a problem......?

Nirvana: Psst, feature requests is thataway!

Thad: it would be helpful to have a separate bit on that for discussion/chat etc to keep the story lines going more fluently ~ you are right there!
Any chance of that please Fencer?

Fencer: Cool, I hadnt noticed that before LOL Ive had so many ask me and ive had to remember

Stevie: http://brainking.com/game/FAQ?ht=10

Left

Right.

big profile piccy is 200wide x 300high pxls isnt it?

Maxxina: so that could be 7 or 9 depending on where it timed out in the week...thanks

Maxxina: hmm... including weekends or does the count start only after a weekend?

what fencer said that should be only 5 days in row .