We agreed to a draw in a checkers game (me & zetes) and the e-mail has the following stats:

BIG BAD WOLF: old BKR = 1986, new BKR = 1986 (0)
zetes: old BKR = 1699, new BKR = 1734 (+35)

Only problem is the names are switched around. zetes has the 1900+ BKR, I have the 1699/1734 BKR.

The ratings are pretty nutty, at least at the provisional level.

I think hidden is a bad idea. Personally I think all games should be public and open and all games should count for your rating. This goes for Dark Chess as well of course, where hidden strategies may actually mean something.

My ranking just went up 166 points frm one win. Is this correct? I know there has been some concern that the rankings may not be accurate lately?

There you go trying to think again, Ug...

Wow! I never realised it was such a cut-throat life and death affair. I always thought it was just a game.

It should stay hidden , why should create a edited games if you are playing with this Player a often , he should learn a position were it is .

Not private games...

but surely even if it was hidden well you wouldnt use it again on another game as all games can be checked for any plans that are used often .

I agree with Upchuck, but then this could now disappear to bopats board before we get told off ;o)

I disagree....that is part of the game. If I have hidden my boats that well, why should you get to find out my tricks? I say leave it the way it is :)

well that would be great if it can :)

Yes, it can be done.

oh yes I agree with the Cole, I hate not knowing how I have done

...it would be nice to see what the ending board looks like when you've lost and to see where the boats had been hiding.

It appears you've fixed it Fencer.

Cool, though I suppose MenisFromVenis and xabiron might wonder what happened. We haven't had anyone new join the top of the list in awhile now. Congratulations Mely. I'm looking forward to our next game.

Should be done.

Walter: Yes, there is a bug in chart generator with adding a new player. I will run a script to fix it.

He (Mely) has a rating. He's not listed in the Dark Chess chart. He's played nine games. He should be listed in the Provisional chart.

Yes, that's right Big Bad Wolf, I didhave a game restored. that would explain it. I'm surprised the computer doesn't change the scoring.

Yes, sure :-) I am not *yaaaawn* fully woken up yet.

I wasn't suggesting they were..
It was simply a tip for people who want to hide the ads, but still want to click them regularly It's a place where the ads always are, without bugging you on the game pages..

Of course, it's logical. Those two sites are not connected in any way.

I click on the link to the Brainking.info page to click on the ads.. they are always there, even if you hide them here on the main brainking site.

Okay, thanks.

I don't think it's possible to set up team tournaments yet. I guess the first one is a test?

If you want to enter a team in the current team tournament, the captain has to do it.

Who sets up team tournaments? Is it the captain? or the big boss? If the latter, I cant see how to go about it.

dont feel bad...I didnt know that at all.thanks lucky ;)

"How about having a page like "Support us", or "Store" have the banner up all the time? That way I know I can quickly go into one of those pages and quickly click an ad to help support this site."

That is also a no-no in the user agreement with Google's Ad-Sense.

Battleboat Board - Yup, 1 board for all the Battleboat games. (I added the other 2 game types to the description of the board since I think it would be best to have 1 board for all the boat games.)

I just checked, they've been combined into one :o)

BBW, is there a separate board for dark battleboats or have they been combined into the classic battleboats board? This discussion would be better on the appropriate board anyway!

you're right, i've been playing all of them wrong, i haven't played the plus version in a few years. thanks for clearing it up for me. i'll have to enter another one of those. i feel so dumb.

That is correct.

You get as many shots as you have your boats unsunk. So you start the game with placing 5 boats, and get 5 shots. if your opponent sinks one of your boats, you only have 4 boats left - leaving you with 4 shots left.

Tip for Battleboats Plus - If you find one of your opponenets boats, the quicker you can sink it, the better - because it will take away one of their shots.

(Note: Dark battleboats you always get 3 shots no matter how fast you sink the ships)

are you saying that because cole has 1 left to get on my board that i only get one shot? i am playing the top bd. and i have sunk 1 or no boats.

Tablut games both archived and in progress are often giving incorrect numbers of captured black pieces. It's not a major problem but slightly inconvenient.

The game looks OK to me, and looks like you do only have 1 boat left that is unsunk.

First 3 moves of the game, you got to take 5 shots each turn because you had 5 boats that were unsunk.
Turn 4 you had 4 shots because you only had 4 boats left unsunk
Turn 5 you had 3 shots because you only had 3 boats left unsunk
Turn 6 you had 2 shots because you only had 2 boats left unsunk.

Now turn 7, you only have 1 boat left unsunk, so you only get 1 shot.

i went under both boards in my BB+ game, it says i have 1 boat left, it only let me make 1 move, and there's no way i only have 1 boat left, it's game#392517 with cole. i have not been able to take the right amount of shots thru the entire game, i mentioned this on the feature bd. yesterday, i should have put the game# then.

In the pair of games Walter mentioned he is rated about 2400 and me about 2000. We have both played between 130 and 150 games.

In the first, I won and moved up 13 points. Walter moved down 8 points. So far so good.

In the second he won and moved up 8 points and I moved down 13 points.

This was a zero gain for both. I would expect to move up a bit after splitting the games. Of course it has worked out well for me when I split against lower players, so I'm not complaining, I just don't think the formula is a good one.

Elo is the rating system named after Prof. Arpad E. Elo, which the United States Chess Federation uses.

Walter - It also depends on how many games you have finished & how many games your oppenent has finished. In thery, the more games you have completed, the more "stable" your rating will be.

3 game Crowded rating - You should only get a rating after 4 games. By any chance did a game of crowded get timed out, then restored? (UPDATE: Yea, your game with "JustTina" which was timed out, giving you a rating - then it was restored, but the computer kept your rating viable instead of putting you back to "unrated".)

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I also some-what question some of the rankings - how in the new battleboat games for example, everyone's ratings started really low - even if you won all your games, you were still in the 1500-1700 range. Yet in Amazons, a few quickly jumped to the 2000+ range in no time at all. (Sorry, I can't check myself because I can't see what everyone's "unrated" rating is.) :-(

OK Fencer, I'll post it here then.

Is the ratings thing working correctly? I've noticed that it seems rather arbitrary with the points it gives and takes. If I'm 300 points ahead of my opponent, shouldn't he gain more than me if he wins? And lose less the me if he loses?
Also, I'm rated in Crowded Backgammon, even though I've only played 3 games. Mely is not listed on the provisional Dark Chess list even though he's played 9 games and has a rating of 2284.

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The 300 difference question comes from two game that "grenv" and I just finished.

Mely has replied to my query. He doesn't know why he's not listed. His theory is that he's won every game and ELO (I don't know what he means by ELO, but Electric Light Orchestra is probably not what he has in mind) doesn't recognize him for some reason. I replied that GothicInventor has won everygame and he's listed. So what gives?

Database knows everything, of course :-)

and the data base? ;)

Nobody except you knows how you voted.

I would think it would be anomymos (sp?) make so folks wouldnt be leery of participating.

polls - If you make that be "moderated" or ran by a person, i could run polls for you! (And I would not even ask about auto-passing!) :-)

Oh yes, polls. I'll do something with that.

and well worth the 3% I'm sure!
I was wondering if the "poll" link is being used?

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