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4. December 2012, 11:45:21
nicnat 
Subject: how do i perform en passant ?
In basic chess ?

4. December 2012, 05:37:59
Bernice 
Subject: Re: Easter Eggs
Aganju: someone deleted my post....sorry. Of course you are right and Im sorry for the misleading post.....my bad.

4. December 2012, 05:25:19
ellieoop 
ithat's what i got 27 mos. with that egg. it's a good deal..thx. Fencer.

4. December 2012, 02:21:01
Aganju 
Subject: Re: Easter Eggs
Bernice: Actually, 125% is the additional *bonus*, so you get 225% in total which is 27 months for paying 12.
I did that last easter :-)

4. December 2012, 01:32:15
Bernice 
Subject: Re: Easter Eggs
Anjil: when you pay for a 12 mth membership WHEN THE EGG IS FLASHING you actually get 15 months membership.

4. December 2012, 01:14:25
Anjil 
Subject: Easter Eggs
How do the Easter Eggs work? I see one for 125% - what does that mean in terms of a 12 month membership?

thanks!

29. November 2012, 16:06:47
Bwild 
Subject: Hannelore interview
great interview!!

27. November 2012, 00:07:40
Thad 
Subject: Re: Hannelore interview
She's a Steeler fan! Woo-hoo!!

26. November 2012, 22:30:28
likewowman2cool 
Subject: Hannelore interview
I want to thank Hannelore for answering all those questions; I would *not* have done it!

On another note, I wonder if Fencer could stop Hannelore from spying on me?

Maybe when I start playing new games again (after the holidays perhaps?) I will learn how to play espionage...how hard can it be? (cough)

http://brainking.com/en/Interviews

22. November 2012, 19:28:05
Aganju 
Subject: Re: BKR Lottery
Response to Justaminute: If you convince the guy that makes those tournaments, he could lock him easily out of all of them.

22. November 2012, 12:04:41
Justaminute 
Subject: Re: BKR Lottery
rabbitoid:
Having just "won" about 20 games via timeout against the same opponent, I looked through the tournaments for new ones to enter and find the same opponent entered in many of them. This takes the fun out of tournaments, particularly the 4 player ones.

21. November 2012, 20:34:03
rabbitoid 
Subject: Re: BKR Lottery
El Cid: Finally, after the smoke settled at the end of the hour he "lost" some 200-300 points, so the damage was limited.

I continue to put "" around "lose" and "win" since all this BKR stuff is at best a rough estimate of the relative strength of 2 players.making a competition out of it is silly.

21. November 2012, 09:44:58
El Cid 
Subject: Re: BKR Lottery
Modified by El Cid (21. November 2012, 09:45:17)
pedestrian: Wouldn't it be better to change the BKR formula, so that it would only change at the end of an hour (or something like that). With this change, it would calculate for all of those games at the same time and no one would be punished (I know it still isn't perfect...)

21. November 2012, 09:14:09
pedestrian 
Subject: Re: BKR Lottery
Hrqls: Yes, that would solve the problem rabbitoid pointed out - but not the problem with a strong player getting a ridiculously low BKR because he timed out in a bunch of games. His future opponents would still suffer from that.

Maybe the solution is to use the BKR from the start of the game AND delete someone's BKR if they time out in three games in a row? And (still) delete them from any tournament they have signed up for.

21. November 2012, 09:01:15
Hrqls 
Subject: Re: BKR Lottery
pedestrian: or maybe always use the bkr from the start of the game ?

20. November 2012, 20:47:28
pedestrian 
Subject: Re: BKR Lottery
rabbitoid: I think it was essentially the same with the old vacation system, the difference being that the BKR decline happened over the course of a day, not an hour.

In my view, the main problem is that if such a player decides to come back and play more games, his next many opponents will be punished BKR-wise for playing a strong opponent who now has a 700-ish rating.

Maybe it would be possible to suspend a player's BKR if he times out in a certain number of games? His opponents who win on time would all be rated according to the player's BKR at the time of the suspension. The player himself would have to start over and play 25 games to establish a new rating. And, perhaps most important: The player should automatically be deleted from all tournaments he has signed up for, to limit the number of time-outs.

19. November 2012, 14:32:45
wekke2002 
Subject: Re: My old profile
Fencer: Maybe got lost in my spamfilter. Can you retry wekke2002@telenet.be.

Sorry and thanks

19. November 2012, 14:31:02
Fencer 
Subject: Re: My old profile
wekke2002: Dude, I've sent you a response 2 months ago. You better check if your email address is correct.

19. November 2012, 14:26:54
wekke2002 
Subject: My old profile
Anyone an idea how I can retrieve my password for my old account? I honestly don't remember the email adress I registerd with. Already sent two messages to Fencer, no reply though. Tia, wekke2002, formarly known as wekke :-)

19. November 2012, 07:40:43
rabbitoid 
Subject: BKR Lottery
I've just noticed a curious side effect to the new vacation system: I have 2 chess games against a very strong player who stopped logging in for the past month. His vacation clock is winding down with 7h to go. He has 33 running games, and should time-out in all within one hour. Now here's the twist: When he times out his first game his opponent will "gain" a lot of BKR, but those "gains" for the opponents will drop sharply as the hour advances, because the player who times out will "lose" rating for each finished game. So the first opponent who "wins" gains a lot of rating points from winning against a strong player, the last one gains less, because the strong player has become mediocre within one hour. Tragic...

3. November 2012, 01:49:43
rod03801 
Subject: Re: Settings help?
likewowman2cool: That's the one I was kind of thinking might help him a little, too.

I'm STILL hanging on to hope that someday one more option will be added.
Move and Go to next flagged game

Where you can flag certain games. Prize tournament games might be something one might like to flag, for that option. Or if you have a lot of games, and you know of people who would like you to move fast with them, you could flag that game.

I can think of a few other good applications for that feature!

2. November 2012, 21:01:36
likewowman2cool 
Subject: Re: Settings help?
Carpe Diem: rod is on to something I think. I suggest trying the option listed as "go to the next game with offline player".

It is not perfect, but it would seem to solve most of the problem you seem to be having.

2. November 2012, 20:35:10
rod03801 
Subject: Re: Settings help?
Modified by rod03801 (2. November 2012, 20:36:23)
Carpe Diem: Have you checked out the options on the first page of your settings? I mean the part where you can choose which options are in the menu when you "Submit move and .... "

I swore there was an option in that list that might be appropriate for what you are asking. Maybe I'm wrong.

EDIT : Eh, I looked, I guess not. But there are some good options there if you haven't seen them.

2. November 2012, 19:08:49
Carpe Diem 
Subject: Re: Settings help?
Fencer: Thanks for the quick reply. So it sounds like what I'm looking for doesn't exist. :( I guess the best way to go for now is to use the "Play Later" button for games that keep coming back that I want to get to later. If you ever find a way to add this option, it would make things perfect on an otherwise great site.


Thad
: Yes, exactly - this is what I'm looking for. 

2. November 2012, 19:01:44
Thad 
Subject: Re: Settings help?
Carpe Diem: What's needed is a sort by "games that have been waiting for me to move the longest" option. In other words, sort by opponent's last move time.

2. November 2012, 19:00:12
Fencer 
Subject: Re: Settings help?
Carpe Diem: Actually, the "Sort next games by" option is obsolete (and should be removed) because games are sorted by time left only due to some performance issues we had observed in the past. It means that "next game" is always the game with the least time left to make a move.

2. November 2012, 18:51:49
Carpe Diem 
Subject: Settings help?
Hi everyone, I'm pretty new here (at least to being a paid member and going crazy with hundreds of games), so please forgive me if this is a stupid question.

Now that I'm signed up for lots of tournaments and have a few hundred games on the go, I'm trying to fix the way games come up for me. I have it set so that once I've moved in a game, it automatically takes me to the next game, as I'm sure most people do. My issue is what the "next game" is. What's happening now is that games I've just moved in keep coming back to the top. So, for example, I'll have 150 games waiting for moves, but sometimes I don't get more than 10 or 20 down the list for an hour (unless I select them manually or use the "Play Later" button, of course) because a few people involved in dice poker (again as an example - could be any game) keep moving quickly, and those games keep popping up. I've tried changing the "Sort next games by" setting, but that doesn't help. Ideally, I'd like it to go through the whole list of games waiting for me before coming back for the next move with anyone. I assume/hope there's a setting somewhere I'm missing.

31. October 2012, 14:54:14
Papa Zoom 
Subject: Re:
Fencer: I'd fix it myself but the only kind of script writing I know is calligraphy.

31. October 2012, 09:12:17
Fencer 
Subject: Re:
rabbitoid: In order to make such a tool safe and easy to use, I would be something like "Click to fix this tournament" button anyway. A script to check all running tournaments once a day and fixing the bugged one seems to be a better solution.

31. October 2012, 07:20:11
rabbitoid 
Subject: Re:
Fencer: Why not delegate such stuff? create some appropriate DB intervention tools and give someone authority to use them.

31. October 2012, 07:09:27
Fencer 
Guys, when I have time for it, I'll try to fix all such tournaments at once. But now I cannot promise any date, I am quite busy with many other things.

31. October 2012, 03:32:14
Thad 
Subject: Re:
Artful Dodger: Both! ;-)

31. October 2012, 01:49:41
Papa Zoom 
Yeah, do I put in a bug for this or just bug Fencer?

30. October 2012, 17:29:42
Roberto Silva 
Subject: Re:
Artful Dodger: Awesome Fail

30. October 2012, 09:51:37
Hrqls 
Subject: Re:
Thad: cardinal was #20 at the start .. the seeding of the next rounds are msessed up somehow

29. October 2012, 22:31:16
cd power 
Subject: Re:
Thad: The seedings got screwed up and the bottom part is also incomplete.

29. October 2012, 22:30:25
Thad 
Subject: Re:
So how did cardinal win a match s/he wasn't even in?

29. October 2012, 15:41:10
Hrqls 
Subject: Re:
Artful Dodger: you probably have to play rockhound pam, but the new game for that isnt in the table yet it seems ..

29. October 2012, 15:28:11
cd power 
Subject: Re:
Artful Dodger: That's pretty cool... you were playing nightmagic, but cardinal came out as the winner

29. October 2012, 15:26:40
Papa Zoom 
Are there still games going on in this tourney? Something doesn't look right to me but I'm guessing I just don't understand the layout.

Dice Poker Tournament # 4

24. October 2012, 04:01:31
Gammonator 
Subject: Re: to start trny
Fencer: Thanks. They are all up and working.

22. October 2012, 16:40:00
furbster 
Subject: new interview
Modified by furbster (22. October 2012, 23:22:49)
Just to let people know that a new interview with hannelore is open.

http://brainking.com/en/Interviews


Click on the open link and ask your questions :o)

21. October 2012, 15:47:34
Aganju 
Subject: Re: to start trny
Vikings: yeah - just wait a decade, and you win! ;-)

21. October 2012, 14:50:26
Hrqls 
Subject: Brainking for Android
there is a new board to discuss the BrainKing for Android app :

http://brainking.com/en/Board?bc=165

have fun

20. October 2012, 21:35:04
aaru 
Subject: Re: to start trny

20. October 2012, 13:46:52
Vikings 
Subject: Re: to start trny
Gammonator: My next round should be easy

20. October 2012, 08:05:55
Fencer 
Subject: Re: to start trny
Gammonator: I've done some tinkering. The tournaments should be running now.

20. October 2012, 02:48:56
Bernice 
Subject: Re: to start trny
Gammonator: my goodness, some of these people havent been online on BK for years....it will never finish ROFLMBO

20. October 2012, 01:34:41
Gammonator 
Subject: to start trny
Is there anyway to start this trny
Game Addicts Ludo & Backgammon Mania # 1
its from 2006 and we are set to go. If not,,,can you just remove me from it please. and also this one

Stingy's game room

a 2007 trny that know one has moved in years,,,,and if you can't. please remove me from trny.

11. October 2012, 21:21:16
Hrqls 
Subject: Re: The game I'm talking about...checkers on GT
Stardust: ok thanks, it had me confused (despite the title of the thread :))

if its about another site, could we please take it to another board (maybe the board about other sites, or in a fellowship?)

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