Ultima is a very good chess variant that was invented by Abbott in the early 1960s. It is has been one of my favourite variants of the past two decades. I would love to see the game at this site, possibly with a tweak or two in the rules. I have some very good suggestions as to minor rule changes, having played hundreds of games of this variety. Is anyone else interested in seeing ULTIMA at brainking.com?

bouncybouncy: ;)  yep...I can still keep Fencer busy.  He has to approve my changes.  ;)

jessica: click on My Profile, at the top of the new page at the top click on Edit, on the next page select a country.

jessica: Just state your country in your profile. Go to your profile page and click (edit)

jessica: Edit your profile and enter your location (Country)

can anyone tell me how to get my national flag next to my name.

Groucho: oh gawd, yeah, blimmin heck, no stopping u now LOL

bouncybouncy:   It will be my new favorite feature.  ;)

WOW the new "Change Icon " feature is brilliant, thanks Fencer

LOL:)

Walter Montego: Hey could be fun if we had a choice viewing a cam while playing the other opponent while online, of their choice of course

I like to play faster paced games, but 1 hour games on a turn based site is not what I like. Until Fencer actually adds live play, I'm not going to play such quick games. A move or two a day with time off when needed works fine for me. The original days per with vacations allowed can be abused readily. Yeah I know, it's within the rules so it ain't abuse. What's within the rules isn't always what's meant when one plays a game though.

After the Fischer clock timing of games was added to the site, I decided to experiment with them. It's taken me awhile to get a feel for how it goes. It's just a matter of figuring out how many moves per day or week you like, starting with some amount of time, and then setting a maximum for when you might be away or a little longer. I think it works very well. It is something that takes getting used to and seeing how it works for yourself. I'm talking about periods of a day to a week with maximums from one week to three weeks. The amount of time the bonus is set for becomes the average time per move after subtracting the starting time of the clock.

"Have Fun": There is a simple thing to do, is do not join and play these kind of games. :)

rod03801: Yes ROD they can go for almost 2 hours.If there is alot of players.I do not TRY ROD.I always Have A Good Time :)

"Have Fun": Actually, no, there is no way to enforce a "1 hour and 9 minute" game either, with the current time constraints available. 2 hour total time is the lowest possible to enforce.

I never said I didn't like them, and no I generally don't play them.

And the only times I have ever had anything to say about your feature requests are when you go off topic. Let's not twist things around. Try and have a good evening! :-D

"Have Fun": It's his choice.

Mousetrap:

heavenlyemma: Oh well that is no good to me then with 42 kids and 613 games and only one candle to play them all the candle will have gone out before I finished.

rod03801: Thats what we will start calling them ROD 1 HOUR & 9 MINUTES.That is the longest any of them have went.I have played many of them and so have others.AS far as requesting the .5 why don't you because ever time i have made a request on the board you put me down.You have done this to me since i have been on this SITE.For all this taking about them .If you don't like them then DON"T PLAY THEM :)

Jules: Exactly babe

heavenlyemma: I tried one short time Fisher game once, then had to do things and lost the game. You've got to be able to stay at the screen without interuption. With two kids .. No chance of that

Mousetrap: Nope, it's like the clocks they use in professional chess matches. You get a fixed amount of time to play all your moves. So if you take 5 minutes making your first move you've only got 55 minutes left to complete all the others.

It's nice but no good if you've got other things that take up your time like kids

heavenlyemma: Well what the heck is all the fuss about then? One hour means one hour right? That is to complete the game right? There, sorted! Oh I see just to make a move so its an hour a move? This is too much for my poor ole head!

rod03801: What the heck lol! I never heard of that before it appeared on Brains I canna even work a digital watch out never mind a Fisher,s clock!

Mousetrap: It doesn't mean forever mouse, it means you've got one hour to do all your moves. As I found out recently in a game I played and timed out on.

WellyWales: Yes one hour should mean one hour not forever!

WellyWales: I agree with you Welly.

Jules: Exactly

rod03801: That's why I avoid the Fisher clock games.

Well it really is simple. There is currently no way to set up a 1 hour game! Just because the creator calls it a 1 hour game, does not make it so. They are mistaken when they call it that. The lowest time constraint currently possible at brainking is Fisher clock: 1/0/x. This means each player has 1 hour to make their moves. The only way to make a 1 hour game would be if there was the possiblity to use .5/0/x. That would be a half hour for each person. (Even then there is the possibility of it going over the 1 hour by 9 minutes. That is because Brainking checks for time outs every 10 minutes. That's just the way it is! Try requesting that Fencer add the possibility of the .5 on the Fisher clock.

gambler104: Yes, in thery if player 1 plays the second after the time out script plays, and the other player plays the second before it runs again - it could keep running forever - adding up to 9 minutes to the timed out time - but in reality, getting more then 10 minutes would be very hard - 20 minutes would be super hard, and super risky.

WellyWales: The people who make one hour games should label them as 2 hour games, or 1 hour time limit for each player (1+1 for each player = 2 hours for a game) - again, within 10 minutes or so usually.

Why is something so simply complicated...one hour should mean one hour, full stop!

BIG BAD WOLF: You will only be timed out if it is your turn during the time out check. So theoretically, the game could last for well beyond two hours.

Pedro Martínez: No, It's a spam message from someone who's wanting people to be in their tournes. I blocked them to stop getting these messages ages ago. But I'm still getting them.

heavenlyemma: I guess you're receiving fellowship messages from him/her. If so, go to the respective fellowship and untick the "Receive group messages from the Big Boss" box.

I have a question.

I have a player on block but i'm still getting spam from this player, how is that possible if I have the person on block??

Thanks

BIG BAD WOLF: oops you are right ... i was mistaken by the bkr calculation (the position, the rank, not the rating :)) ... thats done once an hour

Hrqls: The timeout script is ran every 10 minutes (not every hour). So a user *could* possible be down 9 minutes before the script runs.

Hrqls: Thank you for that. I did not see Fencer's post. And please note that some people are not what they pretend to be.

Hrqls: Thankyou kind sir

Hrqls: Thats ok

heavenlyemma: thanks :)

bouncybouncy: true .. sorry .. i just went back and saw your grinning emoticon .. thats why i added your name .. sorry, i later read the newer posts you made

(the grinning appeared as encouragement to me at that time)

crosseyed: "sigh" I do my argueing in the pit and show respect on these public boards now. I don't go trying to start flames with others here like you are.

Hrqls: but i didnt do anything, i was actually telling crosseyed to leave it alone .

bouncybouncy: I am> I have her on hide now. I know what her game was.

crosseyed & heavenlyemma & bouncybouncy: thats enough for now ... continue this personal matters in private messages

crosseyed: Please leave it now sweetie pie

crosseyed: the time out is checked once an hour (as you can read in an article fencer on http://www.brainking.info posted this week)

therefore, when the time for a new move is started 5 minutes after the timeout is checked, then there is 1 hour before the timeout .. but at that time there will 55 more minutes before the timeout check will be done .. giving this move 1 hour and 55 minutes for the real timeout loss

crosseyed: dont bite now, jsut leave it, best way.