BrainKing - Discussion boards (BrainKing.com)

Subject: Re:

Czuch Czuckers: No games started by old rules are switched mid stream.

11. January 2007, 15:13:37

Subject: Re:

MadMonkey: what is the difference if your opponenet uses the king or knight first? both give 8 points, and both you can't block any of those 8 points - so no matter if white started with king or knight, it should be the same or very close to the same.

As a side note, I've played with the king-queen rule in 3 test games, and I was still able to win all 3 games as black. (just a lot closer) Of course there are a few other rules on how spaces are counted that was not in place at that time.

11. January 2007, 14:31:07

Subject: Re:

"Snoopy": Its even worse when a game starts by old rules, then switches mid stream... fencer will probabl6y have to delete the whole tournament?

11. January 2007, 14:26:38

Fencer: Could you just restart the game for me please so we are both using the same rules

11. January 2007, 14:24:09

Subject: Re:

"Snoopy": That sux

11. January 2007, 14:23:18

Subject: Re:

Modified by ScrambledEggs (11. January 2007, 14:26:01)

Czuch Czuckers: you cant delete tournament games
and as far as i can see half the games in the tournament will be played by the old rules and the rest with the new ones!!!!

11. January 2007, 14:22:04

Subject: Re:

MadMonkey: Just delete the game! The rules should have only effected new games started after the 11th, some bug, I guess.

11. January 2007, 14:20:58

Subject: Re:

Pedro Martínez: Of course it is, Blacks Queen will now get blocked in, hence the idea of taking away Blacks advantage, now WQhite has a major one. I would not mind if White had been forced to use the King first like the Rules state, but i dont think changing game rules during a game is right.

11. January 2007, 14:17:28

Pedro Martínez

Subject: Re:

MadMonkey: Yes, that is right...even though I don't think the advantage of the white is that major...if any at all...

11. January 2007, 14:15:57

Subject: Re:

Pedro Martínez: So the game started using old rules, and now uses new rules.

Is that right ? Certainly not fair, so now white has major advantage

11. January 2007, 14:11:00

Pedro Martínez

Subject: Re:

MadMonkey: Yes, I know...this rule took effect on the 11th of January...read this:
http://brainking.com/en/News?tp=93

11. January 2007, 14:08:34

Subject: Re:

Pedro Martínez: But my opponent had not placed a White King, he put a Knight.

11. January 2007, 14:05:10

Pedro Martínez

Subject: Re:

MadMonkey: Rules: "In order to eliminate an advantage of black player, a game must be started by placing a white king, followed by placing a black queen."

11. January 2007, 14:03:24

Fencer: Why in my Cheversi game 2203836 will it only let me place the Queen on the board and nothing else ?

11. January 2007, 14:00:40

Subject: Re: NTL..set-top boxes..

Tulip: oh thats bad news luckily im on broadband with NTL but NTL are a law unto themselves im afraid

11. January 2007, 13:59:04

Tulip

Subject: NTL..set-top boxes..

NTL sent a letter today that they are withdrawing their internet access to folk who use the boxes.
if your on a pc your'e ok...
so i'll say farewell to all the friends ive made here & played against..my house will be sooooooo clean with no games & chat and i'll go stark,staring mad! ;(
its going off this weekend sometime..

9. January 2007, 20:33:07

Fencer

Subject: Re: Is there

BIG BAD WOLF: There was a global downtime on our ISP. Not a BrainKing issue.

9. January 2007, 20:00:54

Subject: Re: Is there

Jason: Yesterday for about 1/2 hour, and today off and on for less then 10 minutes at a time, connection problems - all other sites work well.

Don't think it is a BrainKing issue, but a connection issue (since I could not also connect to brainking.info, which is on a different server if I remember correctly.)

9. January 2007, 19:48:25

jessica

Subject: Re: Is there

Jason: i had problems about an hour ago.

9. January 2007, 19:45:11

pauloaguia

Subject: Re: Is there

Jason: I had some connection timeouts earlier but all seems fine now.

9. January 2007, 19:44:11

Subject: Re: Is there

Jason: no problem for everyone

9. January 2007, 19:42:56

Jason

Subject: Is there

problems getting onto the site or is it my connection ? only this site seems to be a problem for me today .

9. January 2007, 16:34:56

Dolittle

Subject: Re:

danheg:That's cool, enjoy!!

9. January 2007, 13:39:34

danheg

it looks like he gave me a full year as a rook. thank you Fencer.

9. January 2007, 10:35:39

toedder

Subject: Re: email address

"Snoopy":

9. January 2007, 10:33:12

Subject: Re: email address

Gordon Shumway: geesh im brain dead this morning..lol

9. January 2007, 09:29:27

toedder

Subject: Re: email address

"Snoopy": But of course you can - go to your profile and click the edit link!

9. January 2007, 09:28:45

toedder

Subject: Re:

BIG BAD WOLF: I don't think you have to ask him, it was done automagically when I upgraded from knight to rook!

9. January 2007, 07:21:35

Subject: email address

cant you change them anymore?

9. January 2007, 02:27:26

Subject: Re:

danheg: Actually I'll give a 4th things that will happen.

The new rook membership will be the primary one right away. Then after 6 months after your rook expires, what you have left on your Knight should be waiting to be used at that time.

(I think Fencer can put 2 months of Knight into 1 month of Rook membership extension - but you would have to ask Fencer about that.)

9. January 2007, 02:17:48

Jason

Subject: Re:

danheg: you should end up with about seven and a half months of rook membership as a rough guess when fencer logs back in ;)

9. January 2007, 02:15:49

jessica

show this user posts | link

now now lol don't be mean like that. i think when your knight membership expires your rook membership will start

9. January 2007, 02:11:37

Subject: Re:

danheg:Fencer will take away your Knight membership, as well as the Rook one and ban you forever from the site for messing the system and trying to confuse it

9. January 2007, 01:59:59

danheg

ok I just bought a 6 month brain rook subscription but i am in the middle of my brain knight subscription. How will this work?

8. January 2007, 21:54:49

Subject: Re: Team tournaments

furbster: I think that is exactly what it means!

8. January 2007, 21:53:04

furbster

Subject: Re: Team tournaments

Kiwiyeti: i'm not entirely sure, in fact this is a complete guess, but i think;

Green dots means you're in the tourney
Red dot means your not in a tourney or signed up for a team of that tourney
and no dot means you are in a team but haven't yet been signed in for the team tourney by your captain.

8. January 2007, 21:48:40

Kiwiyeti

Subject: Team tournaments

I know that if you have a green dot by the tournament means you are in it, but what does a red dot mean?
The page shows about three of them on some tournaments

8. January 2007, 21:42:25

Subject: Re:

King Reza: Being a friend to yourself makes it much easier to keep in touch with yourself as well!

8. January 2007, 21:31:20

heavenlyemma

Subject: Re:

King Reza:

8. January 2007, 21:29:03

Subject: Re:

heavenlyemma:

8. January 2007, 21:27:49

heavenlyemma

Subject: Re:

King Reza:

8. January 2007, 21:26:44

Subject: Re:

Czuch Czuckers:And, when I want to 'experiment' on a new game, I always use uncounted games :-) I don't need a second account to do that.

8. January 2007, 21:13:29

Subject: Re:

King Reza:

8. January 2007, 21:12:45

heavenlyemma

Subject: Re:

Czuch Czuckers:

8. January 2007, 21:11:23

Subject: Re:

King Reza: Its okay Reza, there is nothing wrong with being a friend to yourself!

8. January 2007, 21:07:51

Subject: Re:

BIG BAD WOLF:That is exactly what happened. I didn't have access to the internet and even my vacation days ran out. Harley lent me some of hers, but they didn't suffice either and I resigned all the games that hadn't already timed out in and asked Fencer if I could have a new account. I thenforth have refused all invitations to new games and am just finishing the backgammon games in a prize tourny. I need the prize for a friend.

8. January 2007, 20:35:31

Subject: Re:

BIG BAD WOLF: Thanks! that makes some sense of this!

8. January 2007, 20:21:39

Subject: Re:

Czuch Czuckers: I don't know the whole story - but with his old account, he lost access to BrainKing for a while (over a month?) and timed out on a lot of games - so when he came back, he wanted to start fresh without all the timed-out loses. I believe he only plays the "expired" account to finish the games which did not time out, but has not started any new games with that account. Again, don't know the exact story, but that is what I know.

8. January 2007, 20:21:07

Subject: Re:

furbster: It looks that way now, but both accounts definitely overlapped for a long period of time! Maybe playing one one account when experimenting on a game or whatever, and on another one to play for serious ratings????

8. January 2007, 20:18:01

furbster