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Resher: I've played the games for years and had no idea of such rule. After 416 games and a fairly high ranking, I have never been approached of the illegal move.
Aganju: I've found that most people are happy to play by the rules and have moved when it's been pointed out to them. If someone is refusing to abide by the rules and thinks it's OK because the programming lets them, then it ruins the tourny in my opinion. I'd message Fencer with the game id, point out that you've referred your opponent to the rules but they won't abide by them and ask Fencer to end the game in your favour.
cd power: the bug is well known for years, I was in the same situation. My opponent declared (when given that info) that 'the system does not enforce it so I don't care'
correct, but due tobug in game it doesn't force your opponent to have to move. Trying indicating to him that he is not playing entirely within the rules and he may move.
I'm not sure if this is where I post this, but can I get a clarification of the FEVGA rule for the following game. The rule in question is the 2nd to the last bullet: "It is allowed to build a prime (six consecutive blocked points) anywhere else (not in the player's starting quarter), but if opponent has collected all his checkers onto the one point behind player's prime, the player must unblock a point in his prime to allow the opponent a chance to move".
winterangels: you can only have two games in a stair at the same time, and only if you were invited for one and made the invitation for the other. If you started the game you're in, you can't start another until you finish that one.
I've just sent an invite to a member of my fellowship and he claims not to have received it. It was definitely him I sent it to and I checked the box. Is there a delay with the sending of invites, or might there be something I've done wrong?
winterangels: Your subject says "Stairs", yet you talk about being kicked out of a Tournament. So, I'm not sure what your issue is exactly. On your profile, I see you are indeed in one set of stairs, and were not kicked out. As a Pawn, you are only allowed in one set of Stairs. So that seems to be fine.
You currently have 19 games going. As a pawn, your limit is 20. To join a tournament, as a pawn, you DO have to have a certain number of free slots. I honestly don't remember how many that is. (4 or 5? I would imagine if it's "Single Elimination" that one slot would be fine) But I bet someone else does recall the exact requirement, and will say so. If you do not have enough slots, you will indeed not be allowed to start the tournament.
Why did I get kicked out of my tournament...It don't say that u have to have empty slots to keep playing a game..i think its unfair that I got kicked out of my tournament..
winterangels: Someone might be able to help if you say which game it is. Your Finished Games tab in your profile only shows one game ending last night, and that was anti-reversi, and you actually did not win that game.
Carpe Diem: I think the point is to split seeded players. The second best starts at the bottom and so on. Wha it means is the best player always has white and the second best always black. Hardly fair in games where white has a big advantage.
Raistlin: Thanks! That seems to be an equally bizarre option. When I look at the tourneys in question, they say "Sort by BKR: No", but it sure appears that they all are sorted that way, so perhaps that's displaying incorrectly.
I guess I'll send a message to Fencer so he can look at the specific tournaments and tell me if that's the issue. I just think that any setting that allows someone to give themselves (or anyone else, actually) the same colour throughout the tournament should be removed - I can't see any good reason for the existence of such a setting.
"For games with a random start position generate" just means same start position for all games of the tourn (froglet, pah tum ... have random start position for example), its not about players colors at all.
But if you are very high ranked in a game, elimination tourns ranked by bkr (optional) will put you always at the top of the tourn grid, so you will start all games (example : five in a line, you will have black in all games)..
Aganju: What a bizarre setting - why would anyone ever want that? As you say, it certainly shouldn't be the default.
But even so, I would think that since the setting is for "games with a random start position", this would just mean a player would end up with either all white or all black in an individual tournament - having all white in something like 15 consecutive tournaments would still be a little odd. But it makes sense that it's somehow tied to that setting.
Carpe Diem: There is a selection "For games with a random start position generate" which has the (stupid) default "the same position with all opponents". As the start player is kind of the start position, leaving this default setting might just result in all games with the same player starting. I never tried, as I always chose the other setting.
Modified by Carpe Diem (11. January 2014, 03:01:47)
Carpe Diem: No one has any thoughts on this?
"I'm wondering if it's possible for the creator to choose their own colour in a tournament. I've come across someone who had had white at least 48 consecutive times for one particular game in tournaments this person has created. They are single game matches."
rod03801: Uh yeah, Rod, I know. I was the last person to post on that board about this very topic and there's not even a cricket chirping in there. I don't expect it to change. Technically, you can still win, but 9 out of 10 times, you're going to lose.
Typed out another post about this, but I guess I didn't send it properly.
I'm wondering if it's possible for the creator to choose their own colour in a tournament. I've come across someone who had had white at least 48 consecutive times for one particular game in tournaments this person has created. They are single game matches.
Walter Montego: When I upgraded internet explorer some site don't recognise it. For example I can't use the smileys on here in rich text. I guess we have to wait for sites to up date their sites so to speak.
MadMonkey: Do you know that your question to Artful Dodger of them making unasked for changes and then the new things not working is exactly the one I ask of Microsoft and Facebook?!
MadMonkey: That can't be completely true. AD posted a video on the Music board shortly after your original post here.
The last time I tried adding a video to my profile, I couldn't get it to work too.
EDIT : Oops. Well your post I was responding to, disappeared before I finished typing this. (The one where you said neither old nor new work at all anymore)
MadMonkey: Youtube has changed its codes again. Some embedded codes still work (the older ones) and if you go to that video and copy the new code system it's missing the http plus other changes. I laid the working old code side by side to the current code (for the same video) and there are some minor changes. Apparently those changes don't work. See this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXXZUQrN4fI
Fencer, has something gone wrong with embeding Videos on BrainKing ??
I notice people are just posting links on the music board. OS i have tried with old & new embed code & neither works for me. I have even tried in my Fellowship, with nothing.
Any ideas ? has their code been changed again, or has BrainKing got a gremlin ?
I'm sure this was discussed often before, but I could not find anything: There is an RSS button on the Branking page, and it shows what looks liek an RSS feed. How do I use that? I use Outlook, and I'm considering to connect this. How to do that? Does it work at all?
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