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I have created a tournament, and wish to give a small prize in Brains to the winner. However, the tournament's current status description reads "The prize for this tournament has not been provided yet. It won't be started."
Must I take some action to provide the prize, or will this be done manually by the owner of the site?
Czuch: I faced this problem too. It just getting corrupted during the download since the connection speed is not good i guess for some reason. My son solved my problems when he told me to use a download manager to download the file. He installed on my computer the program flashget and if you try to download with it then you will have your file with no problem.
Then you need winzip or winrar to extract the games of the file into PGN format. Unfortunately for example for Loop Chess the games are 20000 so when you extract them in a folder Windows are very slow to handle and anyway it's just too tough to do anything with them having to open each one separately each time.
So my son saved me again by showing me a way to join all these PGNs with single games, into one big PGN with all the games. Just create a BAT file and write: for %%f IN (*.PGN) DO type %%f>>collect.out ren collect.out FINAL.pgn
Don't ask me what are all these, i don't know. But it does the work. Then inside the folder with all the games run the bat file and at the end you will have a PGN named final.pgn with all the games. Now you can delete of course all the 20000 single PGNs.
Czuch: First you may try to download the file again. Please compare the file sizes, the one which is shown during the download, and the one of the file on your computer after the download has finished. If the size of the downloaded file is less than the predicted size, then the file wasn't downloaded completely and thus can't be opened. If this happens more than once you may try to create the zip file again. If this doesn't help as well then I don't know either... Probably Fencer could check whether the zip file on the server is OK?
kleineme: Right, but I assumed that Czuch had wanted to download the files in order to replay the game in some pgn viewer. My bad, I shouldn't have assumed anything. :)
Pedro Martínez: Well, not really :) PGN files are just plain text files and can be opened with any text editor, like Notepad on Windows.
Czuch: You have to have a program which is able to open zip files, like Winrar for Windows.
Even if you already have a zip program on your computer, there may be a problem with the download. From time to time I'm not able to download the zip files completely, which also produces an error message that the file can't be opened. You may try to create the zip file again or you may ask Fencer...
(17. May 2009, 12:57:57 is the last term before timeout for this move)
To clarify.... This will include any weekend days and set vacation days? Then the only way this will change is if auto vacation day is used or if after this is posted a vacation day is set?
Can this also change if after it is posted weekend days are changed?
I am trying to use the feature to down load a zip file from a players games of dice chess.... but my windows says it doesnt recognize it and cannot open it?
Subject: Re: random start positions is shown in waiting games
pauloaguia: Yes, I thought about that after I posted. Actually you could post several games and delete them until you get one you like, or you could spend the waiting time analyzing the position in depth.
I guess my main point is that it's not equal conditions for the players, and I suppose it wouldn't be that difficult to repair?
Subject: Re: random start positions is shown in waiting games
pedestrian: The player that started the game can also check the board and withdraw the invitation... it's not such a big advantage for the other player...
Subject: random start positions is shown in waiting games
I'm probably not the first to notice this, but when you put a game on the waiting list with random start position (such as Fischer Random Chess or Knight Fight) the position is shown in the waiting game. Isn't this a clear advantage for the player who takes the challenge? Shouldn't the position be randomized after the challenge has been taken?
Fencer: Some achievement ideas have 1000, 5000, etc started games and ALL in state of "Opponent's turn" have 1000 etc games, all in state of "your move", under 1 day timeout, and less than 24 hours later move in all.
TheCrazyPuppy: The purpose of the system is to avoid cheating with vacation days, not to make absolutely correct calculations in all cases, especially when someone starts more than 3000 games, so it would be too CPU-consuming to recalculate time left values for all such games. Anyway, if you have a vacation day today, the timeout checker will detect it and add 24 hours to all affected games.
Pedro Martínez: there isnt really a problem just never seen it happen before plus today and tomorrow im using vacation days so its puzzling to say the least
Has anyone else had trouble with their notepad? For some reason when I click on the notepad link it brings me to a completely white page. This only happens on the notepad page and it has been like that for a couple of months... any thoughts?
(hide) You can use some of the simpler HTML on your messages or, if you're a paying member, can also use the Rich Text Editor. (pauloaguia) (show all tips)