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Subject: Re:

Gammonator: my private 5 cents ... the whole idea of vacations is making problems ... you take vacations to rest, and if you are tired of playing your supposedly favorites games then do not come here ... I still cannot imagine having pleasure playing a game (making a move) once a week .... I proposed once and still believe in it: 30 days should be the absolute limit to play any game ... and look at these tournaments starting date past any common sense ... sorry, if you travel all your life and have no time to make even one move a week, than go and look for some other fun in your life ...

6. March 2010, 01:52:44

Gammonator

And as posted....she has not made a single move,,,yet she still has 34 days of vacation that should not be allowed. Some geeks should know how to run a business.

5. March 2010, 16:09:49

Subject: Re: He wont even miss us.

Gammonator: Thats my guess, sir.
I dont think I'll buy a membership here.
I messaged another board on this site and the following happened.
I was invited to dinner.
I declined.
The person that invited me sent me a nasty message.
My messages were removed from the board,even though the board is classified as "general chat".
Not a very nice welcome, in my opinion.
Nic

5. March 2010, 02:13:03

Gammonator

I love entering your trnys. Thanks so much for sharing. I would hate to leave all of those games though, it would be alot of work. She knew she wasnt going to play so she ruins it for the rest of us. To bad management and wonership do not care what the payees of this site really care about...GAMES. But tryth be told,,,alot of us are going to let are membership run out and just play games between ourselves for free, within the year about 50 of us will lose our membership and just play here. He doesnt need those few $1000.00 we pay him here anyway. He wont even miss us.

4. March 2010, 11:10:23

AbigailII

Subject: Re: This may not be the place so you may remove it

Gammonator: Angelstar doesn't have auto-vacation set, so her number of vacation days will not decrease. The upshot is, she'll time out earlier.

But a "mass-kick-out-of-all-the-tournaments-you-created" button would be really useful. She's signed up for hundreds of my tournaments. And since it takes 5 mouse actions and 4 page requests to kick her out of a single one, it's just too much work to remove her.

Maybe we need an "auto-withdraw-from-all-signed-up-tournaments-and-stairs" feature. If a person hasn't logged into the site for a month or 6 weeks (or some other period), (s)he'll be removed from any tournament (s)he has signed up for, and which hasn't started yet. And have retirement kick in for any signed up stairs.

4. March 2010, 02:18:34

Gammonator

Subject: This may not be the place so you may remove it

There has to be something done with angelstar. She doesnt play here anymmore and SOMEHOW has 34 more days to go for her vacation days.THat is one problem,,she is not due for those days....she ran out already. Next,,,,she has entered every frigging trny there is and has no intention of moving. Which means 5 days per move and 34 vacation days,,,I am stuck for half a year in every game I have her in,,,in every trny that I and many others have entered and the ones yet to come. Surely there is some way of taking her out of the trnys before they start....right??? And what about those vacation days...Please check on this.

Thanks

Gammonator

3. March 2010, 17:13:29

Herlock Sholmes

http://mychessvariants.blogspot.com/

Subject: Catastrophic Series Chess Variants

tsunami, quakes and volcanos are the main actors in my new series of variants ... please go to my blog and enjoy ...

Andy.

28. February 2010, 17:04:37

Herlock Sholmes

http://mychessvariants.blogspot.com/

Subject: Invitation to my chess variants blog ..

Hi Everybody ... I invite you to visit my chess variants blog ... instead of clogging our boards with my uncontrollable urge to create new, useless variants I decided to write about them in a separate place. These variants and games are all my own creations. They just pop-up in my head and I record them. Some may have some value, some probably not. Some may inspire, some won't ... Some are perfectly playable head to head, some require software to manage the board and pieces. I think that creating chess variants is the biggest pleasure I found in my gaming life. Bigger than actualy playing them ... No game is perfect and they constantly change. And I like to play and discover unknown territories. Unknown is what excites me the most. Have fun visiting my blog. Hope many variants will give you unending pleasure to explore this garden of imagination.

Andy (Herlock Sholmes).

25. February 2010, 09:37:23

Fencer

Subject: Re: does anyone know how

BadBoy7: Turn off style animations at your Settings page.

21. February 2010, 18:37:31

coan.net

Subject: Re: mega slow

Snoopy: I see Fencer on-line now - It is better now.

21. February 2010, 18:36:44

Fencer

Subject: Re: mega slow

Snoopy: Yes, something is somewhere overloaded. I will investigate it soon. Such things happen, from time to time.

21. February 2010, 18:35:47

Subject: Re: mega slow

coan.net: whatever the problem was i just got my speed back YEAHHHHHH

21. February 2010, 18:24:45

coan.net

Subject: Re: mega slow

Snoopy: Same here - I click to make a move, go to another tab with another game site - make almost 8 turns before I seen the BrainKing tab load to go back to make my next move.

21. February 2010, 18:21:41

pedestrian

yes, BrainKing is slooooooooooow today... has been slow on an off the last few days.

21. February 2010, 18:18:22

Subject: mega slow

taken me nearly 5 mins to play 2 games anyone else having problems

21. February 2010, 06:43:25

Universal Eyes

Subject: Re: i know ive properly

pedestrian:(*)The player who finishes at least 4 rated games of one kind (everybody who defines a new game can specify whether the game will be "rated" - the result will be calculated for BKR - or not), earns "provisional BKR" displayed by italic font (e.g. 1870). After finishing 25 rated games of one kind the provisional BKR changes to "established BKR" and is displayed by normal font (e.g. 1853). If you complete more games, your BKR is more accurate because is based on more results.

19. February 2010, 19:55:35

Subject: Re: i know ive properly

Resher: thanks i dont know why i didnt think of looking at the graph

19. February 2010, 19:50:24

Pedro Martínez

Subject: Re: i know ive properly

hagaren: If it was 10 moves, nobody would get a rating in Cheversi, for example.

19. February 2010, 19:49:15

Resher

Subject: Re: i know ive properly

pedestrian: If you look at your BKR graph for any game, it shows you how many counted games you've played.

snoopy: Sorry I misunderstood you - I didn't read your post carefully enough

19. February 2010, 19:02:22

hagaren

Subject: Re: i know ive properly

pedestrian: okay, sorry, then I've made a mistake ;-) I thought it was 10 moves.

19. February 2010, 19:01:17

pedestrian

Subject: Re: i know ive properly

hagaren: To be counted as one of those 25 games, a game has to be rated. That means it must last at least 2 moves (not 10). If you play a game that only lasts 1 move, it is still counted under 'My profile'-> 'finished games', so unless you keep your own score of those unrated games, you won't know for sure when you'll reach 25.

19. February 2010, 18:56:42

Subject: Re: i know ive properly

hagaren: thanks good to know that

19. February 2010, 18:52:42

hagaren

Subject: Re: i know ive properly

Snoopy: No, it will not be counted.. For being counted a game must have at least 10 moves ;-) When someone resigns a game after those 10 moves, it will count as number 24.

19. February 2010, 18:50:06

Subject: Re: i know ive properly

Resher: ah i think what i meant to say was
if i had say played 23 of the 25 games to get a BKR and someone resigned a game
would that game be counted has number 24 or not

19. February 2010, 17:25:30

Subject: Re: i know ive properly

Resher: thanks

19. February 2010, 17:12:58

Resher

Subject: Re: i know ive properly

Snoopy: No it won't affect it - see http://brainking.com/en/FAQ?ht=22

19. February 2010, 16:45:08

Subject: i know ive properly

asked this before but brain isn't working..lol

if someone resigns a game on first move
does it still count towards getting a BKR ?

19. February 2010, 06:35:07

Well. I never. lol

19. February 2010, 05:27:36

Bwild

36 new members so far today....over half havent logged in,most will never play a game,some go straight to the poker tables.
watch the player list just a couple times a week.
theres no doubt in my mind that the majority of these new members are add ons to existing accts.
since pawns are only allowed 20 games...I can see this as a way to give someone more games,but......theres always those that create these add on accts for ulterior motives, that many of us that have been here awhile know.
then you have these globs that dont care or even read the stuff they're prompted into moderating,to compound issues.
just my 2 cents.

19. February 2010, 03:23:02

Vikings

Since this thread is certain to lead to a place that the Main Moderator has asked that it not go, it will be removed.

I suggest that the 2 interested parties carry on their conversation in p.m.'s if they so wish

18. February 2010, 23:54:16

ScotFree

Subject: Re:

Bwild: thank you for your helpful direction.

16. February 2010, 03:01:12

ScotFree

Hi all. Having wandered about the site and seen how everything is moderated here, I'd like to know why the poker tables are not. I was put off playing by the language used there.

14. February 2010, 20:27:30

Hrqls

Subject: Re: Stopped

rod03801: thanks rod!

14. February 2010, 20:04:43

hagaren

Subject: Re:

alilsassy: Same to you!

14. February 2010, 20:03:55

rod03801

Subject: Stopped

As the main mod had requested a certain topic stop, and it didn't, all posts from that point that continued, have been deleted. If it continues any further, the offending people will be banned from posting to this board. Thank you.

14. February 2010, 18:52:16

alilsassy

Happy Valentine's Day

13. February 2010, 13:53:23

Subject: Re: multi nicks

Hrqls: Good job! :))

13. February 2010, 13:00:59

Hrqls

Subject: multi nicks

thats the last post about named multi nicks on this board .. further posts about multi nicks with names in it will be deleted

posts like this can easily lead to a hunt for the named persons even when they might not be a multi nick .... this board is not for starting a lynch party

when you think someone is using multiple accounts ... report them to the management ...

12. February 2010, 17:41:08

Subject: Re:

MadMonkey:

Too bad there's no counter to see how many times they enter. ;)

12. February 2010, 17:34:50

MadMonkey

Subject: Re:

Artful Dodger: I have given 2 Boards the name . now (as in 'dot') lol and set the read & write access level to Kings only.
So Fencer & Liquid can go have fun if they wish, but i will need to approve there posts

12. February 2010, 17:32:02

Subject: Re:pillar of the"community

Tuesday:Well that couldn't be me. Most days I qualify for village idiot.

12. February 2010, 17:28:54

Subject: Re: multinic 68

Bernice:I have some theories. Very strange coincidences.

12. February 2010, 17:27:46

Subject: Re:

MadMonkey: I changed the name of mine to . And then that's all that showed ;) I think I set it to no access or whatever that setting is. You could just change the name to "This board isn't really here."

12. February 2010, 17:07:13

Subject: Re:

Modified by Snoopy (12. February 2010, 17:08:49)

Tuesday: IMO muti nicks have been going on since the very early days of this site its nothing new
but surely bickering about it on the main BK board should not be allowed
its surely not giving a good impression to any new comers to the site
i find it very off putting

12. February 2010, 08:40:01

Subject: Re:

Bernice: Caught on to what? :))

12. February 2010, 07:52:37

Hrqls

Subject: Re: Games statistics

wetware: "Dice games require less thinking?"

you are right for some dice games. most dice games have limited move options though, far less options than chess .. its also tougher to think ahead and build a plan with dice games .. at least thats beyond my capabilities .. i can 'feel' a few moves ahead with a probability that it might happen with dice games, but with a chess type (or pente or espionage) i can plan a bit more ahead which takes time

so dice games dont require less thinking .. but they certainly require less time per move (for me)

12. February 2010, 02:19:04

wetware

Subject: Re: Games statistics

SL-Mark:
"Being beaten in a dice game, well it was simply that the die favoured the other player! i.e. luck."
"Beaten in a game of skill, however, then the loser can only critique themselves."

Those observations are a good start.

Being beaten in a dice game, one can all too easily conclude that the loss was purely a matter of bad luck, and that there was nothing in one's own play that deserved criticism.
Not all dice games are created equal.
Have you ever noticed that the frequency of claims of "unfair dice" tends to be inversely proportional to players' strength?

"Dice games require less thinking?"
Who would say such a thing? On the contrary (at least in some dice games), in addition to strategic considerations, one must also calculate various probabilities.

12. February 2010, 00:55:34

Bernice

I would have thought that the powers that be (we all know how clever they are) would have caught onto this one....
nicmulti_68 (Nic)

11. February 2010, 17:42:19

coan.net

Subject: Re: Games statistics

Bwild: No, I cam up with with Frog Finder - can find some of the details & "history" of the game here: http://www.coan.net/sweeper.html

11. February 2010, 17:28:46

MadMonkey