Chessmaster1000: 1) I don't want to start a fight here. 2) Because some games had been restored in the past and the BKR was calculated twice for them, so the results were not accurate. Now they are.

For example my Dark Chess rating WAS ~ 1550.
Now it IS ~1950.
I can't understand why????????????

1)OK don't challenge your superiority of decisions, i'm just curious to see the reason behind your decision.......Can you give it to me please.......?

2)But a recalculation of the BKRs should have the same results for any number of times this recalculation will be done. I mean if now you re-recalculate the BKRs then we should have the SAME EXACT results for every player, excluding the players had a 2700. So for me for example, that didn't hit any 2700 BKR, my BKR should stay the same. But this happens if and only if the recalculation has been made only with the change for the 2700 limit. But since my BKRs changed, then something other must changed on the process of the calculation of the BKRs. Did you changed anything else......?

Fencer: That's good. Thanks.

reza: Well, I can add a switch to include inactive players on the chart pages.

Chessmaster1000: 1) Because I wanted to. 2) Because I recalculated all BKRs from the beginning, just to reflect this change.

Chessmaster1000: And where did the inactive players go to?

Isn't there a way to see them too?

2 Questions:

1)Since Ed Trice is the inventor of Gothic Chess and since you include the other inventors of the games, why you removed his name........?

2)My rating on some games increased and on some decreased and as PlayBunny said this happened to him too. And you said that this is because the 2700 limit has been removed. But i can't see how this affects in any way the ratings! Except the cases when a player had a 2700 and stayed there after winning some games-but that doesn't happened in any of my games or PlayBunny's. So....

AbigailII: The former is correct. Only the time of the last finished rated game counts, nothing else.

Your rating drops off the charts if you're not active in a game for 6 months (paying) or 1 month (non-paying). It isn't clear to mean what active means. Does it mean you should have finished a game in the past 6/1 month(s)? Or could I just start 10 win match with a 30 day move period, move once a month, and stay on the charts forever, without my rating changing? I hope it's the former.

playBunny: It's the result of removing the max 2700 value. The BKRs were recalculated from the very beginning with this small change.

Fencer: I've found that my backgammon rating has gone up by 34 and more. Is that an expected result of the "clearout"? And, out of curiousity, is there any way for me to find where these extra points came from?

Grim Reaper: Because I removed it.

At this link...

http://brainking.com/en/SelectGameType

I see:

Extinction Chess
Very original chess variation invented by R. Wayne Schmittberger.

Knight Relay Chess
Very interesting chess variant, invented by Mannis Charosh in 1972.

Grand Chess
Grand Chess (by Christian Freeling) is a chess variant played on 10x10 board.

...yet my name was removed from Gothic Chess.

Why is it no longer there?

Grim Reaper: Sure because the chart task runs once an hour, at 35 mins.

Fencer: I swear I saw some oldies on that list when I first posted that message, but they are gone now!

They did.

Weren't inactive players suppose to drop off of the rating lists?

Fencer: OK. ;)

Marfitalu: I think it means that the translation can be done later too

Marfitalu: Yes, it can be done. Later.

ArtfulDodger: Glad to hear it. Don't forget to send a photo of you wearing them.

My tshirt and cap arrived. VERY NICE!!!!!!

Your wife does excellent work.

;)

playBunny: Big one is to win the tourney first. LOL

BIG BAD WOLF, Fiona: Thanks. Sounds like plenty of options there.

playBunny: I think Fencer can do it a few ways. One will be that your rook membership will start right away, then when that is over, you can have your additional 4 months of Knight.

But if you talk to him, he may go ahead and "covert" your 4 months of knight membership for 2 extra months of rook membership. I'm not 100% sure of this - best to do is just message him and ask.... he will work with you.

playBunny: i would think the rook membership starts when the knight expires

If a Knight, expiring in four months time, buys or wins a Rook 6-month subscription today, how does it work?

Chessmaster1000: Just a minor change, no 2700 maximum.

And what about this recalculation? Does the system of calculation of the BKR will be changed dramatically or just minor changes......?

Nuno Miguel: Nothing will disappear. Some positions will be changed, though, because many inactive players will disappear from the charts.

on main page we have our rated game types and the positions. this will disappear after wednesday or just the ranking on the charts?
thanks

ClayNashvilleTn: Don't even think about taking the easy way out bud!!!!

besides.. that site has been down for 3 days now! *giggle*

harley:Actually, thats why I asked, to benefit the new players.

"DANG" there are way too many features on BK.
Think I'll just mosey on over to IYT where it isn't sooooo easy to get confused.

LOL give it a try and see if its what you were looking for!

*edited to add... don't ever be embarrassed asking about something. If you don't know, then there will be other people that don't either so you're doing all those people a favour too.

harley: oops, is that how you do it?

If it is, I am embaressed if not YES

Clay, you mean to see all the baords at once? After you clicked on 'discussion boards' you can click on 'expand all boards' and that will show you every public discussion board on the site.

Could we have a link for game site boards? Where one could just click on the link and see the various discussion boards. Perhaps it would be identical to the "Discussion boards" link.

DUMB QUESTION: Is there an easy way now to see such a list or have I just not found it yet?

Fencer: I'm prepared, are you?

Cheers Fencer, i love that i can see how many moves i've made woohooo

Andersp: When I find a more sophisticated method.

Fencer: any idea when?

Fencer, you already made 275 moves today!


Everyone look at your profiles, you can see how many moves you made so far today!

THANK YOU Fencer! Great feature!

Andersp: No, not this one.

Fencer Is one of the news on wednesday that many games with the same player wont affect BKR?

reza: Now you can.

Why can I not see the flag for Azerbaijan?

Pioneer54: Although some of the things you write about might be true, I would prefer if such posts don't appear on the main BrainKing board. Use General Chat instead.

Vikings: Yes.