So Kevin, are you prepared to admit that as long as something does no harm that it is acceptable?

IMuP: because you write quicker than think and read.

What harm is it doing?

Kevin. Why should it take a month for a game with a banned player to end?

Scarlet: Why would you delete it? If your opponent has been banned and it will take a month for it to time out, so what? Like you said: you are a rook and do not have a limited number of games. Just start another to replace it.

Nice halo.

Hi to all!
What do you think about Capablanca Random Chess, proposed by Reinhard Scharnagl on http://www.chessvariants.org/large.dir/capablanca.html

I change my pic from time to time 0:-)

New pic, Mindy?

If they are tournament games I don't think you can delete them.
If you resign your BKR will be affected.

I kept getting a white page for about 2 hours

Did this site just melt down for a little while, or was it just me?

Everytime I clicked on a link, the page would just 'blink' and come back to where I was. Then I couldn't even get back on for awhile. Seems ok for now :)

No.. especially since the player was banned from the site.. Thank goodness I am a rook and I am not limited to a certain amount of games..

Okay.. since it is evident that this player put automatic vacations on his profile before he was banned.. what can I do.. just delete the game? and will it affect my ratings if I do? Neither one of us has made a move in either of the games to my knowledge..

When I get those boxes with the red x's in them,I usually right click on it & then click "show picture",,then the picture comes in

what now (sigh)?

Doesn't sound fair does it, Scarlet?

I often get those little white boxes in games like Froglet, Battleboats and Amazons etc... but only when using IE.
If i use Firefox or Netscape it is fine. I guess it must be something to do with the cookies/cache even though i have tried clearing everthing out.
I do find Firefox slightly slower than IE, but at least i can see a complete game board and the pieces LOL.

Automatic vacation.

It is a bit odd to see the time go down in red numbers.. then come back in black with full time.. when actually I should be getting notices that the opponent ran out of time.. :)

I agree with you Walter.. it is so redundant.. and especially if you have an opponent that uses most of his time up in between playes.. I go nuts when I finally get back a backgammon game.. or reversi game where my turn is passed due to no available play.. or even when I can make a move and my opponent can't..

I can't think of one site that I play at other than this one which doesn't do the auto pass. And usually a messages is given automatically to the opponent making them aware of what all happened. :)

Which is why having it as an option instead of being forced to play that way should keep those that don't like it happy.

ScarletRose: There is no bug in timeouts.

I personally don't like autopass, because when I'm blocked from moving four or five turns, and my turn finally comes up, I feel like I'm in the Twilight Zone or something. It's like, WoW how'd that happen? I don't even remember playing! And the reason for that is because I HAVEN'T BEEN! LOL! Besides, that's when I do my best ramblin'...when I'm sittin' on the bar!

Anti Chess is another game that has forced moves sometimes. In fact, it often ends with a string of moves like that. I think it would be difficult for Fencer to program like that because some games would be in-progress and over at the same time.

Ed, what you want is what almost all Backgammon players want. Autopass. I tried asking for it on the feature request board, but Fencer was dead set against it for some reason that he wouldn't reveal to the board as he'd discussed it earlier before I had started playing Backgammon. I'm not sure if you're familiar with Backgammon, but on occasion it is possible to block your opponent from having a move and there's no point in having him take his turn as he can't move until a space opens up and he might possibly roll the right number to move again. It is possible to play your pieces just right and hold the turn for six or more turns. It'd certainly speed things up if you could keep the turn with yourself. We even discussed having it as an option, so that your opponent would have to grant the autopass before it would take effect. I know when my opponent has block his home base and I have a blot on the bar, I sure like him to use autopass instead having to press the no move possible button when it's my turn. Reversi has this come up too.
Like I said though, Fencer is against it.

I have two games from a tourney with Long John. They have gone into time outs at least 3 times since LAST weekend. And they all get restarted or refreshed time. This also happened with another player, Universal Eyes, as well as two games from another player which I can't think of the players id at the moment. However, those last three games were able to be saved by my opponents. And for what reason? For me to have to sit and wait endless days just to make a garsh darn move! Please fix the bug in the Time Out thingy. Cause I would certainly not wish to endure another refreshed timeset for the saved games again..

the games for Long John are numbers 522067 and 522068. Didn't know if you needed them. :)

so it skips to opponents nxt turn, you wont see your's til after the fact.

I see that when I select a piece that has only one legal move, the software places it on the legal destination automatically.

My question is, if an opponent has only one legal move in response to a move made, should that move also be made automatically by the software?

This would be helpful in a game such as checkers where many times a forced jump has only one option.

try to hold down *shift* while you hit refresh and see if it will reload all the images.

nope didnt work, dont even get bk logo on main page

log out & back

I cant see piccies nor in game piccies :o( is it just me getting red crosses or everyone?

Ahhh, under. Never thought of that, thanks.

Go to Fellowships page.. the link to the left.. scroll all the way down.. and under the window of the listed fellowships.. is a link to create a new fellowship.. Click it! :)

I've forgotten how to create a fellowship, I cant see a common sense route to creation, someone rescue me please.

Fencer - assuming they dont use any "memory" probably not. Justwondered really as there are loads that have logged on once, joined, not played any games then never come back again. Doesnt give a true "registered users" figure. What do you think?

Bry: Is there any reason to bother with that?

BWild.......Thanks for Having the courage to say that! Job well done my man!

It would be hard to delete them since all past games are visable, and if the player had ever played any games - then it (in my opinion) is easier to just keep the account there instead of writing a script which will keep the games, the ratings, etc... but remove the user.

Sure, to have a huge number of members for the statistic. :-)

Player List - have you thought of deleting all the people who have signed up then never re-visited? - some of them going back over a year or two.

Is there any reason why you keep them on the database?

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my mum looks like Daisy and acts like her too, so my lad calls mum and dad Onslo and Daisy LMAO

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i will probably get dumped on but who cares LOLOL

Liquid....is there anywhere we can see your serene untroubled face?

And FENCER...looked at you Xmas wish list...change the pic my friend you have no hope with that one :)

Ive seen better pics of you around the WWW and that isnt one of the better ones :)

Sorry Harley...you can go back to Moderating now LOLOL


I know this should be on Features request....but

if im Moderated here I would still like to know the questions asked...can the moderators please transefer the Q's to the appropriate board...

Good nite....have to go watch Mrs Bucket LOLOLOL

like ya...

Not good when you try and fight with da management. They can kinda pull the plug on the whole thing lol

He doesn't haveta worry about putting all his eggs in one basket, cuz he has an exclusive contract with the hen :b

I tried to fight with Fencer once but he's got it in with management. :)

HEHE yes, the days when even BBW lost his cool on my account. Now he just beats me up in Froglett and Backgammon.

lol :)

ADtheRetiredThug..lol