BIG BAD WOLF: oops thanks (red faced now)

wayney: The date is correct. Kevin ran this competition last year.

wayney: The Brainking.info site has not been updated since 2004, so that date is actually correct.

I just noticed on the brainking info that there is a competition being run but they have listed the end date as March 2004 instead of March 2005.
Would it be a good idea to have this corrected?

It will work in a more accurate way when the database server is upgraded. I cannot make it more overloaded at the moment.

Pedro Martínez: Ahhhhh...
So we were both correct, sort of, Thanks pedro :)

It works this way:
There are 2 situations that may occur:

1) You set your vacation days BEFORE your opponent made her/his move in a particular game. After your opponent makes her/his move, the remaining time will include the vacation days you set before. E.g . if it's a 1-day-per-move game and you set Tuesday and Wednesday as your vacation days (let's presume your opponent made her/his move on Monday at 10:00) plus your weekend days are Thursday and Friday, the time of your time-out will be set at Saturday 10:00.

2) The problem is when you set your vacation days when it's your turn, i.e. AFTER your opponent made her/his move. The system will not automatically calculate these vacation days into the remaining time so the game still shows Tuesday 10:00 as the time-out time. What happens on Tuesday at 10:00? The system first checks whether you have this date among your vacation days or weekend days. If not, it checks for the auto-vac. In all three cases, you get 24 hours added on.

Czuch Chuckers: Actually I think it can. Imagine you have auto-vacation on. You timeout on a Friday, at 00:10. AV kicks in, the day is set as vacation and you get extra 24h. All the way through Friday it will give the impression that you have less than 24h to 'live'.
But then, on Sat at 00:10, you timeout. But since you can't timeout on a weekend, you get the extra 48h (or is it 24h again? not sure here).

I've seen this happen a few times before, so I guess it's the way it works...

Pedro Martínez: If it says you have 1 hour left to time out, it is really one hour isn it? If a weekend is coming it wont say one hour it will say one hour plus the weekend time wont it?

So it does not add 24 hours to all games like it use to.... just extends a few games which need it.

If you set e.g. today as a vacation day, a game that should expire at 23:55 will get 24 hours added on. But you will time out in a game that should expire at 0:05 tomorrow (after the midnight). That's how it works.

Maybe a question for Fencer, maybe someone else can answer.

When you use auto-vacation, I know that when a game reaches 0 time, 24 hours is added on. (But the rest of your games get nothing added on.)

When you use to have to use Vacation days, if you scheduled a vacation day, 24 hours was added to ALL your games (not just the ones that are getting ready to expire).

My question - is it still like that, or does scheduling a vacation day act like auto-vacation and just add time to the expired games only?

Chessmaster1000: Thats right!

Chessmaster1000: Right

The main page says that my "first" game will expire in 1 hour. I have activated the auto-protection thing, but let's suppose i hadn't.
Then if i wanted to protect the games from expiration, i would have to add one vacation day for Saturday. But this isn't possible as i have it on my weekend days.
So i suppose that (even with the auto-protection off) the games will be protected during Saturday even if the main page shows that in 1 hour they will expire...........
Right......?

Of course.

Thats my understanding too, bry. I'm currently in a 10 wins match, and only one of us will get one win added to our win/loss score at the end of it.

EdTrice: I may be wrong, but my understanding is that if you play a 5 games match, the whole set of games is counted as one win - or loss.

Oh, right, I was just in the finals of a tournament that was a 3-wins match.

But games are still counted, aren't they?

In all of my tournaments that had a finals sections, I have made it to the finals, that is a heck of a lot of uncounted games if this is the case!

Were they 'not counted' games, Ed? Without looking at your profile, that seems to be the most likely explanation. Or was one a 3 match game?

I know I have played 22 games of Amazons, but my profile only shows 20. Can anyone determine where the other 2 games are?

Great, now I won't know what everyone is talking about...
What's a * 133 *? or a * 135 *? or a * 128 *?
Is it because it's April fool's day?

I tell you, this smile business is a two sided sword... someday a pawn will get the wrong message and then all hell will break loose

Yeah!!

Walter Montego: yes I realize it was 8 months ago and I dont really think you could be a Service Rep here AND NOT LOG ON....if someone needed help you wouldnt get the message :(

You could be a service rep and not play games but she hasnt logged on...

Princess Kammy was part of the KM so I can't understand how she became a service rep in the first place :(

BerniceC: That's 8 months ago, though. Is James right about the service, or just the lack of logging on? Seems like you could be a Service Rep and not play games here, couldn't you?

JamesHird:
tht link says last action 30. August 2004, 13:37:49, which is a long way past april.

I think Princes Kammy
http://brainking.com/game/Profile?u=6670
should be deleted form being a Customer Service Rep.
It is kind of ridiculous having a CSR that has not been online in almost a whole year. I think April marks a year.
Time to cut off the dead wood and grow anew

Fencer: LOL! have fun with making it 'prepared' then.

The right-left direction will be a spooky thing, BK is not prepared for such layout :-D

Fencer: Great. Waiting to see the result ......

bumble: Fencer has already asked me to do that. I sent him the log-in page translated into farsi but Fencer said the system doesn't recognize the letters so I stopped working on it.

reza: I've prepared a translation tool built in BrainKing itself. But it's not possible to use it for Farsi until the database is upgraded. It should happen within a week or two, I hope.

reza: The site is being translated into several languages. It's part of Fencer's cunning plan for world domination.

I don't think there is anyone doing Farsi. Are you offering.

It appears to me that ughaibu is translating the site to Japanese or Chinese or something, right?

By the way Fencer, did you manage to make your system read Farsi?

Thanks. I dont like any of those games so I never explored the page's function.

ughaibu: That's it! And this feature exists since 2003, how come you didn't find it before? :-)

You mean I can define a default starting position at that page so as to avoid the necessity of setting up the position each time I start one of those games?

BIG BAD WOLF: Yes, our time was changed on Sunday.

ughaibu: On that page, you can prepare starting positions for games where they must be edited before a game starts (Battleboats, Screen Chess, etc.). Just try it.

yes it should BBW. I noticed it coincide with the time change over the pond last weekend. Sunday morning it will be back right for us again.

OK, that could be - I think our time changes this upcomming weekend, so hopefully it will fix itself then.

yep...summertime started on sunday morning at 2am here

Did the server time recently change? Well I normally keep my clock on this site the same as Czech time - that way midnight in Czech is 5pm my time.

But now midnight Czech time is 4pm. Did something change?

Read this page.

menu shows: Waiting games (425), but when I go to see list of games it's only 2 pages. Do I miss something?

What the hell is this godawfull game editing page? It's all very well to ask me to translate this stuff but what the. . . . . . . .

Pedro Martínez: that's great, thanks.

Pedro Martínez: You're right! it works, I just tried it!

BerniceC: Of course you can send a message to yourself. See that little envelope next to your ID below? Click on it and there you go!!!

Fencer: isn't it possible to makew itb show you how many moves you made that day, if your nearer teh record you might push that little bit harder for it.