I have NOT been able figure this out by searching on BrainKing.

For chess games, is it allowable to use online resources? This would include opening books.

It seems clear that chess players can NOT use a chess playing program to help them in their games.

IMPORTANT

This goes out ALL to Firefox users.

Most of you know what Add-ons & Plug-ins are i hope. In short, they are other programs attached to Firefox to enable it do other things.

Most of the time Add-ons will update themselves as Firefox checks them.

Plug-ins can take ages to update which can lead to security issues & cause crashes.

Firefox are building a Plug-in checker into the upcoming versions of Firefox.

For now, visit THIS PAGE and allow it to do a check for you, and install any updates it finds.

Bookmark that page and check regularly until the new Firefox is released

rabbitoid:  Oh yeah.  I forgot about that! 

Artful Dodger: Al Gore invented global warming, not the internet.

MadMonkey:  I wonder if he worked with Al Gore when Al invented the internet? 

An interesting article i though i would share, and seeing as it relates to the web and therefore brainking i will put it here.

Remember back when Fencer said that no longer did we have to type www.brainking.com, and we could leave the www. off.

Well, Fencer started a trend, and even the man (Tim Berners-Lee) who is credited with inventing the WWW (World Wide Web) last week at a symposium on the future of technology, was asked if he had any regrets, or would he do anything differently?

Answer: He would get rid of the double slash “//” after the “http:” in Web addresses

So, there you go, even something that we all now take for granted, could have been improved
(Today’s browsers, of course, automatically fill in the “http://” preamble when a user types a Web address.)

Fencer: I also thought i'd get more varied opposition in these games. Nothing against Sir Toby but i really would have liked to play against someone else also :)

I really think that if tourney is not sorted by BKR it should be random.. Not sorted by something unknown.

And as a followup, if it was sorted by BKR, would the hightest rated play the lowest in the first round? And if there is byes the highest ranked players get them?

Fencer: That's weird. I choose not sorted by BKR precisely because I wanted to give everybody a chance to get some byes in a few tournaments.
It doesn't seem at all that obvious to me that by unchecking an option to sort the players, I get precisely the opposite effect... at least, sorting by BKR would have made it a little more varied than it is now...

I think this should either be changed or a better explanation be placed by that option...

Also, since no game has been finished yet, and no BKR changes have yet occurred, would it be to much to ask if the games were all deleted and the tournament reseeded (or restarted with a sorte by BKR option, at least)?

furbster: I would rather play, and am surprised this has not cropped up before

MadMonkey: lucky you, i have 130 games against the same player :-/

pauloaguia: hmmmm i got Mr Bye lol

rabbitoid: This tournament is not sorted by the BKR, that wouldnt be fair with the unbalanced games. I think for the whole tournament just 1 seeding is done. That shouldn't be.

Fencer: BKR should be right for the soup, you don't expect the same BKR order for different games. Just add a touch of random to add salt.

pauloaguia: Hmmm, alphabetical sorting? Or sorted by user ID instead of BKR.

In Single elimination tournaments using byes, what's the criteria to select who get's a bye? In Aventura IX the same people aren't playing a single game and all the pairings are the same (I play every game against the same palyer - over 100 games between the 2 of us)

Why?

R.A.D.Y.: This really isn't the board for tournament announcements. Please keep those to the Tournaments Discussion board. Thanks!

Elimination tournament for Brains!

* Hrajeme o velký balík v pavoukovi #2

Only these games:
- Backgammon
- Hyper backgammon
- Ludo

Play all!

Tournament for Brains!

* Hrajeme o velký balík #2

Only these games:
- Backgammon
- Hyper backgammon
- Ludo

Play all!

Doris: i think it all changed when achievements where added
i guess Fencer hasnt updated that page

Doris: Maybe they were not pawns at the time, so their records appeared there and remained

Why are pawns listed in the most active users?
"The most active users
This list displays the players who made the most moves yesterday (13. October 2009). Only the users with Brain Knight or higher membership level can appear here. "
http://brainking.com/en/TopMovers

Snoopy: At least the BKR is keeping it's sanity.

rabbitoid: i sat and watched him log in to one account resign then log into the other to create them
must be one really bored person

Snoopy: Fencer: add an achievement point for the most pointless cheat?

Hrqls: i think he referring to the chess on this page

http://brainking.com/en/Statistics?p=3

Fra Martino: where ?

I unearth cheating in the statistics…

Snoopy: Looks like it doesn't hurt to reboot the machines at least once a year.

Fencer: yeah< I agree with Snoopy..working better than ever! Well done!

Fencer: well im really impressed havnt seen it this fast for couple of years
hope it stays this way

1926: Remove this whiner.

Snoopy: noooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! my opponent takes all of nine days to make a move, but timed out this time, and was saved by the bell! aaaaaaarghhhhhh!

rabbitoid: I think I can activate it tomorrow, after everyone has a chance to play their games.

The speed seems fine, today. How long will the no-timeout period last?

same here :(

This site is really messed up today Oh well hope you get it going soon Fencer:))

Fencer: poker tables are screwed up too.

1926: they normally off for 24 hours

please, please, please, restart timeouts

Fencer: especially those black rooks
but hey...take your time.

furbster: Anyway, I've just stopped timeouts, just in case. I know how people can be sensitive to such issues.

Fencer: Cool, not to much of a problem, i'm up to date with my games :o)

furbster: Looks like the servers need a little tuning or whatever. We'll look at it soon.

Czuch: Yes ultimate slowness here, have only just been able to get on, the pages were taking so long to load, i was getting website not responding for ages.

Anyone else observing slowness with this website right now? The rest of my browsing seems fine, just here the pages are slow to load,...is Fencer up to something today????

I'mgetting this when I click on my Message Box also when I tried to report it as a Bug : Any suggestions please?

HTTP ERROR: 500

com/brainking/server/beans/CategoryBean
RequestURI=/en/MessageBox

Caused by:

java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: com/brainking/server/beans/CategoryBean
at com.brainking.server.dao.mysql.MySQLMessageDAO.getFolderList(MySQLMessageDAO.java:1852)
at com.brainking.server.dao.mysql.MySQLWrapperDAO.messageBoxWrapper(MySQLWrapperDAO.java:1886)
at com.brainking.server.actions.html.MessageBoxAction.execute(MessageBoxAction.java:62)
at ControllerServlet.processRequest(ControllerServlet.java:746)
at ControllerServlet.doGet(ControllerServlet.java:791)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:707)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:820)
at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHolder.handle(ServletHolder.java:487)
at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler.handle(ServletHandler.java:362)
at org.mortbay.jetty.security.SecurityHandler.handle(SecurityHandler.java:216)
at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.SessionHandler.handle(SessionHandler.java:181)
at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.ContextHandler.handle(ContextHandler.java:726)
at org.mortbay.jetty.webapp.WebAppContext.handle(WebAppContext.java:405)
at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.ContextHandlerCollection.handle(ContextHandlerCollection.java:196)
at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.HandlerCollection.handle(HandlerCollection.java:114)
at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.HandlerWrapper.handle(HandlerWrapper.java:152)
at org.mortbay.jetty.Server.handle(Server.java:324)
at org.mortbay.jetty.HttpConnection.handleRequest(HttpConnection.java:505)
at org.mortbay.jetty.HttpConnection$RequestHandler.headerComplete(HttpConnection.java:828)
at org.mortbay.jetty.HttpParser.parseNext(HttpParser.java:514)
at org.mortbay.jetty.HttpParser.parseAvailable(HttpParser.java:211)
at org.mortbay.jetty.HttpConnection.handle(HttpConnection.java:380)
at org.mortbay.io.nio.SelectChannelEndPoint.run(SelectChannelEndPoint.java:395)
at org.mortbay.thread.QueuedThreadPool$PoolThread.run(QueuedThreadPool.java:488)
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1926: That just means they have put you on ignore so that you can never converse with them again. Lucky you!!

Hrqls: Interestingly all the old messages in that game have been deleted (including my "good luck") and the message box is now gone.

Mousetrap: