Vikings: there does seem to be a problem with the last 10 games finished ,inmy profile i have games listed from 2004 then jumps to 2006
.....havent looked any further into it yet

Vikings: Is it better now?

Fencer: now I see it, thanks

reza: I loved your interview. I know we had differences in a few religious things. You believe what you are taught. Just like I believe the way I was taught. I know you and I are trying to get to the same place someday.
I loved your country and met alot of nice people when we were stationed there ..You know my son was born there. I too wish that there could be peace in the world. Just wanted to say hi and comment on your interview. :)
BARB

Pbarb2: His interview has lots of class. No doubt is the better one there...

Andre Faria: Yes it does.

it was very enlightening and interesting, his mother
must be very proud him.

Pbarb2 and Andre Faria and ellieopop: Thanks. I really wish I could meet all the people here in person.

got a question: what is a "signed" tournament? what does "signed" mean?

thanks...

plaintiger: wouldn't that be tournaments that you have signed up for but haven't started yet

Vikings: no, that's not it, Vikings - that would make sense, but that's not what it means, because when i go to the tournaments page the default list it shows me is of "signed" tournaments, but i haven't signed up for any of the ones it shows.

i see in Fencer's news that redsales and catherineqq are responsible for translating the site into Chinese, but i looked at catherineqq's profile and saw that She's a pawn. shouldn't a contribution like that make a person a golden rook for life?

plaintiger: The "signed" tournaments are those you can sign up for.

Pedro Martínez: huh. calling them "signed" doesn't make any sense then. but thank you for the clarification, Pedro.

plaintiger: Aye, I would have thought so too.

plaintiger: I agree, "registered" or "submitted", or simply "available" would be better. I'm sure it's a language-barrier matter, as "signed" and "registered" is one word in Czech.

plaintiger: It's my abbreviation. Nobody ever complained, except you.

plaintiger: Believe it or not, some people don't want a membership, not even for free [right, Paulo? ] That's why I better ask them first.

Fencer: I'm not conplaining but rather confused, when I go to the tournement page, It says all tournements with no option for signed, when I go to my profile and click signed it says none, on ponds it shows available ponds, and on team tournaments(the only one that makes sense) is says none

Vikings: I might change it.

Fencer: actually, i haven't complained either: i've simply pointed out a fact. calling tournaments "signed" because they're available for joining doesn't make any sense. at least not in English. "signed" means something has already been signed - past tense...plus in English, "signing" is not the same as "signing up", so - again, in English - "signed" doesn't even come close to meaning "available to be signed up for."

since "available to be signed up for" is way too unwieldy, i agree with Pedro that "available" would be a better choice. "available for signup" would be the clearest, but that's probably a bit long for the purpose too.

wait, i've got it: "joinable." it's kind of a weird word, but its meaning is unmistakable.

Fencer: and as to the membership question, it does make sense to ask people first. but do ask! :)

I propose the following system:
Put 12 green creatures near the name of the tour, like this for tournaments that you have already signed up. 14 for tournaments that you haven't but you can and 17 little creatures for tournaments you haven't but you can't. Also for tournaments with prizes put 13 creatures.

So every single member of Brainking would do nothing else but counting little creatures.....

Pythagoras: lol i like that system idea

Pythagoras:

Pythagoras: yes! and how about if we replace all the English words on the site with Urdu, but still call it English? that'll make everything even clearer!

plaintiger: please do not select Urdu, but instead the most traditioned lingua franca. This would not be Latin as presumed, but instead the much older language of SUMER. Probably that would also implicate the need to install some Cuneiform script fonts ...

SMIRF Engine: Too bad Braille is not an option, uh?

For those who have an HI5 account, there is a specific group for Brainking members.

Just go to the "Join Groups" option, and search for the brainking group...

Does a certain player keep deleting ga,mes you accept in the waiting games area? Or accept and them after a few moves resign saying they have to many going?, even though they have hundreds in teh waiting games section? I think i have found my first blocked users person.

furbster: I don't know any "certain player" so I can't tell.

Would it hurt you a lot if you told us the certain player's nickname?

I don't want to name them incase, but look at waiting games and you should be able to work out who!

furbster: I know the person u mean, it happened to me yesterday and thy said exactly the same thing .

furbster: I messaged this person today asking them why they resigned from our game even though they had 100's in the "waiting games" section

Yes it's really pathetic.

If you find someone abusing the waiting room, the best bet is to let Fencer know in a private PM who it is and what they are doing. I'm not sure, but it may be possible that Fencer could block the waiting room from people who abuse it.

(NOTE: Private PM, not posted here in public please.) :-)

Marmite: i'd be interested to hear what explanation the person gives (if they give one at all).

But you must have any kind of an accusation for him/her. By just saying that he/she creates many games at the waiting room and that 2-3 people saying that he/she resigned a game against them is not enough i think. It must be a repeated process For example if he/she does this again..... Don't forget that the person may had a reason(a real one) and now he is again fine.
It happened to me 2-3 days ago and i'm still wondering why he/she did that. And the worst part is that person is strong in some games while it is very interesting to talk with and his/her behaviour was not strange at all before this. Now i have accepted 2 more games with him/her and i hope he/she will not resign....

I haven't renewed my membership and i had 0 vacation days. But now i see that i have 30 new ones. Why is that? I guess because of the start of a new year. So is it true that vacation days are initialize to 30 at the start of any new year?

Also if at the middle of a year someone renew his membership, will vacation days also be initialized to 30 again?

Pythagoras: Yes and yes.

There was quite a discussion about vacation days not so long ago. Stick vacation into the search box to get hold of it...

plaintiger: Yes they replied to my message saying that they had over 300 games which was far to many and was now down to 50, seems abit strange to me , seeing as they have loads on the "waiting Games" board.

Marmite: Perhaps he/she couldn't afford 300 games plus the one future games on waiting room.
So now he/she can afford 50 plus the ones at waiting room....
So now to answer the obvious question: why then create so many ones in the waiting room? I saw that person saying because he/she thinks that there are not enough games at waiting room and he/she wants to give the chance to people to play many types of games.....

Pythagoras: Yes but why, resign from a game, half way through it, that doesnt make sense.

Why try to make sense of it?! It takes all kinds, I'm sure they had their reasons even if we can't understand them.

And then there are others who offer draws with each move ... I find that a tad annoying too :(

WhisperzQ: eheh, only when their game is already lost... :)

WhisperzQ: No, there are some who offer from about move 3 or 4 (although it may true that there is game is indeed lost even at this stage, they just don't know it yet ... LOL j/k :)

WhisperzQ: "i'd be interested to hear what explanation the person gives (if they give one at all)......"

When someone says as a welcome message instead of "Hi" or "good luck to you too", the "gvdl* you too".
I just noticed that and i asked what is his problem and as he has some hours to play i will soon find out the answer to this question!
While you, you'll never find the answer to your question of draws....

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Happy New Year,

saii: you may try the checkers discussion board. good luck.