yes twice in three days ;( also when you get the games back in games like backgammon it gives you differnt dices , so we cant even stick to the same moves ;(

Database deamon only decided to restart itself. Uh-oh. Liquid is tuning its parameters.

Is that legal? Sounds rude to me.

For budding poets and poet-lovers alike there's a brand new DB here on BK for just that purpose. I'm certain there is talent here just waiting to burst out of the woodwork so don't hesitate to enrich all of our lives with your original stuff and/or your favorites. The board awaits your creative touch. Enjoy.

P.S. Thank you Fencer!!! :o)

Ode to a Data Base.....

"Here we have a data base,,,
that erases all the moves we make...
We try again, again, & again,,
& then we Win again, & Again..."
(My attempt at poetry......) :)

Thats great GrassHopper! But this isn't the poetry board! Click on 'discussion boards' in your menu, and you'll see a list there of all the boards... 'poetry' board is listed there :o)

It is brilliant but on the wrong DB, you see (hehe). LOL

I just found the Poetry board,,,thanks Harley :)

Hi Fencer,

can you please check out the above Game ID? I won a tourny game against panda and finished it last night. Then today I received a message, that panda won. Could you please reset that game into my advantage? Sorry, panda :-) I know i didn´t win the tourny, but I can use the BKR ratings ;o)

Thanks for your help, Fencer,
~*Radiant 36:9*~

Done.

Thanks Fencer, but could you also check out the ratings? I have still the same ratings as when lost the game.. shouldn´t I get more ratings now?

Of course I should say: "Shouldn´t I get more BKR now?" Sorry for the confusion :-)

The ratings aren't saved...if you want your rating restored, you have to know what it was for Fencer to change it :-)

Fencer, my rating used to be 1333. Can you please restore that for me as well, concerning Game ID 93890?

Cheers :-)

Radiant, I thought your rating was 2333.. ;-)

Harley, you singing the time warp song again?

Q Should a time out effect ratings? Reason I ask is a game I was winning (my opinion only lol) was allowed to time out by my opposition. This wasn't credited as a win or loss. Is this always the case, cause it seems unfair in allowing anybody to time out as opossed the losing the game.

Yes, your rating should change for a timeout.

Here are 4 resons as listed in the FAQ:

- Both players did not perform at least two moves. It can happen when one player loses the game by a timeout at the very beginning.

- You won a game with an opponent whose BKR is significantly smaller than yours. If we would apply the formula exactly, your BKR would have to drop. But BrainKing.com uses the rule that your BKR cannot drop after you win the game, therefore it remains unchanged. The similar rule applies if you lose a game with an opponent whose BKR is significantly higher than yours.

- The game have been defined as "unrated game". Such game is not calculated for BKR.

- The game is a part of a match which is not finished yet. The match is treated as a single game which consists of several sub-games. The statistics (number of won, drawn and lost games) and BKR of both players is changed after the whole match is finished and the result is based on the match result itself, not on the results of its sub-games.

thanks BBW you have answered my Q

MM "It's just a step to the right.....
& then a jump to the left.....etc..."

Fencer, on some of the regular backgammon games, the option to "swap dice" has disappeared.... that has to be the only explanation for my losses.. ;o)) Could you check that please? Thanks!

Doesn't the "swap dice" disappear when you have a piece on the bar and can only bring that piece out with one of the dice? Could that be what you are seeing?

Hmm, I don't know BBW, I'll monitor it more closely - I don't have enough experience to see whether that's what's happening. Thanks for the suggestion!

I can understand why some of the GUN players on here NEED to play 500-600 games at a time...it creates records etc that can be bragged about at a later/current date.
BUT when someone starts a "FAST GAME OF FIRST FIVE SIGNED UP" anything, and then proceeds to only move twice in 2 weeks......WHY BOTHER...
take the time to play your own tournaments...it is giving me the Sh--ts....waiting for the smart ones to move :(
sorry but had to say something

Angus, the swap dice option disappears when the other die would not allow you a valid move.

... http://www.brainking.com/game/ShowGame?g=158767

It's now on it's 33 move? I've not had this before!!

Is it a bug?

Jules :)

OK, what is wrong with this site now?? on Game# 170774 i should have won the game when i played E-4 on move #27, right? but it didn't end the game and the other player won at e-5 on move #28. so i got a lose when it should have been a win? can someone please look at the game and tell me why this happened. it's bad enough when hours of moves are removed and have to be replayed, but now a win is a lose... you have a good site, but the bugs are taking over. ;o(

dogdog....very strange. Looks like you should have won. If Fencer doesn't see your message, send him a private message.

i guess u gotta get 4 in a row.. not 5

I would have thought five in a row counts?
I'm sure Fencer will have a look when he comes on, and at your game too, Jules.

Im also having problems :-(...I won this game but its still showing up on my main page as an active game..

ANIMAL: in four in a row you win when you place 4 -or- more in a row, at least it always has been at the other game site i play on.

SueQ: i have never seen this happen before either and i think it must be a bug. i hope they get it fixed soon. i would become a member here, but i think i'll wait and see if the site becomes more stable first.

If we want to view a particular game and we have the game number is there a place on the Main Page where we can enter the number to pull up that game? Or do you have to go to one of the players profile?

i take back what i said earlier
it does say 4 or more in a row wins in the rules
dogdog should be declared the winner

Chief: If you want, you can go to one of your games and change the number (after g= ) to the number you want. Or, you can go to their profile.

I had one game where it took it a couple minutes to realize i'd won, but it did eventually, and it only happened that once to me. Hopefully Fencer will look at it.

Im not sure Chief but its the battleboats game with Cashewnut if ya wanna look at it..

Type in :

http://www.brainking.com/game/ShowGame?g=

And then the game number.

Thanks Harley, I'll try to keep my eyes open next time.... ;o)

lol peacepickle, I wish I had such high rating there..

but, Fencer/Kevin, sorry to bother you again with this.. I am glad my rating got restored, but:

BefOre I won this game I had the rating 1333 - once you win a game, your rating get higher, right? Could you please then upgrade my rating, as it should be? Or do you need to know my opponents rating as well at that time? - that would be 1666..

Thanks for your help,
~*Radiant 36:9*~

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One thing that might lighten the load on your servers is to reduce the number of messages held on fellowships and the reg discusion boards. Some of the messages are 8 or 9 months old, there is no reason to keep them that long, some of the DB's have 500 to 600 messages.

General Chat has 6,813 :-)

No, stored data like this would not slow down anything at all - as long as there is enough space.

"most active players" make about 900 moves a day...is that 900 moves in games they play..(their own moves AND opponents moves added up) OR do they make 900 moves THEMSELVES each day??? that would mean they make more than 1 move pr. MINUT for TWELVE HOURS A DAY!!! ??? that´s just


incredible.

yep....they make a hell of a lot of moves, and yes isnt it amazing....Im flat out making 100 or so in a day....but then im only on for about 3 hours each day :)

if you have lots of games going , there will be a percentage of those games where your move is forced to a certain place & if your on almost all day you can do a thousand moves easliy ;))

LOL yeah a lot of moves can be made in seconds... one click for a battleship bombing, it doesn't take much study of the board to do your next move!

yes..that´s true, but how long does a AVERAGE move take??...and dont these people ever EAT?? ..:) (just joking..:) )

Ha ha ha, well for myself I can click and eat a sandwich at the same time (mouse in one hand, sandwich in the other!) ... but if we're talking about the GUYS... well its a well known fact they can't do two things at once so I guess they click... bite... click... bite!!! (only kidding guys!)

I've just timed myself to get to a game of backgammon, make my moves then go to the next game. 21 seconds.

I'm not commenting on what guys do while they're playing games on here. It's not pretty.

Hi Harley,perhaps you can try it with two mouses in both hands in the next time:)?