happyjuggler0 coan.net: Thanks for clarifying, but it does bring up the question for free members: Does their ability to use vacation days differ from paid members in that they must postpone for a fixed amount of time? How does a free member use their 10 vacation days?

thechosen0nesame way you would:

thechosen0ne: the vacation system was changed a while ago, and the whole flag has no meaning anymore.
Everybody's vacation works the same way, and there is nothing you have to do (or could do).
As was explained, whenever the first game runs out, all games get an extra hour, and your vacation time is reduced by an hour. Also you have two 'weekend days' which by default are Sat and Sun, but you can modify them. On those days, you do not use up vacation at all, its free.
If you have enough vacation left, you don't need to do anything, just go in vacation. If you have not enough left, nothing you can do.

The difference for non-paying and paying members is the total amount of vacation you get on Jan/1: Black rooks get 40 days (this means 8 weeks, as only five days a week are needed - see 'weekend' above), and non-paying get (I think) 10 days = 2 weeks. No roll-overs, just everybody gets reset on Jan/1 to his current membership's amount.
I hope that helps you!

Oh, and about the -2 minutes: The timer demon comes around every ten minutes. Until then, the remaining time just keeps counting, so might end up with it showing up to -9 minutes. That does not matter to you, the timer demon applies your vacation (as explained above) before it times you out.It's the same program, so it can't happen the wrong way around.

Aganju:
Thanks! So I guess if non-paying members get the automatic vacation as well, the premium membership details page needs to be updated. Currently it says that only paid members get automatic vacation.

thechosen0ne: Correct.
But it is not the only page that needs updating, and probably not the most important one...

bert515: Today is bad for me.

What happened to the option when starting a new game to prevent a player already playing a game with you from grabbing more games from the waiting area?

Thad: I wondered the same thing a few weeks back! Strange.

furbster: It hasn't been there for over a year

Do we know why it disappeared? It was a worthwhile option to me!

Thad: it cant have been too much "worthwhile" if you haven't noticed it gone and it has been, for over a year LOL

Bernice: put another way Fencer might have been far to busy to fix it. LOL

skipinnz: I couldn't say that, my post would have been deleted AHAHAHAHA

coan.net: Does it only add the hour to the game that has timed out? Or does that hour get added to all games where it is your turn?

Chimera: *All* your games.
Except the ones that say 'No Vacation'.

Aganju: or "Fixed Weekends only"

Bernice: I set up some loooong matches so I wouldn't need to start new games for a while.
Open Pente (Thad vs. Cheri)
Open Pente (Thad vs. JackS)

Aganju: thank you :)

*ph:2019:15600*

MadMonkey: hmmm that didnt work then :(

Whats up with this tournament from 2007?
Spring Fling 2007

And this one too from 2007 Spring Fling Ludo Tournament 2007

I saw non-english languages on the boards. I haven't noticed it before now.

ketchuplover: It is esay to click on languages by mistake. Perhaps that is what happened with you.

hi. how player uses autopass.. in backgammon?

ustica tnp:
a) it has to be activated when the tournament is created (otherwise it will not be used)
b) the player needs to activate it in his settings (check under Settings/GameFilter/Autopass which is brainking.com/en/settings?p=3&sup=2 )

Aganju: thank you... now I send a game to you... to play 1 or 2 games..thanks...

hi, i want delete my account and create another one, it is possible?

chessmate.home: An account can't be deleted, as there are games attached to the account, of course. (and all games can be looked back at, etc.). The best thing to do is just make the new account and stop using this one.

chessmate.home: but you can just change your name in this account. That might do it?

rod03801: lol I did that about three times

What exactly is the point of weekend days if my time can still go down to <1 hour on games without a green or red dot, meaning I can still time out!? I set my weekend days to Monday and Wednesday.

thechosen0ne: I think you'll find it was an added option because a lot of people were taking the total time before they moved. If you're timing out then it is working for the people who wish to play fast games.

thechosen0ne: I don't understand your question?
You cannot time out during your weekend days, but of course your time does count down. Once it reaches 0 (or 0 to -9 exactly), the time demon gives you a free hour, which is like vacation, but doesn't use any.
So what did you mean??

Aganju:
I guess that answers my question! It just wasn't clear how it worked and I thought my vacation days were being used up on those days regardless. What time zone counts as those days? Your local time, the time you specified, or Brainking time?

thechosen0ne: It is always the server time - GMT+01:00 (or 02:00 when daylight saving time is active).

OMG! I was looking through the running tournaments, and I just found a backgammon tournament that's been running for 8 years. It has 7 point matches with the doubling cube. Just thought I'd share.

Heluvagi: Speaking of that tournament, I would like to know how it is possible that milionovej kluk made it to the second round, whereas cardinal and I didn't.

Pedro Martínez: Yes, that looks worrying. Round 2 started quite recently, 20. September 2012. And the site clearly got the Sonneborn-Berger score wrong.

pedestrian:

Oh yeah. you should get on the the bossman about that!...

Get some free brains!

Pedro Martínez: is it me, or in section 2 the s-b score is also wrong (unless its counting with the doubling score within each match, but i doubt it)

El Cid: you're correct. it's wrong in section two too

Pedro Martínez: hi there :)....you have been terribly quiet for a long while....how are you?
Still waiting for you to visit LOL

Has anyone else been getting the white page and noticed how slow the site has been for a few days?

crosseyed: Yes, and especially today. I'm constantly trying to trick the gremlin who is tricking me. If reloading doesn't work I have a few bk pages on my favorites list, so I can leave and come back. This seems to work, but today I'm having to do it more than usual. Fencer said it has nothing to do with this site, but with the various server stations our signals travel through. I don't believe that, I say it's gremlins who are doing it.

Iamon lyme: I agree with you.

What is autopass in tournaments and what does it do?

thechosen0ne: it means if you can´t make a move, your opponent goes straight to his next move without you getting any notification. it saves time.

Heluvagi:
Could you please clarify? When would I not be able to make a move? Is this during one game or in the scope of a tournament?

thechosen0ne: Some games (like backgammon), there are positions when a player can't make a move and needs to "pass". If autopass is turned off, you have to enter the game and make a "pass" move, then your opponent makes the next move. If autopass is turned on, the system passes automatically and your opponent makes the next move.