kkkeeek: Yes, that's true :-) I didn't say all games on BrainKing were balanced. But they can be a good fun for beginners.

For black, must lost.
For more exciting, i think, must plus 40 or more pawns for black. ( 32 pawns are too few! )

For white, maharajah must lost absolutely.
I think it must be exciting if black side has only 8 pieces and none of pawns.

thank you all for your help,

we agreed draw now and will soon start a regame, so everything is fine now ;-)) best wishes, doerdich

Doerdich:

Sorry, it was my mistake.

But just from my point of view: The right discussion board for that would have been the German speaking board.

Another reason only (and only) to play here.

Andre Faria: kewl.. just send all infos needed to my pm box.. hehe..

Doerdich ....I went and gave you the draw in our loop chess game, because I pity people that don't know the rules and then want out, too many people fear that first blemish ...hehehe... but what bothers me ? your claim (on a Forum) that if you had underpromoted to a bishop you would have won...I'm happy to play on this nice site and happier more for the (blocked users) feature...

ScarletRose: LOL, sure you can :))))))))))

Andre Faria: hey.. can I use your paypal account and do some shopping??

Doerdich: Yes, the problem was obviously caused by the German translator. Sorry. I've removed the deceiving text.

Doerdich: Well, I think you should ask the person who translated the BK into German why he added his own rules there and didn't just translate the site. Look at any other language version and you won't find anything about crazyhouse.

Hi, then I find it a bit irritating that in the rules the name "crazy house" is mentioned! Fischer-Random-Chess e. g. also has many names (Chess960 and so on), so how can somebody know that loop chess is not the same like crazyhouse? Is it possible to abort this game, I am a queen down. I dont like loop chess at all because if I had chosen a bishop I would have won now...

Backoff: I know. But loop chess is not crazyhouse chess.

I think he is talking about loop chess.

Look into the rules:

"...Spiralschach (aka "Crazy House" oder "Einsetzschach" oder auch "Tandemschach" aber hier nur 2 Spieler)..."

Doerdich: This is not a crazyhouse chess.

In my first crazyhouse game, there occured a big mistake in my view: I pushed a pawn to the 8th rank and chose a queen, then my opponent captured the queen, and then he got a second queen to put in! This is definetely wrong because in all Tandem games and Crazy house games I have ever seen pieces which are chosen by pawn promotion will count as a "pawn". Otherwise this game would not be playable with two sets of chess pieces. Please change it quickly and let me abort my game, thx! (If not, next time I won't promote a pawn to queen, but e.g. to a knight, but this doesn't really make sense at all) Best wishes, Doerdich

Purple: OOPS!

playBunny: Even worse is accepting a draw in a game you were easily winning because of a careless button. I did it TWICE!!!

pauloaguia: Lol. I don't know how many times I've pressed the Accept button after writing a decline message! . Maybe it would help if they were lightly coloured in green and red.

You should have dclined the invitation ;)
Well, then what are you in for?

i think i messed that up! i meant to send you a message saying that i wasn't much for chess, and then the game came up anyways! lol

ArtfulDodger: On the top left corner of your screen you'll see a red (1), meaning you have a game to play... just click the one and we'll go from there ;)

wellywales: why would i log out?

ArtfulDodger: LMFAO

hello everyone! i'm new here and trying to find my way around! any help would be appreciated!

pauloaguia: Ok Paulo, I will do that if Pay Pal does not work. Thanks once again... :)

Fencer: Yes, with Visa. I will try to open a Pay Pal account instead. Thanks...

Andre Faria: Are you trying it with a credit card?
Actually, I am not happy with MoneyBookers because their policy of accepting payments seems to change several times a year and many people complain about it. The only workaround I can suggest is to use another way of payment [as a Portuguese resident you can open a full-featured PayPal account].

Andre Faria: I always use PayPal, never had any problems with it...
I believe pgomes had some trouble with his subscription as well and he was trying to use Moneybookers... he ended up directing his payment through me, if you want to do the same just PM me...

nobleheart: i enjoyed the images very much .but i`m a city man & wouldn`t know a fern frond if i fell over 1. i also have some optical illusions if anyone is into that. also principles & formulae .anyone ever read the third eye books .you stare at a pic & it becomes 3 dimensional as your 3rd eye processes the image. mook53lhd

What is happening with moneybookers? I´m trying to renew my membership since 13/9. Moneybookers even debit my credit card in 2.56 € for fees, but not the 16 € for the membership. Is anybody else having problems in activating the account with moneybookers?

Ferjo: You guess right.

Fencer:
Ok, thanks. Guess we have to get use to.

Ferjo: This is correct, the formula is already fixed, but the full history will be fixed as of 27th.

What happened to the pontuation system? No I'm not talking about rating. If you see the date post its still 19 not yet 20 (Tuesday).
I'm refering that there are games that i call balanced ones which means I get points if I win no points add or remove if I draw and I loose the same amount of winning points if I loose (seems fair). Today when i checked those games again that I'm currently playing I see theres a unbalanced distribution I earn 3 points if i win, going to loose 5 points even if I draw!?!? and will loose 13 points If I loose the game (more than 4 times from if I win). And the BKR difference between me and my opponent its within 200 points. This happens in the past when it was a bigger diference like more than 400 points. Is this correct? Is this a new pontuation system?

"GotChe" Problems undoubtly prevent a lot of games spreading across all of the game sites.

Card games would be a good addition.

Is there any plans in the making for some card games in the near future or would that be impossible to do at the moment or would they be already copyrighted that it would be impossible w/ problems Gothic Chess imposed?

I've deleted a few off topic posts

yes harley sorry.

Princess Alison shuts gob.....again!!!

PLease take this to general chat.

Princess Alison: I hope things settle for you, I hate to hear of people being hassled in any way on here! We are all here to have fun, right? Lets keep it that way :o)

be aware too of "psychological leveling" that many people do.
that is were someone verbally puts down someone else in a effort to make themselves"feel" superior.
it usually is the calling card of someone with a inferiority problem or anti-social behavior or low intelligence/low maturity.

Princess Alison shuts her gob

Princess Alison: the best thing you can do is ignore them,any comment from you will only stimulate more abuse.

Princess Alison if you follow the first two guidelines from the user agreement about problems with other users it should solve it.

Put that user on your Enemy list
Hide and ignore the other users post. Instead of starting a "flame war" with the user, just ignore them. It takes a bigger person to ignore than try to sink to their level.

Posting about a specific problem here isn't really a good idea because if they read your posts they may feel the need to respond, and before you know it you're in a public argument which would get both of you hidden!

657: yes I agree!

657: Well i sent this person a couple of polite messages and she didnt bother repliing to them, which i thought was strange

Princess Alison: LOL I think its a case for Miss Marple!