lsmiles44:There are several ways:
1. You can choose one from the list of "Waiting games" on the main menu
2. Or go to "New game" and choose a game to add to waiting games list for others to accept
3. Click on a player's profile and invite them to a particular game
4. Post what you'd like to play on here and I'm sure someone will invite you, to get you started

If you need any more help please ask.

lsmiles44: What would you like toplay ?

how do i start playing a game 9on here

rabbitoid: Something is wrong as this Team Tournament was meant to start at 11.00am today

Nov 2009 Break Break Breakthrough

The ponds are overdue.
Devil Rays Pummel The Brewers 8-2
1h 47mins

I am sure Fencer had a GREAT Birthday yesterday, though i bet he was working

Anyway, does anyone know who or rather what Fencer shares his Birthday with

NO, ok i will tell you

FIVE years ago, on the 9th November 2004 a new Browser first appeared

FIREFOX was born

So i wish Fencer a Happy belated Birthday and Firefox a Happy 5th Birthday, and many more to come

Firefox celebrates fifth birthday

Tuesday & Rose: take it to PM please ... further messages of this will be deleted

Aah, I see I'm not the only one that send you a reply
I asked you too why you send me a message

I beg you, help me to be a member tour!

I dream every day and every night!

Pity!

http://brainking.com/fr/PawnRegistry?bgi=1482&p=0

not blocked

when i receive a message begging me to buy someone a membership and when i go to reply i find said user has me blocked

surely the pawn registry is enough for ppl without spamming ppl's in boxes to

R.A.D.Y.:

Artful Dodger: At the end...

On ratings calculations:  Are ratings determined by the rating differences at the start of the game or at the end?  Thanks in advance. 

Roberto Silva: That is nice to know I have never looked into it, but on that i think it should be by win..... BKR should have nothing to do witrh it

MadMonkey: It depends on how you set the tournament. In a normal tournament a draw will result in the weakest player going through. If you set the tournament as "1 win matches" the game will be replayed until there's a winner.

cd power: I agree, Elimination should NEVER be about BKR, there should always be a winner

AbigailII: So.... am i missing something ? Draw = New game ? whats wrong ?

AbigailII: And I appreciate that! I don't like elimination tourneys where the lower BKR advances in case of a draw. Some games (i.e. Logik) have a high rate for having a draw.

MadMonkey: That's why I create elimination tournaments with 1-win matches.

MadMonkey: Not if the tournament creator specifically states that a victory is necessary to go through. If that is the case the game is replayed.

Just a little information

Congrats, citizens of Mozilla! Firefox population surpasses that of the United States

I think a Poll is in order

joshi tm: I thought when this was discussed before, if an Elimination game is drawn, the person with the lower bkr is classed as the winner

1926: not guilty this time

I was looking at the membership categories and the brain rook is really a good deal. I was checking to see why one of my opponents wasn't moving and it turns out she (a brain rook) currently has more than 4,000 (four-thousand) games going right now. If you like to play, being a brain rook is really a great deal.

AbigailII: You already drawn the game, I would not see a reason why not accepting a draw here... in normal game elimintation he would be eliminated, but since this is a one win match there is a rematch.

What to do with game 3525524? We've been repeating positions, but my opponent ignores by draw requests. I've repeatedly tried to send a message to Fencer, but that only results in a message saying that it's not possible, and that the Brainking staff was notified.

pedestrian: If U have the chat box open on Ur main page the auto refresh will not work on my computer. If that is not it U might ask fencer to help.

cd power: Thanks, but I tried that. Anyway, I got a chance to try it on a different computer, and it doesn't seem to be a problem there. So it's probably just me.

pedestrian: This has happened to me sometimes with Firefox, if I have had it open for awhile. Close your browser completely and then reopen it... this should fix it.

Apparently I have 10 days vacation available, but it only lets me set them for this month, which is 5 days.

Does anyone else experience trouble with the auto-refresh function lately, or is it just my computer that needs fixing? Sometimes it doesn't work at all, sometimes it's just slower than usual.

Fencer:
Thanks for the quick reply!

RGroszkiewicz: It is allowed.

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!