puupia: That is correct. Every January 1, your vacation days are reset to the max. So you could have fun and set the rest of December as vacation days since they will be reset to 35. (and of course you can still be here and play your games)

And as noted, vacation days do not work with Fischer clock game, or fixed weekend only games (games with red dot next to time).

MadMonkey: now there is a possibility......how about pin the tail on the donkey....

Bernice: Maybe if we had a new game or 2 just for Xmas , we will let him off

MadMonkey: as I said....you can hear hands being rubbed together ROFL........

Fencer 1,000,000

pauloaguia: Ok. Letting your opponents know about not playing seems like a good idea. I'll put some vacation in my calendar.

I thought my vacation days would not be reset to maximum when the year changes. There no reason to save the vacation then if they do reset..

alanback: The bidding starts at 1 million Euro.

puupia: if you set vacation days, when your opponents play the game will immediatelly assume those days and include them in the time left (assuming it's not a Fischer clock game or without vacations).
Also your opponents will be able to see on your profile that you're on vacations and for how long instead of expecting you to move every day.
On certain occasions you can even "waste" less vacation days if you set them than if you let autovacations kick in (not that it matters much - we're at the end of the year and you still have 35 days!)

I'll be out of town for a few days starting thursday. Most likely i won't be able to make any moves then.

I have automatic vacation on. Is there any reason to set vacation days to my calendar also?

Looking at my BKR graph, I realized I've been playing here continuously for over 4 years now.  (I started earlier, but took a break for about 6 months).  Gosh, it doesn't seem that long.  It's been fun!

Fencer:  There should be open bidding.  But if I'm going to bid, I want exclusivity and book rights ;-)

Fencer: If every registered member gave you a dollar, would you make Animal the little boss of us? (exchanged in Euros, of course!)

Animal: money, money money....I can here hands being rubbed together ROFLMBO

Animal: You know the price.

Fencer:  Hey, can you make me little boss of BrainKing? 

Christoph Daum: okies :)....my bad ROFL

Bernice: There is no limit in how many f/s one person can be the little boss. But there is a limit on how many little bosses one f/s can have: only one

Fencer: OMG...I can see certain f/s with 18-20 mods making all little bosses...what a mess.....one big boss and one little boss should suffice

WellyWales: No, there is no limit.

YES! that's what was always missing on BK! a mini me!

Fencer: Is there a limit to how many little bosses a person can be ? i.e. 2 Big Bosses for a rook

furbster: http://brainking.info/archives/393-Little-Boss.html

And now it is at Brainking.info as well.

furbster:Check out the fellowships board. That is where they talking bout it.

http://brainking.com/en/Board?bc=24

Whats the difference between big boss and little boss, i just saw it in one fellowship. The little boss has slightly fewer things s/he allowed to do?

Fencer: so I must pick a payment and hit continue then? And do it this time when the red light comes back on again?

Puckish: I don't see any orders placed by you. Putting it to a shopping cart is not enough, the order must be placed.

Fencer: Okay, thanks, it just doesnt show anything when I look at my shopping cart, I guess I just have to trust that it will be calculated correctly when i make my payment.

Puckish: Yes, if 1) you place the order when the red code is active, 2) we receive your payment this year.

Furthermore, we have added a nice improvement - you don't have to send a payment in 72 hours to validate the bonus (like before), it must be received to the end of this year - 31st December 2007, 23:59:59 GMT+01:00.

So if I read this correctly, as long as i signed up for my new membership when the light was red, then when I pay I will get the second year free?

dicepro: Awwwwwww, well put & there really is no place like "home" I think I need to borrow ruby2shoes slippers

I've tried Goldtoken, Itsyourturn, YourturmMyturn and something else, and frankly, all those sites look
kind of mcdonaldish ... we may disagree with Fencer in this or that, we may miss something here or there, but I feel like being at home at brainking ...

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays for all of you.
Andy.

seku: You are absolutely right.

alanback: Yes, I'm aware this is in use elsewhere, but their game repertuaire is.... limited :D. Very. I'd probably be playing at DGS (didn't have this feature when I last played there), but I wanna play other games then Go also. Brainking just has best features and game repertuaire, and this I think would be a great addition.

seku:  Try Dailygammon.  "Computer guessing" has been working there for years.  You can make up to 10 moves in a row based upon computer predictions of what your opponent will do.  If the computer guesses wrong, the game is rolled back to that move and guessing resumes from that point.  Your opponent cannot see your move unless he makes the predicted move himself.

I wanna suggest a feature, where players could predict their opponent moves, and pre-set a response for moves... or even sequences. This would make the games more interesting, as it would lessen the need to make "obvious" moves or forced responses... The games when you log in, are in state where you can really make decisions as how to proceed.

alanback:
It has stopped doing it now. It must have heard me.

Mousetrap:  sounds like you're reliving your lab days and running mazes!

Each time I want to type a message I have to sign out and sign back in. I get a pop up box saying download brainking message board whatever lol! What is going on?

Andersp: That women is crazy... she puts down the money for a black rook and then leaves soon after...

Czuch: I dont know more than what she is saying in her profile and i suppose you have read that too :)

Well...i said it before...people are different...:)

Andersp: the amount of snoopy's games is a left over from going for the top spot in 'moves per day'

its an insane race ... and this is the left over .. the number of finished games is just a side effect .. its an awkward list at all as someone who is here longer will have more games finished (on average)

i might feel sorry for the opponents though as they might want to play a nice game and now have a win by timeout

66% is a great target .. mine as well .. was there .. not anymore though i think

my 2 important lists from the statistics are win/loss ratio (66.6666% is the goal :)) and average bkr (2000 was the goal, now it is 1900 for more games :))

coan.net: I agree with you completely here... I am much more impressed by those who have a high winning percentage before someone who has 1,000 wins, but 3,000 loses... or even if they are even... :-)

BTW, BBW; 66% s good target, there are not very many that are able to maintain that, so good luck!

Andersp: Well with that, that will give them more loses then wins. I know myself, I'm always more impressed by people who have more wins then loses. I myself am shooting for a 66.6% win rate (win 2 out of every 3 games) - I'm currently at around 63% right now.

That is Statistics are just that - stats. Nothing to put too much stock into in my opinion.

coan.net: She has 1900+ games more to time out...takes a while to catch up dont you think  :)

Andersp: If you are talking about Snoopy, they are leaving the site for awhile and just letting their games time out. Even though that will add some finished games to their stats, he is not starting any new so people should be able to "pass" them soon enough

rednaz23: Of course it shall count as a loss, but as you can see im linking to the statistics.  Some people like to be in top even in finished games  :)   

Andersp: If a resigned game didn't count... then I would simply resign any that I am bound to lose... :-)

It should count, and I doubt it will ever change.