Who do people think will win the Action Points main prize for each side and how do you think it will effect the site in the short term and long term?

My picks are playbunny and imsoaddicted, even though Mihel is way out in front...

Pedro Martínez:

The patinece of Job...lol.

Normally two days would not bother me. It is just that I am consumed with accumulating action points as is or was this particular opponent. I have several games with slow players and will continue to make moves at their pace.

playBunny:

Thanx for trying help me out.

It is my own fault...clicked the wrong button and couldn't understand why the game was still there so instead of thinking about it for a moment I opened the other game and did the ssme thing again. I will send Fencer a message and hopefully he will be able to help me tomorrow. By then my opponent might have shown up....lol.

yoyudax: Two days! LOL...how about this one:
http://brainking.com/cz/ShowGame?g=1023427

gambler104:

I can see no way of withdrawing the offer.

yoyudax: Try withdrawing the draw offer and then trying to resign.

Fencer was online about 10 mins ago but has gone off since then. It's 11:45pm for him.

BIG BAD WOLF:

I would like to take care of this right away. How do I contact fencer?

yoyudax: Yea, it looks like once you offer a draw, you don't have the option to resign anymore. If the opponent does not move soon, about the only thing you can do is contact Fencer and let him know you want to resign the game.

Marfitalu:

hope that is the link

http://brainking.com/en/Profile?u=24500

Marfitalu:
It is not my turn.

whopper:

He won't mind ...I was just trying to free up my slots so I could work on my action points.

yoyudax: 2 days is not much, especially since he might have been unable to get in yesterday.

Marfitalu:

I cannot see a resign button anymore.

I am playing two "no time limit" games with the same opponent. He has not made a move for two days so this morning I decided to resign from the games. Unfortuantely I clicked the offer a draw button by mistake. Since this person is not online there will be no response and my games are now stuck in limbo. Is there anyway to resign these games or withdraw the offer of a draw?

LOL! Yes perhaps i will buy another one, but i guess i won't do it, since then 90 days of vacation in half a year, would mean that i can break the world record and be written in the Guinness book. But since i don't want publicity i won't do it....

Chicago Bulls: I'm amazed you lost five games on time outs. You've actually used up 60 vacations days in six and a half months? Perhaps you'd better buy another year's Rook membership? :)

whopper:.
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Lucky you:-) I lost 5 games I hope Fencer will fix this.... And your vacation day of course.....

I couldn't get in either. Lost a vacation day.

playBunny: i couldnt get on when i tried this morning at 7am (cet) .. i could get online around 11 am i think

i dont think i tried after 9pm yesterday evening .. but i am not sure

Nope, had no problems at all

For me it was 4:20pm (UK) yesterday until late this morning.

I couldn't access BrainKing all day yesterday.

Did anyone had problems accessing the site yesterday? Actually today around midnight(for middle Europe).... To be more specific i'm speaking about 21:00, 17 July - 1:00, 18 July GMT time / 23:00, 17 July - 2:00 18 July German time.....
I couldn't access it for 3 hours....

Skittles: Ok thank you i will send her a pm

WatfordFC: Eriisa is doing the paypal now.

Please could u tell me who is dealing with the paypal account now, thank you.

I sure could use one of those

I'm not sure how long the little captures pieces bit and easy access to the score has been available in jarmo above the board as i haven't played the game for a while, but i really like it yay \o/

alanback:

you guys are TWO funny

WellyWales: That would certainly help with all the slav-y spellers out there ;-)

WatfordFC: wen we going to get a spel czech-er ?? we got ever thing else on ear

tonyh: You'll only have to buy the six month membership once. After that your renewal will be in May or June and then you can go back to buying it yearly. This would seem to maximize how many vacation days you could receive by spreading them out over the whole year in six month allotments. When January 1st rolls around you'll get 30 days. Then you renew for a year in June and get reset to 30 days for the remainder of the year knowing the reset for the following January will get you back to 30 days again.

LionsLair: Just an error, i am sure

WatfordFC: Cor, these Welsh just dont know how to spell proper Inglish lyke wot I duz hehehe

*runs to hide* ;o)

WellyWales: actually the saying is "fool proof" :o)

WellyWales: I think u mean "proof"

gambler104: I think the game should be full proove by now

WellyWales: You should probably report it as a bug.

Could you please look into how I got two men home in this game

http://brainking.com/en/ShowGame?g=1767148

Thanks.

Fencer:

I like it too

Fencer:

I like it 

Walter Montego: and taking out a six-month membership would cost an extra 12 euros a year, which is fine by me; I would wiilingly pay extra for that extra 30 days vacation time!!
I agree that probably very few players are constrained by 30 days vacation time - but I am one and it causes major headaches!!

KotDB: I don't think such a tiny link would be a problem, even on a game page. It will stay as it is.

Fencer: From what I've seen, Yahoo! doesn't do a very good job of selecting important news pertaining to a given country. The results tend to be very redundant and USA-centric. And for many countries, seven or eight of the ten articles are reports of sports results. Eight of these appear to be nearly identical, and five of these have virtually nothing to do with Bavaria.

I wouldn't mind having a world news link in the menu column at the side of the screen, or a link to each country's news on the list of players from that country. But why in the middle of a game page? There, it's just a piece of clutter that has nothing to do with the game.

Fencer: Ah, so it is a joke thing. It will be interesting to see how it changes over time.

As for the news feature, it's kind of neat to be able to go to your opponent's listed country to find topics he might have an interest in while playing a game. I'm thinking I'll not often use this feature, but it doesn't hurt to have it.

KotDB: It's not meant to replace your favourite source for news. It's just an additional source of information for people who don't want to leave BrainKing to read it. I plan to make an aggregation of information from more sources in the future and integrate it to BrainKing pages.

Walter Montego: It's still in a test mode, that's why it wasn't officially announced and there is no direct link to it (except the one on the Search page. The links at the top mean the most used search keywords and it seems that someone make a joke with it and other people just click on them to see what it is about. I'll make some improvements soon.

Pedro Martínez: I did that as whopper suggested. As it turns out, the top game was one with you in Berolina Chess. It said News under the flag under your handle. I clicked it and it sent me to a page with articles about Czech Republic. I tried it with a different opponent and I was sent to a page with Guatamala news article.

I am curious about the links at the top of these news pages. The one called "Trice sucks" 601 link searches seemed like one to try, but when I went there it had just one article and it was about the Black Eyed Peas and DMX. What are those links for? Are these joke links, or have that many people been searching for information about the space in his head? Very vacuous I've heard and I thought an article about it might help explain it to me.