Fencer: Well, it will probably be kinda problematic, because Hebrew is read from right to left, and this can really put you through hell if your computer can't handle this. Besides, it's tonnes of work.

瀬人様: I am already put through hell with Farsi.

Fencer: Calling fire fighters .......

From: [gringo, Germany, Brain Rook, Male] gringo
Date and time: 3/12 2005, 02:19:57
Subject: You ran out of time (Chinese Chess) (show game)

Tiyulee: Your weekend is not our weekend. I guess Singapore is in a different time zone, BrainKing uses GMT+01:00.

Tiyulee: Change your weekend days to Frdiay and Saturday..... (If pawns can change them,....) and also switch your "Auto Vacation" on (if pawn have that....)

p.s. not been a pawn for a long time so might be wrong....

Bry: It's a "fixed weekend" tourney, so changing weekend days will not help.

rod03801:

sorry, i thought it was a general query.......

it is 3.45pm Sunday...and it has taken 22 minutes to get BK to load :(
when I make a move it is taking just over a minute for the pages to reload....is it me or is there a problem?
Cache etc emptied, all housework done :)

BerniceC: It's quick here.

BerniceC: Sometimes the site seems stuck or very slow to load. What I do is to click on the stop button in the menu bar, and then try to load it again. This often helps.

BerniceC: I have had this on several occassions, i am told by Fencer in the past, its my network and not Branking.

Fencer: My humble hope was, if I choose fixed weekend it would be fixed, for me. Sorry that my inferior comprehension still falls to the illusion things here are what they seem to be. Thank you for setting right.

thanks fencer!!!!!!! now i wont miss them anymore .. i hope ;)

and i wont get confused by old notes ... at least if i dont forget to remove them ;)

(hey! i am dutch! and blonde :))

Hrqls: Yea! Notes above the board. Now I can actually make myself notes in a game without forgetting to scroll down and find them. Thanks Fencer! Just for that, I think I will renew my membership!

Fencer: LOL. My thanks are for making that optional so I don't have to have the notes above the board!

Is it true!???????

Thank you so much Fencer!!!

forgive me if this has been asked before, but why are ponds separate from all the other games, in terms of their listing on the main page and their little red numbers telling how many are waiting for you to move and stuff? that seems to me an unnecessary complication and a tiny bit of an inconvenience. from the player's point of view, ponds are games just like any other and (it seems to me) should be listed in the same list as all the other games.

i use tabbed browsing (IE users wouldn't know what this is, but it's a huge convenience that i think every other web browser offers) and i often have BK open in a background pane while i'm doing something on some other website in another pane, and when non-pond games are ready for me to move on them, the number of such games shows up in the tab of my BK pane, so i can see at a glance when games are waiting for me even when i'm at a completely different website - but ponds don't show up in BK's tab like that because they're somehow treated differently for some reason i don't understand.

and while i admit it's a very teeny-tiny point, it would also be nice for the "move and go to next game" button to be able to take me straight from the pond i just moved on to my next waiting game of backgammon or froglet or whatever rather than depositing me on the main page first, and i don't understand why it doesn't. does something in the structure of the site demand that ponds be kept separate, or does it offer the player some advantage that i'm overlooking, or could they maybe be rolled in with all the other games some day?

thanks...

plaintiger: Because ponds are not like standard two-player games and your next turn time is triggered by the server, not by any opponent. It's more like "bid and wait" sort of thing.

how can i add stairs to my fellowship? is it available yet?

Antje: Not available yet - but I believe Fencer said it was planned.

Antje: Of course it is available - you can create stairs for every game you have created a team for within your fellowship.

Pedro Martínez: wow, I guess they are. How dare Fencer do something and not let us know! :-)

thanks.. i saw the option on the bottom of the page, but didnt know how to incorporate the stairs..

ok someone, give me a clue, what are 'stairs'

Thanks for that I understand now :)

Fencer: Any decisiopn on Rooks who build up thousands of games and then become pawns?

tonyh: When I make a decision, I'll announce it.

Keep the questions coming for Pedro Martinez!!!! I'll be sending him all his interview questions soon, if you have a question for him, just send them to me and they'll be added to the inteview. Thank you!

harley: Interview about what and why. Just curious.

hotmommy22: Interviews to learn more about different users.

Past interviews: http://brainking.com/en/Interviews

hotmommy22: Have a click on the Interviews link at the top of this board. That'll show the what. The 'why' varies. First, of course, the royalty, then some early members and global moderators. Now the search has moved out into the general poulation...

harley: one question I wanted to ask, but you: how do you pick your victims?

rabbitoid: I believe it's nominations, though harley may make the final selection. On the other hand a quick search found this.

rabbitoid: Actually its mostly Fencer who chooses, with input from others like sometimes people say 'hey it would be good if Mr/Mrs X was interviewed' and I'll give that name to Fencer, then he has the final decision.

Fencer: what is Error 404, we all go booted off here a minute ago, and that was what kept coming up.

Princess Alison: 404 is what you get when your browser can't find the web page. Happens all the time to me on this site.

alanback: Its the first time it has happened to me tonight, even though the web site keeps crashing left right and centre of late

Princess Alison: it hasn't been much of a problem this side of the pond...a minute or two today that I know of, but aside from that, up and running just fine

happens alot for me :o(

Stevie: probably when all of us over here log on, huh? : (

Princess Alison: Liquid was upgrading the application server and forgot one config file. Nothing serious.

Stevie:

Fencer: OK, thank you for leting me/us know

my game sheet was in order of games with shortest time left on the top, and now they're all mixed up, and i can't remember how to fix them in settings. also one game has 26 days and a green light, what does that mean?
thx. in advance, ellie:)

Howdy ellieoop, The column titles "Game Event Opponent Your color Move Time left" are links. Whichever you click is how the list will be sorted.

The green light indicates a time control with fixed (ie. Sat/Sun) weekends and no other vacation days allowed. More info here.

ellieoop: on the setings page, sort games by time left ascending, that should get you what you want

Fencer!, Thanks for the server news, but when I click on "Remove", it does not

wellywales: There seems to be a wrong constraint in the database structure. It will be fixed soon.