saii: Did you advertise in the waiting room

I'm sorry to bring this up - but why are people so often using the brainking.com board as a chatroom? Sometimes I have to scroll through dozens of these kind of messages in just one day... totally irrelevant to "brainking itself, its structure, features and future."
It is very time-consuming and it frustrates me a lot, up to the point I decided to remove Brainking.com from my "favourite boards".

I don't know, maybe I'm the only one feeling this way... but I hope people can restrain themselves a bit more.

Fwiffo: I agree, please stay on topic.

Chatty posts will be deleted.

I know they can not invite you to a game...
But can they pick one of your games up from in the waiting room?

Stevie: No, they can't.

frolind: ok thanks :o)

Hi my question is about winning points I've been playing spere froglet new game for me but sense i got my bk ratings I have not won any points again this game is show 0 points if I win why is this

prettymama: It may be because your opponent has a low BKR

prettymama: That is due to it being a set match.. meaning there are multiple games under one match.. perhaps when the invite was set up it said 7 matches.. ?? don't know the exact number it was set for.. but, non the less when the last game is complete you will get points.. or your opponent will.. whichever one satisfy's the contract of the game..

ScarletRose: thanks to you n stevie but I think his answer may be right we r playing single games n if I lose the game I lose 100 points go figure n i'm playing someone with a 4 ranking lol

prettymama: Lol. It does seem strange but it makes sense. It's due to the fact that Sphere froglet is so new.

Blackviper's ranked #2 in Sphere Froglet but that's because he's the second of only 2 players who have an established rating! Everyone else, including yourself, is provisionally rated and ranked. On that ranking you're at #41 whereas blackviper is #72. And his rating is 895 to your 1368. That difference of 473 explains, as Steve said, why you get no points for a win.

playBunny: Thank You

prettymama:

congrats Baddy!!!!

Eriisa:

alanback: Congrats to the new moderator of the board is off topic????

since when? A moderator is a part of the structure and feature..........

Eriisa: Woulda perhaps been useful if you mentioned it with your message.

Eriisa: Absolutely. This is a board to discuss BrainKing, not to discuss this board

LOL, I guess I just assumed everyone would see her name up there.

Eriisa: Who pays attention to moderators anyway??? ;-)

Eriisa: I think he was joking, theres a winking face there!
I always knew baddy was a structure

alanback: lol

Eriisa: So, are you trying to tell us your a flake?

alanback: S no W

harley: I always thought of myself more as a feature : )
Thanks Eriisa(the flake) and harley

baddessi: At the risk of being ruled off topic, let me say you are a welcome feature :-)

alanback: thanks
now back on topic everyone!

good people like baddessi make BrainKing a pleasure to visit.
Congrats young lady.

with page loading speeds etc etc especially when using messages..

Is it just me?

Stevie: Reeeeeeaalllly slow response times here as well.

playBunny: what are you on? Im on 2.2Meg broadband dsl

Stevie: Likewise. For me the problem is highly intermittent and most accesses are behaving. Then a big hesitation or several little one occur. UK problem, I guesss. [shrug]

everything seems fine on this side of the pond

doing good here as well

Feel free to move this question to another area, if there's a more appropriate place. Does a double check count as one check or two, according to the BrainKing software? My guess (and preference) is "one", but I need to know in order to choose the proper continuation in a current game. Thanks in advance!

wetware: The board fot this question is chess variants.
A double check counts as one check in the global sum of checks in a game of three checks chess

Matarilevich: Thanks so much for the prompt reply! ww

wetware: If you like three checks chess yu might find this chess variants 8x8 discussion board interesting;

http://brainking.com/en/Board?bc=6

Or maybe the chess variants 10x8;

http://brainking.com/en/Board?bc=34

harley: Great recommendation. That 8x8 discussion board will suit me perfectly! Thank you.

wetware: And to complete the set there are:

6x6: http://brainking.com/en/Board?bc=106
10x10: http://brainking.com/en/Board?bc=96
Other Variants: http://brainking.com/en/Board?bc=45
Chinese: http://brainking.com/en/Board?bc=92
Japanese: http://brainking.com/en/Board?bc=94

There are also some German speaking boards and maybe other languages too.

Cheers ... WQ:)

harley: of people putting a lot of games in the waiting room and then resigning halfway through them, You say, Why try to make sense of it?! It takes all kinds, I'm sure they had their reasons even if we can't understand them.

You're advocating complacency. You're saying, "the hell with etiquette, polite behavior, principles...people should be allowed to do anything they please, and no-one should ever complain about it, because the perpetrators must have their reasons."

that's a blanket excuse for any behavior at all. Hitler, Qadaffi, Jeffrey Dahmer...they all had their reasons. i'm not equating the behavior of game-bailers with the behavior of those three, but the principle is the same. if certain codes of behavior are simply ignored, a civilization, be it that of a country or of a gaming site, falls apart.

it's possible to go too far in one's efforts to avoid conflict, Lady, and i think that's what You're doing here.

plaintiger: If they resign halfway through a game, doesn't that ruin their BKR? They are only hurting themself in that case....

At least, that's how I see it.

Eriisa: oh-ho! good point! i did forget about that little aspect of it.

it's still downright rude to one's opponent though, at least when no attempt is made to explain the resignation.

still, the ratings hit is a consolation. thank You for reminding me about that.

plaintiger: Avoiding conflict? Not at all, man. I just live and let live. It doesn't hurt me if someone resigns, its just a game.

harley: oh. i see. i'm one of those people who's never managed to fully internalize the "it's just a game" sentiment...i agree with those who think the behavior we're discussing is rude, and while i wouldn't say it *hurts* me, i do find it very annoying. and i think it's interesting (in an annoyed kind of way) to try to figure out why someone would do that. but i can see Your point of view too...not everybody cares about such things.

and maybe that's our reason why right there.

What do the little dots (some red, some green on my game list) to the left of the time left mean?

Toestie: Thats to indicate what sort of game time limits is in use on that game matey

Stevie: So, red is short play, and green is long play?

TexasToest: http://brainking.com/en/FAQ?ht=24

Fencer: Thanks, Fencer. I looked in FAQs, but didn't see a logical topic on the index. Oh my! Do we need a searchable FAQ? Or, do we already have one?