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!

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

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

Thanks for that I understand now :)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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...

Is it true!???????

Thank you so much Fencer!!!

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

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!

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 :))

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.

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

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: It's quick here.

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 :)

rod03801:

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

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

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....

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

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)

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

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

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: Contact me if you offer a Hebrew translation of BrainKing :-)

Anyone else?

playBunny: Thanks :) the gamenotes rushing in though kept sustaining a pattern believe me LOL.
I finally confirmed that he's the genius, I stupid and, it's just a stupid game. :D As I wrote you,
a helpful pente insider confirmed your observation, of no sytematic cheat (still incorrect behaviour)
as he also refuted my concerns about software usage of a certain czech player, burnt I got shy to quick

tehual: As I said in PM, my investigation showed that there's zero evidence of systematic cheating by this person. One incident doesn't make a pattern! :-/

However, Congratulations on the win. :-)

playBunny: Mission accomplished, for me the case is closed, unlike my blocklist. :)

wellywales: Go to the game shown in the archives, find the table of all games of this match and click on the game index.

Fencer: So I can not read what I wrote in that game anywhere

wellywales: That's correct.

Fencer When I have drawn a game in stairs on the Standard game of Backgammon (2 games) it only shows one game in the Achives as drawn. the first game is not shown.

Fencer: I was trying to use the MoneyBookers with the same credit card I always paid Brain King with.
It would not let me pay because I have a new email address,the same credit card and I did not know my password.
After I tried about 7 times I noticed where you pay with a credit card right below that with PayPal.
Now I know what to do in 6 months from now

SunFire: Do you have a PayPal account or did you use your credit card only?

Fencer: I got it, I'm so happy now :o)

moneybookers is yucky, they want loads of verifications things everytime u want to use it. i choose paypal instead of all the hassle

Yes moneybookers sucks. They charged me 2.56 € for nothing. Then I used Paypal to subscribe BK...

SunFire: I would like to remove MoneyBookers completely because I am very dissatisfied with their service but I have no other choice to accept credit cards now. Try PayPal instead.

Eriisa: you are just too fast!

lol, too slow, Do! I sent him a PM when I read about it.


*fluffs hair*

SunFire: Since you are in the U.S., you can send a message to Eriisa and she can help you.

Marfitalu: Thank you, I will do that.

Marfitalu: I moved to another state and got a new email address and the system does not know it.