playBunny: Are wins retroactive?

The change is active.

yuppee. what do you mean by retroactive?

gambler104: You cannot expect miracles in such a short development time.

Fencer: God bless you and thankyou very very much

gambler104: Haven't a clue, mate. ;-)

Modify "board points" by "wins points" in the table of details!

Fencer: I wasn't necessarily expecting it. Simply wondering. Thanks Fencer. And sidpatel, I was asking if wins would be counted from when the action started or just now.

Matarilevich: Of course.

sidpatel: Gambler means that we get credited for the wins since the competition started. It's so soon into it that they might not make much difference; I guess it depends how many points Fencer's going to award for a win. :-)

Fencer: excellent as usual.

still the same number of points as a simple game right?

I propose negative points!
For example:
-100 for users who don´t move in position with only one legal move
-500 for users who don´t move in a loss position
-1000 for users who don´t move in a loss position and with only one legal move

gambler104: Right.

the good thing is that a win only gets you 2 points so that shouldnt make much difference anyway and make it worthless to exploit that since its easier to just make 2 moves . this is great. i am energized now

Matarilevich: -5000 for users who dare to mention the autopass feature here.

sidpatel: absolutely... especially considering the one win limit against an opponent.

I'm glad to see that the points for reading have been replaced by points for winning. Now I can stop "reading"! And I agree that it's much better to reward people for playing than for lurking.

Of course I can't make enough moves to stand a chance under this new system, but that's all right. Good luck to all honest competitors.

Lol. Good luck Sid. :-))

KotDB: just curious. what was the secret?

playBunny: thankyou. good luck to you too. i only hope to be in top 5 people. 1 year membership is great enough :)

sidpatel: good luck to everyone. I agree. I hope to be in the top five although the top ten will still be nice. Top ten is my goal and then everything else is just icing on the cake.

gambler104: I guess there's no harm in revealing it now. It's nothing so exotic as some of the guesses I've seen. Just pick one post each hour and read it on every board.

Hyper backgammon and other quick games over in less than 20 or so moves becoming very popular in the next few weeks!
:o) happy gaming!

KotDB: playing is more fun anyway! good luck all.

KotDB: Lol. Cool, O Dust-bunny King. But I have to disagree... Mixing two boards in one url gets my Exotic Trick of the Month vote! ;o))

LionsLair: not necessarily, games like Ludo or Backgammon Race will also become popular even though they are longer because people are looking for move points. The games that will be most popular are the "luck games" or ones where you don't have to think for long periods of time.

What have you guys been up to ...I go away for a few hours and 73 new posts...lol.. Personally I think you are all taking this way too seriously. Fencer had his reasons for doing this and he offered prizes as an insentive. If someone bothers to refer a friend but needs a prize to get them to do it...so be it. If someone wants to take the time to read boards they would never otherwise read or open up board windows every hour ...that is their business. I think Fencer is probably spending more time dealing with the people who would like this action fine tuned than he is with the action itself. Now thats my 2 cents worth...lol. Have a great day everybody!!

yoyudax: I agree with you- it was a cool thing Fencer did and people just gotta complain and pick it apart.
Ot maybe they are just trying to fill up the boards????
"Let no good deed go unpunished!"

If I win a normal game and THEN a tournament game against the same opponent, will I get 5 points for the tournament match, or 2 points because the normal game was earlier?

Mr. Shumway: 2 points.

Fencer: ok :)

yoyudax: Have a good day too, yoyudax, but I have to say your two cents aren't worth two grains of sand 'cos you show no understanding of the issue. ;-)

ps. Bunnies don't eat meat. Is yoyudax a vegetable? ;o)

playBunny: no carnivore +10.000 points

What about points for doing and correcting translations? Someone proposed it.
If someone translate then doesn´t move and doesn´t collect points.

Matarilevich: It's simple to me. Translators should get life membership.

playBunny: nice idea! Maybe Fencer can create a new level : Brain Translator with the picture of a guinea pig!

Now, What if someone write a script which create games and plays for two users? :-)

Anencephal: Don't give me ideas ... :)

not a vegeatable....lol...although some of my friends might describe me as a cabbage...lol...don't ask why..

What about this one: 2 AI players in 2 sessions, automated process of game creating and moving. Games can be read from PGN/CBH file (giga or mega database) to ensure nice and enjoyable games.

Forgot to add: optimising for maximum moves frequency, what are you able to reach? 1000-2000 moves per hour? Should depend only upon internet connection speed, of course on server side too. Any offers for prize for winner? *1*

TheLamer: lol, even with slow speed some are able to keep up setting settings to 10 sec. fefresh

nightmagic: you got me wound up,,,,

gl 2 all grabbers

nightmagic: hope this doesn't take the fun out of the games i play, i don't think it will. i play for fun here, not to win any extra but yes it's nice but here to play games win or lose, don't think i'll not know your her for the points and there is a way around that...

Okay, I need clarification. If I resign, then my opponent will NOT get points?

pawnme: Resigns are counted too. All kinds of wins are eligible.

Fencer: OK, thanx.

TheLamer: At least this would be clearly against the User Agreement (no computer help when playing), so any punishing measure could be taken against the people who would abuse the system in that way.

nabla: Sure, that would probably result in a ban, because a proof would be pretty easy, though the whole idea might be used for broadcasting games here instead of replaying them or sending to site creator for publishing at least then.