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"no question to ridiculous", I'll be the judge of that

"Snoopy": When was that ???

I'll be arranging the questions for Viking's interview this weekend.

So, if you want to ask him anything, just send your questions to me.

No question is too ridiculous, no question will go unused (well, some might but you'll have to send them to me first to know which ones )

Thank you.

"Snoopy":  You mean the speed of your connection to the site?

speed of site is back to normal

pauloaguia: Good question.. I just checked IE and it doesn't do it in there, it word wraps how it should.. Tho I hate to use that browser
Yes, the 1024 is the very outer edge of the browser with scroll bar.. Must be something that FF cant handle when I force a different width in. Not a huge issue, just wondered if anyone else had experienced it.

I just read an article about how scientists say that time doesn't exist. And now I come to the site and find that time has stopped... just great... makes me wonder if I should be reading any scientific papers before playing my games

Rose: Does it happen in other browsers?
Maybe there's something in the page forcing it to a width over 1024... and when you say 1024, is it the outer size of the window or the size of the inside (that is, including the window frame width and scroll bars or not)

Any one else had this happen?

I have my screen resolution set to 1052x864.. I have my browsers set to 1024x768 ( to view how pages look when I design them)
In my games all my previous messages are missing text off the right edge of the page. If I resize the browser to the full length of the screen the text is all there. I resize it back to 1024 and 4 or 5 words per mine go missing. It doesnt word wrap. Anyone else seen this happen or is it a phenomenon to me only?

aaru: Looks like somebody has been trying URL hacks and, of course, BrainKing does not handle all possible situations 100% correctly.

Kunoichi's test tournament 1
It's bug?
It's mean that Kunoichi is tournament winner?

Kunoichi: I know some members alreay do that sort of thing, using test accounts. There is a simple thing to do to avoid the suspect of cheating - only play unrated games.

Kunoichi:  Seems like these questions should be posed in a private email to Fencer.

---Original post deleted--

Understood. I will ask Fencer then.

Ronin: Most players who do that have way to many games going for them to handle. So they play only a few every day, usually those that are closer to the deadline.
Seeing that you aggreed on the time limits when you started the game, you really should have no reason to complain.

Nowadays, whenever I create game invitations I set them to 2 or 3 days time per move, so that my opponent will move faster. Some "slower" players will avoid such games, while some others will prefer them to the slower games. Especially if you allow them to take vacation days, which is the default setting anyway. So you really have nothing to loose with trying different time settings.

P.S: try to stick to the board's language. You'll get more replies that way

pour moi , le seul problème de lenteur que j'ai sur ce site c'est pour les parties..............il ne me reste que des boulets qui jouent leurs parties à raz le temps limite

MadMonkey: There are no secretes that Fencer does not know about

Who you write to or what you say to them

Fencer: I am glad it was you that said that

Hey !! Is that Beastie a friend of yours ???
He just gobbled me up in both our games (someone check the code lol)

MadMonkey: Ah, a woman! Why didn't you say it before? It should be working now.

Fencer: well it may be a secret, like the awesome, pointless, unuseful Cloak Mode we have
BUT............ its not
its only to jessica, its very weird

MadMonkey: It might be more helpful if you post the user name instead of "a friend".

I am trying to reply to a message from a friend, but when i hit reply i just get a blank screen, with
Write new message
To:

at the top and nothing else.

I have tried going to there profile and sending that way, but get the same.

It only appears to be this one person, any ideas ?

Could Captains and/or Bosses PLEASE get a warning message if any Team that has been entered in a Tournament has a problem before the Tournament starts.
Its nice to get Teams in early for them, so it gives others players a chance to find another Team if they miss out on one.
We have just had another Tournament start, that has a Pawn in the Team, which would be ok if the player was still here playing games.
Sadly they have not been here in over a month, so all those games are lost, so really the Team match is over before it get going properly, therefore hard on all the other Team members.
Can we at least get a warning to let us know if there may be a problem OR think of a way to swap a player if they have yet to move in a Team Tournament game.

joshi tm: Internacional checkers, Russian checkers and Classic checkers are a very, very popular game in the world. Almost as popular as "parachute checkers" or "One Way checkers" ;) lol
Anyway, Joshitm and Purple... "checkers" it's not a nice subject to talk with Fencer! :)
By the way, this must be off-topic, so... excuse me, mod's! But I hope it can be readen, anyway...

Fencer: nice split! could the same be done for the pond page as well ? i recently joined a couple of rain ponds but had to go through all fellowships to find them :)

(and another point of interest : what are your thoughts about team tournaments of random game types (of all games) ? :))

Rose: Odd really, the site has been great for me for a while now, none of the old white pages & page not found, in fact no problems at all really
As you say Rose, today has been bad though, back to its old games
Must be the hardware upgrade Fencer mentioned , can we downgrade again

Lotta issues with the site this past few days. Lot of white pages ,page not found .. slow icons loading.. 

rod03801: i see him, but ive got another problem: when i hit the reply box button, nothing happens.

Did someone slay the dragon? I haven't seen him flying across my log in screen today.

joshi tm: Just take it "as far as I can foretell". Which is usually a week or two.

Purple: Ha good one, International Checkers (the variant played most in the Netherlands) is still missing.

joshi tm: I have never seen so many games in my life. Why can't everyone just play checkers? :)

"The rest of this year should be spent by finishing several important changes, regarding BrainKing servers (yes, we have been upgrading our hardware again, it is always a good change), but I want to write more about it later - some details are still being formulated."

So, no new games to play during the last dark months of this year? O well. Today's feature can come in handy, too. Thanks for it.

pauloaguia:
thanks missing one word out makes a lot of difference..lol

redfrog: Lol maybe he deserves a rest.

"Snoopy": I think it should read - "if you buy a one year membership for someone else". But I'm not really sure...

I love the new smileys.
Keep them coming Fencer

or2ak.com:
all vacation days reset on 1st Jan
but you can as a black rook buy back your days if you purchase a membership for someone else

"Snoopy":

That explains why I just seen on a profile 44  LOL
But why didnt I get 45 when I became a black rook?   I was stuck on 33. 
So when does it reset? (I'm guessing Jan 1st?)

or2ak.com:
45 for a black rook

or2ak.com: 35

Whats the maximum vacation days we can have?  

tippyc: I hear ya...bet that was a bit of a shock when you saw it.

Dolittle: well i pm'd fencer when i noticed it, and now that last move has been erased. hope it doesnt happen again.

tippyc: How you could even play 7-12,1-4 with a piece on the bar?

...and I can't touch that pip count--not even in the Cloning variant        :-)

tippyc: Nope, never saw that before. Must be a bug!!

Game ID: 2790005

it somehow added i think 30 extra pieces

i love random games!

i would love a random game rating/ranking as well .. but only for those random games where all games from this site are possible .. not just a subset

this rating could be established by team tournaments of random game types (we need a random team for that :)), by normal random tournaments (which we already have), and by personal matches (of more than 1 game, about 10?) of random games

it would rock! :)

(fencer what are your thoughts ? ;))