As I am a paying member who only plays chess, can we please add dice to the game so that I too may have an unfair advantage! Oooops, off to the feature request board... :-)

and, if you are the top mover for the day, you get bonus doubles! ;o)

THE MORE MONEY YOU PAY FOR YOUR MEMBERSHIP, THE BETTER YOUR DICE WILL BE !!!!!!!

Gonna have to get a 2nd job to support my BK Rating LOL

Paying members are able to play more games, giving them more rolls, giving them more doubles. But on average, it all works out.

Reminds me of a person who was complaining about this same thing months ago..... and he complained while that the dice were against him, yet he had a 2000+ rating!

(But if you really thin paying members get better dice - send in your $$ to Fencer now to upgrade your membership!) <wink wink>

might be 35 to 1 odds but that is only for a particular double. The odds are still 1 in 6 of rolling "a" double

I'm not going to answer such ridiculous questions again. Read the backgammon rules. Is there anything about paying members?

Dice are definitely random :o) For everyone.

the odds of rolling any double are 35 to 1

1 in 6 chance of rolling a double.
That suggests they should appear very regularly, lets say, ummmmmm, approx once every 6 rolls.

I used to think these sorta things happened too until I really took a good look back and realized that it was truly random.

Remember also, random does not mean evenly distributed at all times, random also means that clusters will occasionally occur too.

OK I will repost my ON topic post then, and say that my last comment was on topic too, because I was asking something would not be used on BK anymore.

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I know this has been asked before, but is there any reality over this more doubles for paying members in backgammon?

Ive been watching some of my games recently and it does seem to happen.

Can you stop this off-topic discussion, please?

You didnt have to take the whole post away LOL just 3 letters

ok stevie it gone now.

Fine them like i said will just go back to my corner and remove my remarks TYVM.

....ouch...don't EVEN want to open up the 'TNP' can of worms...but on this one, I have to agree with Steve.

steel mesh gloves may be better lol

....offers bottle of 'New Skin' to LJ

actually, as far as handyman status goes, I got me 10 thumbbs here.
I would probably cut them off handling scissors.
My wife says I am accident prone but it has been more than a week since I cut myself in the kitchen so I am getting better

:D Thanks

I found your sizzors, modified them and turned them into scissors

Since becomeing a paid member, I threw away my sizzors, and my hair is now down past my waist....
Coincidence?

I had no children when I was a non member, now that I am a member, I will be having my first no later than Saturday (inducement if it makes it that far)
Is Fencer putting some sort of hormone on this site?
Coincidence? I think not!! :-)

I have have noticed that since becoming a paid member, my chess opponents are forced to lose the exchange more often! Coincidence? I think not!! :-)

yes, I've paid, but I'm not the one getting all the doubles .. remind me again why I paid !?! LOL !!

You only saying that cos youve paid Niki LMAO

No !!!! If you threw real dice thousands of times, you could easily get loads of doubles in a row.. it's pure chance :-) just my opinion ofcourse ;-D

I know this has been asked before, but is there any reality over this more doubles for paying members in backgammon?

Ive been watching some of my games recently and it does seem to happen.

I would rather not see the TNP used on BK anymore :o(

I am playing my first game ever with you. First of all, people should playing games for fun and secondly, everyone has different timme frames and other "emergencies" which can and do pop up...enyoy and play when you can!!!!!

gasp! a life away from BrainKing? HERESY!

lololol

Thank goodness mrloupcity is back! Variety you know?

I played mrloupcity in a battleboats tournament once. THough the game took a long time to complete, I understand that I was not the only player he was playing and that he has a family to spend time with, friends to do things with, and ajob to pay the bills. Most of us have a life away from brainking and the internet in general. Those who live hear morning, noon, and night I suggest you go outside and see the sun, the moon, the stars. Heck there is a big world out there to see in person, and not just on a computer.

Now one here can tell you how fast or slow to play. If the game has a 5 day time limit, then you have 5 days to move, and nobody can tell you any different. If someone want's you to move real fast, then they need to go to yahoo or msn and play real time games. This is a turned based gaming site and that's how it runs.

lol , like i said ..no matter how people play ,theres always someone who doesnt like your play ;)

Believe it or not, sometimes the faster players irritate me (but just a little). If they'd just take more of the time limit to make their moves, I could get through more of my games. ;)

I can't imagine anyone complaining about mrloupcity. He's one of the nicest and politest people on brainking.

mrloupcity , play at your own speed ,fast or slow there is no need to race to get a game finished ..they finish when they finish , if people complain about you moving slow it is THEM that is in the wrong tournaments not you

i have some games that have been running almost 14 months now and could take at least another 6 months lol ...... im a speed player when i get my finger out but there are days when i dont feel like it .
you cant make everyone happy lol

mrloupcity, don't you dare let people bully you into not playing in tournaments! If you want to play slow, that's up to you not other people.
I've played you a few times and it's always been a pleasure and you've never played slowly.

Could you move this to the tablut discussion board please?

I think the draw is a valid result. In chess, for instance, there are the three conditions for a draw ... stalemate, thrice-repeated board postions and 50 moves (plus an agreed draw). All are situations where the player who might win should be able to control the play to ensure that the draw does not occur; if they do not, then they do not deserve to win. And so, I think, it should be here. This also ties in with an earlier discussion on the advantage white appears to have in this game and one proposal was touted whereby white could not repeat a move (maybe should be board position?) to generate "perpetual check". Again, I have not found this rule on any other sites, did Linnaeus included something on this?

I think the play by white in this game was quite clever to get to the end position once it was obvious they could not escape (or maybe they were just lucky?!). The more important issue is the game was played under one set of rules and decided by another. This is not the first time rules on this site have been changed mid(post)-game. While you say the King was clearly captured, in terms of the capture rule this is not so and moving into a beavy of defenders is part of the tactics of the game, so why should it change just at the end?

I think they're in Murray's History of Board Games other than Chess. Why do you think a game like Lythande's should be drawn? The king has clearly been captured.

yeah, im having more problems again too...

It's been a little slow at times for me also.

Yeah, I powered off and reset my system, Im better now :)

Mine has been fine, King. I'm on cable.

Just me? Or is this site running on slow motion tonight?

Ughaibu: Where do you find these rules by Linnaeus?

Linnaeus himself in his original record of the rules says a win if the king cant move. I agree that the king could move into that position as long as it had the possibility of leaving.

I agree with Whisperz....