Fencer:And my icon will get that 'broken eggshell' above it? 

King Reza: not for double posting you wont..lol

"Snoopy":I don't know why that happens!  Sometimes my posts get doubled.  I guess that's for my Mighty nature

Oh, and nope!  I didn't stop interviewing people, it's just that I didn't receive any more interview requests, and Czuch hasn't sent me back his answers yet.

King Reza: Of course not.

Fencer:Oh?  why?

I did request an interview with Tenuki :)

emmett:Oh come on!  If I wanted the requests to be revealed to everyone, I could have done it myself! 

King Reza: Why should it matter if we know that Emmet requested Tenuki?

Rose:It doesn't really matter, but the interview loses its 'surprise' feature to the person to be interviewed way before he/she is.

King Reza: I agree

heavenlyemma:

King Reza: Hey you it's nice to have a surprise.

King Reza said that he had not had any more interview requests. I thought he had forgotten. No one ever mentioned the surprise element. Anyway, tone is as important as substance, and I will remember not to remind Reza of things...

emmett: Is more fun!!

emmett:I meant no offense.  Sorry.  No, I don't forget things as long as I keep interview request messages in my archive

If a person is requested more than once by different people to be interviewed, he/she will be on priority.  If not, I choose people in alphabetical order.  Now we'll be seeing some people changing their names to AAAAAAA

heavenlyemma:Yeah.  I bet Czuch agrees too

King Reza: I like him he's fun lol

heavenlyemma: He is just really slow to answer questions.... :(

King Reza: Or change their name to ZZZZZZZZZZ

I just spent an hour and a half to finish answering my interview questions using my notepad, and just before saving the update my computer froze on me!!!!

Dont we have some way to retreive after such problems now???? I thought we did?
Can anyone help me through this please?

Czuch Czuckers:  word automatically saves and can be retrieved.  I don't know about notepad.

Always save, save, save.  That's a standard rule when using a computer.  Save once, twice, often.  When in doublt, save your work.  When not in doubt, save your work.  ;)

If you're talking about the notepad here on BK, I'll bet the answer is, Sorry Czuch.  It's lost for life.  :/

Gr☺uch☺: I think he may be talking about BK's notepad ;)
Czuch Czuckers: I'm not sure if the AutoSave feature is implemented in the Notepad or not. If it is, the next time you enter the Notepad there should be a message saying that a backup was automatically saved and asking if you want to restore it.

pauloaguia: it is not implemented on the notepad, just on discussion boards..

Mr. Shumway: It's not a problem to do it for the Notepad as well.

Fencer: Happy Monday to you

What happens if we set a Fellowship challenge match, where one of the Teams has a Knight or Bishop in, that does not have enough room for the game(s), in other words 50 already.

MadMonkey: It should not matter in this case. At least I hope so.

Fencer: Except that it is too late for me now????

Czuch Czuckers:

What does the little red dot mean when it's next to your time left to move?

Franz Kafka: That no vacations and no weekends apply. It's especially important for paying members since they can set autovactions, and this alerts them that autovacation will not help them if they don't play in time...

Fischer clock settings also display a red dot for similar motive

As I feel some players here rely on computer programs to play I shall no longer play game on BrainKing. Good bye all.

Franz Kafka: Man, when in doubt, try some chess variations... These seperate the poseurs from the real players. I often check another player's ratings in other games before I play them... You should stick around. This is a great site. (Even if a few people did cheat, it's not about the winning so much as the process of playing that is enjoyable.)

Do these stats include Pond ratings?

tonyh: yes .

tonyh: Yes, it should.

Fencer: It's just that, if I add up all the game types where I have reached 25 games played, it comes to more than the number on the list, I think.

tonyh: You have 38 games with an established ranking. Summing all your established BKR's and dividing the sum by 38 gives about the number that shows in that chart as your BKR average. It may be off by a few points because I believe the value is not calculated in runtime, but only from time to time.

To see your name you must select the 1/3 of games option, because you still haven't reached the 46 game types needed to be shown on the default page...

pauloaguia: I count 43 including all 3 ponds

pauloaguia: Ah, but I reckon I have 41 games with an established ranking, on my Profile.

tonyh: are you counting such as sphere froglet ? even though you have played 27 games only 23 have counted (maybe because of only one move made) 1510 23 (10/0/17)
i have noticed the same with janus , i havent looked any further

tonyh: Count again. count only the ones written in plain font, exclude the ones in italic. They're 38.
Jason has a point: there are games that are either unrated or didn't have the sufficient number of moves to count towards your rating... So having played over 25 games doesn't entitle you automatically to an established rating.

Is it possible to reset your own BKR(s) back to default "unrated" state.

Grandmaestro: No. Why would you want to do that?

Pedro Martínez: I don't think that we should be able to reset ratings... However, Hasami Shogi is a game I regret even being rated for, as it is utterly biased towards the person who moves first. I would like to wipe off all records of a rated game type, with the caveat that I can never play it again on this site. Hasami shogi would be the one I would wipe off as it is unfair. I am only responding, but I know that I should put this on the feature requests board, and I will...

cloning backgammon where did this come from i keep getting invites to tournaments with it but i cant find any rules

"Snoopy": me too!

I was wondered the same thing too!

BrainKing is going to launch this new game variant (I post this in permission to Fencer). (If you don't believe, ask Fencer:)).

Cloning Gammon: (Players think twice before capturing a piece)

Standard Backgammon (Cube can be used).
There are no Gammons or Backgammons.
Each time you hit an opponent's checker, you MAY add one extra checker of your color to your bar, marked with an X.(the destination place for your captured checkers). If no cube is used, you MUST add one piece to the bar. These extra pieces count as Race pieces, so you can bring them in anytime you want.
You can move freely with the extra checkers.(they will keep their markers as long as any of your normal (non-marked) pieces is still not in your home area, see next section)

The maximum number of extra checkers is 5.

Scoring:
You must have only your 15 normal (non marked) pieces in your home area your bear them out. You are still allowed to move marked (cloned) pieces, but, if you do, the piece will lose its marker and you must also put this piece in your home area. If no cube is used, you must put all pieces in your home area first.

If there is no cube, the winner is that player who bears all his or her pieces off, of course.

When the cube is used, each piece after the 15th you bear off, will score you a point (duplicated with the number on the doubling cube). If any player bears his last piece off out his or her home area (regardless of other (marked) pieces on the board), the game ends and that player also gets one point not multiplied by the cube.

Maybe there are still bugs in it. If you have suggestions, message me or Fencer.
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Czuch Czuckers: Wow with rules that complicated I am not sure it is a game anymore but a chore!

RagingSeas: The final rules are easier. Trust me :).