Nothingness: Perhaps you are forgetting to disable also the "Include unrated players".

Nothingness: when you say "it says anyone can play" I assume you mean on the invitations area under opponent where it says 'anyone'. This just means the invitation is not to a specific player, and not that your BKR limits are not in place.

does this help?

i am unsure if the settings have taken hold. I currently have two games posted both with settings where players with low ratings under 1700 or 1800 cannot play me. in the past players with 1100 have been able to play me. Its says anyone can play when i look at my posted game.

i also checked this on guest mode and it seems that it is open to all players.

Nothingness: i have a low rating in that game and cannot see your games when i look at waiting games so i am assuming other low rated players cant either

Snoopy: Hmm.. If it is open fast espionage, I have no rating and can see a game of Nothingness' in there.

rod03801: i tried comming in in guest mode
i could see his games and it even allowed me to accept one which ive since deleted
so there does appear to be a bug somewhere

Nothingness: I created some invites to test it out, and I've had one game accepted so far and it was within the limit I set

Snoopy: You cannot accept games in guest mode... Can you?

I cant see it...I have no rating in that game

Nothingness: I cannot see any invitation from you in the Waiting Games list...
I think in guest mode you can sell all games... I say this because I noticed in the past that the red number by the waiting games list is always much bigger than the one I can see when I'm logged in... but then again, I may be wrong.

pauloaguia: i came in in guess mode clicked said game then clicked log in and it let me accept the game
it still should of not let me

Snoopy: Oh, I see... I'd call that a bug

pauloaguia: I'd call that Fencer not realizing the caliber of the idiots he was idiot-proofing the site against

nodnarbo:If that's the case, he must not read these boards carefully! We have some steel-jacketed, armor-piercing idiots on this site!

alanback: "Never underestimate the ingenuity of an idiot"
Equally, "Never attribute to ingenuity that which can be explained away by stupidity"

Some time ago I think someone mentioned a link(?) to go to in order to translate a conversation - I've looked through BK and on the net but have trouble finding one that helps me.... one of my opponents is having a one-sided conversation with me since I don't speak Czech.... could someone help me please? Thanks!

Binabik: http://brainking.info/archives/520-ImTranslator.html or http://brainking.info/archives/521-gTranslate-and-more-BKR-change-estimations.html ... or just post it on some Czech discussion board and we will translate it for you

trohat: Thank you Trohat!
I tried the second link and it works beautifully!

What a shame we cant collect airmiles while playing games

MrWCF: at the top of the game rules is a box with Statistics of won games ... add up those 3 numbers and you have the total

i am not sure if games which were finished (give up, or time out) within 2 moves are in there as well .. neither am i sure if unrated games are in there .. i dont think games which dont count for the win statistics of a player are in there

Hrqls: Thank you!

Hrqls: Actually, that number gives you the number of finished matches. If you and I play a '9 win match', and you win 9 games, I win 8, and we have 7 draws, it counts for just 1 in the statistics, but we have played 24 games.

AbigailII: true ... i forgot about that ... i dont think anywhere in the statistics or profiles you can see the separate games

AbigailII: Actually I think it's the number of won games.
If not, in a 2 game match, how would you count it if a player won both games? As a black victory or a white victory?

pauloaguia: I've played many 2-game matches where both sides have won one game. Brainking always reports them as a draw. It counts as a single game when calculating BKR. So, I assume it's counted as a 'draw' in the statistics on the rules page as well.

AbigailII: I think he means that in a 2 game match, isn't it supposed to switch colors in the 2nd game? So if you were black in one game of the match, you would be white in the other game of the match. So he is wondering which color that would be classified as a win for, if one person won both games.

I had originally answered the same way as you, but then I re-read it.

AbigailII: Brainking reports the match as a draw and your BKR is calculated based on match results.
However, those statistics are color based statistics. I'm guessing they refer to game results rather than match results...

But I'm sure Fencer will enlighten us...

pauloaguia: I believe Abigail is right. This game, I mean match, for example, is taken as a win for the Black.

Pedro Martínez: Yeah, it must credit the win to whatever color the winner was in the last game of the match?

rod03801: I guess so.

Pedro Martínez: Why do you say that? It says you won the game, not that black won...
Also, Horde Chess is one of the most biased games in the site. Because of that many people choose to play it as 2 games matches to be fair for both players. Often these 2 games matches end in a draw (1 win for each player).
Yet, in the statistics, the number of draws is very small... Most of them probably from agreement between the players.

pauloaguia: Go to your profile and click "Finished Games". Scroll down and take a look at the table displaying your last 10 games. In your 2-win Lines of Action match with The Saint, you see that you played as Black and you won. When you click the game, you can see that you were playing as Black in the last game.

As for the Horde Chess, I think it's better to look at this page. You can clearly see there how many draws there have been and you can easily find them in players' profiles. Or, you can download all the Horde Chess games from the Rules page.

The site Setup Group has information (and rules) about quite a number of perfect information games. Some of them are already found on Brainking, but many aren't. Most of them have quite simple rules, and won't require new graphics if they were implemented here.

Perhaps Fencer will get some inspiration and surprise us with some new games in the future.

in say a 3 win match do all games count has a win for BKR
or is it just if you win the finished match?

Snoopy: Just the final results of the match affect BKR

rod03801: so does that include game types to?

Snoopy: I don't know what you mean. But basically, you need to consider any sort of match as the single entity that matters.

rod03801: ah i meant in a 10 win match do all 10 games count by themselves or all together but i think youve just answered my question

Snoopy: Well, it counts as a single result - but unfortunally, it's a "winner takes all" kind of result. It doesn't matter whether you win a match 1-0 (single game), 15-0 or 11-10.

This is unlike (ELO) chess ratings. There the rating difference between players A and B would, for instance, say that in a 10 game match, A is expected to win 7-3. If A wins the match 6-4, A would actually lose rating points (and B would win rating points).

This is why I seldomly play matches.

AbigailII: I agree, BKR changes should be based on GAMES, not MATCHES. Ratings should update every time a game is finished, even if the match still goes on.

Roberto Silva: yes i agree to i would never have joined the 10 win matches if i had realised this

Roberto Silva: In that case the MATCHES option would become meaningless in non tournament mode.

a multiple game match is a game..therefore only 1 win and 1 loss.

Bwild:This is only one example of how screwed up the BKR system is.

alanback:if you say so. I dont personally concern myself with ratings per say...I just enjoy the games and the many good people who play here.
like most things...ya gotta take the good with the bad.

Bwild: I agree that ratings are not important.  But if there is to be a rating system, I feel it should operate rationally.

I am getting tired of this sandbox that BrainKing is turning into. Some users in here seem to spend all their time hating on others, making polls about them left and right, and seem to have made it their mission to badmouth them all they can. I know there are people in here acting like idiots, but there are idiots everywhere. What you all are doing, calling out people in polls and all other public places, is very Kindergarten like. Are you sure you are adults??? Seriously, I'm here to play games and I am not at all interested in hearing about who is an idiot and who is not. If you have a problem with someone, ignore him/her! If the person is being really nasty, take a screen dump and send it to an administrator, it is really not the business of everybody else on BK! I can't be the only one who is tired of all of this?! And even if I am, I am happy I got this off my chest. I am sure I am stepping on some sore toes now but I really don't care, I had to say it.

/DamnCat