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GothicInventor The environment is changing 15. November 2003, 10:33:17
In case you have not noticed. Everyone has been given a clear slate at ths point in time. Dano was warned about his posts, which were unwarranted, and now he is gone.

He keeps making mention of manipulated posts. I am not sure what he means by that. I occasionally make typo corrections or punctuation changes at the tournament board, if this is manipulation, so be it.

Yes, I posted that I would help everyone playing Dano in Gothic Chess to win. I was letting off steam, but I really meant it when I said it. Logistically, does anyone really believe this was possible? In fact, nobody took me up on my offer, as those who were members of the fellowship recall. They all wanted to try and give him a drubbing by their own hands, win, lose, or draw.

I posted it mostly because I knew it would agitate dano when it leaked, so the spies helped me immensely, and I thank you for it.

It was an impossible task to do (play every move for every opponent against dano) but knowing the way his paranoia is manifest, I knew it would send him over the deep end.

So what had I actually done?

I made a post, then took no action on it. How many times a day do we each do similar things? You see a beautiful woman walking down the street, do you think "I wonder if she likes doing Crossword Puzzles?" If you see an armored car making a cash pickup at a store, do you think "I wonder what kind of gas mileage it gets?"

No, we have fleeting thoughts about getting her in the sack, and tossing bags of money into the back seat and peeling off down the road. (Or maybe peeling off down the road with the girl in the back seat, and sleeping with the bags of money, whatever you prefer!)

The point being my previous fellowship was created for those to let off steam about dano, much as this one is most likely geared at letting steam off about me.

But does anyone really think I crashed the server just so dano, who won his section in the $3000 Gothic tournament, would not be able to continue on? Did he really think I was making all of those moves against him and he kept beating me game after game?

Folks, you have to face the fact that he was at least a little off his rocker. If nothing else, this must be conceeded.

The server crashed. That's all that happened.

A new policy is in place. It is one we can all live with. When I make a post about how the 4 kings in the deck of cards are not really modeled after those in antiquity that have permeated the culture, then someone calls me a prick for doing so, a line has been crossed. It was uncalled for.

Even now, I could of had this person banned, but I elected not to do so.

No more warnings will ever be issued, as the policy is any direct insult, in a private or public forum, will result in an immediate banning.

If it cannot be discussed without name calling, do us all a favor, and save yourself some keystrokes.

If you have read the hidden message I placed in this post, you know which 4 people will be banned next because they will most likely make snide remarks about this post. This is what I am hoping for. This is the bait.

You never answer me Fencer.
Interesting.
Ban Gothic from these boards.
Spare everyone the facist threats.

LOL....the content of Slams message,that recently disappeared.

What way to be?

Fencer? is this the way it is to be?

I don't want to have this board polluted, important messages will disappear very soon.

You don't have to use new.brainking.com any longer. Since all tests have proven that everything works great, both new.brainking.com and (www.)brainking.com point to the same location now.

Truer words were never spoken,Fencer!

Yeah, the board system needs some tuning.

Thanks harley, i read General chat after i posted that, and thats what I concluded, the numbers were usually acurate.

Thats usually when a person has posted who has been banned, Vikings. (I think!)

The number 1 was next to the BrainKing.com board showing that there was 1 new message, when i came here there was no new message. number 4 next to Feature request board but there was only 2?

yes message him, if you have finished and no chance of going through to next round, he will remove you :o)

To get into another tournament while waiting for someone to finish a game that was really finished a while ago? Can Fencer somehow release me from this quagmire? Please?????

LMAO so you add your moves together then?

(tool bar at top of screen) Tools, internet options, general, delete cookies

Chatty, I have the same problem, but have NO idea where to change or delete my cookies! Have IE as well..

Can you help me finding them? ;o)) Thanks!!

I know where you're coming from. It's very convenient for some people to "forget" and take advantage of a situation like a database crash. I saw it happen at IYT in the early years as well. Best thing to do is take the high road and remain positive. Chances are you'll get to defeat these people again... Best of luck with your matches...

Peace

I don't discount that. But on the same level, I don't believe that to be predominantly the case. Either "they" have a poor memory or far too many games to not know which way a game went.

I could not remember results...
so scrubbed all games without penalty either way...
What is far more distressing is the loss of the names of players with whom I had so many good games... especially those who bracketed me (better players who lost and weaker players who won).. I would be grateful for ANYONE who enjoyed such a game would rechallenge ...

message from chattytea
it has worked thank you.. and she will remeber that in future

thank you again

It is usually a problem of cookies. Some browsers don't delete them when they receive a request from the server to do that.

no.. i will try that :)
will let you know later.. off to work very soon

Have you tried to delete all BrainKing cookies?

i have tried MSN explorer and Internet explorer.. both on the old BK and the new...

chattytea: I've just tried to log in and log out with both Internet Explorer and Netscape. Everything works. What do you use?

I cannot seem to logout of my account.. i do not have auto login enabled..
My daughter would like to play her games... but can't, because i can't log out!!

Dragon.. as BBW said.. many people may not remember if they had lost or won a game from back then. Doesn't make them bad sports.. it just means they don't have bionic memories.. I personally resigned all games I knew for sure I had lost before the time warp. If my opponent couldn't remember either, we played them out.

i think in many cases, people with a losing position don't realize they have a losing position.

Same here Eddie! I had too many games to remember who won or lost each one. If I saw it was a game I was going to lose then I went ahead and resigned. But otherwise I don't have a clue! So I have just been playing them out and my opponents seem to be doing the same thing.

Sorry for not being more defining. I mean the games where one lost before the outage. It is beyond me why anyone would play on other than to gain deceivingly.

Thanks everyone, no wonder I'm slow again LOL

There is a cafe nearby in Glendale, CA, where Armenians all know when it's time to resign, even if they are no good in chess, because their opponent stands up, with the table in hand and throws it across the room. They say that the sight of chessmen flying through the air followed by the board and then the table is a sight no one soon forgets. Good thing I don't speak Armenian, because the words they are using might not be appropriate for general audiences, if you know what I mean.

You might not believe this, but it is true: I only now looked up the fact that your stats page shows Germany. I was responding to your message, below, entirely on the fact that what I saw on the page looked a lot like what someone who speaks German well would say if they had some limitations in their skill at English. Not a bad guess, huh? Furthermore, if you are going to try to speak to me in your mother tongue, be prepared for German 101: I need to use the bathroom, please. May I sharpen my pencil? How are you today? And such like.

Hey, rodo -- I think I gave the wrong impression. The crash of data on BrainKing might have had something to do with my problem, because it seems Ed was using the private message feature toward me, but I had not accessed that in the period of time over which the data was later lost. His messages to me, which I never saw, are now gone into virtual never-never land. I think we have it worked out, though.

Thank you Felix for the correction and sorry my English is not good.
I always hoped that you can understand me anyhow.
But I see the next time we will communicate in German :)

It is the right of every player to engage in play so long as he wants, and to do so to improve his game, if he so desires. But not every player desires to teach others to improve their game at his expense, whenever they might so demand. So it is the player's right, too, to choose a new opponent in the next game he plays, instead of catering to the demand of a previous opponent to continue playing against him, again. Therefore, payers of two different skill levels do not often play together.

Is that what you had to say? Our respective proficiencies in English should not preclude our communication, no? If what you have to say is not the same thing as what you say, sometimes you can find someone who is willing to listen, anyway. Take me, for instance. I don't know much German, bitte, net mit aus getzeishnet gedzundheit.

It is the right of every player to play so long he wants,for instance if he wants learn.
But not every player wants to be a teacher in every of his games.
So it is the player`s right too for the next game to choose another opponent.
As a result to different levels play not often together.

Same here BBW

Well another thing to remember is not everyone is at the same skill level (I'm not a good chess player) - so even if I know I'm going to lose a chess game, most of the time I may try to play it out to learn more about the game.

Sure noho,you should not resign if you see a chance of a draw..
That`s why a good chessplayer knows when it`s time..:)

Me either. I'm just playing them if my opponents want to.

But Caisus.. some players have forced a draw from the most unlikely situations...

A good chessplayer knows when it is time to resign...

What do you mean, not resign.

Do you mean just normal games - well some players like to play games out.

Do you mean games that were "brought back" after the crash, well some player may not know if they won or lost the game before (I know I don't know)

Why do players not resign? As Danoschek so eloquently states, no honour.

Fencer.
Had my first few blips on new bk in last couple of hours, but didnt get the server overcrowded page. just had a time warp type of thing.
Not bad going :o)

Just a few more days to get the questions in for CaoZ's interview!!

The next interviewee will be... Liquid!!
Get your questions ready for him - but please don't send them just yet! I'm still taking questions for CaoZ for another day or two yet.