Hey Scooby,

That happens to me too on occassion. Sometimes the board will be fine then when I click on a piece the board does go nutty. I am on MSNTV so it might be that. However I just go back to the main page and click on the game again and it works fine.

Thankyou !! .. our hero ;-D

Done :-)

Hi Fencer :-)
I was wondering if this Friday (18th) and Monday (21st) are going to be considered as public holidays(please), as they are Bank Holidays here in the UK for the Easter break .. or whether us UK residents need to book them as vacation days ?
Thankyou :0)

Hello, on my games, when I click on a piece to make a move, the board goes nuts! in some cases it goes back a number of moves. it also never saves the move. any thoughts??
thanks

okay CH what would be the difference between the rooks and the castles,are they not the same thing,or are we looking at two different types of pieces...other than being slightly comfuzed it sounds like it could be fun and one heck of a challenge.

we tried this on a physical real board with a variety of pieces.to much movement power [ie queen,2 bishops,etc]makes this to hard.

pssst, Clever Hunk... 2 rooks, 1 bishop, 1 castle???!

Sounds like a good game though, interesting!

I had another idea for a new game.
I wanted one of potential great strategy & fun based on an entirely new concept.
this game could only be possible as a computer game,but it is a board game.
basically it is played on a board [6x6] OR [size as yet to be determined.to large for this concept would make it too difficult.too small would be to easy.]
all squares on the board are the same color,white.
when a piece on the board moves onto a square.the square changes color to black.each time any piece lands on a square,its color reverses again.
the object is to turn all squares in a line,diagonal,vertical or horizontal to the same color.
when this is accomplished,any of an opponents pieces on that line are removed form the board.
game is won when all opponents pieces are removed.
piece can not land on the same square as an opponents piece.
pieces used in the game are chess pieces as follows:
1st row - 6 pawns as in chess.
2nd row - 2 knights,1 bishop,1 castle,2 pawns.
pieces's movement are governed the same as chess movements.except pawns can move 1 square or 2 in any direction.

of course number of pieces can be adjusted depending on board size decided on.

fencer,ty again for created the crowded backgammon idea I had.I have submitted a few ideas.I know you are really busy,but someday,would love some feedback on what you think..any of these original game ideas interesting¿
what can I say,the wheels just keep turning.bet you can smell the wood burning from there.

This is the position: http://www.brainking.com/game/ArchivedGame?g=68120&i=71
At this point, I tried to capture his pawn en'passant at c3, however I was only allowed to move my pawn on d3.

Oooops sorry harley, must get my eyes checked out again lol :) thanks for putting me straight. Well if there is plans to allow that my name is on top of the list lol :)

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wiktor256: En passant captures are allowed in Dark Chess. Maybe it is a bug, please give me the game ID and I will look at it.

Fencer, can you clarify dark chess rules about taking pawn en'passant. In one of my games, I suspected that my opponent moved his pawn, so I tried to take it en'passant. However that move wasn't allowed. Is that a "feature" or a bug?

wiktor256

I would like to thank Fencer for adding the new feature to allow us to know when the site will be down. It is a nice alternative to what I suggested. I saved it in my files for reference.

In case some of you have not noticed.. when you Log off site, it shows you logging out, when you log back in it shows you registering new account. I had someone check this for me out of curiousity.

Thanks Dakota Spring, I did write to them, but there was no response! which annoyed me a little... as I do have a membership there...and yes as far as the membership goes, i have no fault, I have some very good friends on there too... so I will be sorry to give up my membership there for that reason, but also some of my friends are non members!

yes Fencer its a great site, i joined in november, but didnt play a game till 3 weeeks ago! within a day of playing i had bought a membership! I was that convinced it was a good site now :)

chattytea: it may not mean much but my husband and I are on webtv. We signed up with IYT and they do not allow multiple accounts so my husband got the membership and then we wrote to them and then my account was working immediately...so I don't see why your daughter couldn't play...I agree with you on IYT...only 25 moves on there is not good but as for the membership I don't find it too bad. As much as I play here I'm glad you get unlimited moves especially for non members. Keep up the good work fencer :)

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TO THOSE WHO ENJOY BACKGAMMON:
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It was concerning to be attacked here and not able to respond. I think your solution to be fair.

TT, I've removed your message, and to be fair I've also removed the messge that upset you so much. Hope this is acceptable, if not, let me know in general chat and I'll explain further!

The person who created a new account had the first login in Dec 2002, should have been finished registrering by now i suppose LOL

Jenny Wren, it wasn't me suggested one fellowship allowed for a pawn, I just commented on it in a later message. It was just a suggestion put forward by BIGBADWOLF. As far as I know theres no plans to allow pawn members to join fellowships (yet!).

the problem you encountered was reported by many users ...
I'm not sure what happens to cast it ... I cAn use my 2nd ID
(granted to paying members even for playing unless in the same tourney)
without problems even from the same browser profile - onto that
a former girlfriend has her own profile on my puter and used it too,
until she left iyt a few months ago ... but as I enter the web in full
stealth-mode anyway, I'm probably not the average user to give advice ... :")

for me monitored boards are one of the main attractions at brainking ...

at the moment I'm playing so many tournaments, it would be almost
physically impossible to monkey around - don't see the sense anyway ... :Þ

about one year ago we used those additional IDs to create little
soap-operas on the boards - for harmless fun ... but meanwhile,
a lot of senseless background noise makes it almost futile, there.

thanks to Fencer and Harley it won't happen here !
Cheers ! :) ... ~*~

yes i realise it was since the power outage, as thats when i sent the mail, i did write via a members mail...and yes they did have a lot of mail sent then, as we all know they had so many problems then, which i respect. I am an honest player, have never set up another account, just to get ratings up!

Sorry guys as i cannot reply on fellowship board as i am a pawn member. I wish to reply to a message left by harley regarding Allowing a pawn to join one fellowship. I wish to join a fellowship as a pawn member, i think thats a briiliant idea, i would be first in line to join one, I have no computer and find NTL (webtv) slow on this site, so 20 games is just the right amount for me to handle because of this, so any Big bosses out there want me on there team, especially one big boss he knows who he is MM lol :) sign me up . Please :)

since the power outage in december during the snow storms
they have failed to catch up with mails - only occasionally I got
answers, although a reply in between 24 hours to members was
promised. Neither I do think that is okay. :/
for people managing browser profiles properly or, even using
proxy-servers it is no problem though to endlessly create new accounts.
aware of that fact particulary annoying that they give a lot of statics
to honest users by their, rules no obstacle for humbug-drivers ... ~*~

iyt does not allow multiple accounts, i have a paid membership there, yet they wont let my daughter play! we use the same computer, i wrote to them as requested and didnt even get a reply! ok, so maybe they didnt get the mail?! maybe i should write again, but after what they have done to the non-members, i will not be renewing my membership there... as you say, 25 moves a day is rubbish! 40 was not too good either.. ok if you just moved occaisionally! but for us addicted players, no good at all.
this is a brilliant site, keep up the good work .

SlamDance13, I will answer your sensible questions.

Yes we have backgammon here.
No, you cannot curse.
Yes, you can speak freely as long as you respect that this is a family site and this board is for "everybody who is interested in BrainKing.com itself, its structure, features and future", not to listen to you bad-mouth GoldToken or any individual.
No, you cannot make personal attacks on this board.
Membership details are listed fully and clearly under the "paid membership" section.
If you are banned it is Fencer's decision, and I can assure you, if you did get banned it would be entirely your own fault. Fencer does not ban people on a whim. Maybe you shouldn't buy membership until you have settled here.

There is another board where you can 'speak freely', that is called "general chat", but even there you cannot curse.
This is a lovely site with great people and with the right attitude you will be very happy here.
Welcome to BK, I hope you can stay :o)

..posting that they won a tournament,nice ,but its personal.who else cares?I agree,it's adolescent.
I have learning in life,the smaller the mind,the smaller its world..the more likely it thinks it is the centre of this small world.

Gubbe: I'm assuming if it said they are creating a new account that that's exactly what they're doing. They are on the database as registered, but have not finished setting up their account yet.

On the Favourite boards list.. Is there any way it can be set up so that we can 'shuffle' them around as in put them alphabetically or favourite favs on the top of the list?
It sounds like a silly question I am sure.. it's just that my brainking.com board is at the bottom of my favourite lists but has the most interesting topics at times so since I have a huge amount of favs it is wayyy down my game sheets...

I know..i have some games there too

That is why they allowed it then. My roommate does not play at IYT anymore but plays here. I only play at IYT for battleboats and sabotage. When they get those games going here I wont play at IYT anymore. They raised prices and reduced the non paying members moves to 25 a day. There are not too many games you can get done with only 25 moves and if you want multiple games they will take way too long with that restriction.

My wife was a member 1 year but not anymore

YEs that is what we were told Gubbe. Let me ask you this and this could make a difference. Are either your wife or you a paid member of IYT? If one is then they will allow it. If not they look at it as you trying to play more games and get more moves by creating another account.

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DO YOU HAV BACKGAAMMON!?!!!!
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If I'm banned....DO YOU RIP ME OFF LIKE CHAD DID?
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Really Blazin?..my wife and i are using the same computer both for IYT and here.

My roommate and I have two internet connections. She has a PC and I have a webtv in my bedroom. When her computer was in the shop she used my webtv and would play her IYT games on my webtv as well. So we both were using the same internet system to play at IYT. They sent her an e-mail that two accounts cant come from the same place and one of us would have to pay an upgrade on the site for both of us to use the same internet box. IYT would not allow for both accounts to play from the same place.

IYT did not have ratings because they feared people would cheat, and sure enough, people could probably set up multipls accoutns and play both sides of a game.... and I say....... so what?????

yes, it is disturbing and annoying, but that's just something that will happen qwith a ratings system. Over at Dweebo's stone games a player tried this very tactic, and in fact, he seems to create a new account for a new rating whenever his rating falls. but people know he is a phony.

People will know these players are phonies by reviewing their games won and lost. People kow who the real gamers are anyway. so if someone were creating multiple accoutns for ratings purposes

Suppose someone soon calls us (me) jealous/complainer so better end here. I was only curiou/surprised that more than 1 account was possible.

Excuse me it is performance enhancers. It is called Centrum Performance vitamins. Well I use a generic brand as I am a cheapskate. LOL

Im no "ratinghunter" so i dont care what way people "create" their rating as long as they dont advertise steroids here :)

LOL Gubbe. If playing white all the time was not enough of advantage, they need a phony account to secure their rating. LOL.

Keep in mind I know not all top players are this way about white so lets not get into that here please. i have played some top players and know they will go either way on the color.

i tried to join the yahoo brainking grop and my embership is still pending. Why?

To me 'registering a NEW account" means that he/she already has one, so then he/she has 2, easy to get a high rating then LOL

Hmmm...that is interesting. I thought you could only have one account at BrainKing.com

If you can have more than one account it would defeat the purpose of getting individuals to upgrade as they could create multiple accounts to play more games. I wonder what Fencer has to say about that.

If I had to guess, I would say it means he was reigstering a new account.

Was browsning "Who is on-line" and saw someone was "Registering new account". Excuse a maybe stupid question but does anyone know what that mean?

There have been times recently that the site has been down to do some maintenance on the server. I think this is a good site to play games and have fun. However can I suggest a little warning when the site will be down for upgrades and such? This could be in the form of a mass e-mail to all members or post it on the main page like a day in advance so we know the site will be down and for roughly how long. Thanks.