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Thema: Re:

Dolittle: Good question.

2. Juni 2007, 18:12:29

Why are the interviews taking so long?

2. Juni 2007, 17:28:41

coan.net

Thema: Large tournament sections

First idea is on the tournament description, start putting a line that says: "Pawns, Bishops, & Knights: XX Game spots are needed to start this tournament"

Currently - section size of 4-8 = 5 spots free (10 spots for 2 games per.)

Why not just do the following.

Section size of 9-13 = 10 spots free (20 for 2 games - which for a pawn, means NO current games)

Section size of 14-16 = 15 spots free (30 fo 2 games - with pawns not able to join)

31. Mai 2007, 07:28:08

Thema: Re: Action points

"Snoopy": They rest in peace.

31. Mai 2007, 05:37:22

ScrambledEggs

Thema: Action points

anyone know what happened to them?

30. Mai 2007, 15:31:33

Thema: Re: game invitations filter

Jason: No, it's not.

30. Mai 2007, 15:19:08

Jason

Thema: game invitations filter

Is the game invitation turn off working correctly ? i have been trying for days to turn off all invites

30. Mai 2007, 15:16:32

AbigailII

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If the border has a class name (different names for different games), people can change is to whatever colour they want with style sheets. ;-)

30. Mai 2007, 15:12:34

Thema: Re: Take back move and re-instate game

Fencer: good enough.
For future decisions like this one, if you want light colors, you can always pick the letters of the game name that are allowed in hex format and see what color comes from that.

30. Mai 2007, 15:08:24

Thema: Re: Take back move and re-instate game

pauloaguia: Too late, I've already used the Amazon Chess colour.

Not activated yet.

30. Mai 2007, 15:07:05

Thema: Re: Take back move and re-instate game

Fencer: you read fast... I deleted my previous post after reading nabla's.
Will #eeeeff; do?

30. Mai 2007, 15:04:34

Thema: Re: Take back move and re-instate game

nabla: good idea

30. Mai 2007, 15:04:19

Thema: Re: Take back move and re-instate game

pauloaguia: Just send me a RGB code.

Black is not good.

30. Mai 2007, 15:00:11

nabla

Thema: Re: Take back move and re-instate game

Fencer: Sorry that I answered in your place

30. Mai 2007, 14:58:33

nabla

Thema: Re: Take back move and re-instate game

pauloaguia: I think it was because colours are a matter of taste and he knew that some people would complain whatever the colour. But now you have made it a much simpler feature request : swap colours between Amazon Chess and Extinction Chess. No new colour involved, no complain - hopefully :-)

30. Mai 2007, 14:56:15

Thema: Re: Take back move and re-instate game

pauloaguia: Yes, it is.

I still don't know the right colour.

30. Mai 2007, 14:55:12

Thema: Re: Take back move and re-instate game

joshi tm: yes... I never understood why Amazon Chess has a coloured border and Extintion Chess doesn't. The first one has no special rules to play (except for a different piece, which is rather obvious) while the second is easilly confused with regular chess...
But it's probably an extremly hard thing for even Fencer to change because, though it may seem like a simple request, many have asked for it befor, but to no avail...

30. Mai 2007, 14:17:43

joshi tm

Thema: Re: Take back move and re-instate game

Gabriel Almeida: I've got also that problem, clicking faster the submit button than thinking. But on the other hand, at real life Chess tournaments the rules are clear, touching a piece === moving that piece, if allowed.

I do not like to win for time outs, but to play the long forgotten games over goes too far.

There's another problem, Extinction Chess still hasn't a colored border. It looks just like ordinary Chess, but last night I lost because I thought I could trade queens. I would like to play those games over, if my opponent would agree :(. And of course a disco flashing popup that says: ""WARNING THIS IS AN EXTINCTION CHESS GAME!!!!"" or a colored border is enough. :).

30. Mai 2007, 13:41:24

Gabriel Almeida

Thema: Re: Take back move and re-instate game

nabla: Yes. I think an interesting "increase" in this hpothetic-possibility could be that a take back move should be asked before the next move of the other player. Sometimes it happens to me, speccially in checkers variants: notice a big mistake just after submiting my move!

30. Mai 2007, 13:14:26

nabla

Thema: Re: Take back move and re-instate game

Gabriel Almeida: I am afraid that Abigail is right, it would be a real trouble-maker. The problem is that people have very different definitions of what a "distraction" is. For some, it would be to leave the king en prise in a chess variant without checkmate. For others, it would be to lose a pawn to a 5-move combination.

30. Mai 2007, 12:50:47

Thema: Re: Take back move and re-instate game

Gabriel Almeida: The official position is to make the auction system first.

30. Mai 2007, 12:49:19

Gabriel Almeida

Thema: Re: Take back move and re-instate game

AbigailII: Yes, that's true. Some people forget they are ASKING something to his adversary. Anyway... well, I admiss this could be a "trouble-maker". I always accept a re-instate or a take back move, in those other 2 sites. I see no merit in winning points for distrations or for time-out, and I now much other people think like me, so it's hard for us, when we are playing, that we not even have the possibility to do it. There are advanges and disavantages on those stuffs, I know. Just wanted to know what's the "oficcial position" of Brainking.

30. Mai 2007, 12:39:25

AbigailII

Thema: Re: Take back move and re-instate game

Gabriel Almeida: Nooooooo. Then you will get people calling other people names because their moves aren't granted to be taken back.

30. Mai 2007, 12:26:44

Thema: Re: Take back move and re-instate game

Gabriel Almeida: It could be possible only if BKRs are not changed by the timeout.

30. Mai 2007, 12:25:17

Gabriel Almeida

Thema: Take back move and re-instate game

I bet those questions have been already asked, but... in my opinion, Brainking should have the possibility to take back last move, as in Kurnik (of course, if both players agree with it), such as the possibility to re-instate the game lost for time-out (once again, depending to both players agreement). Don't you think?
Fencer, is this a possibility in the future?

30. Mai 2007, 02:16:58

inpassant

Thema: Re:

Verändert von inpassant (30. Mai 2007, 02:18:11)

coan.net: Thanks. I haven't seen the pond board.

29. Mai 2007, 23:51:11

coan.net

Thema: Re:

inpassant: If an opponenet has 0 points left, their bid for the next round will be 0 - so any bid of 1 or above should stay in until the next round. Don't forget about highest bid still gets the 500 point bonus.

More questions? Check out the Run Around the Pond Board: http://brainking.com/en/Board?bc=77

29. Mai 2007, 22:29:55

inpassant

Verändert von inpassant (29. Mai 2007, 22:32:36)

One question: in a pond (run around the pond) an opponent has 0 points for the current round. If I use 1 point will I fall to the pond? The next to the last player has 41 points...

29. Mai 2007, 13:29:05

Thema: Re:

Family Man: but since most stairs are 2-game matches, you must wait for the second game to finish before you are declared the winner of that match.

29. Mai 2007, 12:21:55

Vikings

Thema: Re:

Family Man: yes

29. Mai 2007, 12:09:03

Family Man

Thema: Re:

pauloaguia: What about a stairs game? Do you advance in the stairs on a game that times out with less than 2 moves?

29. Mai 2007, 11:40:03

Thema: Re:

Family Man: Games that finish before 2 moves don't affect your BKR

29. Mai 2007, 03:06:40

rod03801

Thema: Re:

Verändert von rod03801 (29. Mai 2007, 03:10:18)

Family Man: it was probably part of a multi game match. Or it was the first move...

29. Mai 2007, 03:02:37

Family Man

I just had a message about a finished game report, and it didnt show my change in BKR like it normally does? It was a game my opponent timed out on, I dont know if that is what is different from other reports that tell me the change in my BKR?

29. Mai 2007, 02:40:25

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Thema: Re:

Dolittle: i thought vacation days went on forever. Even games that are suppose to be moved in three days. They last forever too!! :)

28. Mai 2007, 17:12:27

Eriisa

Thema: Re: Customs

"Snoopy": oh, trust me, I believe it!!!

28. Mai 2007, 14:52:20

ScrambledEggs

Thema: Re: Fencer

Eriisa:
i remember getting a Christmas present send from the states mid December i got it May 15th..lol
why first it got stuck in American customs then it was held up 3 months in English customs
crazy or what!!!!

28. Mai 2007, 13:35:29

Eriisa

Thema: Re: Fencer

Bernice: If they use the Post Office, it should get better from the USA. They changed and now International packages seem to be only Express or Priority.

Course, the tracking still isnt so hot with them. Most of my packages to AU get there within 2 weeks.

28. Mai 2007, 11:08:18

Thema: Re: Fencer

Fencer: of course :) but what exciting things are happening here :)

28. Mai 2007, 09:01:53

Thema: Re: Fencer

Bernice: Well, that's more a matter of agreement between the seller and the purchaser. We can hardly track packages.

28. Mai 2007, 08:25:36

Thema: Re: Fencer

Fencer: of course....a "banning" would also have to apply if the "purchased Piece" wasnt posted to the purchaser...Ive seen me wait 4 months for stuff from the USA...they are too mean to ship air/express, and by the time I get it I have forgotten I have purchased it LOLOL.....

28. Mai 2007, 07:48:07

Thema: Re: Fencer

Fencer: Incognito????

27. Mai 2007, 23:33:32

Thema: Re: Fencer

Verändert von Bernice (28. Mai 2007, 05:12:52)

Fencer: LOL..silence is golden :) and I must have read your mind ROFLMBO :)

27. Mai 2007, 13:21:02

Thema: Re: Fencer

Bernice:

27. Mai 2007, 12:27:30

Thema: Fencer

the auction thingy appears to be working...would you consider doing a "bit" on the side and opening a mini "ebay" for members to sell useless/junk/heirlooms/ etc....seems like it could be an extra "income" for you....it would keep people honest being under a threat of "banned" if they didnt pay etc, and could give us something interesting to talk about for the next few years LOLOLOL

27. Mai 2007, 05:16:13

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Ok, thanks guys...I appreciate your answers!! I just didn't understand but then it is late and my eyes are at half mast!!

27. Mai 2007, 05:14:01

coan.net

Thema: Re:

Dolittle: You only use 1 vacation day a day - so once a vacation day is used, any other games with standard vacation days that time out in the day will get 24 hours used on that same vacation day.

27. Mai 2007, 05:13:42

rod03801

Thema: Re:

Verändert von rod03801 (27. Mai 2007, 05:14:30)

Dolittle: The other possibility is that earlier in the day, they already "timed out" on other games and the vacation day has already been taken. (At midnite Czech time). So of course an additional vacation day isn't taken for each individual game.

27. Mai 2007, 05:10:28

Thema: Re:

rod03801: It says standard vacation so I really don't know either.

27. Mai 2007, 05:09:12

rod03801