Thanks for your offer Jason. But there is one problem - such server would have to be here in Prague, at our server rack, due to security reasons. Our main database server cannot be accessed "outside" to prevent hacking and data manipulating.
Moreover, I cannot guarantee that after adding another machine BrainKing will never crash again. I really plan to buy a new server and I hope that it will solve problem - but I am not [and I cannot be] absolutely sure. I have to test it but I cannot ask other people to buy the hardware just for "testing". It would not be fair to them.

is there a way someone could do something like a sub-host to improve the sites performance ? i have asked before but got no reply , if so i will buy a server to help from this end

Maybe some people think that 450 moves / day is a lot :)

At times and currently more often the resolving of the pages takes time; but its not ONLY on this site. Don´t know if you play at IYT, but there it used to be TERRIBLE, for days!!! You just have to be persistent in getting on here; when its touch to get on, I wait awhile until trying it again. When you have friends in here and games and issues you started off discussing, then you DO want to come back in and most of the time, I do succeed again within 30 minutes.

Good job, Fencer and goodluck in bugging all the bugs you can find! ;o))

fencer im not having a go at you .
just telling you how some people feel

Well, what should I say more? I could write server news each day and post something like "okay, I've tried this and that, it didn't help, so I'll use another way of bug tracking tomorrow, we will see" but is it worth occupying the place on the Main page?
I understand that some people are not very happy and I would like to wave a magic wand and say "LET THE SITE BE FIXED, NOW!". Unfortunatelly, it is not that easy, especially when you do it alone.

fencer people have stopped complaining about the access and are just putting up with it , but sadly i fear some people have had enough , people wont feel they can send mail to you because of what you wrote (" i have added new information to Technical info page. It is recommended for everyone to read it before complaining about anything").
even when the page is read it doesnt change anything some people arnt very happy .
as i have said before i like this site very much but the site acess is getting too much

well, I hope Fencer cAn spare a moment to comment ... :)

I don't mind one way or the other -
it just should not change every few days ... :D
there are ppl around getting really picky
if I claim an uncorrect amount of statues ... 0:) ~*~

I do not see where the infinite circle comes in. As I understand it, the process is relatively simple. whoever's defeated opponents won more games would have the higher placement. In this case, that seems not to have happened.

ok, teasing ... but I sense the mental moebius ... ;) ~*~

It isn't just based on your total wins and your wins against the people you're tied with! It's based on who you win against, and how many games they've won (and against who and how many points they've won (and against who and how many points they've won (and it's an infinite circle)))
:-)

something very interesting ...

now the result has changed ...
I made 1.5 to 0.5 in direct comparison
which should be over-ruling the SB value ...

for such a round, a best of five final
seems a better solution, btw targeted
anyway by the draw-courtesy ...

pehaps we could have a comment from Fencer ?

I was not doped, I swear ... :P and, letting me
take note of that decision was due after all, imho. ~*~

PS
I don't mind btw, as Erika is a great sportsman
and, I'll win an even stronger tourney-group of the
same gametype by 100 % unobjectably these days ... :D

I indeed have seen several questions about this asked by Mad Monkey the past couple of weeks. It´s sad, when someone suddenly disappears and doesn´t reply on any mail nor message. I have the same with a user which ID is PRAYER ~ he used to call himself 5655 and had loads and loads of games going, which almost ALL of them timed out.. For a while I pretty worried about him and send him messages; today I have seen him logging on, but never answered any message.. Sometimes people just want to get out; needs their rest or leave a place because of other personal situations. My thoughts are going out to all friends of these missing users AND to the users themselves. Hope all is well with them. I am glad this is a site, which observes these issues; so we are able to be there for eachother and act towards eachother in good fellowship!

Take care you all,
~*Radiant*~

Sounds like some fishy stuff goin on. I guess it doesn, thurt,if Fenser hears about any problems anyway. Since I'm on the subject, I too have had problems with a "server too busy" note when trying to get on, but have been fortunate to not time out of any games yet. Anyway, hope this helps. Good luck.

I doubt it - most games (aparantly including reversi) show the two players opposite boards (flipped). It must show it according to what the current player sees.

I was observing a game of reversi between othher players and when one of them moved and my screen reloaded, the whole board was reversed! Tha A-1 box, normally on the bottom left of the board, was now on the top right, has anyone else ever seen this? Is it a glitch in a program? Kinda freaky. Thanx for any help!

TT: She was last here on June 7th, all her games have timed out & she has no vacation days set. Various people have tried to e-mail her without response.

Do you know whats happened to her then ?

"Blaze" had not been seen in a while now

says who???

even enemies can l:):)k at eachother and smile :-)

Funny Feature, Fencer! ;o)

There is 'Andyhop' too; 'Dream' is definitely finished and 'Gimli' plays very little and keeps timing out.

None of these persons ever contacted me about access problems, so I would suppose that the problem lies elsewhere.

Has anyone got any idea about some missing players. Blaze had not been seen in a while now, Fred has games timing out and has Gone! in is profile now & who we know was a very active member & now Mary Jo had games timing out, again very strange for her - anyone any information please post it.
OR may it have something to do with site access problems ??

MM

Liquid is trying to find out what is wrong with our database server, please be patient.

I'm still having major problems with my games. Wrong turns, repeated moves. I've heard of one player's games being wiped out too.

what kind of nonsense is this? Why in the world was the game drawn, giving the players the 1/2 point?

Here is a recent tournament results that I found interesting - in the BBW presents: Small Keryo Pente

danoscheck had 8.5 points, and 41.75 S-B for first place.

Erika also had 8.5 points, and a HIGHER S-B rank of 43.25, but ended up in second.

Not too often you see someone with higher points get second! (Which I believe is because danoschek actually won more points in the games against Erika)

.... Anyway, just an interesting result I thought others might like to take a look at.

There was a small problem with our database server.

indeed some sporadic effects occured, for me too

a game with my opponent's turn of sudden on my list,
but it normalized a few refreshs later ... has happened since sunday ... ~*~

They seem to be the same games, right now it's a few Five in Line games. I've made the same move vs Qverido 3 times now.

Some of my games appear to be going backwards, i am repeating a move i had made earlier. Anyone else seeing this?

It probable wasn't you - right before you wrote that message, I had a couple of "weird" things happen (like only 1/2 the page loading) - like the server was just about ready to be "maxed out", but not yet to the "max" point.

But I'm glad it is working now! :-)

im embarrassed....ill admit to it ...IM STUPID lol...its working now so it had to be something i was doing wrong.... sorry to bother you :)

Sometimes "small" errors happen from time to time. First I would try to go back to the Main Page, and then choose the game again and see if you get the same error.

If that does not work, it would be something Fencer would have to look at.

am I stupid?? dont answer thatLOL...i am able to move but cannot submit the move and also there is nowhere for me to write her a massage...can anyone help?

I've had a hard month of June, you mean I can't go back and take vacations for June?????

Actually harley, when I first looked there (when getting the answer for below), I said the same thing to myself "Why is there only 1 checkbox on the month?" - It took me a minute to figure out why for myself.... :-)

Oops! Am I embarrassed!! LOL, of course, I didn't think of that! Thats a nifty little feature isn't it?! I'd never noticed it before!

harley: You can set only the last day of June because all other days have already passed. Try to switch to July 2003 and you will see checkboxes for all days :-)

Actually, I have noticed a glitch on the holiday page, there doesn't seem to be a place to tick to place the holidays, except for the last day of the month! I had seen in the BK info page that there was a problem with changing the weekend days, it was causing time-outs in games. So I thought maybe Fencer had turned off the option to set holidays for a short time? I also thought it could just be my page not loading in properly! Does anyone else have this problem?

On the left side of the screen, choose "Settings"

In Settings, there is an option along the top for "Calendar" You can set your vacations (and weekends here)

Hope this helps!

BBW (BIG BAD WOLF)

How do I set vacation days?

Yikes, Eriisa. We'd better be careful about where we are seen hanging around.

Everyone.

is that for anyone, or only Friends on-line?

It shows it if the user is currently logged on :-)

I've noticed that on some games, I will see besides the users name and rating, also the last action as shown below. Other games do not show it. Is this normal?

backoff
(black, 1299)
- viewing game Backgammon (backoff vs. eddie spaghetti) -
Last move: 26. June 2003, 20:54:40

thank you.

Of course it is possible. Use the 6-months Brain Knight payment process to pay additional $10 and you'll be upgraded :-)

would it be/is it possible to upgrade your membership without paying the full fee on top of what you've already paid. i myself decided to try membership here and paid for a year knight and since i have thought i should maybe upgrade to rook but don't want to pay for that as well as the current membership, i realise this is a pain in the arse but it could encourage more knights to upgrade and could mean more money for the new server, ciao for now, grant.

and now im wondering if this is why i have such terrible time getting in...
from today am trying to log out...FENCER....put the logout out button at the top of the page....I didnt even know there was one until today :(....sorry but thanks angus for pointing this out

I do have automatic log-in, which sometimes gets me straight to the main page and other times not. I have a webtv. I never had this problem before, it started yesterday (Tuesday).