Walter Montego: Hey could be fun if we had a choice viewing a cam while playing the other opponent while online, of their choice of course

LOL:)

WOW the new "Change Icon " feature is brilliant, thanks Fencer

bouncybouncy:   It will be my new favorite feature.  ;)

Groucho: oh gawd, yeah, blimmin heck, no stopping u now LOL

can anyone tell me how to get my national flag next to my name.

jessica: Edit your profile and enter your location (Country)

jessica: Just state your country in your profile. Go to your profile page and click (edit)

jessica: click on My Profile, at the top of the new page at the top click on Edit, on the next page select a country.

bouncybouncy: ;)  yep...I can still keep Fencer busy.  He has to approve my changes.  ;)

Ultima is a very good chess variant that was invented by Abbott in the early 1960s. It is has been one of my favourite variants of the past two decades. I would love to see the game at this site, possibly with a tweak or two in the rules. I have some very good suggestions as to minor rule changes, having played hundreds of games of this variety. Is anyone else interested in seeing ULTIMA at brainking.com?

Ray Garrison: Hi Ray, I'm an Ultima fan myself, but you might want to put this post in the Feature Request discussion board or in the 8 × 8 Chess variants board or other Chess variants board.

am i right in thinking if i remove someone from a tournament they cant reenter

imsoaddicted: well if things are still as they used to be then yes they can (i only know this because i removed someone sometime ago and they re entered at the very last moment) .

Jason: strange because this person has re entered twice now but a couple of weeks ago i was removed from a tournament and i tryed to resign and it stated tournament organiser has removed you and i couldnt re enter

imsoaddicted: Yes, you are right.

What does it mean when the system says "The file is too long" when I try to upload a file?

King Reza: It means your file is longer than 100 kB.
It would make no sense to accept longer files when a typical length of an icon file is 2 kB.

Fencer:Well, I'd put it as "The file is too BIG" not too long!

Summertop, pauloaguia, and volant for clearing that up for me.

I thought at some point Fencer mentioned that at some point, empty stairs would be removed. However, I am currently in a stair where I am on level 17 and the next highest player is on level 12 and I think it has been like this for a while.

how do I get a BKR and how many games do I have to play to get one if that is the case?

jessica: What is BKR and how is it calculated?

BKR means "BrainKing Rating" and is calculated by US Chess Federation formula for each kind of a game separately according to your game results. The player who finishes at least 4 rated games of one kind (everybody who defines a new game can specify whether the game will be "rated" - the result will be calculated for BKR - or not), earns "provisional BKR" displayed by italic font (e.g. 1870). After finishing 25 rated games of one kind the provisional BKR changes to "established BKR" and is displayed by normal font (e.g. 1853). If you complete more games, your BKR is more accurate because is based on more results.

:)

thanks for explaining that. i couldn't find it anywhere on the rest of the site.

jessica: Many questions can find answers here: http://brainking.com/en/FAQ

if your playing a muti game match and you resign a game does the game you resign go on your game total or does it only count when the full match is finished?

imsoaddicted:When the full match is finished.

imsoaddicted: be careful though, when you resign a game in a backgammon type with doubling cube, then you will give your opponent as many points as he would have gotten when he would have played all his stones out at your position

so when you still have a stone on the bar, and you resign, then you will give your opponent a backgammon. while if you played it out it might have been a single point

imsoaddicted: I thought that the other day when using hexkids priority games system. I forgot to take it out the list before the game finished. The i couldnt find the game in my games finished. Odd really as it is the game that is finished so it should be there really.

Hrqls: thanks it was muti game battleboats im resigning or i be here till the 12th of never..lol

Fencer: Could you have a look at the Korg Triton (Gaming Palace vs. Blizzards) Match. I am winning 1-0 at the momment, but have a look at games 1909255(i won, shows still playing) and 1909256(is still playing, says i won). The score is right, so its not a major issue, it just tells me i have finished the game i am still playing and vicer versa.....most odd.
So i had a look through the Korg Triton tournament, and it seems to be totaly Random as to which one is says is which LOL. I know it does not SEEM(more of a worry) to effect the result, just seems odd when you finish a game, to go and look there to find out according to the system you are still playing it, but have in fact finished the one you are still playing LOL
The GOOD news is that it seems to be doing it in all TEAM tournaments, so that may help you track down whats causing it.

MadMonkey: The team match page does not show which games are or are not finished.
The 0 below game 1909255 "belongs" to your opponent, not to the game; the 1 below game 1909256 "belongs" to you.

hexkid: LOL, i just realised that. Its seems funny when you look at it. Maybe it could be set out different

do you actually ever get a rating in random game tournaments?

is time control of has ive got games that are -5hrs on my list

imsoaddicted: Yes - since a "random" game will be choosen from the list of "real" games, and you will win/loss/rating will be applied to the "real" game that you played.

imsoaddicted: Could be - the system is setup now to automaticly know about "down" time and turn off the time control funtion. Of course myself I don't know of any downtime, but who knows what the site did while I was sleeping.

MadMonkey: Of course animated gifs don't work. Have you seen any on BrainKing, except smileys?

MadMonkey & Fencer: oops!!! sorry :(
tired and misclicked ... please repost mm :(

I just wondered why .gif file can be uploaded, but dont work.
Will they ever be allowed to work Fencer ?
My poor monkey used to wave lol

MadMonkey: I've been asking about that for awhile (animated gifs). I asked about it when image icons where first allowed, and even recently when I seen you can upload gif files.

(But if you notice, it automaticly converts them all to .jpg format.)

BIG BAD WOLF: Thats a shame, we could have some real cool ones. Oh well, have to settle for just .gif smileys then. Mind you the new smileys you can get move and talk now lol

Fencer: I have uploaded a bigger picture which has been approved but it isnt appearing on my page

this is Antje using my husband's account, i know thats bad, i dont usually do that sort of thing, but for some reason my account has been banned. i didnt do anything wrong, honest.. anyone know if theres a bug or something??? i havent been home all day and now i cant sign in, it says my account has been temporarily banned

Antje: I dont know, i have looked at your profile and there doesnt seem to be anything wrong.
Has it told you that you are banned ?
According to it you were on this afternoon, were you ?

MadMonkey: yes, i think i was on last at 10am my time, its now 520 pm i dont know?? LOL. i did change my ladybug pic for the 3rd time, could that be it?

Andersp: I would not of thought that changing the picture would ban you. lol
Have you tried at the logging page sending yourself your password & username by email ? just in case anything has gone wrong there.
I honestly would of thought if there was a problem Fencer would of let you know, so it may be a bug somewhere. Try sending yourself the username & password.

Andersp: Maybe there's a rule against playing rated games against someone on the same machine. I don't know.

MadMonkey: i did retype username and password, what do you mean about emailing? that wouldnt change it would it? and i get a message that says, "this user had been temporarily banned"
past tense,, but thats the message, maybe just a typo

fakarten: i dont know about that, we each have a seperate paid account, and have always been able to play games