alanback: it would seem fair to me that someone claiming the "top" would at least be #1 ranked in 1 of the variants. It appears to me you are not!! So I refute your claim. Your claim is a personal assessment of yourself and others and it not the perception of others. I would consider you "very very good" at best. Far far better than I

Pason69: it is far weaker here than some sites such as http://www.dailygammon.com. at DG they talk A LOT about tactics and really analyse a lot of games as the site is totally dedicated to backgammon.. Brainking is more of a chat site and if you are after serious backgammon, this is not a good place. The boards here have basically no analytical information whatsoever

alanback: established BKR only. If you count non established one player ruins it.

Very keen observation alanback

grenv: I am, in a round about way. But the time controls do bring some excellent options, but some people abuse them

grenv: but if you add 3 hours then as long as you make 8 moves in a day you are fine and should always run at a buffer of at least 24 hours. You should be playing once every 15 minutes all day every day !!!

This person plays every 15 minutes. You should play like this. (refer to bug link)
http://brainking.com/en/ReadBug?bgi=840

grenv: but it does give some of us the added option of finally playing fast games and not having to wait sometimes months to make a single move. Just a matter of being careful. I always make sure my opponent knows when they are playing a very very fast game with me

I just set up some one hour games in the waiting room if anyone is interested.

fast games set up in waiting room

is anyone interestd in playing a live game of BG? I'm game

grenv: I got your meaning grenv

alanback: obviously in this case it was. So what you are saying then is that if the statement was taken for it's true meaning, it was totally incorrect in this case?

alanback: surely the use of the word "always" is fraught with misinterpretations

Pythagoras: I was suggesting different wording grenv could have used

Pythagoras: how about

you should win more often than lose?

Pythagoras: I counted 17 black rooks which is an influx of $5100 euros. With this financial influx a capacity for auto pass should be quite viable.

grenv: maybe with the vast influx of money with black rook membership fencer will be able to implement such a feature. It seems a lot of people are showing faith in fencer by signing up the black rook membership so it follows that he would return the favour and offer auto pass. Fair is fair

Pythagoras: I agree that it is a good option, I just didnt want others thinking that the posted link was a "no possible move" situation

Pythagoras: correct me if I am wrong but even though there are no blot moves possible, isnt it still possible for the blocked person to use the cube. This would also be classed as a possible move right and hence no auto pass?

WatfordFC: refer to previous message. Play quicker tourneys

WatfordFC: if he now has more vacation than his paid entitlement, then I agree that is a problem.

Seems Fencer is looking into it so try not to let it bother you though. worse case is it takes an extra couple of weeks to time out

WatfordFC: i have never done it but my guess is he cancelled other booked vacation. As a paying member he is entitled to use these days and he is playing within the rules. You do not have to play in tournaments of such length if you wish to complain. Create your own and play in tournaments where you are unable to use vacation days. That will solve to problem.

I hope I have made this clear enough this time. You're welcome

WatfordFC: he is allowed to do that under the rules right? I have a match going which I set to no vacation days and only 2 hour topup each move and he is still doing fine in that game. He has to make a move every 2 hours from when I move basically. I suggest setting up such games in the future if you want quicker moves otherwise there is nothing to complain about

I just put a bunch of games in the waiting room for Hypergammon for anyone over 2100 in rating. Care for a challenge, accept a game

joshi tm: if someone doubled me in anit back I would decline and lose the game :)

JMD & NIRVANA: I looked and alanback is ranked #1

I have put somg bg and hbg games in the waiting room thank you