Fencer: why did you decide on 1 game for fischers but 2 for others? just personal preference?

J5o: The reason is very easy. I did it. No chance you could have it switched.

any reason why these are the only stairs w/ 1 game per match? any chance we could have it switched to 2 like the rest of the stairs are?

Andersp: Yep.

Does this ( -/5 ) mean that the player is using retirement?

playBunny: ah! didnt think of that .. would be nice indeed :)

6) You cannot play the same person if you are already playing a game with him/her in the same Stairs or if you finished a game with him/her in the same Stairs within recent 14 days.

Fencer, Bunny: The system doesn't allow me to challenge alanback here:
http://brainking.com/cz/Stairs?trg=5&tri=232

Fencer: Lol. I haven't come across the opportunity yet but I'll give it a go. I noticed Alanback and Pedro were sole occupants on a Step but they've only got one game going which led me to the question. I'll see what Pedro says.

playBunny: Good question. But I think the system should allow two matches.
Try it and let me know.

Fencer: If there are only two people on a Step can each challenge the other or is only one match allowed between them?

playBunny: Yes! thanks, why can't we play both games together, don't see it is a problem

Hrqls: Welly's talking about this:

Match type: 2 games match

wellywales: you can play 1 game in which you challenged your opponent, and you can play a second game in which your opponent has to challenge you .. this makes a maximum of 2 games at the same time in the same stairs

Marfitalu: I meant in stairs

Marfitalu: How then ?

Is it not possible to start 2 game matches at the same time, to speed up game play

playBunny: I'd be opposed to anything that would reward stalling.

More stats: How about a table, per Stair, showing the top players in terms of how many days they've been on the top step?

lol, looks like something out of a strange horror movie

Czuch Chuckers: Lol. This is rather the wrong place to be asking that. But as it's here, my vote is to keep it. I love that splash of colour, it's great!

Eriisa: Please change your picture soon?

rod03801:

rod03801: Excellent idea!

One solution would be to put a red number in parentheses beside Stairs on the main menu, when there are stairs on your list available. Clicking the red number could take you directly to your personal list of stairs. The red number could disappear if it becomes unavailable.

Just a thought..

Hi you guys!

If you are looking a good backgammon match, please send a challenge to me in slow cube stairs! I have no that type of match there just now.

I have added the way to see if you have any current stairs in which you can challenge up above in the board header.

If you go to the main stairs page, and click on "Show your stairs only" - the ones in bold means there is someone there that you can challenge.

Eriisa: True, true, true, 'Tis a sea of blue.

playBunny: That won't work for me. My stairs games get buried in all the dang Tourney games I signed up for.

wellywales: I find that one eventually solves itself when I look at my games list and think "Hmmm, not a lot of Stairs there".

Fencer: Yes true, it is I just forgot to go back to see if there was any one to challenge

wellywales: Why? Before you read it, the free player can be picked by someone else, so it would be a false alarm.

When I was on a step, there was no one to challenge, is there a way we can get a PM when there is someone to challenge

dmk: Good question. I'll have to look at the code.

If you have started a retirement on a stair, and you win the game that was still open, will you still move up a rung? I assume so, just wondering.

Czuch Chuckers: it means we are getting *WAY* off topic.

Lets try to get back to topic.

Czuch - Good sugestion - have the ability to choose "retirement" for all stairs at once. (Then in turn, be able to come out of "retirement" for all stairs at once also would be good.

playBunny: or leave the 'ed' and add the word 'off' then what?

Czuch: It has several meanings. In British it's primarily drunk, in American it's primarily angry. But take off the 'ed' and a whole new bunch of meanings comes into play. Hence it being bannable if your name is Stevie and you use it, and other words, too often.

Perhaps after a post has been deleted then the posts about the post can be deleted too. Then people won't write posts about the post about the post or post about posts that aren't the post. And there certainly won't be any call for posts about the posts about the posts.

Just a thought.

Doesnt pissed mean drunk?

crosseyed: It would be very difficult to time out if you played several times a day

But it does depend somewhat on when you play, if you make a move and go offline right away, and I move right after this.... but you also get 3 hours added to your time every move, so several moves a day should leave you with more time, notless.

Rose: Sorry for butting in, I didn't notice the post had been edited!

alanback: The post in question has been deleted. I can assure it was NOT the word suck that I was talking about. Thanks for your input

alanback: There was a four letter word that has been changed, Rose is correct

Rose: What are you talking about? If it's the word "sucks" that you object to, I can assure you that minors use that word a lot more than adults do!

crosseyed: perhaps you can go back an edit your post. There are minors who play on this site

Maybe its just me... or the "retirement" isnt really for vacation, but it took me half an hour to retire in all my stairs. (click stairs, click to my stairs, click to a specific one, scroll down,click to retire,scroll down,click to be sure,go to main stairs, go to my stairs only, find new game, and repeat)

Does it make sense to be able to start retirement in all our stairs at once? Or at least streamline the process so after we retire one, it takes us back to our own stairs page?

crosseyed: Its probably best to not play fast fischer stairs if you cant play very often

crosseyed: Yea, you got to watch the Fischer clock games - I usually never play in one that does not at least have a 1 day bonus. (Meaning you will at the least have 1 day to make your move from the time your opponent moves)

So anything with less of a bonus (like the example here of 3 hours) means if you let your last time get down too low, a game might come back to you with very little time left..... and hopefully you are on-line. :-)

crosseyed: Also, if you look at any current game, you will see something like this:

Time left: BIG BAD WOLF: 1 day 12 hours, *other user*: 10 days

As you can see - the Other user moves a lot quicker then I do. You should see this in every Fishers Clock game