fismoluni: as i believe its 30 days in the new year and then if you use them all up you can get another 30 days if membership is renewed later in the year

Jason: I think it´s just only 30 days for all year. If you spend your vacation days, you will not get more when you renew.

im sure that i am correct

I had asked this some time ago:

>I haven't renewed my membership and i had 0 vacation days. But now i see that i have 30 new ones. Why is that? I guess because of the start of a new year. So is it true that vacation days are initialize to 30 at the start of any new year?

Also if at the middle of a year someone renew his membership, will vacation days also be initialized to 30 again?

Playbunny responded:
Yes and yes.

Nobody argued about that. So it is true.....

Vacation days are renewed at the beginning of each year, but as BBW and a few others pointed out around 15 December 2005 on this board, if you renew your membership in the middle of the year, the vacation days are reset.

I renewed in November and my days reset to 30.

Fencer Re: can people buy vacation days ? 20. August 2005, 04:48:07
Jason: Well, it wasn't officially announced yet but if you extend your membership by another year, the vacation counter would be reset to the original value (30 for Brain Rooks, etc.) instead of waiting for the 1st January.

How do you guys make those neat links to the exact posting?
Ah, the context button.
http://brainking.com/en/Board?bc=1&bscx=382336#382336

This would seem to answer it from the top. It also says that on January 1st all the BrainRook counters get reset to 30 days. Someone asked if you could exceed 30 days and Fencer answered no to that question.

Let's see there's 52 weekend days off. 30 vacation days. Plus a time limit of 7 days. In theory two players could take the whole year to move a couple of times, eh? And I've seen 30 and 21 day limit tournaments. Amazingly, quite a few of them have finished. It gets down to the people involved more so than the rules and parameters.

Walter Montego: lol, I was looking for that, but didn't go far enough back!

Walter Montego: Wouldn't that be 104 weekend days? And yes, my games list is living proof that some matches can last virtually forever.

I'm taking bets on when will this game end. Any thoughts?

alanback: If you play with the Fischer's clock, no vacation days of your opponents can bother you.

Pedro:

playBunny: It took me awhile to figure what was going on! September 2005!? Even molasses on a cold day moves faster than that. :)

Fencer: Yes, and if I shave my head, I won't need a comb!

alanback: Now that you mention it I think it's almost 210 days for the weekends if you and I have different days set.

Marfitalu: No, you need a game ID.

Marfitalu: No, every game of a match contains links to all other games of the same match.

Fencer: I think Marfitalu is requesting for the match games table to include the current game... maybe with something like "game in progress", instead of the winner name

I see.

Sophisticated contestants please message me to arrange faster matches.

saii: Please post at the checkers board;

http://brainking.com/en/Board?bc=9

Or put a game in the 'waiting games' where you can choose the ratings of your opponent.

Walter Montego: Case in point: http://brainking.com/en/Tournaments?tri=63846#1

I've finished 8 of the 12 11 point matches with 7 day time control. But there are 2 in which my opponent and I have made only 11 or 12 moves in almost 3 months of play. At that rate, the first round will take 5 or 6 years.

Marfitalu: Where? I see it on the main page and on game pages when I play Slovakian opponents.

Marfitalu: I see it everywhere also, including that page

Marfitalu: I see it next to noker and cvopa

Marfitalu: Maybe the file in your cache is corrupted. Try emptying the cache.

How many total started games are going on any given day? How many moves on average are made on any given day?

Czuch Chuckers: http://brainking.com/en/Statistics?p=2

Stevie: ahhh, thanks! I knew it was here somewhere! Looks like over 50 thousand games going at any given time!

I've noticed, that the list of the best players regarding the sum of their established ratings is calculated including games in which the player has been inactive during the last 6 months.
Is that really intended? Wouldn't it be better to exclude such games (as done for the game specific lists of best players)?

I would also wonder, whether Pools should count for this list.

estanto: Not a bad idea.

for months now, ive noticed the friends list on main page etc, and friends list will show people doing something 10 minutes or so ago, or even show they are not online, and still says that even though they may have just posted on a board etc....
I did bring this up ages ago, but nowt was said.. others have noticed this recently also

Tuesday: You can excel at anti-chess (and chess too, why not) but having not knowledge about chess is not a help for playing well antichess. There isn´t a logic relation between "i am bad at <gameX>" -> "i am good at "anti<gameX>" This implication is false (generally) It´s just a matter of practice. I´m sure you could play very well, play and learn.

Matarilevich: Now that's some logical point of view ....

i suck at both Tuesday lol

You could get some tips at the chess variants board for anti-chess (among others);

http://brainking.com/en/Board?bc=6

and the chess discussion board;

http://brainking.com/en/Board?bc=5

i notice the order in which people appear in my "friends online" list changes from one page refresh to the next. this correlates with their activity, huh? people are moved to the top of the list every time they perform an action on the site?

it seems that way because people always seem to move to the bottom of the list just before they disappear, which i figure is the five minutes between the time they perform their last action and the time they show having logged off or gone idle.

plaintiger: Yes, it's exactly as you write.

Tuesday: right - that's what i mean about being idle.

Fencer: cool. i like that. you really think of a lot of great little touches. :)

so I take it that the fact the friends list isnt working right doesnt matter then?
Either that or Plaintiger has a knack of asking questions etc in a better way than some of us lol

Stevie: What is not working right?

Fencer: the friends list is all out of sync a lot of times,, you can have someone post on a board etc and it will still be showing them as doing something 5, 10 , 12, 15 minutes ago sort of thing.. I havent noticed any common factor yet cos when it happens, its as if all the friends list freezes compared to what they are doing on the site.. it gets back into shape by itself.. i dont know if that corresponds with the hourly site cathup script etc that checks tournys ready to start etc etc

Stevie: If you mean the Friends page, it is correct. It simply shows last actions of your friends, no matter when it happened.

Fencer: yeah that page and the list on main page..
Youll think your friend has signed out or just shut window.. then they will post on a board fo rexample, and if you check th efriend page or list, they still say something they were doing a whiole ago, or the main page list still doesnt even show them online as if the 1o or 15 minutes time has passed that says they have been inactive..
Im not the only person who has had this

Tuesday: I know, thats after about 10 or 15 minutes.. That should then correct if they come back on or move etc etc..

When it does this,, i will look at a new post on a board and find someone is online.. and th efriend list etc will still say they are no etc