harley: indeed. thank You, Lady - i'll put it there.

plaintiger: No, theres no way of doing that at the moment. Maybe something for the feature requst board?

ah, yes, i've figured it out: *names removed*.

harley: understood - so here's a technical question related thereto: is there any way to block PMs from everyone except those members you've approved? like a spam filter for your BK inbox?

plaintiger: Personal problems shouldn't really be posted here. Its best just to place her on block and ignore her.

plaintiger: Apparently someone who enjoys backgammon.. :)

who the hell is *name removed*? i've never heard of Her before, and She blocks me and then sends me a PM to insult me. what kind of psychotic behavior is this??

Lamby: yep :) thanks for an offer. It's still Monday...

eagle eye: I guess you got it sorted then

Bry: oops, didn't read the FINE print :-)
thanks!

eagle eye: yes that came up for me when I tried your link! The left hand column works for me though???? Hmmmm!
I wonder if I can help you with what you need help with?

eagle eye: at the top of the page.....

"This page is currently being replaced by a new and improved version (if you find some topics empty, it is not a bug). The former entries have been moved to the FAQ section."

I think it means Fencer hasn't completed every section yet?

Lamby: nope,
I went 'Help' (left side menu) and 6.1 New Game link from the help page

eagle eye: I assume you have tried left hand column on main screen listed inbetween game rules & FAQ's?

Bry:
http://brainking.com/en/Help?ht=41 doesn't work!

eagle eye:
http://brainking.com/en/Help

It's fine when I click on the link.

I cannot see any help in "Help" can anybody help:)
help, Help, Help :-)

Thanks, rhiannon and Erissa for answering me! I just wanted to know it.

naughtypawn: Fencer, thanks for fixing the "typo" that only gave four months. I think there is still a typo though, if I'm not mistaken, 6 months should be Oct.1 - Apr.1. thanks (also March has 31 days, not 30)

naughtypawn: Rhi is correct, but I wanted to add that in March you will need to renew manually. Renewal is not automatic.

naughtypawn: You're a rook until March next year. You don't have to do anything more.

I have a question: I made a payment to be a Brain Rook. Do I have to go to the subscription page and do it again or the periods are renewed automatically?

Nothingness: It is still 4 games. But remember that the 4 games have to be rated games -AND- last more then 4 moves. Otherwise unrated games & games with less then 4 moves will not count toward the ratings.

I was noticing that you have to play more than 4 gmaes now to get a provisional rating. How many games are required now?

I hardly think this is the board to discuss scrabble! It isn't a feature of brainking.

oh god not another ranter,dont people have anything more constructive to do?

if you follow the conversation,we were talking about scrabble.
did u have anything relevant to add? or just pointless baiting?lol

also re:
http://www.isc.ro/

it is user friendly for many languages & has many scrabble dictionaries in many languages.

mac I dont know,but it is a great site..many features...great players

nobleheart: i don't know...a command-line interface is pretty 1980's. and it appears to rely on a software install. will that Java thingy run on a Mac?

Pythagoras: beauty is in the eye of the beholder. i like them - especially the crossed-swords one. that, to me, is a symbol just *begging* to be made into some funky auxiliary chess piece. :)

plaintiger: I miss e-scrabble..the BEST scrabble site,BEST features is unquestionably:

http://www.isc.ro/
you have to get familiar with the command syntax:
http://www.isc.ro/en/help/commands.html
but it really not hard.

LOL I just went to get the link for that board!

http://brainking.com/en/Board?bc=45

Please, this discussion belongs to the Chess Variants (10x8) board.

SMIRF Engine:
Unterstandable yes, beautiful no........

Pythagoras: ... and I have invested so much time to find intuitively unterstandable new symbols ...

SMIRF Engine:
Aaaaa no, the _only_ thing i don't like about Smirf is its Archbishop and Chancellor pieces.....

Kipling: Well, I recommend symbols like those I have invented myself. You could have a look on them at the right side at http://www.chessbox.de/Compu/schachveri1_e.html

plaintiger: On this site the icon that represents the Chancellor is the one that has the horse's head on top of the upside down Rook's top. The Archbishop is the icon that has the strange fill up the square tassled thing. These icons are also used to represent the Cardinal and Marshall of Grand Chess. Though the pieces have different names, they move the same way. Henry Bird made up the modern version of these 8 X 10 games circa 1874. He named the two pieces Guard and Equerry. I'm not sure if Capablanca had firmed up the names to his version of Bird's Chess around 1920, which is called Capablanca Chess. It's identical to Bird's Chess except the Bishops and Guard/Chancellor and Equerry/Archbishop are in different places. Grand Chess was made up in 1972. It uses the same pieces, but has a 10 X 10 board and some different rules.

Guard = Marshall = Chancellor = (Rook+Knight)
Equerry = Cardinal = Archbishop = Janus = (Bishop+Knight)

You have a point in the rules not clearly saying which icon represent which piece. Perhaps a little diagram added to the CRC rules description would clarify it for new players. Janus Chess has its own icon. As for Capablanca Random Chess, I'm not sure why it uses those icons since the inventor of it has his own icons. Perhaps it is easier for Fencer to use the old ones. Fencer still has the notation using A and C in Grand Chess. He said he was going to change them to C and M so that they would fit the game.

Kipling: that does indeed help *me*. thank you. :)

but it doesn't fix the problem to which i referred: that information needs to be presented in the rules for the game, so new players don't have to hunt it down elsewhere.

plaintiger: The Archbishop looks like a bishop and the Chancelor looks like a knight.
I hope that helps.

nobleheart: don't quote me on this, but i think you can put just about any old game online as long as you don't use any trademarked or copyrighted terms to refer to it. like battleboats: if Fencer called it "Battleship", he would have been served with a cease-and-desist order by now, and had to remove it from the site - if he didn't have to take the whole site down as a result. but because he didn't call it "Battleship," it is (as far as i know) fully legal. bugcafe.net refers to their word game that bears an uncanny resemblance to Scrabble as "bugwords" and they continue to chug along fine, while e-scrabble.com met with a rather different fate...and a damn shame, too, because e-scrabble.com was the best form of that game ever available online.

i think if you never refer to a game by its trademarked name or any other protected reference, and maybe if you change one minor rule or two just a little to be on the safe side, you should be alright. but i'm no lawyer...

i was just reading the rules for Capblanca Thingamajiggy Chess and they say the Archbishop and Chancellor have been added to the usual lineup of chess pieces, but they don't say which of the two new pieces is the Archbishop and which is the Chancellor.

they should say this. the rules for one game shouldn't presuppose knowledge of the rules of some other game (least of all a game that's no longer available on brainking).

thanks. :)

upwords love that too..but I bet hasbro wont allow it anywhere online

In the midst of all this turmoil, I have achieved an adjusted all-time high in my personal Nackgammon BKR (i.e., highest on my current BK ratings chart). This is not an all-time high in adjusted ratings, however, as nstre apparently rated 2036 after his first game (compared to my current 2033 after 375 games).

alanback: Hm upwords perhaps?

nobleheart: Just a totally unfair dig at furbster's spelling :-)

alanback: alan,can I ask,what was that about?I love scrabble?
this is a cool unique word game:
http://www.littlegolem.net/jsp/games/gamedetail.jsp?gtid=gwg

furbster: Shh i was in a rush when i typed that lol, my fingers move faster than my brain. WAIT! does my brain move? :-?

Absolutely last call for questions for REZA's interview! If you have any please send them me in the next 24 hours because I'll be putting all the questions togethe rtomorrow ready for sending to reza. If you have anything to ask him, don't miss out!