Seems like I mailed it on a Saturday and Filip had it in his hand on Wednesday. Four days, ain't bad. How long after Eriisa gets the check does it take to activate the account? Most letters mailed in the United States to points in the United States take one, two, or three days to get to where they're sent. Depends on pick up time and day of the week, as we have mail delivery six days a week here.

That means you saved 43¢ Skyking. :)

They're common here in Southern California. Lot's of liquor stores sell them. The one that I buy them from in Huntington Beach charges me only 59¢ each for them. When I first asked the lady behind the counter if they were good out of the country, she said everywhere. I said even the Czech Republic? She said no problem. I sent it to Filip and she was right, he had no problem. She told me that most of the money orders that she sold were sent to Mexico or some of the Central American countries aside from being used locally instead of a personal check. She was tripping when I told her Czech Republic. I let her know she was right after Filip got the money order cashed.
It seems the United States has some of the most liberal banking and money rules around, though I'm not familiar with how other places do it and am just speculating from how most of the questions that people have are from people in different countries.

Doesn't Iran have them? If not, then I guess some other way will come to light.
They work fine. Filip can cash them with no charges to do so. You make them payable to him, so no one else can cash them unless done so fraudulently. You get a receipt, so if it doesn't make it to him, you can put a stop on the money order and get the money back.

anastasia, you'll see your posted games on your own Main page listed at the bottom of your games list. As the other posters have said, you won't see them on the Waiting games page. I think the games should show there. Then you'd see them and not worry about it. Of course, it'd be set up so you couldn't click them yourself.

What about Guam and Puerto Rico? Territories count too, don't they. As for possessions, I'd not count them.

to the User Agreement

When did it start fencer?

Thanks for steering me there Slamdance. I hadn't realized it'd been changed again. This Global Moderator job is new too. I think the site is starting to get big now. 12,000 members. That's lots. The last 2000 joined a lot faster then the first 2000. How's about a graph showing the membership growth over time, Fencer? Kind of like them charts showing the ratings of a player.

So? Mail a money order and join up. What do want from the readers of this board? Applause?
As for being a moderator, you really don't want the job. It ain't all it's cracked to be, though it does have its moments.

Thank you harley. I just went there and was able to activate vacation days for next Tuesday and Wednesday. Ah, the joys of hearings.
As I've gleaned from the discussion about the use of vacation days, if I'm able to play those days, it'll be OK to do so. Sounds like a good way of doing of to me.

Where are they located? I might have need of such a feature the next time I travel. I timed out two games awhile back because Vasailia's library wasn't open on Friday and by the time I got to Bakersfield the games had timed out.

On my computer, I removed the key itself. That eliminated all my problems with it Slamdance. Unfortunately I'm not using my computer and have to carefull around that key. I always wonder why they put next to the "a" on a keyboard. If I wanted the capitals locked, I use a more remotely placed key like say up by the function keys then right next to letters that I type a lot. Anyway, assuming it's your computer, just pry the little bugger up and dispense it with alacrity to your nearest waste recepticle and enjoy Caps Lock free typing for now on. :)

That's right, I forgot that we could send the money to some of you guys here. That'd save on postage. I guess it won't do much for the exchange rate since we have to pay in Euros, or is there a dollar amount to join the site?

Least ways that's what I do. Both times I've mailed them to the Czech Republic, they made it to Filip in less than a week. 80¢ postage gets it there from the United States. Make sure you use International Money Orders. Apparently the other kind aren't accepted at his bank without charging a fee. A large fee. The liquor store that I buy them at just charges 59¢. Right reasonable if you ask me, and it eliminates all the middlemen and snoopy credit people. I'm out $1.39 plus the envelope, but this way Fencer has the cash on hand and that seems like it works well. It does have the drawback of going through the mail, but this being a turn based site I'd think people would be used to waiting for their opponent to move. :)

In just three weeks 28 Euros has gone from $36.50 to $37.50. Something's up in the world. Anyways, the link will get you the current exchange.

This link goes to Project Xanadu. Perhaps you've typed it wrong? I wouldn't mind having the link for a money exchange service either. Fencer gave me one awhile back. I'll see if I can find it. I did. It appears that you mistyped the link, put a "u" where you meant to put an "e".

http://www.xe.com/

Which is why having it as an option instead of being forced to play that way should keep those that don't like it happy.

Ed, what you want is what almost all Backgammon players want. Autopass. I tried asking for it on the feature request board, but Fencer was dead set against it for some reason that he wouldn't reveal to the board as he'd discussed it earlier before I had started playing Backgammon. I'm not sure if you're familiar with Backgammon, but on occasion it is possible to block your opponent from having a move and there's no point in having him take his turn as he can't move until a space opens up and he might possibly roll the right number to move again. It is possible to play your pieces just right and hold the turn for six or more turns. It'd certainly speed things up if you could keep the turn with yourself. We even discussed having it as an option, so that your opponent would have to grant the autopass before it would take effect. I know when my opponent has block his home base and I have a blot on the bar, I sure like him to use autopass instead having to press the no move possible button when it's my turn. Reversi has this come up too.
Like I said though, Fencer is against it.

How's 'bout being able to have certain people's posts require approval and everyone else's be posted? I now I could've used such a feature a few days back. Though such a thing would probably be ripe for abuse in the wrong hands too. It'd still be better than banning someone and deleting their posts.

Is there something wrong with this list? Antje, had 706 moves yesterday. That is good enough for fiftyith place, but is not listed on the all time list. Antje also has a day with 1555 moves on it. Are you only allowed one listing? That doesn't make much sense. Each season's record should count individually. Babe Ruth had 60 homeruns one year. He also had a year with 59, and another year with 54. Until his record of 60 was broken in 1961, he had the top listing in the American for all three of those years. In the complete major leagues (This would be including the Natiional League) it was listed this way at the end of the 1961 season.

HR Player--------League

61 Roger Maris --American
60 Babe Ruth ----American
59 Babe Ruth ----American
56 Hack Wilson --National
54 Babe Ruth ----American

My point in this is those other years when players repeated leading the league were still good years and are listed in the record books. Shouldn't the same be the case here on BrainKing? Or maybe a second chart listing that includes the best daily listings of anyone for that day and allow them to have their name repeated if they qualify for it.

As an aside. The homerun record of Roger Maris stood for 37 more years until 1998 and has been broken a few times since by Mark McGwire, Sammy Sosa, and Barry Bonds.

Gimme Back My Bullets.

Why do that? Is it against the rules for two or more people to share an e-mail address? Yeah, I know how easy it is to create other e-mail addresses too, and I assume that's what'll happen here. Still, some people share e-mail accounts to make it easier for them. I would hope you did a little detective work first before deleting the account. Such as determining if only one person was using each, or if both accounts were activated at the same time or not. And any other clues that would indicate cheating to get extra play in.

It appears you've fixed it Fencer.

Cool, though I suppose MenisFromVenis and xabiron might wonder what happened. We haven't had anyone new join the top of the list in awhile now. Congratulations Mely. I'm looking forward to our next game.

He (Mely) has a rating. He's not listed in the Dark Chess chart. He's played nine games. He should be listed in the Provisional chart.

Yes, that's right Big Bad Wolf, I didhave a game restored. that would explain it. I'm surprised the computer doesn't change the scoring.

OK Fencer, I'll post it here then.

Is the ratings thing working correctly? I've noticed that it seems rather arbitrary with the points it gives and takes. If I'm 300 points ahead of my opponent, shouldn't he gain more than me if he wins? And lose less the me if he loses?
Also, I'm rated in Crowded Backgammon, even though I've only played 3 games. Mely is not listed on the provisional Dark Chess list even though he's played 9 games and has a rating of 2284.

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The 300 difference question comes from two game that "grenv" and I just finished.

Mely has replied to my query. He doesn't know why he's not listed. His theory is that he's won every game and ELO (I don't know what he means by ELO, but Electric Light Orchestra is probably not what he has in mind) doesn't recognize him for some reason. I replied that GothicInventor has won everygame and he's listed. So what gives?

harley, did it have any meaning or stand for something?

I've been curious about this, and am giving up guessing and am asking. I just know it's something simple and I've overlooked it.

I've seen a few that I haven't liked, but I also kind of know where you're coming from too.

I am wondering what the status of this is. They're still dark.

I switched my time zone to Alaska's and now it's on the right time. I imagine I'll be putting it on Pacific Daylight Savings Time come Sunday morning, eh?