Biggus Baddus: Hopefully not even then. It's nice to have a few emopty steps underneath and take a breather. I'd only want a compression if an unassailable gap opened up.

playBunny: Anyway, I must implement it first.

Fencer: lol. Phew!

657: The retired date does not run out. You must finish it yourself and then you reappear on your current position.

If your opponent offers a draw in the first game of a 2-game match and you agree, is the match a draw or just the first game?

Pioneer54: I think its just a draw for that game, but dont quote me on it.

Pioneer54: Yup, Princess Alison is correct - it is just for the 1 game - not the whole match.

BIG BAD WOLF: Thank you! That's a handy bit of information there.

Could someone explain why games come back to me from these stairs with not much time left on them,while they go back to opponent with lots of time on them.I am starting to loose games because of this,because of timing out

THE HIT MAN: There is a time limit on the Fast Fishers stairs 2 days i think, but that would be the same fopr your opponent

THE HIT MAN: It's all dependant on the timing. Each of you has a separate clock with your individual times. If your opponent moves 5 minutes after you do then he'll lose 5 minutes from his clock. If you take an hour to get back then you lose an hour. Hey presto he's got a 55 minute advantage.

If he makes a move just before you go offline for the night then that's a several hours advantage.

It's a good strategy to give priority to your Fischer's games and play as often as possible, even popping in for a minute at several points during the day just to check those matches. If you can arrange to get up several times during the night as well.... LOL.

You've got 500+ matches going at the moment. You might want to add your voice to the feature request that Fischer's matches be sortable to the top of the games list.

THE HIT MAN: The Fishers stairs use the Fisher clock

3/0.3/7

It means you start out with 3 days for your move.

Lets say you use 1 day to move (down to 2 days)

-- opponenet moves, back to you --

The .3 means 3 hours are added each time, so now you have 2 days, 3 hours to move.

Opps - you let it get down to 1 hours before you move (1 hour left)

-- oppenent moves --

3 hours are added, leaving you 4 hours total to move.

(The 7 is the max number of days you can get your total moves to. So if you move within 3 hours each time, you will start to increase time)

Sorry Hitman i gave u wrong information, i never realsied what Play bunny had said, never noticed the time thingy, its probably because my games are over that quick.

Thanks all for your info

If I am top of the Stairs is there any point in playing somebody below

wellywales: Keep playing and winning and you'll open up a gap. If the gap gets to three Steps you won't have anyone left to challenge, nor will anyone be able to challenge you until they've climbed up. This can be good or bad, lol. I view it as a breathing space.

playBunny:If I play a person below me and win do I go up or stay where I am

wellywales: You always climb with a win. This is what'll happen. http://brainking.com/en/Stairs?tri=226

playBunny: Thanks

How high do the stairs go? is there a lift

wellywales: As high as a pile of bodies can get in the crush and trampling to establish who's king of the hill.

Wellywales - How high ? stair 1 milion is heaven :D

Maxxina: I'll get tired

welly - yeaa , its a long way. But that feel when you touch that stair

Maxxina: Be long and gone by then

:] why are people climbing mountains like everest or K2 ? For that short moment when they can say . I MADE IT , YEAA :]

Fencer: you posted this link some time ago .. but when i click on it i see myself in a lot of stairs where i am not .. and often quite high as well :)

Hrqls: This link is wrong, it shows my own stairs. Go to the Stairs page and click on "show only my stairs" link.

Fencer: lol .. ok i thought something like that .. i hadnt checked it yet though (as i was still reading this board :))

nice stair levels! i wish it was my page :)

What will happened when retirement is over, will I be visisble to other players? How long I can stay after retirement is over?

I am going on vacation... how does the retirement work? What about games already started?

okay, just read the rules... i think I got it!

crosseyed: Read carefully the line which starts with "Time for game". Last move time is not important.

crosseyed: If you click on the question mark, you will see a long and detailed description.
http://brainking.com/cz/FAQ?ht=24

crosseyed:

Time: 3 days
Bonus: 3 hours
Limit: 7 days

So in the start of the game, you start out with 72 hours (3 days) to make your move.

Lets say you use 24 hours - so now you are down to 48 hours.

Opponent makes move

The games comes back to you with the 48 hours left PLUS the bonus of 3 hours - giving you 51 hours for your next move.

Lets say you took 50 hours to make your move. Now you are down to 1 hour

Opponent moves

The games comes back to you with the 1 hours left PLUS the bonus of 3 hours - giving you 4 hours for your next move.

If you do not make a move within 4 hours of when your opponent does, then you time out.

This is how the Fishers clock works.

(The Limit: That is the MAX amount of time you can get. So lets say you make all your moves UNDER 3 hours of when your opponent does, then you would actually start gaining time on the clock - up to a max of 7 days.)

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

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

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

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!

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

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

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

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.

Doesnt pissed mean drunk?

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.

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.

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

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.