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

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

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

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

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

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

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 :)

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

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 :)

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

Maxxina: Be long and gone by then

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

Maxxina: I'll get tired

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

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

How high do the stairs go? is there a lift

playBunny: Thanks

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

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

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.

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

Thanks all for your info

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.