1) Vikings interview has been released a while ago. You can find it at the Interviews page.
2) A new system of interviews has been implemented at the same time, so it's no longer necessary to send the questions to pauloaguia. Simply go to the Interviews page, click the interview which is marked "open" and post your question(s).

More information will be posted soon (most likely at the blog site).

MadMonkey:

pauloaguia: Have you had any yet

Christmas is coming and so is MadMonkey's interview.
If you're going on vacations or you'll be busy buying last minute Christmas presents, don't forget to send your questions for the interview as soon as possible.

On a related note, as an official BK translator I've noticed some interview related messages being added to the site, so I'm guessing the whole process will become simpler and faster soon...

In the meantime, don't forget MadMonkey's Christmas present and send me all the questions you want to ask him on his interview

rod03801: Thanks, I did not want to bother him with my minor question if someone else had the answer

tinksbell: Well, you could send Fencer a private message about it. I think you could either ask him to switch it so that you go through your rook membership first, then have the rest of your Knight kick in at the end of it. OR, he might convert the Knight membership time down to how long it would be if it were a rook membership.

I'm pretty sure he would do one of the two, for you.

Not sure if this is the right place to put this. I managed to get in on the red code last night for rook membership. YEAH! especially since my current job allows me about 30 out of 40 hours to play
:)

Anyway, I also have a knight membership, is there anyway for the knight to "turn into" a rook? Right now the knight is the membership level in use for another year or so...
Thanks!

CODE RED CODE RED!!

Whats up witht the poker add on the tournaments page????

When I was a young Naval Officer in the early days of the last century I was in San Diego at the Hotel Cortez where Tinsley the checkers Grand Master put on an amazing display playing 500 games at the same time with oponnents seated in a circle around tables at an auditorium. I thought this man was the eigth wonder of the world (he was) and anyone who got a King against him was awarded a candy bar..big deal back then. Well I got a candy bar to go with my ass whipping. Now years later I can do the same thing with the slight differance that while Tinsley won ALL his games I win about half if I'm lucky. LOL

coan.net: #6 place yourself on retire in your stairs, that way new games won't pop up from other players that challange you that you have to accept

Kunoichi: Yea, I did that - I had close and sometimes over 1,000 games at one time - WAY too many (for myself). I have finally got the total closer to 300 - with my goal of under 200 getting closer and closer.

Tip 1: Stop signing up for tournaments - I see a whole list of them in your profile HERE - go and remove yourself from them.

Tip 2: If there are certain games you don't like more then others - just resign those. I figured out there is no point in playing games you don't like - this is a game site, and you should only play games you enjoy playing.

Tip 3: If you see yourself about to lose in a few moves, resign early - no point in making a few pointless moves - get those games off your game sheet right away.

Tip 4: Remove yourself from Fellowship teams in which you don't want to be signed up for games. I'm mostly only in my own fellowship teams - mostly since I know I will not sign myself up for more games which I don't need. If I do join another fellowship for a site team tournament, I try to make it clear to the captain I don't want to play in fellowship vs. fellowship matches, and I remove myself from the team as soon as the site team tournament starts.

I did the above 4, and that is how I've gotten my games down - even though I still sign up for (1) prize tournaments, (2) site team tournaments, and a few (3) Frog finder tournaments since I do really enjoy that game. But if you do the above 4, you should get your game count down pretty quickly to a more easy manageable level.


Tip 5: Make sure you choose games with a good enough time limit & allows for vacations. You should never feel like you HAVE to play a game - sometimes it is nice to just stay away for a day without having to worry about the games.

** edited to add tip 5 & and other minor correction

Kunoichi: It's been asked many times that paying members could set a limit for their number of games... Fencer has shown interest in the idea but hasn't implemented it yet (I'm sure it's on his TODO list somewhere)

Kunoichi: we all made that mistake when we became rooks ... just like dog who manage open the closet which holds their food .. the first time they will gulp everything inside and be sick for a couple of days :)

i also know that i join too many new games and tournaments when i come back from a vacation .. i am bad at self control sometimes :)

there is no other option than playing them, letting them time out, resigning them, or arranging a draw with your opponents :)

ugh... I think I made a mistake... before I made the BrainRook payment it was really fun playing, even though it was only 20 or less games... but then as soon as I could I joined as many games as possible and instead of being more fun, I found that it actually became a chore being in far too many games... I don't blame this on BrainKing or anyone running BrainKing, I just made this mistake on my own, as apparently too much of a formerly good thing can make it start to be not feel so good anymore...

I wish there was a better option than just letting my games timeout though, but I really don't feel like playing anymore...

Puckish: yes I have it the same ... it happens when you have some pond that has less than one hour till deadline ... I guess it is because of some bracket or apostrophe missing in the code ...
I considered it such a dribblet that I did not write about it ... (people who play their ponds early do never see this )

Notice the top left corner under games, where it has "waiting games"...

http://img2.freeimagehosting.net/uploads/06628ceab8.jpg

hoky: please post messages about tournaments on the tournament board ... there it will be read by anyone who is looking for a tournament :)

Succession nation after 10 finished tournament in championship world brainkingu 2007:

1. Uganda 1 - 2 - 0
2. Poland 1 - 1 - 1
3. Czech Republic 1 - 1 - 0
4. Serbia 1 - 0 - 1
5. - 12. Dominika, Turkey, Bavorsko (GER), Lotish, South Korea, Rusko, Argentina and Sweden 1 - 0 - 0
13. Slovakia 0 - 2 - 4
14. - 16. Germany, USA and Guatemala 0 - 1 - 0
17. - 19. Belgium, Wales and Portugalsko 0 - 0 - 1

hoky:
Google Translation?

hoky:  Huh?

How with get on championship world BKR 2008?

- take-off is scheduling among 10. - 15. January 2008

1.) Be fee-paying full member and be laid games best from its country in ladders

2.) Defender title from last form

3.) Pawn only the, which win qualification on championship world

- for pawn will along of the year 2008 done 4 qualification from with qualifies only winner
- qualification will always on January, April, July and in October

alanback: I aggree with you there
But it would still be nice to be able to check what the malfunction was

pauloaguia:  If I had to guess whether it was the server or your memory that malfunctioned, I know which one I would pick ;-)

How can I see on the invitations I created (normal games) if they were set for members of a particular fellowship or for everyone in general? Or even for some BKR range, for that matter...
One of my invitations was accepted by a pawn (that is not a member of a fellowship, I checked) and I was almost certain I had created that particular game for members of a fellowship. Thing is I don't know how to check the settings I had made (I still have another invitation pending that was made at the same time but can't see anything in there). This way I can't be sure if it's a bug or not.

Does anybody know how to check the parameters of an invitation we created?

Fencer:  

Animal: I'll remind you after 10 years.

Puckish: A little less than code red.

MadMonkey: ok, thanks

dicepro: Always willing to help

Very boring at work lol

Hi to everybody, I am the author of Cheversi and would like to ask you to help me to test the new rules. All of you who tried Cheversi know, that this game wasn't nicely balanced . So, this is my attempt to correct this obvious weakness of the game. Please accept ONLY if you would like to follow the new rules and help me testing this game. The games posted in waiting room are unrated and not counted.
Here are the rules:
Pieces can be put on the board ONLY when they touch any other piece(s) previously put on the board, regardless of their color ... pieces can be touched vertically, horizontally or diagonally ... so there will be an unbroken body or chain of mixed pieces of both players ...
Please help me to try this new version of Cheversi rules...
Thanks in advance,
Andy.

Hey Fencer, how many code green memberships sold so far?

Fencer:    I'll have to work ten extra years to cover it.  ;)

Fencer:  If only the dollar weren't so weak ...

Fencer: No 'buy me now' price like on ebay?

Fencer: Is that for a mini me membership, or is that for a Fencer is on permanent vacation membership?

puupia: That is correct. Every January 1, your vacation days are reset to the max. So you could have fun and set the rest of December as vacation days since they will be reset to 35. (and of course you can still be here and play your games)

And as noted, vacation days do not work with Fischer clock game, or fixed weekend only games (games with red dot next to time).

MadMonkey: now there is a possibility......how about pin the tail on the donkey....

Bernice: Maybe if we had a new game or 2 just for Xmas , we will let him off

MadMonkey: as I said....you can hear hands being rubbed together ROFL........

Fencer 1,000,000

pauloaguia: Ok. Letting your opponents know about not playing seems like a good idea. I'll put some vacation in my calendar.

I thought my vacation days would not be reset to maximum when the year changes. There no reason to save the vacation then if they do reset..

alanback: The bidding starts at 1 million Euro.

puupia: if you set vacation days, when your opponents play the game will immediatelly assume those days and include them in the time left (assuming it's not a Fischer clock game or without vacations).
Also your opponents will be able to see on your profile that you're on vacations and for how long instead of expecting you to move every day.
On certain occasions you can even "waste" less vacation days if you set them than if you let autovacations kick in (not that it matters much - we're at the end of the year and you still have 35 days!)

I'll be out of town for a few days starting thursday. Most likely i won't be able to make any moves then.

I have automatic vacation on. Is there any reason to set vacation days to my calendar also?

Looking at my BKR graph, I realized I've been playing here continuously for over 4 years now.  (I started earlier, but took a break for about 6 months).  Gosh, it doesn't seem that long.  It's been fun!

Fencer:  There should be open bidding.  But if I'm going to bid, I want exclusivity and book rights ;-)

Fencer: If every registered member gave you a dollar, would you make Animal the little boss of us? (exchanged in Euros, of course!)

Animal: money, money money....I can here hands being rubbed together ROFLMBO