Clay: Using a REAL good backgammon program can help a lot, especially not so experienced players. Like they will tell you what's the best move when you roll 64 as your opening roll...

How 'bout White Queen? *runs for shelter*

baddessi: That's correct, Barb...:)
BTW, what are you planning uprgrading to? Golden Rook or Maharajah??? :)

Andersp: In Czech, a "masking mode" is used...

Andersp: that's how cloaca smells in the Czech Rep. also...LOL

Even I would punish you!!!

Luke Skywalker:

Luke Skywalker: can't see it, Luke...:)
ESTANTO: THX for the explanation...:)

What flag is going to be used for the esperanto version?

Trice: I recommend you to focus on promoting BrainKing.com site then. In my opinion, the mere fact that Fencer is allowing the Gothic Chess being played here is more than enough of this game's promotion. I don't think there's a need of you advetising your "free site" (together with not so free program) in addition to that, "outweighing" the great promotion of BrainKing.com that is being done by you. Why would you want to execute the Fencer's part of your "informal agreement" (). You promote BrainKing.com, he promotes Gothic Chess. Don't swap positions, definitely not on the 10x8 board. Until I receive a confirmation from Fencer that there is an agreement between him and you that obliges him to let you advertise the GothicChessLive.com website at this site, you'll remain banned.

Because I didn't think your post had been appropriate.

You're welcome.

Summertop: 15373 users, 746 of them are one-eyed, that makes exactly 30000 eyes...

I would like to let everybody know that I am putting everyone who uses the cloak mode on my enemies list. If you don't want me to see what you're doing, you won't see me at all.

Luke Skywalker: Yes, but isn't it weird that it always says the same thing???
*viewing online players*

Hannelore: rankings do not change immediately after the BKR change...you've got to wait for a while until the system processes it...

Hannelore: check it now...

Bry: It's common in the Czech Republic that English versions of Czech sites are represented by the Union Jack.

I actually don't understand why was my post removed. Trice deserved much worse name to be called for the post that preceded the mine.

And Trice, when are you gonna shoot? With all that ammunition you needed you said I had given you?

wayney: The date is correct. Kevin ran this competition last year.

It works this way:
There are 2 situations that may occur:

1) You set your vacation days BEFORE your opponent made her/his move in a particular game. After your opponent makes her/his move, the remaining time will include the vacation days you set before. E.g . if it's a 1-day-per-move game and you set Tuesday and Wednesday as your vacation days (let's presume your opponent made her/his move on Monday at 10:00) plus your weekend days are Thursday and Friday, the time of your time-out will be set at Saturday 10:00.

2) The problem is when you set your vacation days when it's your turn, i.e. AFTER your opponent made her/his move. The system will not automatically calculate these vacation days into the remaining time so the game still shows Tuesday 10:00 as the time-out time. What happens on Tuesday at 10:00? The system first checks whether you have this date among your vacation days or weekend days. If not, it checks for the auto-vac. In all three cases, you get 24 hours added on.

If you set e.g. today as a vacation day, a game that should expire at 23:55 will get 24 hours added on. But you will time out in a game that should expire at 0:05 tomorrow (after the midnight). That's how it works.

Chessmaster1000: Right

BerniceC: Of course you can send a message to yourself. See that little envelope next to your ID below? Click on it and there you go!!!

Chessmaster1000: To answer your first question:

a) if the game had been a draw, you would've lost 73 points.
b) if you had lost the game, you would've lost 117 points.

Besides, according to the formula, you should have lost the amazing number of 28 points, even though you won.

As far as I know, this is the formula BK uses for its ratings:

>http://math.bu.edu/people/mg/ratings/approx/approx.html


It looks quite exact to me. Can you guys please enlighten me as for how it is unclear?

Since I started to use Firefox, I haven't had any of these problems. Ever.

sLaMdAnCe: Still waiting for your response.

sLaMdAnCe: "Comin from a Czech, playin a Dominican in a Boston cap."

Would you please explain the meaning of this your sentence to me? Can't see any point anywhere. Thanks in advance.

Czuch Chuckers: He said "we all payed money". Since I know it's not true, I suggested to alter his post a bit...*shrugs*

sLaMdAnCe: Don't you think it would be more appropriate to say "Since some of us payed money to be here..."?

"Pouze pro členy společenstva". 8^D

Chuck: Yes, that's exactly the way it is. If I don't speak English and put only a Czech title in the Czech box and leave the English empty, everybody, no matter whether using English or Czech version of BK, will see what's written in the Czech box. And vice versa. If I fill in both boxes, users using English BK version will see what's in the English box and people using Czech version will see what's written in the Czech box.

It had been going unbelievably slow for me too...started using firefox and it's been loading pretty fast since.

BBW:

http://www.translator.cz

IMuP: because you write quicker than think and read.

OK, sorry, I didn't know about that...

OK, but you still don't have any flag set...

Rooster, why did you ask about the flag?

Swampthing - your Australian English reminds me of something Portuguese...what is it?

bwildman - seems so...lol

Why would I discuss it with Fencer? There is nothing to discuss!!! If you don't like how often "certain players" play, don't play them any more. Quite easy, don't you think? Why the heck would I bother Fencer with MY problems? Or you think he's gonna go and tell the "certain players" "You have to move in the games with THE HIT MAN now"??? Ridiculous...

And what "unfare" happened to you? I don't see anything.

HitMan: Is what you're saying that people should play who you want and when you want instead of who and when they want?

This El Putanthon aka Paulo Gomes aka Stevie2 aka Rascon aka Ricardo Oliveira aka whatever is already getting on my nerves. I'm sorry some of you think it was "very inappropriate" to post what I got from him on here, I don't feel it that way but that's because of our cultural and linguistic differences. I accept it and try not to do it again...hope you're not mad at me...

I have just received this PM from El Putanhon (what a funny nickname, BTW):

Hi [edited]!!!
I want give you a [edited]!

357 is not enough. You would lose at least one point if sprayman's rating was below 1800 or so.

BuilderQ: What is "hundreds"?

Here you can find the formula according to which the BKRs are counted:

http://math.bu.edu/people/mg/ratings/approx/approx.html

mrloupcity: How abou buying new mouse? ;-)

I agree with that, my friend. And I'm sure so does Filip.