I couldn't access it for the last 9 hours and before 5-10 min was really slow..... Now seems OK but i don't see any time suspension?!?! I guess again Czechs didn't have any problems at all to access it, so it's the internet's line fault, even if i don't understand for what general internet line Fencer speaks....For me only Brainking didn't work so i don't understand....?!?

And after the previous problems before 3-4 days i'm starting to think that something is not good despite Fencer's words that everything is fine.
Oh well, i hope this will not happen again.....

LOL! Yes perhaps i will buy another one, but i guess i won't do it, since then 90 days of vacation in half a year, would mean that i can break the world record and be written in the Guinness book. But since i don't want publicity i won't do it....

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Lucky you:-) I lost 5 games I hope Fencer will fix this.... And your vacation day of course.....

Did anyone had problems accessing the site yesterday? Actually today around midnight(for middle Europe).... To be more specific i'm speaking about 21:00, 17 July - 1:00, 18 July GMT time / 23:00, 17 July - 2:00 18 July German time.....
I couldn't access it for 3 hours....

Any news about Harley? Did she leave for vacations or anything different is happening.....? Anyone knows?

Fencer: And what you or we would gain from that....?

alanback: I think the problem was associated with the page update checker extension. I uninstalled that, and the site is now functioning properly in Mozilla.

I don't think it's this the problem. I had the same problems from time to time the last 20 hours and for only 10-80 seconds each time. With both Firefox and IE....

gogul: I didn't say anything against that! I just said that words should not be considered as harmful in any way....
Of course if some consider them as harmful, then in this spirit of brotherhood i simply retreat....

Rose: Oh, OK no problem, i just noticed that, so i've said that....
So as a general guidance i should avoid posting words considered as "bad", right?

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Personally i'm against of any try of putting limits to the freedom of speech and i consider all tries from anyone to restrict the used vocabulary to something known as more "appropriate", as hypocritical.....
How can some words make any harm?
Of course your mileage may vary and i guess it varies, as almost all people i know disagree with me.....


A tip to moderation: You removed all "bad" words except one case: Fencer's case.

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Go here: Dark Chess and if at the top of the screen there isn't an obvious option of "Export PGN to a zip file" then i guess it is for paying members only.....

Fencer 2 questions:
So are all the Gothic Chess games available to give them to me....?
Does the exported PGN of one game, for example Chess, includes the games that have been private....?

Right now i'm pushing the PC's of Brainking to their limits, asking for generation of many different game types from the starting date when the game intoduced here until today.....

I mean all games for Gothic Chess game.....

I don't know if this is old news but i just found something amazing that i just learn about its existence....
When you are on a game's description page there is an "Export PGN to a zip file" option where you can download all the games in the selected date interval of your choice!!!!

To Fencer: Is there any chance of emailing me or having available of all games of the Gothic Chess game?
Do you still have these games?

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I personally wouldn't have given a lifetime membership for the equivalent of 5 or 10 years. I would have done it for the equivalent of 25 or 30 years

And the result would be that no one would purchase it....! ♫♪♫♪♫♪♪♫

Groucho: That's about a five year membership and you get a lifetime!

So if someone wants to really support Brainking it has to stay away from these black devils....!
Since if i stay for example 7 years as a white Rook at Brainking i will pay 270 € while as a black Rook i will pay only 150 €. And it gets worse as years pass.....

Personally another and actually the decisive reason is the: "you will have a membership for a lifetime"! This brings me in front of the devastating inevitable and i hate to see so far in the future
I prefer to see only 6 months ahead even if i also hate this..... 2 days ahead is enough!

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If chickens can play tic-tac-toe and draw against humans, then i find it ridiculous if human brains complain about not being able to think things mirrored....

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And here in Greece where Backgammon is a little more inside our DNA compared to other countries we play both ways with no problems....
But clockwise or anti-clockwise? It doesn't matter. Human brain has he ability to adapt with no problems! You just have to try.....

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Haha I've managed to solve the problem with one posted message only.... I'm the best!

I removed the center HTML-entity from my post but that doesn't solve the problem.
I wonder what is wrong.... Later i will try to remove my message to see if this corrects the problem....

OK here are some HTML code that works on Brainking:

<b>BOLD</b>
<i>Italics</i>
<u>Underline</u>
<strike>Strike out</strike>

A₈₂ Makes A₈₂
20¹⁰ Makes 20¹⁰

<center> Center text</center>
[Edited to see if the center element creates the problem discussed above. That's why the text isn't at the center, because i removed the center entity.]

<li>First statement
<li>Second statement
Produces:

First statement

Second statement


<ol>
<li>First statement
<li>Second statement
<li>Third statement
Produces:

1. First statement
   
2. Second statement
   
3. Third statement
   (Not usefull since we can simply enter the numbers ourselves)
   
   
   <font size="6">Sets font size = 6</font>
   <font size="+4">Increases font size by 4</font>
   <font size="-2">Decreases font size by 2</font>
   
   
   <font color="Red">Set fond color to Red</font>
   <font color="Blue">Set fond color to Blue</font>
   <font color="#ad1af7">Set fond color to #ad12f7</font>
   After # we can set 6 hexademical digits. Each digit is 0-9 or a,b,c,d,e,f. So valid colors are for example: #f1d11a , #111af0 ,#dde229 , #111111
   
   <font color="#228b22" size="5">Set fond color to #228b22 AND set font size to 5</font>
   
   <pre>
   write text with as many spaces and with
   the format you want !!!!!!
   [Edited since pre causes some problems on the appearance of the page. So the text doesn't appear free-formatted as it should be if i actually use pre entity]
   
   <A HREF="http://www.thehungersite.com">Desided Text to appear(when clicked you would be redirected
   to thehungersite.com).</A>
   
   <A HREF="mailto: email@ofthe recipient.com">Desided Text to appear(when clicked it will open
   your default email program with the email address already entered and ready to write the email).</A>
   
   
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Yes i'm about to prove the existence of aliens!!!!
Here is the evidence:
francescolr 24. December 2005 7621 MOVES played.

7621 moves at 1 day.
If we assume 6 hours for sleeping then we have:
7621 moves at 18 hours =
423 moves per 1 hour =
7 moves per minute =
1 move every 8 seconds for 18 hours without any break!!!!
This is not human

So francescolr: Whats speeds your spacecraft reaches.....?


(OFF Topic-but since the evidence of an alien is one of the most interesting things, i hope i'm allowed to post this)

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They don't appear to me WITH or WITHOUT www.

Invalid request
banners/BKBanner2-468x60.gif

????????

Universal Eyes: Thanks for saying with other words what i quoted, LOL!

What i wanted to know is HOOOOOOOOOOW? Where do i have to go or what option i have to enable to do that?
I hope you can answer to this also but thanks anyway.....

At server new it says:
"everybody who purchases a new membership or extends the current one, can create a prize tournament with the same membership as the prize for a winner for free."

How this can be done....?

harley: "Nothing can be perfect, but it can become better...."

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"Your actions lead me to believe that this discussion board stuff is just a sideline. The thing is, it has become one of the defining features of your site."

I was ready to comment about these exact 2 things, but you did it first. And you said what i really wanted to say! You have saved me from some typing. Nice, thanks.....:-)

I second all your other statements also.....!

Fencer: Correct for the first part!
But the: "There are more important things to do and always will be." should not mean in any way that because there are other things to do, we should not correct some others.....

Walter Montego: Oh, you are going too far, i wasn't thinking actually of a change to the whole system but only of the philosophy of it.
But if we talk about changing the whole system then yes i agree with you. Freedom of speech without ANY restriction is what i prefer too!

Also a correction on the "I disagree with you. This is the system we have now." This is not what we have now, since now every moderator obeys to his own charter.


So suppose we allow 2 options: The sensitive one-> "with moderators" and the other that allows complete freedom of voice.
Well this is a bit odd since it would split the people into 2 categories. That's not the best but it's doable and worth looking at it as an option.....Actually this is the best option i can think of....

One easy way to create that system is:
Keep the current system as it is with an extra option available to choose from. That is to see the posts removed. As an option. So when a moderator deletes a post, the post would not actually been deleted but only stay hidden from people that haven't enabled that option. Others that have it enabled, can see every post and these that have been "deleted/hidden".

Walter Montego:.
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Agreeeeeeeeed!

The current system with the moderators:
-delete anything THEY think should not be posted or
-do anything THEY think is right, is not good at all....

The way the moderators should act is to have a charter and force the posters to follow it.
Anything that doesn't violate the charter should be allowed even if the moderator disagrees with that!
The charter of course SHOULD be crystal clear, without the slightest possibility to generate any different convenient interpretations, by the moderators in order to do again what THEY think right.

For example the charter could be like this:

The moderators should force the members to make posts that:

Are, within reason, on the topic of the discussion board.

Are not abusive in nature.

Do not contain personal or libelous attacks on others.

Are not of questionable legal status.

Are not obvious trolling.
Other of course can be added.
The moderators should force the posters to follow these and only these rules, without creating any new personal criteria.

One thing remains unclear:
Tuesday said some of her posts have been deleted while the moderators agreed that her posts have been OK with nothing wrong at them.
There is a contradiction right?

If i am a moderator and don't find anything bad at a post but delete it, then if i didn't delete it by mistake, i'm a moron and have to be replaced with someone better.....!

Tuesday: Is he a moderator or even a global one? And if not, how he can affect so much the moderators in order to delete your posts.....?

Also i don't agree with this secrecy of you. Although it shows your decency and good manners, you should say who is this person....

Yes in these moments there isn't anything to say.....
Let's hope they will get over it....

diogenes: In my opinion madPhilip's behaviour is NOT getting worse every day and it stays the same.... I haven't noticed anything you say about his behaviour. But that's only me.....

Fencer: Yes of course, whoever wants not to participate in a specific tournament or something, has the right and the option not to participate on it!
But i think that doesn't mean we can't suggest better(in our opinion) ways of handling some situations right?

Mary Jo:
When a game has:
Time for game : Time: 1 day, Bonus: 3 hours, Limit: 10 days, no days off

Then it means that:
You have 1 day = 24hours to play the whole game and not the move.
That means: if your opponent plays a move and then 2 hours later you play your response, you will then have 24-2 = 22 hours to play the game.
If your opponent makes another move later and you play after 8 hours(from his response), then you will have 22-8 = 14 hours left to play the whole game.

But that with bonus = 0. With bonus = 3 hours like here, after your move you will have 3 hours added to your time left for the whole game....

Limit = 10 days, just declares that if you play many moves quickly and the bonus is not 0, so your time for the whole game increases, this value can't go above 10 days....

The same exists for your opponent of course.

harley: I didn't start it but i continue it.....
Sorry Harley

Stevie: It was just the Reversi games! If you have another case or even sign or even any other small evidence then just give it or stop throwing things in the air....! But i don't care anyway if you accuse me or not because i know the truth and i only care about non-weakies statements....

Stevie: No, i used my program at Reversi 8x8 because i was beta testing it.....You can't just understand/believe it right?

After the game you said: Do you use Zebra?
I replied: No i use my own written program that is trying to solve the game with 28, bla,bla,bla....
Do you think that, i would tell you that if i wanted to cheat? Also i proposed you and Fencer to delete my game against you and actually against all my other opponents.....
Once again my honesty(by telling you the truth) had the opposite result as i expected.....

Stevie: Yes it would be interesting if the dark people tell us how did they come up with being dark..... Did Fencer proposed that or it was them....? And how they knew it.....?
Too many questions.....

Pedro Martínez: Are you sure.....? And where did you see that......?

Fencer: LOL! But madPhilip you didn't answer how do they have Brainking Rook "forever"....?

ScarletRose Mainly, but also to have on your profile a reminder that you are immortal and then realise that this is not true then....

So how the forever occured.....? Fencer? Please hurry up since my curiousity is eating my body....
Also "forever" is not the most appropriate word for various reasons.....

alanback: I was thinking the same......
This system is like:

You completed a purchase of 6 months membership and won another 3 months!

Or......:

You completed a purchase of 6 months membership
and DIDN'T WIN any bonus you sucker.....

I have 3 questions. If you are too lazy to answer all 3 then the first is of the most importance for me!


1)What would happen if someone with Rook membership, buy a 6-months Rook membership at 14 February while it still has 5 more months of Rook membership:

A)He would have, starting from 14 February, 6-months of Rook membership....

B)He would have, starting from 14 February, 11-months of Rook membership.....

A) or B) is valid?

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2)What would happen if someone with Rook membership, buy a 6-months Knight membership at 14 February while it still has 5 more months of Rook membership:

A)He would have, starting from 14 February, 6-months of Knight membership....

B)He would have, starting from 14 February, 5-months of rook membership and then 6 motnhs of Knight membership....

C)Something else.....

Is A) or B) or C) valid?

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3)What would happen if someone with Rook membership, buy a 6-months Maharajah membership at 14 February while it still has 5 more months of Rook membership:

A)He would have, starting from 14 February, 6-months of Maharajah membership....

B)He would have, starting from 14 February, 5-months of Rook membership and then 6 months of Maharajah membeship....

C)Something else.....

A) or B) or C) is valid?
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But Fencer you didn't answer my questions and as a most curious person i'm looking forward.....

To save you of the reading of my somewhat difficult to read posts here are the points:

1)Should in the:......
"a two year membership payment makes a good change to get the whole year for free"?
.......the word "change" should have replaced with "chance"?


2)There is not any 2 year membership available for buying! Only a ½ year or 1 year!
Do you mean buying 2 one year memberships at the same time......?

pauloaguia: Yep and this is true.....While it is also true that exactly 6 months is 50%.

Now i'm not confused and here is how it is:


Probability of getting nothing for free = 25%
Probability of getting EXACTLY 6 months for free = 50%
Probability of getting 1 year for free = 25%


Probability of getting nothing for free = 25%
Probability of getting AT LEAST 6 months for free = 50%
Probability of getting 1 year for free = 25%

I was refering to AT LEAST while you at EXACTLY 6 months....

Actually you might be right and i'm a bit confused right now....