the sames happening to me , it takes a few attemps

Thanks Fencer, that will be GREAT!!!!

For Big Bad WOlf or anyone else interested, this is Mastermind if you've never played it.
In a 2-player version, you would pick your own color pattern for your opponent to try to unlock.

http://kongtechnology.com/index.asp?im=mastermind

Excellent site but the only change i would like to see is on the message box where you can click on the number in red and it will take you to the first message then the option to go straight to next message without closing it then going back in

About default action and other features related to Settings - yes, there is a small bug. Will be fixed :-)

Just wondering if you coudl put the ocuntry name that corresponds ot people's flags in the alt text of the img tag. I'm always curious about people's flags and sometimes they dont' speak enough English or ignore the question. ;-) Thanks.

The following way to have a game not count towards ratings does not work properly, Both players did not perform at least two moves. It can happen when one player loses the game by a timeout at the very beginning. The games are still be counted for ratings.

Here are the game numbers to back it up. In Line4 after 4 games I got a rating Game in Question: 1800 if the system was working properly it should've taken 5. Yet in Linetris I've completed 4 games and am still unrated, Game ID: 1802 so this one worked properly.

You only need 4 games to have a provisional rating. You are still unrated in Linetris because your lost game was timed-out with less than 4 moves total, so it was not counted towards your rating. Similar in your line4 match.

The problem of it not letting me place my last piece (queen) has happen to me now! (game #128604)

How did you others get around it - did you just skip it and it fixed itself later?

But how come I recieved a provisional Line4 rating after only 4 games?

If you have one of the short games that don't count for ratings, don't you need 5?

I never heard about tournament games counting regardless, but i guess it could be.

Yes, a "rated" game will not be rated if it is deleted, timed-out, etc after less than 2 moves from each player (4 moves total). This also allows players to delete a game they didn't want to play without being penalized. (For example, if someone accepted their Open Invitation whom they didn't want to play).

I have just noticed that in the Monkeys Swinging Madhouse Screen Chess tournament , that 6 people signed up for the tournament, and it created 2 sections of 3 people each.

The problem is that the "maximum number of players per section" is set to 8. I would have thought 1 section with 6 people would have been created for this tournament, or am I just missing something???

No, that's a bug. It was supposed to create one section for all six players. I will fix it ASAP.

The same has happened at HOME fellowship (3 in one section, 4 in the other) and I hadn't even noticed!
What will happen when the bug is fixed Fencer? Will the two sections merge together and we will get new games?

My guess is he will just fix it for new tournament from this point on (and not change any of the current tournaments)

I'm not sure if I should cancel all already started games. But maybe I am wrong, what do you think? Should the affected tournaments be recreated after the bug is fixed?

I don't think it's a big deal with how the tournaments are now - the winners will just have to play an extra "section" - which to me is not a big deal.

Well our tournament only started yesterday so we'd be ok with that, but some started a while ago and might not be happy having to start again.

Oops, I deleted my message by mistake! I was replying to BBW's message, saying I dont think anyone would be bothered about playing an extra section, and maybe the tournaments running now should be left as they are, and the new ones can start with the bug removed.

Ok, I was wondering about the rated games under 4 moves total that don't count towards ratings. I have two of these Game ID: 1800, 1802 In one I timed out before moving, in the other it was a 2 game match, he moved I timed out, then I timed out the other so that's only 3 moves. So both shouldn't have counted for ratings. However, one (1800) did because I recieved a 4iar rating after 4 games but it should've been 5 if the game was properly not counted. Yet in Linetris (1802) I completed 4 games and was still unrated, meaning the system worked there and did not count 1802 for ratings.

I'm not sure then, if it did that. It shouldn't have counted the match for your rating. It might have something to do with that it was a 2-game match. You might be best to ask Fencer about it. :-)

Yeah, that's what I was thinking, Thank you.

works fine, Fencer ... loads into chessbase without problems ...

thanks :) ... ~*~

I loaded the files with WinBoard and filemate, both work fine.
I really appreciate the effort, I use the PGN feature quite a bit.

Una

Yes it's a great addition to BK. Does anyone know how to combine a group of pgn files?

There are a couple ways, you can use NotePad to merge PGN files.
Just load the first file in, then open the others, cut and paste back to the original.

I use WinBoard and FileMate, both will allow you to merge PGN files. I like FileMate the best, seems to be the most versitle.

Una

My web site has some very good examples on how to use PGN files.
There are examples of both single and several files merged together.

http://uncantawy.topcities.com/

Since we have the PGN option, I will be adding a BrainKing link in my site. It will hold tournaments and games I and others with the 65thsquare club play
Nodakindy has a great site also, check it out.
http://nodakindy.bravepages.com/

Would it be possible to add an Ignore/mute-function. Some messageboards are too annoying so if we could click "Ignore" or "Mute" on the names we dont want to read messages from would be VERY NICE.

If you don't want to read messages from some boards, simply don't click on their names. Or do I miss something? What should be the real effect of the Ignore function?

I think he means like we could block certain players' posts from the dbs, so they will not show up.

I have read a few requests that say they want the enemies list to include blocking db posts.

Kevin

If i see on my favourite list that there are new messages i click there then i dont want 90% of the messages to be childish crap ...understand now?...so as Kevin said, couldnt this "ignoring" be included in the "enemy" function??

Sure. But it would mean another CPU load for our processors. I would like to postpone all such features after our hardware is upgraded.

Ok..suppose that means "not possible"

that means possible but please be patient, Fencer, that would be appreciated, and we can be patient for now and ignore the childness, thanks.

patience was the word :)

Fencer: Now that you mentioned it, could you tell us how close we are to the hardware upgrade? :-)

I would like to see a feature in your profile next to each game saying what your opponent's average rating is now or when the game was finished.

thanks fencer for adding the (move and goto the next game of the same type )link , one of the best links so far ;~)

Hi Fencer, the pgn-Format in regular chessgames works correctly and I can play these games for instance with the windboard freeware utility.Naturally we can not play with this utility games on a 10x8 board (only standard chess). Perhaps there is a computerfreak who can produces a pgn-player for 10x8 boards? Best would be with the Gothic and Janus pieces.

Yes, nice addition to the system. Most welcome. I talked to Nodakindy, he said he had mentioned the format was missing some of the standard tags. It is not a big deal, they can be edited in but thanks for adding them when you get it done.
Una

I think that I've already added them. Please check it.

Now that we'll have played each other a fair number of times, I'd like to see the results against an opponent displayed alongside a current game. So if I am playing Atomic Chess v Whisperz, I'd like to see how I've done against him, gruesome though it is.

Currently you can see this statistics at the opponent's profile after clicking on "show games with this player only". But you are right that it would be nice to see it in games as well. I will add it to the list.

Seems to be fine, here is one of my games:
[Event "Casual Game"]
[Site "BrainKing.com (Prague, Czech Republic)"]
[Date "2003.03.19"]
[Round "?"]
[White "rip55"]
[Black "unacanta"]
[Result "*"]

1. e4 c5 2. c3 e6 3. d4 cxd4 4. cxd4 d5 5. e5 Nd7 6. f4 Ne7 7. Nf3 Qb6 8.
Ng5 h6 9. Nh3 Nf5 10. g4 Nxd4 11. Na3 Bxa3 12. bxa3 Nc6 13. g5 hxg5 14. Be2
Rxh3 15. fxg5 Ndxe5 16. Bf4 Qa5+ 17. Bd2 Qxa3 18. Qb1 b6 19. Bb5 Bb7 20.
Bf1 Nd3+ 21. Bxd3 Rxd3 22. h4 O-O-O 23. Rh2 Ne5 24. Bc1 Qa4 25. Rf2 Qxh4
26. Qc2+ Kb8 27. Bf4 Ka8 28. Bxe5 Re3+ 29. Kd1 Qg4+ 30. Kd2 Rxe5 31. Rxf7
Re2+ 32. Kc3 Rxc2+ 33. Kxc2 Qxg5 34. Rff1 a5 35. Rab1 Rc8+ 36. Kd3 Ba6+ 37.
Kd4 Bxf1 38. Rxf1 Qg4+ 39. Ke5 Qe2+ 40. Kd6 Qxf1 41. Kxe6 Qf6+ 42. Kxd5
Qc6+
*

Here is one from GameKnot:
[Event "League division D2"]
[Site "http://gameknot.com/chess.pl?bd=881982"]
[Date "2003.06.28"]
[White "unacanta"]
[Black "ydebilloez"]
[Result "*"]
[WhiteElo "1371"]
[BlackElo "1737"]
[TimeControl "1/259200"]
[Mode "ICS"]
[Termination "unterminated"]

1. e4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 dxe4 4. Nxe4 Bf5 5. Ng3 Bg6
6. h4 h6 7. h5 Bh7 8. Nf3 *

One from IYT
[Event "Casual Game"]
[Site "http://www.itsyourturn.com"]
[Date "2003.06.02"]
[Round "*"]
[White "unacanta"]
[Black "ryden_97"]
[Result "*"]
[Ply "25"]

1. e4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. Nd2 dxe4 4. Nxe4 Bf5 5. Ng3 Bg6
6. h4 h6 7. Nf3 Nd7 8. h5 Bh7 9. Bd3 Bxd3 10. Qxd3
Ngf6 11. Bf4 e6 12. O-O-O Be7 13. Kb1 *

I think you have everything necessary. The system is adding the event and site name which is helpful. Thanks, looks good to me.

Here is the Internet Chess Club. You have everything of importance IMO but it might be nice to add ratings. Other than that looks great.

[Event "ICC 60 15"]
[Site "Internet Chess Club"]
[Date "2003.05.24"]
[Round "-"]
[White "ArtfulDodger"]
[Black "Vandebedian"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ICCResult "Game drawn by mutual agreement"]
[WhiteElo "1732"]
[BlackElo "1603"]
[Opening "Queen's bishop game"]
[ECO "D02"]
[NIC "QP.08"]
[Time "12:05:31"]
[TimeControl "3600+15"]

Why not, I can add them but I'm not sure if ELO is calculated in the same way as BKR [approximated rating formula of US Chess Federation].

In the user's profile, you can see their Wins, Draws, Losses, and BKR.

Is it possible to add the rating positions along with them? I find them to be very interesting.

For example my 2055 rating in Backgammon Race is 1st, but the same 2055 rating in Five in Line would end me up in 39th place!

[WhiteBKR "1732"]
[BlackBKR "1603"]

It will list the BKR at the time of the game. Saves looking it up if you're checking out other people's games :)