Bernice: it appears you already have automatic vacation on, were they fischer clock games?

Bernice: http://brainking.com/en/Settings?p=1 there you can turn on automatic vacation.

Do I have to turn on holidays or anything?....I timed out in 3 games over the 3 days I wasnt online because of the cyclone. and if I have to set anything please advise where I have to go to do it....I have read and re-read and cant see anywhere.

Bernice: You : and us :

Mélusine:none for me now either LOL....12 hours later ROFLMBO

Bernice: No problem for me.

furbster: OK here.

all normal here, too

Bernice: not me .... everything working perfectly

are others having a great deal of trouble with the speed of this site?....all others appear to be OK.

thank you both :)...much appreciated

Bernice: And another way would be, go to the Player List link on the left side. Click on the "Level" column. It will then list by membership level. If it starts with pawns, simply click it again, and it will reverse the list for you.

Bernice:Under Paid Membership, in the left column. Each type of membership has the number of people who have that membership. Click the number.

is there any way I can get a list of PAID players only? I dont want to go through dozens of pages and most if not all of them are pawns.

Pedro Martínez: I've a way to go to get the record then

beach: Do you mean that now we must avoid playing with you ?

Artful Dodger: I just had the same thing on another game, with another opponent,

rabbitoid:I'm still waiting for dominoes

Pedro Martínez: Ludo is the most exciting and intellectually demanding game on this site, no question. At least until Fencer introduces Tic Tac Toe, probably in BK version 14.3.

Artful Dodger: As far as I know, the record is 48 consecutive passes. :)
Člověče, nezlob se (fretka vs. saeco)

MadMonkey: Sure !

rabbitoid:

Artful Dodger: Look on the bright side, the game is not over yet

Still, you never know, your opponent needs a 5 (well, at the moment), it could happen to them

Don't mention that Auto-Pass thing either

rabbitoid:

Artful Dodger: The probability of not getting a 6 33 times in a row are (5/6)^33 , about 2.5/1000. Not bad. I recommend buying a lottery ticket, fast, before your luck runs out.

Mélusine:

Artful Dodger: So that you had enough time to talk with her.

Snoopy: I'll check it.

when the vacation day changed at the start of the year
ive just noticed that when a bishop buys a new bishop membership he gets all his vacation days back again
even thou he had already used 4 of them
i was just wondering if this is the norm now or is it an oversight on your part?

When searching for ponds to sign up for, if you click on the Fellowships ponds, there are many ponds waiting to sign up that are 2 to 4 years old... wouldn't it be great if those were simply deleted from the site?

Marshmud: Yes, I remember. When Fencer first created Team Tournaments, they were prized with brains. I thought it was a great idea, and felt more addicted to BK, then. This is good, right? :)

Gabriel Almeida: There has been Team Tounaments with the winning team receiving brains for their win and also many fellowship team tounament that have brains for the winning team. However you must set up the tournament. Currently the brain system is inactive but I hope it soon will change.

hi everybody

Pedro Martínez:
Awesome tourney thankyou!!

Thom27: Yeah, it's a shame. The brain-entry tournaments are fun.

ScarletRose said: "if you want brains ya gotta go to school"

Scarlett, that's a no-brainer....

Thom27:  Honey if you want brains ya gotta go to school! LOL j/k I couldn't pass this up!

Thom27: I am offering 600 Brains to the winner of my tourney.

It is a little strange especially since there are achievements about buying brains! Kinda impossible to achieve it though ;o)

Thom27: There are also "Prize Tournaments without an entry fee." This is how I won my first brains.

So one can only gain brains by the Referral or Promotional program? The re is something about "20 brains for free", but I don't get how it wroks, it seems it doesn't work any more...

Thom27: We also used to be able to purchase them, but that stopped a while ago. Fencer said he had other ideas for the "Brain" program, at some point.

Thom27: http://brainking.cz/en/Brains

How can a player with 0 brains get some, to enter tournaments with entry fee?

rod03801: I'm pretty sure the site checks for timeouts every 10 minutes. That would be consistent with the time that these two games ended: 16:00:01 and 15:50:01 respectively. So to be sure to win on time in a fast-paced game when your opponent has overstepped the time, you would have to wait until the site's clock shows xx:x9:50 or something and then make your move. Not an ideal way to play fast-paced games, but then again, it's not the site's main focus.

Atrotos: I took a quick look at your 2 games against that person.

Really, with the Fischer clock, you EACH have one hour of play. Your clock runs while the turn is on your page, and your opponent's clock runs when its on their turn. (Which you probably knew, except your post said "1 hour for the whole game")

The site checks for timeouts every few minutes (unless that has changed) so, perhaps he/she moved right before the site checked. I know I have seen plenty of games get to negative 5 minutes or more before timing out.

is this site's time control for real???

i played a horde chess game with Fischer time control of 1 hour for the whole game zero increment and my opponent run out of time for about 40 moves in a row but he didn't lose.

when his time run out his clock shown 0 mins or -0 mins but this continued happening all the time and he never lost on time. he had time problems from the beginning and i adapted my play to play lower quality moves for gaining time and putting time pressure on him.

that didn't work since he can lose by time running out it seems. go figure.

i saw this site as a good chance to escape from all the chess i was playing with all these variants but its great flaw in time control disappointed me.

my opponent finally lost on time as it seems and see this moment i'm writing this.

Fencer: By the way, is it possible to "auto-remove" the auto-vacation feature if a user does not login for more than 30 days (I ask this because they are already marked in fellowships, so it is definitely possible to filter by last login date).
It is kind of annoying to have to wait 2 months for someone to timeout, just because the game timed out in january 1st or 2nd, and the user gained auto-vacation (wheter (s)he already had them or not). Besides if someone does not login because, for example, he had a surgery, or something like that, when (s)he returns to the site there are no more vacation left for the rest of the year...