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Sujet: Re: i know ive properly

pedestrian: okay, sorry, then I've made a mistake ;-) I thought it was 10 moves.

19. Février 2010, 19:01:17

pedestrian

Sujet: Re: i know ive properly

hagaren: To be counted as one of those 25 games, a game has to be rated. That means it must last at least 2 moves (not 10). If you play a game that only lasts 1 move, it is still counted under 'My profile'-> 'finished games', so unless you keep your own score of those unrated games, you won't know for sure when you'll reach 25.

19. Février 2010, 18:56:42

Sujet: Re: i know ive properly

hagaren: thanks good to know that

19. Février 2010, 18:52:42

hagaren

Sujet: Re: i know ive properly

Snoopy: No, it will not be counted.. For being counted a game must have at least 10 moves ;-) When someone resigns a game after those 10 moves, it will count as number 24.

19. Février 2010, 18:50:06

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Resher: ah i think what i meant to say was
if i had say played 23 of the 25 games to get a BKR and someone resigned a game
would that game be counted has number 24 or not

19. Février 2010, 17:25:30

Sujet: Re: i know ive properly

Resher: thanks

19. Février 2010, 17:12:58

Resher

Sujet: Re: i know ive properly

Snoopy: No it won't affect it - see http://brainking.com/en/FAQ?ht=22

19. Février 2010, 16:45:08

Sujet: i know ive properly

asked this before but brain isn't working..lol

if someone resigns a game on first move
does it still count towards getting a BKR ?

19. Février 2010, 06:35:07

nicmulti_68

Well. I never. lol

19. Février 2010, 05:27:36

Bwild

36 new members so far today....over half havent logged in,most will never play a game,some go straight to the poker tables.
watch the player list just a couple times a week.
theres no doubt in my mind that the majority of these new members are add ons to existing accts.
since pawns are only allowed 20 games...I can see this as a way to give someone more games,but......theres always those that create these add on accts for ulterior motives, that many of us that have been here awhile know.
then you have these globs that dont care or even read the stuff they're prompted into moderating,to compound issues.
just my 2 cents.

19. Février 2010, 03:23:02

Vikings

Since this thread is certain to lead to a place that the Main Moderator has asked that it not go, it will be removed.

I suggest that the 2 interested parties carry on their conversation in p.m.'s if they so wish

18. Février 2010, 23:54:16

ScotFree

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Bwild: thank you for your helpful direction.

16. Février 2010, 03:01:12

ScotFree

Hi all. Having wandered about the site and seen how everything is moderated here, I'd like to know why the poker tables are not. I was put off playing by the language used there.

14. Février 2010, 20:27:30

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rod03801: thanks rod!

14. Février 2010, 20:04:43

hagaren

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alilsassy: Same to you!

14. Février 2010, 20:03:55

rod03801

Sujet: Stopped

As the main mod had requested a certain topic stop, and it didn't, all posts from that point that continued, have been deleted. If it continues any further, the offending people will be banned from posting to this board. Thank you.

14. Février 2010, 18:52:16

alilsassy

Happy Valentine's Day

13. Février 2010, 13:53:23

nicmulti_68

Sujet: Re: multi nicks

Hrqls: Good job! :))

13. Février 2010, 13:00:59

Sujet: multi nicks

thats the last post about named multi nicks on this board .. further posts about multi nicks with names in it will be deleted

posts like this can easily lead to a hunt for the named persons even when they might not be a multi nick .... this board is not for starting a lynch party

when you think someone is using multiple accounts ... report them to the management ...

12. Février 2010, 17:41:08

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MadMonkey:

Too bad there's no counter to see how many times they enter. ;)

12. Février 2010, 17:34:50

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Artful Dodger: I have given 2 Boards the name . now (as in 'dot') lol and set the read & write access level to Kings only.
So Fencer & Liquid can go have fun if they wish, but i will need to approve there posts

12. Février 2010, 17:32:02

Sujet: Re:pillar of the"community

Tuesday:Well that couldn't be me. Most days I qualify for village idiot.

12. Février 2010, 17:28:54

Sujet: Re: multinic 68

Bernice:I have some theories. Very strange coincidences.

12. Février 2010, 17:27:46

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MadMonkey: I changed the name of mine to . And then that's all that showed ;) I think I set it to no access or whatever that setting is. You could just change the name to "This board isn't really here."

12. Février 2010, 17:07:13

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modifié par Snoopy (12. Février 2010, 17:08:49)

Tuesday: IMO muti nicks have been going on since the very early days of this site its nothing new
but surely bickering about it on the main BK board should not be allowed
its surely not giving a good impression to any new comers to the site
i find it very off putting

12. Février 2010, 08:40:01

nicmulti_68

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Bernice: Caught on to what? :))

12. Février 2010, 07:52:37

Sujet: Re: Games statistics

wetware: "Dice games require less thinking?"

you are right for some dice games. most dice games have limited move options though, far less options than chess .. its also tougher to think ahead and build a plan with dice games .. at least thats beyond my capabilities .. i can 'feel' a few moves ahead with a probability that it might happen with dice games, but with a chess type (or pente or espionage) i can plan a bit more ahead which takes time

so dice games dont require less thinking .. but they certainly require less time per move (for me)

12. Février 2010, 02:19:04

wetware

Sujet: Re: Games statistics

SL-Mark:
"Being beaten in a dice game, well it was simply that the die favoured the other player! i.e. luck."
"Beaten in a game of skill, however, then the loser can only critique themselves."

Those observations are a good start.

Being beaten in a dice game, one can all too easily conclude that the loss was purely a matter of bad luck, and that there was nothing in one's own play that deserved criticism.
Not all dice games are created equal.
Have you ever noticed that the frequency of claims of "unfair dice" tends to be inversely proportional to players' strength?

"Dice games require less thinking?"
Who would say such a thing? On the contrary (at least in some dice games), in addition to strategic considerations, one must also calculate various probabilities.

12. Février 2010, 00:55:34

Bernice

I would have thought that the powers that be (we all know how clever they are) would have caught onto this one....
nicmulti_68 (Nic)

11. Février 2010, 17:42:19

Sujet: Re: Games statistics

Bwild: No, I cam up with with Frog Finder - can find some of the details & "history" of the game here: http://www.coan.net/sweeper.html

11. Février 2010, 17:28:46

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Snoopy & coan.net : Thanks, thought i was going mad

I will do something like that, but i think being able to delete a Board would be better

11. Février 2010, 17:22:25

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MadMonkey: I haven't done it (or tested it) - but believe the BIG BOSS can change the posting "Mode" or privledge level of someone to post on the board and make it almost impossible for anyone to post on that board.

Change the board name to "." so it's hard to see also.

... of course that is also one of the big things Fencer has talked about changing for the new 3.0 Brainking it sounds like...

11. Février 2010, 15:19:54

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MadMonkey: not that i know off you can always put the board to something that is very hard to click on which i did

11. Février 2010, 15:17:48

Am i missing something

You can delete a Fellowship should you wish to (well Big Boss's can), but is there away to delete a Discussion Board from a Fellowship ?

11. Février 2010, 11:59:01

Sujet: Re: Games statistics

AbigailII: i mean that i can join more dice games .. because it will take me less time to make my moves ...

suppose i joined 100 dice games and its my turn in all those games .. then it takes me a lot less time to make all my moves before i timeout compared to 100 chess games

so only considering the spare time i have i can easier join 100 dice games than 100 chess games

11. Février 2010, 10:45:17

AbigailII

Sujet: Re: Games statistics

Hrqls: dice games require less thinking .. therefore its easier to make a quick move in those games and more of those games can be played at once

If your opponent is online, yes. But I think most of the "duration" of a game, the game doesn't move forward because the player whose move it is isn't online, or hasn't selected the game yet. Many games last weeks or months - I doubt most of that time one of the player is actively studying the position. Even if both players spend 24 hours in total actively contemplating their next move, that's less than 10% total time if the game lasts a month.

11. Février 2010, 10:16:10

SL-Mark

Sujet: Re: Games statistics

Herlock Sholmes: Perhaps this is to do with psyche of the average BK player, all kings I’m sure, but less brain :)

Being beaten in a dice game, well it was simply that the die favoured the other player! i.e. luck.

Beaten in a game of skill, however, then the loser can only critique themselves.

11. Février 2010, 09:43:35

Sujet: Re: Games statistics

Herlock Sholmes: dice games require less thinking .. therefore its easier to make a quick move in those games and more of those games can be played at once

personally i always try to judge my time before i join a chess or pente type of game because it can take quite some time to make a move .. but i will almost always joing a dice game

(not at the moment though ... busy time coming up so i have to restrain myself a bit :))

11. Février 2010, 06:00:05

Bwild

Sujet: Re: Games statistics

coan.net: I thought someone else came up with frog finder???

11. Février 2010, 04:16:32

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Herlock Sholmes: Another thing that needs to be looked at is the length of the game - that is Ludo is the #1 game... but at the same time, it takes a long time to complete a game..... I don't feel like doing all the math, but would guess taking in how long a game last would still leave Ludo near the top.

then a game like Hyper Backgammon is shorter, so thinking of that might push that game up some more.

Then #26 game Logik is pretty short (what, max of 8 moves each?) - so if game length is considered, that game might move up some.

.... not that I have much of a point, and the basics of what you said is still true - and I do use the running games as a "general" guideline of how popular a game is... but it can easily be manipulated by a team tournament, or popular (prize) tournament creating a lot of games... and if it's a long game it will push it up that list... and if it's a short game, it will push it up the list but quickly come right back down.

Again... no point... just thought I would add.

11. Février 2010, 02:11:49

Herlock Sholmes

Sujet: Games statistics

it's interesting to look at running games statistics ... out of first 20 games mostly played, there are 15 games that uses dice ... it's 75 percent, if you will, taken by backgammon and its clones plus all the dice poker games and the absolute king Ludo ... remaining 5 are chess (traditional favorite) plus 2 battleboats version and two games created by the users of this site: Frog Finder by coan.net (aka Big Bad Wolf) and Knight Fight by me, Andy. And this situation stays pretty much the same unchanged. Why ? What constitutes the most desirable game to play ... Look at Ludo ... it's a game with a very limited level of needed skills ... so what makes it so exciting ? UNKNOWN ... waiting for the big roll, this is what makes it a great game ... the same basically applies to all backgammon clones and poker games ... now, how about Frog Finder and Battleboats ? Again UNKNOWN ... but this time unknown placement of basic elements that need to be discovered ... Knight Fight has different qualities ... everything is known and what makes it interesting is the fact that this game is a racing-running game in nature, combined with known chess knight problem ... so we are back to Ludo running quality, but not "around the pond", but instead thru carefuly planned jumps across the chess board ... I would appreciate your comments and thoughts.

Andy.

7. Février 2010, 19:37:46

motylek1978

Sujet: Re: Unrated games

MadMonkey: Ok, thank you for welcoming and info. *6*

7. Février 2010, 18:07:37

Bwild

Sujet: Re: Unrated games

MadMonkey: The actual site is being re-written at the moment so no changes will be made to this version ,.....
right...and maybe we'll hear another update on the new 3.0 version by the next membership drive~!! lol

7. Février 2010, 13:37:16

Sujet: Re: Unrated games

motylek1978: Great to see you here, always nice to meet new faces

In short, i have made a note of your request (in case our leader hasn't

lol) and will pass it on.

The actual site is being re-written at the moment so no changes will be made to this version , unless it is critical.

6. Février 2010, 17:26:16

motylek1978

Sujet: Unrated games

Hello, I am new here (logged in first time) and I would like to ask if there is possiblity to display list of only unrated games? I see in filter options only checkbox for displaying/hiding unrated games but no checkbox for rated games which I do not want to be displayed. Thanks in advance for answers.

5. Février 2010, 15:20:08

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nodnarbo: I'm assuming you are asking why someone can't leave a fellowship if they are in a tournament.

I agree that it would be fine if a player could leave a fellowship even if they are in tournaments, I'm not sure exactly why that restriction is in there.

At one time I joined every fellowship that asked me to join. I also joined way too many tournaments long ago - and I went though and left a lot of fellowships I did not do much in and was "stuck" in some fellowships longer while tournaments continued. No big deal really - just waiting until those games were over and then left, but I can not think of any good reason why I should be stuck in a fellowship (of course I could just ask the BIG BOSS to kick me out, but some of the fellowships I wanted to leave had an inactive BB, so that would not work.... so I just waited.)

Sorry Bernice if I did not understand your original question.

5. Février 2010, 08:29:21

Sujet: Re: none

angelstar: no one is asking you to leave
our only wish is that you stop joining all games in every tournament to resign them
it spoils the tournament
if you dont want to play that type of game
its simple DONT join the tournament

5. Février 2010, 07:19:48

angelstar

Sujet: none

well no one has to worry anymore , i am leave this site

Goodbye

5. Février 2010, 07:10:34

Bernice

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nodnarbo: EXACTLY......thats what I want an answer to.

thank god someone understands....

5. Février 2010, 04:49:16