Fencer:How?

King Reza: Fencer says do it.

TeamBundy:I totally agree.  Let's see what Fencer says.

King Reza: I think your initiative is really good! I would be more for a "interviewing-committee", in the sense that the interviews were carried out offline anyhow and the interviewers duties were to collect the questions and then pass them on for publication on the site. The reason I'd be for a committee is so that more people are involved and more of the evergrowing facets and plurality (if there is such a word! ) of BK can be interviewed/represented! :)

Summertop:Yeah well it's no problem with me.  And, if everybody agrees, I do have one person to be interviewed in mind

nightmagic: Don't tell me to shut up i'll do it on my own...

nightmagic: vacation! you are trying so hard to update so fast on this site. It is the best i've been to in 5 years.... Please don't go over board like others have as to improve what already works. Just my voice as i have, and have been there to see others strangle them selfs. A little at at time.... I'm here for the long haul... but have been at others that went so fast. Don't mind me... just speaking mind as i've seen others. I like this site the best, great people, good games.

but it was ok in old games. know you need to NEW update and ok. good job but help in other areas not yet addressed that have needed attention.

King Reza: Sounds to me like you just volunteered

Since Harley no longer plays on BrainKing, I was wondering who in here stead is going to continue interviewing people.  It was totally nice reading the interviews, but I take it in her absence there won't be anymore if none takes her place.

onigoroshi: as a rook you can go to your settings page, there you go to the calendar tab where you can set specific vacation days

i guess pawns can do that as well ? but i am not sure :)

onigoroshi:Go to your Settings page.

um, as a pawn, how can I use vacation?

Brian1971& King Reza: this has little to do with the site brainking.

please take it to the appropriate board. i think no public board on a games site is meant for a discussion like this, so you might best continue this in a fellowship

(for the remembering the thoughts & prayers board seems most appropriate)

Brian1971:Pity I have forgotten the date that the U.S. attacked Iraq and killed many many people in its 'fighting with terrorism.'  If you remember that date, please make sure to post a message then too.

I know this is an international site. However September 11, 2006 marks the 5 year anniversaryof the terror attacks in the USA. That attack changed the entire international landscape. Thousands died and I think their deaths should be remembered. I think unless the entire international community joins together to fight global terror we will never have peace on Earth. So on this day I ask everyone to say a little prayer that evil be defeated and that eternal peace can be attained. Please take a moment today to appreciate all that you have and be kind to your fellow man. Thank you.

TeamBundy: okie dokie see you there

bouncybouncy: jupp, let's take it to the PC board instead! :)

TeamBundy: My daughter had blubster running, which was a site for downloading music onto her I-pod. I also have Zonealarm running constantly as well, that had a bit of a glitch in it but it is sorted now. Now and again my screen freezes as well, like you said for a matter of seconds, sometimes there is no reason for it, it could be your ISP just slowing down and then kicking itself back in again.

Hmmm i am now wondering if this could be and we should take it to the computer board. If i can be of any further help please let me know.

bouncybouncy: what was the programm you had running in the background when you connected to the internet? I defragmented my disk last night and going to run the clear disk space today. What other things did you run? I'm actually not having problems with the loading of sites, but with my PC in general... every now and then the PC freezes for like a second until it resumes.

DamnCat: Hey come on, dont be like that . Sometimes it can be traffic, but primarily, it could be your ISP, have you tried clearing your cache, history, try defragmenting as well and running the programming for clearing up disk space as well, every little helps. I also found out that my daughter and been running a programme in the background, so when i connected to the internet, the programme would start up and i didnt have a clue what it was until she told me. It can be a numerous amount of things. Fencer isnt being touchy, if there was a problem with the site, believe me he would let us all know.

Fencer: A little touchy, are we? How am I supposed to know that the problem is not on the server side? If I knew that I wouldn't have posted the message but I DIDN'T. I was just asking if anybody else had the same problem. But excuse me, I won't be posting anymore here then.

DamnCat: Nope I find the site Fast on my PC

DamnCat: I was havign the same problem a couple of days ago, and it was my ISP, it might be your ISP as well, have it checked out like i did.

DamnCat: Nonsense. I am currently connected via GPRS and it's fast anyway.
Moreover, what's the point of posting something like "the site is slow"? Who do you expect to solve it when the problem is not at the server side?

This site is freakishly slow at the moment... anybody else experiencing this? Could it be that a lot are online and playing?

Fencer: Guess that means i will let you play then LOL

MadMonkey: Precisely. That's the solution.

Fencer: You cant try, theres no Remove Drop Box.

MadMonkey: Have you tried to remove someone from a Dark Pond?

Jason: :) thx but i'm ok,lol. I think! Just miss my games when no one is here!

The Creator of a Tournament has the option to remove any player(s) they wish from it should they need to.
How does this work in a Run in the Dark Pond ??? Even the Creator does not know who is in it

Jason: Yes , worries me to, but in a funny sort of way

nightmagic: I worry about you at times .

nightmagic: I pock des ned, wos d'Leit aus'm Englisch mocha.

nightmagic: pertaining to the ones in this. sorry. should have gone to them straight up but it seems they didn't want that. here i am lol.to many games at hand u forget a few, not good !

nightmagic: all that talk about playing the games, u know who u r, would like you to play the games a hand for now u can talk as u play.

tarcellius: Yes, the many options of tournaments can be both a good & bad thing. The bad, which you already pointed out is it is there are many many choices.

The good is that you can almost always find a tournament which will fit your needs. (And if you did not know, paying members of rooks & above are able to create any new tournaments.)

For a pawn with limits, you are limited to 1 tournament at a time - so you may want to look for tournaments with lower time limits, or tournaments that do not let players take vacation days (tournaments with red or green dots). If you get in a tournament where another player takes A LONG time making moves, you will be stuck in the tournament and unable to join another tournament.

Also there are different time limits like the Fisher clock games - where the important thing to know is the "BONUS" time - the bonus time will ALWAYS be at least the minimum time you have to make a move. So if a bonus is .1, it can cause your games to time out. But if you know you will sign in at least once a day, then a bonus of 1 (day) will always allow you time to make moves without timing out.

So for a new users, the best would be to go to the tournament page, search (filter) for the game you want to play - then find a tournament which will start some-what soon that has time limits which fit your need and give it a try.

There are also many discussion boards that cover all the games, and many different topics (like a touraments board) which will always get you answers to your questions.

Hrqls: yep! :)

Matarilevich: Thanks for the welcome message and the help. I was able figure out a few things with pauloaguia's help. My remaining confusion lies with the available tournaments. So many options! Is there not a standard "September" tournament or the like? Why so many competing tournaments on the same site? How should I decide which to play?

Matarilevich: your allowed to play one stairs as normal member

tarcellius: Welcome to BrainKing! I´ll try to help you.
Stairs is only for paid memberships.
As free user (Brain Pawn) you have a limit of 20 games at the same time. The limit of the tournaments is one for you.
You can accept a game in the section "Waiting games" or you can put your own game in the section "New game"
For getting a rating you need to finish 4 games of one type, at least.
Read the FAQ section, you´ll find an interesting information there.

tarcellius: Welcome to the site. I just sent you a private message with some pointers. Answer back if you have any doubts.

I'm new to this site and would like some kind of "getting started" page. This site is bewildering with its complexity of options. I have no idea where to begin and I can't seem to find any pointers (at least not in twenty minutes of looking).

I'd like to play pente, in the ladder (stair) or tournaments, and to get a ranking. But there are so many different options I can't tell what counts for what, etc. Any help?

shouldn't this button work for team tournaments and stairs as well? right now, if i use it in a stairs or a team tournament game, it takes me to the next game thats not part of a tournament.

Hrqls: Wie Wie. lol

King Reza: thanks i did, but now please dont clutter this board with posts about french posts ;)

Hrqls:Excellent.  Well done to whoever deleted that last post!  

Marfitalu: if i get any i will consult with fencer to give you 40% of it .. or do you want more ? (your help was worth more, but lets bargain ;))

(in pm :))

Hrqls: merci :)