Sumerian: all names are fun :) on another board where i am posting (and moderating) i am being called hrgls because most people didnt see the q when it was underlined .. hrgls made them think of hourglass ... so now i once in a while yell 'its a Q!' ;)

Luke Skywalker: lol ... not for me .. i like puffins better .. not those little blue creatures ... before you know it someone will start a grgml or zrl and i will be running for my life ;)

Sumerian: *nod* i think you can rename your account .. i never tried it though .. i cant think of another name without vowels ;)

Sumerian: create a new account (pawn could be enough, paying would be better for fencer ;)) named smirf-program or smirf-computer or something like that .. play only unrated games with it

that way noone can object (i think)

(as fencer is looking over the text in the rules he might change it a bit .. maybe to 'only unrated games are allowed when using external aid' ?)

Sumerian: no wether you tell it or not .. it remains the same .. you telling it clear to everyone is better than not telling .. but still i can see the point of people who dont want to play against a computer .. or if they do they want to be informed about it

by using a program and not telling anyone in any you are breaking the rules .. but using a program and making it possible for other people to find out is a vague area .. to use a program and tell everyone explicitely about it .. is a less vague area and could be allowed more easily .. not to use a computer would be the best though ;)

(not to make a computer to think out your moves for you of course .. you always need a computer to connect to this site ;))

Caissus: heh .. so lets say i am a top chess player .. would like to play persons and not computers .. i see a tournament .. i check all people who are signed up already to see if they are not computers .. they are not .. i sign up .. then just before the tournament starts i have to check all profiles of newly signed up players as well ? .. hmm i am lazy ;)
(but then again being lazy probably also doesnt give me a high chess rating, so its not really an issue fo rme personally ;))

Sumerian: but what about players who joined the tournament before you did ?

personally i dont mind (that much) playing against a computer .. you cant check it for real anyway .. but i can understand people who dont like it. especially if they have a high rating and can lose a lot

i agree i would have wanted to know as well and i wouldnt have read his profile either

if summarian wasnt in your group then someone else with a bkr almost as high would be in his place (thats the way the players in the tournament are sorted)

Pafl: *nod*

is it cheating to look in previous games of yourself and use that knowledge in your current game ?

is it cheating to use a table of chances of 2 dice (as i know some people in backgammon, although you can easily do that in your mind as well)

would it be cheating to have a chessboard next to your computer, setup the game you are playing, and test-play several moves ahead ?

is it cheating to use notes ?

all this can be considered using outside 'programs'

i think vacation days are only used up when a game needs them

a game only needs it when the normal time of the game is over (the 5 days in pauloaguia example)

i wonder though .. if i have 2 games running .. 1 games times out monday .. the other game times out on tuesday

suppose i wont be online on monday .. the first game will use 1 vacation day and time out on tuesday ... my question is if the other game will also be awarded the vacation day (and time out on wednessday) or if the vacation day which is used only counts for the first game and i will use another vacation day if i only move in the first game on tuesday and dont play in the second game

of course you can write english on the czech boards .. just as i can write dutch on the english boards .. but being polite (as little people on here can read it and might wonder if i am writing something evil) i dont do so.

the same might apply to the czech boards .. some people on there cant read english (or not that fluently) and might wonder whats being written

i think that falls under 'netiquette' ?

Fencer: ok ... we will wait in suspense/anticipation/excitement/.. ;)

its nice to see how 'good' the poster is in the specific type of game .. like if i am posting some stretegy tips on tablut .. then noone should be listening .. but if ughaibu would .. its a different thing :)

will the new boards (when focussed to a (group of) game(s)) still show the bkr of the poster ?

if its for a group of games then the highest bkr of that could for that player could be shown ?

harley: is there a way to see which questions are already submitted ?

Fencer: ok .. i caught some of them .. hah! i didnt even blink my eyes or i would have missed them

not yet ... but i never thought it slow .. except maybe the emoticon java popup .. which seems a bit faster now .. but that could also be my network/configuration/..

will have to try it when i am at home :)

(i did notice a downtime around 10:30 this morning though .. which might be the time at which i had a downtime on other days as well ?)

*nod* and while its allowed to drink alcoholics in most places .. it wont be allowed in kindergarten .. or on meetings of the AA ;)

EIHN: *sigh* starting again ? didnt we talk this over ? want to continue the talk where we left it ?

hmm a thought occured to me .. do you have me on hide ?

doesnt 'auto' mean 'self' .. we have to do it ourselves

(ok maybe thats a dutch translation out of its meaning .. but it might also work in english .. i am not sure ;))

hmm i didnt mean hyper backgammon .. was there a game in it of only 3 moves ?

i only know of a gothic chess game (i think) of 3 moves .. i dont know of any faster games ?

lol .. there was at least 1 game with only 3 moves where 1 player did win .. 1 move sooner and it would not have counted for the bkr :)

ah! so i sometimes make middleware as well ;)

hardware - .... - software ?

ok then i was too fast ;)

i am not sure if the pond games also showed in the autorefresh .. when i clicked on the main page link it showed a pond awaiting for my move, while it didnt before that .. it might be a coincidence that i clicked on the main page link while it wasnt there for 3 minutes yet (which is my refresh time) but i am not sure .. did a pond show up on autorefresh for anyone else ?

and now we know as well

just tested it worked for me .. thanks :)

(will test it at home this evening at home (before and after i cleaned my cache there ;)))

thanks

it worked for me for quite some weeks, but the last few weeks it doesnt .. will see what the new week (and the old fencer) brings us ;)

rhiannon: heh true ... but at least i had the date correct

this board at this time : 2005/01/13, 13:03:01

yesterday about 2 pm ... fencer posted something on the gammon board i think .. or maybe on here or on features

something 'cryptic' only saying we could 'play' ;)

you won some more it seems ...

ok .. i did ... we are the only established ratings now i guess .. congrats on being #2

(at least i hope ... ;))

whats the effect on the bkr for a newly added game on the site ? is it better for your bkr to wait until your opponents have at least a (prof) ranking ? or is it just as good for the bkr to play other players who play the game for the first time ?

we had great fun with some fast hyper gammon games yesterday .. but it seems that players who joined the fun later have a higher bkr now although they have the same ratio of won/loss games (or even worse ;))

Stevie: the bkr graphs didnt load for me for a short time yesterday .. other graphics sometimes dont load the first time, but often do after a refresh .. most of the times it works fine :)

can we use more than 5 auto vacation days directly after another ? or do i have to set them manually and fixed (end of february- begin march) ?

i have seen other players not play ... while their time was ticking .. their time got negative .. to a max of -10 minutes .. and then they had a day added.

the server checks for timeouts every 10 minutes .. if it finds any .. it checks if there are any (auto) vacation days to be used .. if so .. a day is added

i dont know what happens when you have 2 games timing out though .. will it use 2 days ? or is a day added to all your games ? *ponder*

Arctic Warrior: doesnt work for me for some either

Fencer: *phew* i am bold again

Fencer: ah ok thanks :)

so if we are only playing 1 game of a certain type .. and that game takes more than 6 months .. we have to start another one (and finish it) before those 6 months end ?

(hmm now i think of it i dont think i have had any game which took longer than that .. as i am not even a member that long ;))

it sounds nice for sure ;)

ok :) no reason to shout ;)

i prefer it being changed to 'you have to make at least 1 move each 6 months' ;)

do you need to finish a game each 6 months or make a move in that type of game each 6 months ?

what happens to the overal ratings ? do people still have to have at least 11 active bkrs to get on that list or can inactive bkrs also used for that ?

sounds nice :)

hmm ... what about splitting the rating table in 2 ?? or would that just increase the load ? ;)

thats why we are discussing .. instead of

*nod* i was a pawn not too long ago (oh time flies! ;)) ... i love rankings .. not just the points but the position compared to other players .. i am not sure if i would like a game site without a ranking

but i also love a fast database :) .. and the fee isnt that high ...

5250 already ?? last time i checked beaupol was at #1 already with some more than 3000 moves .. *thunk*

did you win any games as well ?