Regarding Fencer's latest posting (on Brainking.info), concerning players from around the world...
It would be interesting to see accurate statistics on where players are actually playing from. Some players say they are from countries that they are actually not from (I always get my hopes up when a player says they are from Tibet). It would be nice, since Fencer is able to, to see one set of accurate statistics showing how many players actually play from their own countries. I know how time-consuming that would be I guess...

Czuch Czuckers: If the match goes to whomever wins 2 games first, it's called a 2 wins match.

Czuch Czuckers:

so a 2 games match means we play 2 games, not whomever wins two games first?

emmett: ahhh! thanks!

It's a 2 game match, not a 2 point match

here is a 2 game match, where I was up 1 game to 0, then my opponent accepted a draw, to make it 1.5 games to .5 games, but I won the 2 game match anyway????? Is this a bug? Cloning Backgammon (kid_game_2001 vs. Czuch Czuckers)

Czuch Czuckers: im sure im right in saying timing out will only lose you 3 points to

Czuch Czuckers: No, i dont think so, just the game u would time out in.

Thanks for the advice everyone!

another question... if I time out of a game, will the whole 21 point match be gone?

Czuch Czuckers: do a move or two to determine if they will move fast or not.  at least you can get out of those games faster.

Czuch Czuckers: i dont see your problem resign the first game and when it comes into your message box go to next game of this match and keep resigning them that way
it will of course mean resigning it 7 times to lose 21 points

danheg: Thanks, but its 21 points per game, and 9 day moves, i know somepeole it would take a month just to do it the way you say, then they wont believe me, and If I change my mind after all this?

BIG BAD WOLF:
I knew it was to good to be true.LOL I want to use the board for something else. So guess I will have to keep the messages on and continue with the new subject. I can't delete all of them.
To many on there for that. Thanks for answering my question.
BARB

nivabef: I dont like playing in games or tournaments that will last for decades...

Czuch Czuckers: What's the point of resigning? Why not just play? Unless you were a pawn, how would it hurt?

At least, shouldnt there be some way to resign the games in one turn each? As it is cirrently, I only lose 3 points to resign a game. At that rate it can take me a couple of months just to resign my way out of the tournament!

Czuch Czuckers: Because I have allowed it, that's why.

Fencer: Nothing is impossible.... but thanks for your quick response!

I am curious why the tournament was allowed to proceed after the rules have changed?

Czuch Czuckers: Impossible.

joshi tm: I signed up for this 21 point per game tournament when the rules allowed for the potential to get 21 or more points in one game. Once the rules of this game changed, the tournament should have been deleted and the started over. Its not fair when the parameters of the game change after someone signs up for it!

I want to get out of this tournament without losing my BKR for this game. Please fencer help me!?!?!?!?!

joshi tm: Well... it's the biggest 21-point cubed cloning Backgammon tourney, for sure!

Play Cloning Gammon for a prize. , this tourney caused Cloning Backgammon to have more than 2500 games running! Is this also the biggest 21-point cubed Gammon tournament?

Pbarb2: You can't "delete" boards - but you can do what you said (change name of board to "." - so most will not find it.

To delete all messages, either click delete on all messages, Ask Fencer to do it for you, or probable the best - click "Edit" and change the read access to "Brain King" - that way not even you can see the messages in the board (so it looks like everything is gone)

Then just post in the description of the board "This board is closed." or something like that.

Pbarb2: Vikings posted that....

Getting rid of fellowship Board.
Go into the edit for that board and change the name to a period, then change who can read and post to king, all that will be left is a " . " that most people will never find and if they do they cannot go to the page anyway, but you know it is there in case you want to start it up again someday
I saved this in my notebook. I don't know where I got it.
I want to get rid of two boards and the messages. Where do you put king if that is what we are to do? On that part on who can read the board it has choices..no place to write anything.
Thanks for any help.

Rose: Close enough. Except that it's not the act of posting that counts but the act of opening the board page. You don't even have to post to be counted as a visitor, just open that page.
So, if someone posts a post just before midnight (server time), and then 100 people go there to read it the next day, it may become one of the most popular boards, even if no messages are posted for that whole day...

Rose: Ok

Dolittle: you cant.. thats not what they mean hun
they mean each person from the FS can only post once a day to make it count no matter how many times a day they post in that FS

Dolittle: You can go there but you cannot read messages.

pauloaguia:I am so confused..I thought if you are not a member of said fellowship, you can't go there and read messages.

Dolittle: When you go to see the messages on a board you are counted as a visitor. For the rest of that day you are not counted again for that board, even if you keep going there to see new messages.
What counts is the number of different visitors to the board (readers), not the number of posters.

Fencer:Unique visitors?

Andersp: Of course, I have already started to work on it. It doesn't mean it would be finished immediately, there are many other things which must be done as well.

Fencer: Any idea when you are back home?

"Andersp: Yes sir, as you wish sir, just when I am back at home sir. And thanks. "

Dolittle: The number of messages is irrelevant. Only unique visitors count.

Dolittle: only 1 message per unique id per day will count

so if i post 3 messages on there, and you 4, then we will only add 2 to the total count for the visited boards list

(i think)

deadbunnysRfun: did you try to start 1 new game or a match consisting of more than 1 game ? or did you try to join a tournament ?
are you in a pond ?

Czuch Czuckers: which rankings page do you mean ? when i go to the ratings page i can see cheversi at the bottom of the chess game types

Dolittle:I have noticed as well, that you dont even have to leave a post in a
fellowship, even if it just gets looked at, that counts too .

joshi tm:      Thank You  ;)

Gr☺uch☺: (*)The player who finishes at least 4 rated games of one kind (everybody who defines a new game can specify whether the game will be "rated" - the result will be calculated for BKR - or not), earns "provisional BKR" displayed by italic font (e.g. 1870). After finishing 25 rated games of one kind the provisional BKR changes to "established BKR" and is displayed by normal font (e.g. 1853). If you complete more games, your BKR is more accurate because is based on more results.

How many finished games does it take to get an "official" rating?  ;)

Dolittle: Beats me then lol

heavenlyemma: I know it does but hasn't in a while.

Dolittle: It does make the top 30 just doesn't stay there long.

Wonder why Oldies but Goodies never makes the top visited boards list? I know there were 11 messages on it today.

deadbunnysRfun: you have two running tournaments maybe that is why you can only have 19 games , not sure though