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Jim Dandy: I don't know of another site that has multiple game matches without the cube, so the issue doesn't come up. As mentioned in the other thread, it would be possible to have this feature, but I would consider it a variant.
rabbitoid: If you are playing with the cube, so that gammons count, you should not resign until you have borne off at least one checker. The system awards points based on the board position at the time of resignation. So, if you have no checkers out, you will lose a gammon or backgammon.
Also, I have been assuming that I should not resign until the move after I bear off my first checker.
What counts is the total number of points earned by the opponents you beat. You and Uil had the same record except that you won both games from grafzahl while Uil went 1-1 against him; and Uil won both games from Seravajan, while you split with him. Grafzahl finished with 5 points, and Seravajan finished with 7. You earned 17 S-B points for your games against these two, while Uil earned 19 S-B points. That is why he has 2 more S-B points than you do.
I've finished 8 of the 12 11 point matches with 7 day time control. But there are 2 in which my opponent and I have made only 11 or 12 moves in almost 3 months of play. At that rate, the first round will take 5 or 6 years.
lovelysharon: Are you sure of that? I've been watching the way auto vacation works with other players, and it seems to me that once they add (or subtract, depending on how you look at it) a vacation day, they don't add any more for 24 hours.
BerniceC: Sometimes the site seems stuck or very slow to load. What I do is to click on the stop button in the menu bar, and then try to load it again. This often helps.
I especially like "The Chasing and Burning of Judas"!
also:
1 January - New Year's DayEaster Monday
1 May - May Day
8 May - Liberation from Fascism
5 July - Cyril and Methodius
6 July - Burning at Stake of Jan Hus
28 September - Czech Statehood Day
28 October - Establishment of the Czechoslovak Republic
17 November - Freedom and Democracy Day
24 December - Christmas Eve
25 December - Christmas Day
26 December - Boxing Day
Fencer: Is there something about the internet backbone coming out of the Czech Republic that causes this problem? If the problem is not with the site itself, then it must be somewhere between the site and the rest of the world, because there is certainly a problem.
plaintiger: I had an odd experience the other night, where everytime I tried to go to brainking, the browser returned to the page it was on previously. If I tried to open bk in a new window, I would get a blank window. Lasted about an hour.
I assume that, if the main page tells me there are new messages in this forum, but I don't see any, that is because the posters are on my hidden or blocked list?
Groucho: The one feature I like in Opera that Mozilla does not have is the ability to make each tab refresh itself at stated intervals. Of course, with BrainKing that is not a problem.
Groucho: There are quite a few places on the Web where you will find that Mozilla doesn't work, because the sites were designed to use features that are exclusive to IE. This is true on the Microsoft sites, of course, but I encounter such situations frequently. Still, I use Mozilla for most of my surfing, and activate IE only as needed.