Backgammonfan28: I understand it is completely random. The die are generated the first time you click into the game when it is your turn - as if you were throwing the die in real life. There is no favouritism or rigged dice. It's pure chance - and sounds like a lot of luck for your opponent.

Backgammonfan28: I'm sure your opponent was joking..

Hello. I am playing a backgammon race game with Marfitalu, I lost my temper with them because of the number of doubles they were rolling and they told me they ask Fencer for better dice rolls. If this is true I don't think it is fair. This is game id number 820735. I posted a reply like this on the report a bug section of the site so Fencer could become aware of what this player claims and so he can tell his side of it. I have noticed lately that in my opinion, it seems the dice favor the lower rated player. I looked on the FAQ page to see if I could find any explination of how the dice are set up here to work but couldn't find any. Some sites pre roll the dice every day, does anyone know how the dice work on here?

Definitely But I'm glad its not just me that loses the lids!!

ClayNashvilleTn: Yes Clay.. I can see why it would cause marital probs.. haha..

Heck.. you ever noticed that you get a really kewl set of say.. bowls.. or those tumblers.. and then the lids start disappearing??

I think the dishwasher eats them.. or the 'Not Me' Spirit takes them to Never Never Land to use as frisbies for the Lost Boys..

MASTERMIND: *blush* Thankies AL

Eriisa: Tupper Ware is a product that you pay four prices for, and is not for guys. When you throw it away because you don't want to wash it, your sweetie can really get upset. Tupper Ware causes marital problems.

ScarletRose:Your picture shows your one nice looking lady,and your postings shows your quite smart,i thank you for when i had the hacking problems for your support.AL

Eriisa: hehehe so do I.. know anyone doing a home party??

hey wait a minute. I like Tupperware! What's wrong with Tupperware??

LOL

Mega intelligent.. actually I am in his fellowships.. I often review everything posted.. cause it does tickle my senses and helps stimulate my passion for conversation with a knowledgable being.. the ads don't bother me.. and not because I have a friendship with him.. but, because on the content.. it isn't like he is selling tupperware on a gamesite..

Anyway.. Bumble.. not to rowwy about the swip.. it happens to the best of us.. *Giggle*

ScarletRose: Sorry, Scarlet. It must have been a 'Fuddian slip' My computer has 'R' and 'W' on the same keyboard. Now that's just asking for twouble in my book.

bumble ScarletRose: I would use the hide feature, except that it hides everything that a person posts, not just those things that I find objectionable. I generally disagree or don't like a lot of things that the one that can't name me posts, but on occasion he will post something of interest to me or even have something intelligent and pertinent to the current topic of discussion. The one the can't name me is a fairly smart guy, whether or not I like his way of doing things or how he treats me and others is only part of it. I suffer though everyone's posts including his, just on the chance, no matter how small, that I might learn something from them. That is why I said nothing through all the advertising he has posted. I believe an occasional post could slide by and not be too bothersome, but to continually harp on it amounts to advertising commercially and is not fair to readers of these posts that have opted out. I'm glad that the situation was brought to a moderator's attention and action was taken to put a check on it. As I said, I kept quiet about it and thought it was just me partly blaming my hard feelings concerning the one that won't name me. I didn't realize that others on this site had a problem with it as I've never seen it posted anywhere. Perhaps they've talked about it in private messages or in a fellowship. I might be out of the loop, but I still observe the goings on in the discussion boards that I do read.

bumble: Hewwo Bumble..

Walter Montego: The serious people here know Trice so let him spread his "news".
Since the top moderator says that advertising is allowed you can start advertising tomatoes in "gardening" now!! I'll post an ad for my golf clubs in "World of sports"

Pedro good moderating :)

bumble: nice ears! : )

Trice: I recommend you to focus on promoting BrainKing.com site then. In my opinion, the mere fact that Fencer is allowing the Gothic Chess being played here is more than enough of this game's promotion. I don't think there's a need of you advetising your "free site" (together with not so free program) in addition to that, "outweighing" the great promotion of BrainKing.com that is being done by you. Why would you want to execute the Fencer's part of your "informal agreement" (). You promote BrainKing.com, he promotes Gothic Chess. Don't swap positions, definitely not on the 10x8 board. Until I receive a confirmation from Fencer that there is an agreement between him and you that obliges him to let you advertise the GothicChessLive.com website at this site, you'll remain banned.

On-topic advertising of other sites is allowed but with moderation. Posting links everywhere constitutes spamming and will not be allowed.
It's up to the moderator of a board to decide if the posts are relevent or not but, saying that, the 10x8 board is the obvious place for Gothic Chess and any on-topic links (within reason).

As ScarletWose pointed out, if you don't like them use the 'hide' feature.

ScarletRose: Hi Scarlet,

I did not know that person had posted, which is why I would like to say, thank you Fencer, for the HIDE option .

Walter Montego: Walter.. if you don't want to see ads from Ed Trices Gothic Chess.. put his name on ignore.. Very simply done I might ad.. *no pun intended* LOL

Daniel Snyder: Thank you for letting people know about GothicChessLive.com... I did not know they have boards for them until now

Your welcome. Hope to see you there.

EdTrice: Thank you for letting people know about GothicChessLive.com... I did not know they have boards for them until now...

EdTrice: The Checkers DB welcomes product information or helpful web links that are checkers related.

EdTrice: As a paying member I am given the choice on this site if I want to have advertisements on my pages. I opted to not have them. Unfortunately, there's nothing I can do to stop you from your shameless posting about the Gothic Chess site links, sales of merchandize, bidding auctions, general self-promotion, and all the while getting in a word or two about your federation or how well business is going for you.
I thought I was the only that had a problem with it and kept quiet. Now that I see Pedro take action and he also says people have written to him to complain, I feel that perhaps I should've spoken up. I thought Fencer paid you to have Gothic Chess on the site, now you say it's you that pays him? I'll never know what's what.

As for him banning you without warning. What's new about that? Welcome to the club. You obviously got under someone in power's skin. I've posted plenty about the system of moderation and problems that it causes on this site. What have you done to help fix this type of thing? Fencer has never commented to me if he agrees with me or not, but I would assume that he's happy with how he has things set up and you're just out of luck. I was removed from being the moderator without so much as a notice. When I finally posted about it, you of all people, made fun of my posts and refused to even acknowledge that it was I that wrote them. You won't be getting much sympathy from me, buddy.

My post is part of a mutual promotion pledge between Fencer and myself, as I have subsequently explained to you. In it, I disclosed that I told Filip I would promote BrainKing.com as much as possible, including:

1) A link from GothicChess.org
2) Paying him to host GothicChess.org
3) Putting a "full page" menion in Gothic Vortex (which you can see at http://www.GothicChess.org/vortex.zip and then look under the SPECIAL menu)
4) Mentioning BrainKing.com in any printed material or other advertising media as much as possible. Anyone who tunes in to Chess.FM every Thursday night knows how often Gothic Chess is mentioned by radio host and National Master Dan Heisman.

The agreement with Filip is INFORMAL in nature (as we could not possibly list EVERYTHING) but I agreed to promote his site "as much as possible" and in exchange, Filip would allow me to promote Gothic Chess here.

Announcing a new feature on our GothicChessLive.com website is clearly within the bounds of our mutual-promotion structure.

Even after you had been advised of this, you greeted my post on the disucssion board by banning me without so much as a personal message asking me not to post, nor any form of warning.

Because I didn't think your post had been appropriate.

You're welcome.

I would like to know why a post I made on the 10x8 discussion board, which mentioned http://www.GothicChessLive.com was deleted without wanring by Pedro Martinez.

This was on-topic, about a 10x8 variant, and relevant.

Thanks.

oo I have suddenly more brains(lol), thanks to whoever wrote in my ID , very grateful \o

You can also turn on auto-vacation. As a member, you get 30 days a year.

tazman7474:

Well, I was playing in the university, normally, I come to home..... 30 games lost :-(

Chessmaster1000: It won't.

Well yeah............
I meant that before 20 minutes i had 5 games with a deadline of 4-5 hours to play, and now the same games have 1 day + 4-5 hours. I want to be sure that the time will not become again 4-5 hours, and i don't mean this for tomorrow at the same time as now....

Fencer, Man, I'm usually in bed by that time...

Chessmaster1000: Every second, the time is decreased. Tick, tick, tick, tick ...

Fencer: It's a post-synchronization process. Should be already done.

Do you mean that the time will be decreased again?????? I don't want unpleasant surprises.........

21:11 p.m.

Fencer, sweet...If I was in Czech, I would buy you lunch, dinner, what time IS it there?

Anyway, thanks for the site.

Summertop: A new FAQ entry will solve it for the next time.

Chessmaster1000: It's a post-synchronization process. Should be already done.

Fencer, I like the fact that it was just turned on. No giving for several days notice. They all knew they were in the negative. Those that didn't, I am sure you can fix it for them. As I said ealier, when game time is suspended, some people quit making moves. It can really prolong otherwise quick (1-3 days per move) games. Doing it this way, gives an incentive to keep playing the games.

Jofaserimon:ummmm all i can say is oops! you should've read this board to see what was going on! fencer did a pretty good job of keeping everyone informed! well, i knew what was going on and i have my head in the sand half the time! lol i guess it's just one of those live and learn things! remember, it's only games! in the real world it doesn't matter!

I have some games before 10 minutes that i looked, with 4-5 hours remaining to play. But now they have 1 day+ all of them.........
What happened? Did you add one day to everything........?

tazman7474: But another times, there was a time for playing, without time out, and for playing the games and don't lose.
I thought that this time was the same, so I played some games, no a lot, only a few.

Fencer: what i'd refer to on the job as a minor inconvenience! lol who broke that water-line anyways?!!

tazman7474: It's far from a real disaster. I would call it "a slightly unexpected situation".

Fencer: did you manage to get things sorted out, so that you can take a 30 second break before the next disaster? lol i wouln't want your job for anything!

My games are fine Fencer... I am downsizing for the summer months... will be at alot of camps this summer...

(Anyway, as tazman7474 says, when I see a game with a negative time left, I should play it and not to rely on a suspended time. Perhaps I should write another FAQ entry covering this issue.)

Who thinks that his games should not have timeouted, can send me their IDs.