Fencer, just wondering, did you have any luck looking in to Elimination Tournaments and Byes ?

redfrog: ta very much.......

Bernice: it will come back when fencer posts a new blog (or maybe just tomorrow - regardless of a new blog) - but for now you can scroll all the way down to the bottom of any bk.com page and the link is listed down there....

by mistake I turned off the info site while trying to go read the rules of the new game...3 times I have manually typed in the info URL and 3 times my computer has frozen...any help?
and how can I get the info back on on my main page please?

Tuesday: Yes, your pic exceed 100 kilobytes. BrainKing just resizes the pic to the proportion needed, but that might distort your pic. With that onlinetool you can also crop the pic very easy, it will keep it in the shape you like ---> http://snipshot.com/

Tuesday:

A very simple resizing tool Here    Just upload, select width & height and submit.

MadMonkey: well there is no BKR for random games, so the stats only include 108

joshi tm: Well, you asked what it was, all i did was find it, i just used my head, like when i first found the Random Teams

It does not appear it can be set up though. It has to be introduced somehow and if you had not been going through Stats at the time, you would probably never had noticed it UNTIL Fencer releases it fully

(oh, it should in theory say 109 games, because if you change the URL to 255 it lets you set a Random game up)

joshi tm: Read this blog entry http://brainking.info/archives/441-A-proposal-of-Jungle-variant.html and you will see what it is about.

It is only in testing mode, and isn't intended to be played yet. That's why it's not completely "public"

MadMonkey: But why we have to sneak in? Why it isn't public?

And why there is still no international Checkers?

joshi tm: And if set up game 107 (Triple Dice Poker 6D), when you get to the next page, change the number at the top in the URL to 108, guess what, you have BIG Jungle

What a clever Chimp

Another one for you : ;)

When I look at the Statistics page, a I filter the averages to only those who played every game (1/1 # of games) then I see they should have 108 established BKR's to fit the filter. If you count the numbers at the new game pages together, you come to 107.

That can be only one thing, there's somewhere a game hidden! But where? And what will it be? A Ludo/Jungle proposal? A cool Chess variant (please let it be Knightmating, Ultima or Superschaak) or FINALLY International Checkers ;) ?

9-11 year kids are playing RuneScape or somthing like that.

My parents don't even know about my internet surfing behavior.

nodnarbo: i totally agree - i was talking in reference to families that play together - im going to guess that there arent many 9-11 year old kids that have found this site on their own and play independently of mom and dad - maybe im wrong - but anyway - i was talking about the scenario where a parent that plays here and gets their child involved....

other than that scenario - id have no use for the new chat option...

redfrog: heh, my parents have no idea what I do on this site, all they know is that I play too many games than is good for me they also know I have some sort of paid membership that I paid for myself, but have no idea how much it set me back. Honestly I don't think most parents would be able to figure it out unless of course they played here themselves.

regardless of all other uses - i think the new chat option would be a great safety feature for parents with kids who play here....

anastasia:

All hail!!!

Czuch: Oh,I would never quit a game JUST because someone didn't say gl,lol....I guess my point to this is that in todays sociaty (oh hell,I can't spell that word tonight to save my life,but you know what I mean,lol) I guess that people just have no manners anymore...you hold a door for someone at the store and they blow past you like your invisible..I still say.."Oh..your welcome!!!" I say bless you when you when someone sneezes and they look at me like I just pulled a gun on them.My last job,at a deli,nothing major,but I liked it I suppose,lol...how hard is it,when I would walk up to a customer and say"hi,how are you?" How HARD would it be to say fine,thank you...or hello....instead I get.....give me this and give me that like I never said hello in the first place?? Just some common curtosy...thats all,not asking for your life story or anything. hello,good luck,good game

Okay, back to your 500 plus games and your enormous duties of monitoring all of the discussion boards..... good luck keeping your key board handy!

coan.net: You are done with telling me this... yet you are still telling me this??? hahhahahah

Czuch: Sorry, done playing this game with you. I could again repeat myself how only sometimes I don't have access to my keyboard... or repeat myself on how I normally send an opening game greeting..... So before you decide to reply, feel free to read what I've already posted. Honestly - it should not change.

coan.net: Thats nice, and this extension makes it even easier, not to mention, you can make more options for you as well! Why waste time going to your profile or notepad everytime you want to paste soemthing into a game note???


BTW, how do you find time to unbury your keyboard when you need to use it for a discussion board, but cant seem to do it when playing games? Please... maybe you could make life simpler for the rest of us mortals?

  

Czuch: I've already said how I make a "Good Luck & Have Fun! ☺" - I go to my profile, copy and then paste. It's not a top priority for me to do during a game, but like I said - i try to do it since I have found it makes some people happy.

coan.net: Its ironic because you seem to be able to find your key board plenty when it comes to playing on the discussion boards, but when it comes time to play your games, all of a sudden it is buried too deep to make a decent "hello" or "good luck"????

Anyway, I have offered you a nice way to say hello without using your key board, but I wonder if it was merely an excuse, or if you truly care to give any time to a greeting in your games?

Czuch: How is it ironic? When I play games - I play games. When I discuss on the discussion boards, i discuss. I don't like to play games on the discussion board... and I don't like to chat too much during the games.

That is just how I feel. Others can do what they like.

coan.net: but to be upset with others who actually come to a game site to play games......????

. I mean this is a game site - a game site is a place to play games, not chat.

Kind of an ironic comments coming from someone who volunteers to watch over and moderate every public board on this site?

coan.net: I understand what you etal are saying... , but to use the option of totally removing the message box is totally rude and uncalled for, IMO!

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1063

The above link is a great firefox extension that will take care of the problem for most people. who like me and BBW, dont have access to our key boards for one reason or another..... dont let the name fool you, I put in a few different greetings, for example good luck, or congrats great game, I even paste in greetings in different languages, then they are all just one click away from being pasted into any message box!!!!

(the only problem I have is that when I say hello to someone in their native language, I end up having to try and explain that i dont really speak their language!)

Anyway, instead of taking advantage of this "new" option to remove chat options, try this extension instead, like doolittle says, its only a common courtesy!

I think to type good luck/good game etc. is common courtesy. We are all here to play games but I don't take them so seriously that I can't extend a greeting to my opponent. Sometimes a little thing like that can bring a smile to someone's face and it only takes a couple of seconds.
Thank you for the time you spent reading this!!

I find it funny how some people just can't have a fun game without someone saying good game, or good luck, or even the short-cut versions of gg / gl. On another site, I even had someone quit our games because I did not say it. (one thing I like about IYT - it automatically puts good luck at the start of the game, and send good game with the finished game message.)

I often try to send a "Good Luck & Have Fun! ☺" message at the start of my games - which I have easily put in my profile so I can quickly find it to copy-paste it. But many times when I play, I stick my keyboard on the floor so I have desktop space for papers and other stuff I work on.... while playing games with my mouse, so typing is something I don't..... I mean this is a game site - a game site is a place to play games, not chat. Chatting is an extra and a lot of people like it - but to be upset with others who actually come to a game site to play games......????? Anyway, this is not directed towards anyone, but thought I would let you know how I feel about the situation.

Czuch: how funny..I was just talking to someone about this...how hard is it to put a GL,or GG on the darned message to the person your playing against..

AbigailII: I personally think that every opponent deserves some sort of hello and thank you.... sometimes I forget, if I get playing too many games too fast, but if I have the option turned off, well, that is just plain rude to me

Czuch: I think my average of in-game messages is about one message a year, if even that. I don't care about in-line chit-chat, I play too many games with a too slow time control for chatting to be relevant.

If I want to chat, I use IRC.

pauloaguia: The answer to you is yes!

But if your settings allow for you to not even have a message box, then the answer is clear that you do not wish any congrats or good lucks.....

If I play you and you refuse to offer any greetings or whatever, then I can always put you on enemies list as to not have to play against you, I suppose this si still possible if i come across someone who has no box present, but why make it so hard?

Czuch: Sometimes I say those things. Sometimes I say much more. Sometimes I go a whole game without saying nothing at all...

Should such a setting let me play against you or not?

Is there any setting available that allows for us to not become involved in any games with anyone who is not even willing to offer a pleasant 'good luck' or 'congratulations'?

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the fact the yesterdays top movers were from Poland, USA, and Germany and the czech republic doesn't come in til 4th says something. Although I havn't noticed that the site's been any faster for me. I just had a lot of time, and played 2 games at once in different tabs on firefox.

wetware: 5 days ago this line was published in the BK.info blog:

<quote>However, there is something ... (to be continued)</quote>

I wonder...

Much faster as well.. but, do we have our Web Users back? Could it be we have to compromise something for another?

Jim Dandy: I too had noticed , and did not dare to jinx it either!

Antje: it has been faster for me also,but like yourself I was waiting for it to perform at that level over a period of time before breaking out the champagne

Antje: Shusssss!

Antje:
I agree with you. It has been much faster yesterday and today almost as good as new, or would I say old?

the site seems to be working better (faster) the last couple of days.. im almost afraid to mention that in case it changes back again, but some of my opponents (who dont read the boards) have mentioned that as well... i feel like im holding my breath, but i sure do hope it will stay like this, im back to the top (almost) of the list again!! how are the rest of you doing? those that have been plagued by the slow performance, is it better for you all too?

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nabla: if you click on the name of the person making the post it comes up with an OE window and shows the email address....not a good idea really

nabla: I could swear it didn't used to...