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Grampa AD, I will not remove posts just because you happen to disagree with them, no matter how many private messages you send me. (Which, by the way, I can't reply to privately since you have me on enemies. If you insist on sending me messages like that, I'll have to place you on enemies too)

LongJohns post was controversial, but it is a point that has been raised before and I don't see that it is any different than other occasions where the pawn (and rook/knight) membership has been discussed. There is only one part of that post that I think could be found offensive which I will edit.

However, there are a lot of other posts which have been made in the last 2 days which I consider to have crossed the line. Its better to make your point without insults, then your post will have a chance of staying :o) I don't like editing posts but I will now to keep the peace of this board and to keep it on topic.

Stevie, there is nobody on hide as far as I can see. Nev Nake, thank you for editing your post.

There is on my hide list Harley...its LJ

Oh I see, sorry Stevie, I thought you meant generally hidden from everyone.

he can see my posts Harls, he is just trying to pretend no to.
We all know he could never let a post go unread LOL

I dont think so. Then Fencer might as well just shut down the site. Pawns are important to the site as far as having more peopleto play. Also if you dont give someone a chance to play for free at the beginning how will they get a chance to see how good this site is? Besides there are several who cant afford to pay for a membership due any number of circumstances. I was a pawn for a long time too. However now I am able to afford membership, I bought a membership through December 2005 plus have helped a couple of others attain a membership as well. I do beleive that 20 games and unlimited moves is more than generous when compared to IYT who has only 25 moves a day for non paying members. I think we could limit the number of moves per day on pawns though. Maybe unlimited moves for the first 60 days and then after that limit them to 50 moves a day. 50 moves for many is still a lot of moves per day.I would be willing to bet the average pawn carries 10-12 games so that would average out to 4-5 moves per game per day. Not too bad.

Can I suggest that when rules are changed for any games, that they be announced somewhere other then in one game messageboard? Maybe like in Server news.

I just found out today while reading the Czech Checkers message board about an important rule change that effects most checker varent games which would alter the way I would play the game a lot, and the rule change was made on Sept 1st!

Anyway, Just a suggestion that any rule change for any game should be announced in System News - even if it effects a few users, I believe it is important enough to announce.

Thanks.

BBW: it was announced in server news :)

Fencer And new games again 1. September 2004, 09:45:31
Modified by Fencer (1. September 2004, 10:17:43)
BrainKing brings 3 new games - Jarmo, Alquerque and Froglet. My thanks go to white for those little froggies and Sinay for boards of Jarmo and Alquerque. Yes, I know that boards for Jarmo and Alquerque are too big, I will add smaller ones soon.
Besides, lots of bugs was fixed (!!!!!e.g. multiple jumps in Czech Checkers!!!!!) and added several improvements.

maybe froglet was such a hit that the rest of the message went by unnoticed ;)

but more then just Czech Checkers - all checker variants, so I never even bothered to see if that rule change worked in other variants!

Plus it said that it was a bug that was fixed, not a major rule that was changed. I just figured there was some bug that I did not know about, not that it was a rule change. O'well - I'm beter now. :-)

I am just wondering how someone with 126 wins, 1 draw, and 0 losses can be rated lower than someone with 7 wins and 3 losses.

Doesn't that seem odd?

if that someone always had lower rated opponents his/her rating wont change that much ... if the one with 7 wins and 3 losses always played the highest rated person then the wins would add a lot

i think brainking is fab

The three games Nellaf lost ended in the 1st move ... thus no BKR change

According to some of my graphs, I'm clinically dead.

Great feature though!

Maybe I could add some "analyze this personality" function based on the graphs :-D

Would you add a 'counselling' feature too? A sort of BK psychiatrist? :D

Once the AI (BrainKing Daemon) is implemented, it can solve everything.

The BrainKing Daemon? That's Stevie isn't it? :D

(joking Stevie cos I know you can take it!)

I think BK could use a whole team of psychiatrists...lol well,some of the members anyway lol

It could be done a long, long time ago, with a lot of other things.

Nice feature Fencer. Do you know if anyone's ratings changed very much with this calculation? I meant to make a copy of my own BKR ratings before the recalculation to compare, but I forgot. I can tell that on the Statistics page that I look like I'm in a different position on the charts then before, but not sure if I changes, or if others just complete more games.... wish I could go back and look... :-)

Anyway, graphs are great! Now I can see in Battleboats I was up to over 2000 but plunged to about 1600 in a matter of a month or so....

BBW: The previous wrong values of BKRs had been rewritten because there is no use for them anymore. The changes should not be significant, +-50 points and similar.

mine looks like a plane crash!!..heheeee!

the one thing I found the best about the graph is it actually shows what your highest ever acheived rating is. I dont believe before we could tell what this was.
Thanks Fencer, great feature !!!

How many games must you have completed before you get a graph for it?

<Quote>The BrainKing Daemon? That's Stevie isn't it? :D

(joking Stevie cos I know you can take it!)</Quote>

Finally, someone who understands me LMAO


On a serious note. Fencer
You say the BKR have been recalculated back to the year dot. How did you go about the 3 month black hole period where all bkr changes were lost?

harley: You must have a visible BKR. It should happen after finishing 4 rated games.
Stevie: There is still a hole. Look at my chess graph for example, you'll see.

It wasn't a good example. Tank Battle is better.

You were just showing off that high bkr werent you LOL

I see, so it didnt really do a negative effect on your graphs, it just stalled it :o)

When did the graphs 1st appear? I was away for a couple of days & when I came back "poof" there was graphs. LOL

This morning.

BTW
Im gonna ruin a trend and say I like the graphs ;oD
shock ..horror..Steve likes a new aspect of the site finally LOL

checks Steve's forehead...omg ,you better lie down ;-)

no comment ;o)LOL

he's ill..poor Stevie.LOL

Can anyone tell me how I go about upgrading my account from a Knight to a Rook? I didn't see any links like that on the 'Paid membership' page.

Thad, either purchase a rook membership in the usual way and Fencer will convert the remaining days of your knight membership into rook.
Or, contact Fencer to get an amount to pay to upgrade and change the amount when you go through the payment process.

You can pay for a Brain Rook membership and the rest of your current membership will be used to extend the new one.

Payment sent. Thanks for the info harley & Fencer.

that rabid gothic wildboar from cussing boards stuffed ? ~*~

since the eternal midwest telenovella stirred up the triple pee
(patent&personality problems) that represent his whole existance.
brainking will take major damage again imho if on top that blatantly
impudent rogue who was busted for manipulating games and who even was
cited by an internet honesty and honour commission after not delivering a book
which was purchased and paid already, here dares to advertise his planned
twilight gambling system solely meant for getting a grab at your pockets ... ~*~

why dont you post there? is it because you are unable?

such clear words used to get buried there real quick before ...
0:) feeling humbly glad - YeeEeeHaAwwW !! hence easily bringing up patience
until you unMountego Walter yet :D code yellow right now - i.e. double pee only ... >:) ... ~*~

at least I really hope so. People in our games I will get them cought up tomorrow I hope again. TYVM for not blowing up at me. A family needed me to help move everything out of a house. These ladies are all over 90. So was glad to help. But I just feel bad that I have to hold up this site with my games. BB late to night BYE all.
:o{P

... bwildman is now closed for questions! (A little later than planned, apologies for that.)

The next person to be interviewed is the very first GOLDEN ROOK....... Bad Bishop!!!!

As usual, any questions you would like to ask Bad Bishop, send them to me, adding if you would like your name attached to the question.

when do we see the bwilderman ones?...or where?

bwild? I'm still waiting for BBW's interview :)

(nothing against you bwildman)