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In my checker game with Nurse Ratchett (50386) I am unable to move piece 4F although it is a legal move. Any of my other pieces can move fine. The site will not even let me hilite it with my cursor. Any help?
probs are being fixed I C..thought it would help to know.on webtv,I am not able to acesss 1 game at all.the others when I enter move..i get error message"webtv can not handle that type of information" on a blank whitescreen.never had a prob B4 ever wth BK.this message I usually gets if you are trying to download something,which of course webtv cant do.re-freshing sometime helps,I am finding.
Субъект: fencer..another original backgammon variation idea I just had...
..could be based on crowded backgammon.
reducing your count to zero or increasing our opponents count by bumpimg blots to the bar is the obvious key to backgammon.
thus the strategy of the games axis' is based on hitting blots.so why not a variation that make use of this directly.
the idea then:
crowded backgammon,but the extra blots are not on the bar.they are"beside the board".one of thes blots can only be put on the bar when you hit an opponents blot.at this time one of your off board blots & the opponents blot go to the bar.thus you are "rewarded" for hitting a blot & get yout blots into the game faster.this could be a very interesting game.what do you & everyone think,fencer?
as for a name?mmmm
Seems OK here. Clocks in England went forward an hour yesterday, so in theory we are in British Summer Time now rather than GMT. My settings say GMT, yet time is perfectly correct to take into account the clocks going forward last night.
Maybe everyone else has been put forward an hour too?
Hey Fencer, the clock seems to be messed up... the current time is 19:42, but it says 20:42... I checked and my time zone is still set correctly. Just thought you would want to know.
Just a quick note - if I don't answer to all e-mails reporting the current problems, it's because I am trying to fix them. As Dmitri wrote, each site has problems, occasionally.
Good news are that the problem is not permanent and we are slowly getting it under control.
here we go again! brainking is to busy, brainking ran into technocal problems, brainking could not respond to, the WHITE page again, it seems the site battleship has been torpedoed three times and is listing, and we don't even have battleship/battleboats on this site! why are we having this trouble? does someboby have an answer PLEASE!!! i would like to play my games and relax!
Anyone else getting "The page cannot be displayed" errors? Been that way on and off here for the past few hours, whilst other sites seem to be loading without error.
Milestones. Aren't they wonderful? So it appears the site may have an estimated 2000+ active players. :--) It's a great site with good people who love to play. And it even let's you correct your typing errors in the discussion boards.
would like to thank Fencer for fixing the slow games, though i'm still experencing the problem at about 9:30am Sat. morning. keep getting "brainking is too busy to answer right now". hopefully this will clear up soon, i really enjoy this site so much more than the others, made some really good net friends here! thanks Fencer! :-}
4000+ registered players, but only about 1/2 of them are alive. one of the things I like about this site is that you can verify things. go to the "player list", sort by "last action". you have then to go beyond page 44 out of 82 to see players that did anything the past month
I agree with Dmitri, there are always comp problems that can pop up despite everything Fencer does. I find this site is fast 95% of the time and thats good enough for me. I also agree about not leaving game moves till the last minute if possible, one game within a game is plenty.
i have to agree with you dmitri. there isnt any site on the internet that dont have problems being slow once in awhile. you cant expect the site to be running perfect every single minute of every single day. i think fencer does a excellent job on this site
people, give Fencer a break! occasionally, computers do not work properly and they move slowly. If youare worried about gamed timing out, don't leave them until the last minute, because computers can lag at any time, that is justthe nature of computers.
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I get them too, I think it only happens to us webtv-ers? When it happens, instead of using the "move to" buttons, I use the "go to main page" button for a while. I check the "move to" button every once in a while, and eventually they start working again.
As a side note if someone is getting close to timing out - you may want to set a vacation day in case this site stays slow so you will not time out... if you are close on time!
Having problems accessing this site.
"Page cannot be displayed" & "cannot find server" errors plentiful, along with the partial loading whereby a page remains totally blank (or just the background loads) yet "done" appears just above my taskbar. Frustrating.
I posted the same question yesterday and no one has answered me yet. I too get the white screens when i click on any of the 'move' buttons. will be interesting to see if ANYONE can answer us!
rsm, usually its a good fast site here. I think they are just having a few problems like last night....something like this never lasts long, Fencer is fast at getting things going again.
again about 19.30-20.00 h CET ... still slow, at the moment ...
here a strange effect looked up the waiting room and when I wanted to
join the 'corner chess' games of maddog they actually appeared as line-game ... :O
has anybody experienced similar effects ? ~*~
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what my waiting room list shows
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Fortress Chess Normal game Frazer black 7 days
Fortress Chess Normal game Frazer black 7 days
Corner Chess Normal game MADDOG black 2 days
Corner Chess Normal game MADDOG white 2 days
Corner Chess Normal game MADDOG black 2 days
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I'm fairly new on here( about a month ) but i've been haveing trouble with my screen whiteing out when i hit one of the submit options.also there are times when it wont let me back on, i keep getting a pop up that says "brainking is to busy and to try again later"..i was hopeing this game site would be better then IYT, but guess not.
Is anyone else finding the site slow today, I have trashed cookies ect. and everywhere else is quick...oh woe and to have 109 games to get thru as well :-)
5 or 6 screens, at a time..? hmmmmm, must be nice to have a PC..!!! I'll trade ya my web-tv for it.. LOL...
speaking of slowing down the site, anyone notice it being slower more recently than say a month ago..? At least it seems to me that it takes longer for things to load..!!!