Carpe Diem: There is a selection "For games with a random start position generate" which has the (stupid) default "the same position with all opponents". As the start player is kind of the start position, leaving this default setting might just result in all games with the same player starting. I never tried, as I always chose the other setting.

Carpe Diem: If you create a single game, you can chose the color you play. For a tournament, I am not aware of such a possibility.

Carpe Diem: No one has any thoughts on this?

JerNYC: "Uh yeah". I am simply pointing out that it is NOT a forced loss. (as you said it was) And that is still the appropriate board for it. Thanks.

rod03801: Uh yeah, Rod, I know. I was the last person to post on that board about this very topic and there's not even a cricket chirping in there. I don't expect it to change. Technically, you can still win, but 9 out of 10 times, you're going to lose.

JerNYC: It isn't the best situation to get out of, but it is NOT a forced loss. I've won in that position before.

And the Frog Finder discussion board would be a bit better for this. If you go there you will see it has actually been discussed many times.

Aganju: I don't see anything in the rules that indicate a permanent vacant square.

JerNYC: I think the rules say something that there is no frog in a specific spot ever, for that reason. Or something similar.

42: I wish Frog Finder would have an opening automove to prevent accidental opening kills that become a forced loss for that player.

... is already here!

Was already here from the very beginning!

At least since Pente is here. The first move in Pente is automoved.

Typed out another post about this, but I guess I didn't send it properly.

MadMonkey:

Aganju: Okay.

crosseyed: you probably have to wait for Internet Explorer to support proper HTML5. Don't hold your breath though.

Walter Montego: When I upgraded internet explorer some site don't recognise it. For example I can't use the smileys on here in rich text. I guess we have to wait for sites to up date their sites so to speak.

MadMonkey: Do you know that your question to Artful Dodger of them making unasked for changes and then the new things not working is exactly the one I ask of Microsoft and Facebook?!

rabbitoid: LOL!

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Date and time: 6. January 2014, 07:05:06
Subject: You are the tournament winner



You are the winner of this tournament.
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Good to know. Now, if the message could be a TOUCH more specific?...

Artful Dodger: OK sorted, its an issue with Firefox and an issue with YouTube then....crazy, why cant things just stay as they were..working lol

rod03801: Sorry i deleted that post while trying it.....i cant get it to work

Will have another go in the morning, getting late now

MadMonkey: That can't be completely true. AD posted a video on the Music board shortly after your original post here.

The last time I tried adding a video to my profile, I couldn't get it to work too.

EDIT : Oops. Well your post I was responding to, disappeared before I finished typing this.
(The one where you said neither old nor new work at all anymore)

okay thank you

winterangels: It was a limited time offer. It is around this time that it always ends.

what happened too it not on page

MadMonkey: Youtube has changed its codes again. Some embedded codes still work (the older ones) and if you go to that video and copy the new code system it's missing the http plus other changes. I laid the working old code side by side to the current code (for the same video) and there are some minor changes. Apparently those changes don't work. See this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXXZUQrN4fI

MadMonkey: No, nothing. Perhaps something was changed on YouTube.

Fencer, has something gone wrong with embeding Videos on BrainKing ??

I notice people are just posting links on the music board. OS i have tried with old & new embed code & neither works for me. I have even tried in my Fellowship, with nothing.

Any ideas ? has their code been changed again, or has BrainKing got a gremlin ?

I'm sure this was discussed often before, but I could not find anything:
There is an RSS button on the Branking page, and it shows what looks liek an RSS feed. How do I use that? I use Outlook, and I'm considering to connect this. How to do that? Does it work at all?

So go to your friend's list, and post on each friend's wall a Happy New Year.

Oh, and don't forget the boss: Fencer

;) And if someone posts on your wall, post on theirs!

And if I miss any, Happy New Year!

happyjuggler0: this time of the year is always the time of slow moving due to a couple of reasons:

- it is a week of days off for a lot of people and they might valye their time with friends more important than playing games online
- it is a week of days off for a lot of people and they might use it for a vacation and might not be able to be online
- it is the end of the year and everyone knows how many vacation days they still have left on this site, so they might decide to use them for not timing out, and use their time for other stuff in the real world

personally i usually am a slow mover during the weekends (spending time with kids and family), and am mover faster during the workweek (what else to do during breaks at work.. ;-))

personally i always try to keep it so that i always have at least 2 days till my next timeout and join only games with 3 days per move or more

personally i keep my vacation days for emergencies (as i needed them this summer) and in the end of the year might use the remainder to spend some time with family or do the stuff in my house which i have neglected too long

personally i never timed out in any game that i remember and i wont do so this year either

personally: if you want me to move faster, please let me know and i might speed up those specific games

personally i think it is as important to move fast, as it is to know which tournaments with which time control you join ..

I don't often contribute to this board, but I do often read what comes up. I've seen the arguments below and many similar to it in the past and have not said anything, but I will say something today.

It seems simple to me. every tournament has a time control. They have a time control and they have a standard vacation option and a weekend only option. Some times they use the clocks with no exceptions. If your time runs out and your vacation days run out, you forfeit the game. Until that happens, it is your time to do with as you please.

Maybe the problem lies not with people using up THEIR time, but with people signing up for tournaments that have liberal time controls. If you sign up for a tournament that is 5 day standard vacation and you are a relatively fast player, then expect to be kept waiting.

I'm not addressing this to anyone in particular. It's an open letter

happyjuggler0:
I think Carpe diem's point is correct. If your opponent is not timing out they are able to handle the number of games they have chosen to play. If you want them to play a move every day play games with a 1 day per move time limit.

happyjuggler0: It can happen for a number of reasons. Some people like to have a lot of games on the go so they always have some to play. And some, like me, started out by signing up to a lot of tournaments without realizing what we're getting ourselves into. A lot of tournaments don't start for a number of days, or even weeks, and if you play a lot of different games, you can sign up for quite a large number without fully realizing what you've done. And I can tell you from first hand experience, once you dig a hole, it can take a long, long, long time to get out. I managed to get myself all the way up to 3,000+ games early this year, and it's taken me until now to get down below 1,000, starting no more than a handful of games in that time. When you're that far behind, you have little hope of doing more than keeping your head above water - this means that you're maxing out all your game times, and therefore they take much longer to complete, leaving you in the hole for that much longer. It's sort of a vicious cycle.

speachless: 16-968.

That is the number of games where it is your turn, vs the number of games you have to play where it is your opponent's turn to play.

I thank you for your implicit attitude towards making your moves in your games. Far too many players here choose (for whatever reason) to have more games that they have to play in than they can handle in a given day, or any time period for that matter.

Aganju: Thanks a lot Aganju. I'm relieved to hear that :-)

speachless: for each game. The clock always resets, after each game.

Hi, I have a question, if the time LIMIT is set to 15 days, but the game is a 5 games match, does it mean for every single game of those 5 the limit is 15 days, so 5 games x 15 days = max. 75 days? or is the limit of 15 days for all of the 5 games, so for the whole match?

Dear friends:
Trying to promote new memberships for my fellowship, I´ve created this Prize tourney:
The Chess Club (1. December 2013, 12:42:24)
Please feel free to invite all your friends (they must require membership to enter)
Regards,
tenuki.

Artful Dodger:

Fencer: Maybe Jackie Chan too.

Fencer:  Clicks the "LIKE" button 

Aganju: Only Chuck Norris could roll a nine on a 6-side die. Nobody else.
I've fixed it.

Something fishy is going on. When you check this move: <http://brainking.com/en/showgame?g=6535691&i=87>
my opponent had a 1 and a 9 (yes, no typo, a nine). There is no image for the nine (but you can check the link's name, http://i.brainking.com/back/small-die9-25.gif). She could not move the 9 either, for unclear reasons (she could have just beared off).
Did I miss something? Were the Backgammon rules changed? Or how comes you can roll 9s now?

Looks like the color codes are applied at Checkout, not when you put it in the cart. I tried to put several one-year rooks in the cart, at different times, having different colors, but the cart merges them together into the current color.
So if someone wants to buy multiple color codes (which is only interesting if you try to get them all, otherwise you would always use the highest), you need to checkout for each color separately, and produce multiple orders (I'm pretty sure you can still pay them all in one go).

Also, this means that if you are trying to catch the Easter-Egg bonus, you can already prepare your cart, and when it appears - even for 15 seconds only - you can just quickly check-out and get it. :-)

ketchuplover: Easter came early for you remember? You got the 125% bonus that is your good fortune that you could share with others if you must humbly request that all players become paying members. Or you could even pay for some memberships.

Aganju:

7 bonus conqueror/achievements costs 252 euros (saving 108 euros on the regular black rook price and spreading the payment through 7 installments) and can give the recipients an extra 47 to 61 months in addition to the 84 months) Howver black rooks have their own forum! Can you wait to join that excitement?

crosseyed:

My fortune only appears good

Aganju: You can buy then for anybody. The achievement is applied to the one who places an order and makes the payment.

ketchuplover: Or you could share your good fortune to other players that cannot afford a membership.

Aganju: Good question.