mrloupcity: Yes, as a part of BK 2.0.

Fencer is this going to be back up soon. The table of best BKR and positions has been temporarily disabled. You my have said something about it, if you did I mist it. Could you please tell me...

It's easy, I print a loooong list of all BK users, put it on a wall and throw a dart. Or I would like to do it one day :-D

Well I can never decide, I want to interview everyone! So I ask Fencer to make the final decision on most interviews :o)

Here. Don't forget to refresh that page if you can't see it.

rofl harley re: spider line4 :-)

I didn't know Fencer picked who was to be interviewed...when did that start? :-)

Ha, I've lost loads of times as black too! Theres been some discussion about it on the maharajah chess DB, if you have a look there... :o)

Well I'm sure it could easly be programed to still show the opponents last move while still having the white piece pre-selected.

The only trouble with having white pre-selected is that you'd miss the 'what move your opponent made last' bit. Maybe you wouldn't miss it, but I would.

As for white always losing.. Bzzzzzzzzt. Wrong. I've won more times as white than as black. :P~~

Fencers choice :o) I thought Kevin is a great choice too, I'm looking forward to putting in my own questions for him! (Like how does he always beat me at spider line 4!)

Great choice harley. Amazing young man, some will be shocked at his age.

Oh, you're right, Rogue Lion! I did pass it along to Fencer, he musn't have got around to putting it at BrainKing.info yet. I'm sure it will be there soon.

In the meantime.... please send me your questions for KEVIN!! This hard-working youngster has done wonders for BrainKing. I can think of a dozen or so questions I'd like to ask him!

The masses demand the zetes interview! (or did I miss it.)

Thanks harley!

rhiannon - its when you hit the 'move and go to...' button that it counts as a move. So its just counted as one move.

In backgammon, what counts as a move for this list? I mean you normally move two counters so is that two separate moves or counted as just one?

I agree, this game is not balanced!
But if you play it with the regular chesset and with a maharajah instead of a queen it can be interesting.

it would be even simpler if the system selected a white move at random, and with about the same result.

are there still suckers to play white for maharajah? I would have thought that by now everyone is aware that white always loses this game - I guess that's why he's represented as a pigeon :)

... it's like Maharajah Chess when you are white - I mean you KNOW which piece you are going to move, yet you have to go through an extra move to click on that piece to indecate that you are going to be moving it.

(wouldn't it be more easy - and less page hits for the server - if the white pieces was automaticly "highlighted" and ready to move)

What pleasure do those sad anoraks get by playing on to the very end, even when they have no way of winning. Mind you, I cheer when they throw a double 6.

I rather liked that feature.. Don't have to always have the same standard
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start. It can make a difference. And you have to pick your opening moves in chess/checkers/salvo/etc do you not? What's the difference here? I think any of the games need to get underway before they can get 'exciting'.

why do we have to go thru the boring process of picking our first 2 moves....is there not a proggy that can do this? i find these games are a bit NON everything when this has to happen....love the game, just dont like the start??

I think the ignore list should prevent you from reading any messages posted or pm'd by them. You would not see messages in games from them, but any games you were currently in them with would otherwise continue until either won or resigned by either party.

After that, they would not see your games in the 'waiting' list nor you theirs. If you and they were in the same tournament, your chances of getting paired with them should not change, so if you wish to avoid it, you'd have to avoid the same tournaments. However, even in these games, you'd only have to play, not talk. Might be incentive to hurry up and play those games to get them over with. ;)

/ignore is a useful feature. "You [edited]because..." just adds fuel to small fires. <em>*edit* turns bonfires into signal fires</em>

plonker/plonkee *grins* Sorry.. usenet throwback. :)

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woo hoo

but many friends !!!

What does anyone care why you put them on your enemie list? If you dont want to see messages from them, why then would they care to see a message from you, especially one that tells them that you thought they were derogetory, or some other personal opinion of yours?

What does anyone care if you resign all of your tournament games with them anyway???? It would make me happy :)

But you wouldn't get an accurate rating.

AH YES, but then.....if you dont play the top players...you would never BE a top player...takes away a certain cheating element as well :)

Thanks for finding all possible side effects :-)

I understand, Bernice, but with what you suggest you would get the situation whereby a player could avoid all of the top players in a tournament simply by putting them on their ignore list.

i still stick with what Ughaibu said...if I dont like you, i can put you on my enemy list BUT...i must say why.....example :- "sorry but you posted something derogative about me and I dont wish to speak to you again...no games either"

Now I would point out at this time that "a member" had a tournament going and I informed him of the fact that if i was placed up against a certain person I would resign the game and not even attempt to play it... this person was already on my ignore list.....
surely there is an option or a code that could keep "ignored" people away from the people that want to be "ignored"???
god im sounding like i dont know what im talking about LOLOL....prolly dont hehehehe
does anybody understand me ?

So the person placed on an ignore/enemies list is the 'plonkee' and the person doing the placing is the 'plonker'? :)

Lythande, are you proposing that anyone you place on your ignore list have ALL their posts hidden from you, over ALL boards, andnot just personal and games messages?

This deserves to go over to 'Feature Requests'.

Although an interesting question in re Fencer, I disagree completely with reasons and a copy sent the plonkee. It goes along with the other suggestion I agree with, which is to change the name of that list to 'ignore' list. Sometimes you just want to read a board without having to scuffle through the 47 posts of someone saying the same thing over and over. You don't want to make them feel bad, and you don't have any intentions of leaving them on the list. You just want to ignore them for a while. Silently dropping them on a list is a lot less painful than saying, "Okay, you're an enemy and here's why."

no trespassers allowed at The Cave!! If you cnt stay a member...there should be no reason to snoop ;þ

hahahhahahahahahahahahaha well that's for him to know and you to wonder about dear bumby, hahahahhaahhahahahah

As long as he wasn't found wanting at the Pearly Gates! lol

Wellllllllll now, hehehhehehe he didn't need any debagging, he came prepared, hhahahahhahahahaa

Knowing you lot you probably debagged him!

hehehheheheheheh that is so true Bumby, I saw him only the other day mingling with the Angels hahahahahahha

ughaibu: Fencer is omnipotent - all-seeing, all-knowing. He moves in mysterious ways appearing in the depths of the Cave then exalting with Angels...

yes....ughaibu....i agree with that completely...to put someone on enemy deserves an explanation....good idea..

I just noticed I'm on someone's enemy list, of course I could be on dozens but how would I know? anyway, I thought it might be fun to ask that person "why?" but how can I do so if I dont know if they're online or where they are and I cant message them. It got me thinking about the whole enemy environment. It would be convenient if a person when putting someone on their list had to state reasons and a copy was sent to the "enemy".

WOW...now there is a scary thought....how would you tell someone they are RS if you couldnt talk to them LOLOL

Has anyone done it before Fencer?

hahahha....why would you do that???
ughaibu....are you stirring LOLOL

I don't understand the question.
However, it won't be possible to put site administrators to Enemies list in the future.

If, god forbid, a person were to put Fencer on their enemy list would they become invisible and immune from messages as is the case with less exalted enemies?

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