Brian1971: Thank you Brian. I thought that might be the case, but wanted to ask to be sure.

I signed up for the Open Fevga Championship recently. At that time, there was a message about being careful not to exceed my allowed 20 games as a Brain Pawn. It said for a tournament of this type, I should leave at least 10 open game slots to avoid having the system delete some of my games for being over the limit.

I made sure that I had at least that many slots open when the tournament started. I fact I think I had 11 open slots. Now that all of the tournament games have started, I have a total of 29 games running. Am I in danger of having the system zing me for beng over the limit, or is a Brain Pawn allowed one tournament, even if it gives him over 20 running games?

Ok, thanks WellyWales, Bernice, Vikings, and Hrqls for the replies.

I am wondering why I have not received a rating yet in some games. For instance, Five-in-Line, I have won 3 games so far but I am still unrated for that game. I know that they were rated games because I did not check off "Unrated" when I created the game, and also in the win message it showed my opponents' ratings being adjusted, but I was still shown as "Unrated". Why? Do I have to win or at least complete a certain number of games of a given type before I receive a rating in that game?

Hi, I am curious about the waiting games listings. Under some of the waiting games there are numbers in parentheses. For example (3x) or (9x). I could not find any mention of these numbers in the FAQ, etc. What do they mean? Do they mean that the person who posted the game offer is offering to play that number of separate games of that type? Like if it says "Backgammon / (3x)" then that means the person wants to play 3 separate matches of backgammon?