How is the current policy on multi nicks? There is a player that is losing games to another player with nearly exactly the same nick name and with exactly the same "real name" - and then the losing account is playing against other players in public tournaments. Will they be banned?

Gordon Shumway: send the names to fencer in a private message and he will look into it

Hrqls: OK! It wasn't me who discovered it, and that's what I told the person to do. Just wanted to make sure that this is the course of action to be taken. Thank you :)

In light of the latest blog submission, I am curious if there are more people with administrative access than just Fencer and Liquid?

With Fencer away on holiday, it seems like a lot of responsibility for just one person to handle?

If there are others, could the list be updated please?

Czuch:  Yes, I do.  But it's supposed to be a secret so please keep it to yourself. 

Artful Dodger: In your dreams....

Artful Dodger:

Artful Dodger: and a damn fine job you have done as well and Czuch you should be thankfuly that we have someone that really cares.

the same thing happens to me all the time AND i wonder why??

What does THIS ERROR mean that appeared on the BrainKing.info site yesterday a couple of times

This site has been down for me since 10 am est yesterday you could log in but could not play just big white screens

This site has been down for me since 10 am est yesterday you could log in but could not play just big white screens

MadMonkey: Hey thats funny, i am talking to myself

Anyway, i got that on the brainking.info site just before the main site went down as well today, but a little latter the .info site come back, if that helps anything

beach:I had slow loads on my cable connection, but no unending white screens.

Am I imagining things or was there a store on this site at one time where you could buy a Brainking Tshirt? Anyone remember?

Mousetrap: sure was

see the very helpful help item:
http://brainking.com/en/Help?ht=16

Mousetrap: I believe the store temporarily closed down.

I bought a brainking baseball cap a few years ago. I wear it all the time!

Mousetrap: We where right mousetrap, there was a bk store

Marshmud: I thought so lol! Thanks very much everyone who answered.

Mousetrap: I have a BK t-shirt and used to wear it all the time, but not any longer as it faded terribly (washed out) and the glitter paint wore off.

Mousetrap: As rod said the store is temporarily closed , BUT when i spoke to Fencer about it earlier in the year he mentioned he was going to re-open it again

MadMonkey: With a slightly modified set of goods.

Bernice: I have had a few favourite tshirts do that over the years. I just wore them and wore them and wore them some more for doing odd jobs lol. Oops that was off topic so I,ll turn it arround. I,ll look forward to seeing what the store has to offer.

Would it be possible Fencer to allow U-Tube(and others where possible) embeds on the World of Sport board ?

There is some great stuff going on at the Olympics at present, and would be great to be able to show others interested

MadMonkey:

Fencer: Great, thanks

The blog says a tournament open to everyone, even those who cannot afford to pay, yet some people like me do not have any brains, so how can everyone enter, even us with no brains? Only 29 people in the first attempt, that is a successful start?

Czuch: hahaha I would never admit to not having any brains LOL....you are a brave man ROFLMBO

Czuch: I don't have any brains either! 

Artful Dodger: another brave male..LOL

Czuch:

Czuch: Well that post in the blog assumed you read the previous entries. There was one about how anyone could quickly and easily earn at least 20 brains.

Fencer, what does this brainking.info site message mean ?

I have been getting it for the last few weeks now

Is it me, the site or something else causing it ?

MadMonkey: The site.

Fencer: Well that is good then (in a bad way lol).

Update Scanner (Extension) keeps picking it up for me , I guess its nothing to worry about then, will go back to my fishing

OK, I'm surprised...I accepted a "draw" offer from an opponent not expecting my rating to drop. It did. I'm hoping someone can tell me why?

Game: Chess (Summertop vs. petrchy)

Note: Opponent's rating was 2075 (over 100 games, so it was established).
My rating was 1729

Summertop: you played a 2 game match: you lost one game and drew another, so overall you lost the match

BKR changes are calculated for the match as a whole and not for every individual game

Roberto Silva: Ah, that makes sense, now.

Doesn't anyone else feel that 1259 defined tournament is a bit excessive?

rabbitoid:

Looks like someone has been turning tournament creation into a full time job.

rabbitoid: And this person userally deletes all their games after creating and making one or two moves. Not only that why is a pawn creating these games when they have no brains to enter themselves?
On second thoughts! Dont answer that!

rabbitoid: Yes, it is really no fun anymore to look for new tournaments when all the interesting ones are buried under dozens of duplicates with the very same parameters and the very same starting date. If there is no admin or moderator available who could approach her and make her stop this nonsense, then in my opinion there should be at least an automated task which deletes those duplicates, probably already at creation.

kleineme:

kleineme: or maybe, simply, add some sort of 'don't show tournaments created by this user.' Fencer?

rabbitoid: It might be easier to delete all tournaments created by that user.

Fencer:
I submitted the below message on the tournament board, but no one came up with a response, so thought it was only me! Clearly not.

Also, I can't see how to delete these tournaments from my view.
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Subject: Tournament Filter
Excuse me if this has been asked before.
Is there a way to apply a filter to the tournaments which will not show certain creators.
e.g. show all tournaments not created by angelstar.

This should cut the current list of 1230 tournies by at least 75% and make the list more manageable)

(nothing against angelstar, just that I don't want to see these tournaments)

Note I already have game filters on.
Thanks.

Fencer:  Maybe pawns should have a strict limit per month on how many tourneys they can create (like 1 - hehe)  ;)  and the rest of us have a limit too.  There's always fellowship tourneys to create and those can remain unlimited.  I keep my tourney creation down because there are so many already it seems pointless to add to the already huge numbers.

Just a thought but perhaps creating a tourney should only be a privilege of membership.  :) 

And maybe if tourneys don't fill up by the deadline they should just automatically be zapped. 

Artful Dodger: I was just going to say, I didn't think pawns could create tournaments