Thanks. How about if they are already on the friends list? Is it impossible for them to put one on their enemy list? or can they thus remove themselves from the friends list?

Has the system been arranged such that if one is on a member's enemy list it is impossible to put that member on one's friends list?

Rather than banning others to balance Danoschek I'd rather see Danoschek back and people being more tolerant of each other's peculiarities.

What matters is for the ratings to be relevent so effectively none of the catagories of "cheat" is important as they are inactive, playing themselves or providing practice for the lower ranks. What I think is more important is inflation caused by the floor, to balance this the decay may need to be tied in with the number of different opponents.

I'd say 90 days is far too long and agree with the suggestion that games in progress suffice.

Rating decay is a great idea.

The sultan of Brunei?

I think two of my games have just disappeared. I'm pretty sure I had six waiting for my move but now it's only four(??).

That really is hilarious. Can someone explain what the so called cheaters gain in return for undertaking this outrageously boring and embarrassing charade? A completely new level of nutcase to me, anthropologists are going to have a field day when they get round to cataloguing these idiots.

The same problem existed to an exaggerated extent at Netchess. It did in effect do some harm as one was constantly being paired up with unsuitably weak opponents who had boosted their ratings. If the ratings have no meaning they may as well be done away with altogether.

Couldn't a feature be added whereby all accounts stemming from the same source appear parenthetical to any account being viewed?

Try changing the number in the address bar, 50 per page.

I had at least one for everybody I've ever played I think.

The problem was it carried on snowing.

I see, thanks. I guess I must've accidently clicked it the other night while drunk.

How is it that the my-move games on my main page are now upside down and is there a way for me to change them back?

Thanks. It's a pity, I had a lot of fun playing with Skalpone.

Does anyone know what happened to Skalpone?

Seems okay now.

I think forced draws (in the manner of perpetual check) in tablut are nonsense. A voluntary draw in which both sides willingly repeat position indicates a mutual desire to draw, neither side thinks that they can win but in tablut white, in an otherwise lost situation, can force a repitition to avoid losing. The fact that this can be done in chess has no bearing on the situation in tablut. On the tablut rules page there's a statistic that at BrainKing white has won 60% of the games, this is already a large enough advantage without adding the extra resource of being able to force a draw (black can not force a draw). For black avoiding a draw is as big a challenge as is trying to win. I dont know if it would help to remove the draw as it might make it too easy for black to win but as the present situation is unfair I suggest that games that end with white forcing repetition shouldn't count as a result but instead should be replayed with the colours reversed.

This is a very rare case (isn't it?), any repressive steps to prevent such behaviour is likely to be a case of the treatment being worse than the disease.

Thanks.

When playing backgammon does the opponent see the board as if they were sitting on the other side or are the dice reversed so that both sides see the left dice on their left and the right on their right? In short how do we know which piece they moved first?

Mine's just a trivial joke, I'm quite happy if it's deleted.

Your site is running wonderfully. I was quite innured to the please wait business so it's taken me a day or two to notice, thanks very much.

Has Danoschek been barred from the site? If so, as a fellow member, I would like to hear the full story.