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^&*(!, guess I'll have to change that then.

I assmumed he was referring to an "on-line" way of playing chess (e.g. blitz), which is what I was working on. No, I'll never replace the simple boards I have now with a Java applet, my oppinion is that same as everyone else's, Java pretty much sucks.

Positions occurs on 38.Ke2, 40.Nf8, and 42...Kd6

I had been working on one a few months ago, but now I'm spending quite a bit of time helping my astronomy club build an observatory. As soon as that's done, I'll be back to working on it.

The USCF has their official rules in their official rule book: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0812935594/ref=lpr_g_1/102-9893833-1206542?v=glance&s=books IIRC the only rules regarding analysis was that you could only consult any written material that existed before the match started. ...

I was in the process of editing the main page when the router went down. It'll be like that until I get home and can fix it. But you can still get a list of your games and log in using the links on the left of the main screen.

The outage this morning was due to problems with a router at the ISP. These will always happen and are unpredictable.

The outage last night were due to me working on the system, and were as described in the announcment.

It doesn't look pretty, but at least we have stats now. I'll fix it up a bit later and add back the "All User Stats" link.

Just for historical purposes so I can compare with the new values: Last Update: 6/28/2002 0:13:55 Total Games: 146072 Total Moves: 5099882 Total active users: 6447 Archived Games: 135477 In Progress Games: 10595 Archived Moves: 4734162 In Progress Moves: 365720 Timeouts: 70141 Timouts Under 10 Moves...

I'll be working on some things which will cause the database to go down every now and then. The each outage should last only a few seconds.

What Tim said is correct.

I had to have a privacy statement when I was doing the ads (one of their requirements), guess I'll just get rid of it now. But I remain shocked that someone actually read it, even *I* never have.

Quote works fine for me too, what browser are you guys using?

Works fine for me, anyone else have a problem? Maybe you're clicking the button too hard

http://www.x3dchess.com/news/espnannounce.htm

Show Times are (in EST)
November 11th 1-6, 13th 1-6, 16th 1-3:30, 18th 1-6

I'm programming my Tivo now.

what are the rules to get into the second round? :?: Don't assume there are rules! In general, I hope only the highest scoring player will go to the next round, but do to time outs and people resigning all of their games, that's not always possible. So it's more of a judgment call on who stands a c...

Your rating is provisional until you reach 20 games, but your rating won't change at all until you've completed 8 games. And note that games where your oppenent times out in under 10 moves don't count as a win for you.

I will be making some changes which may make the server unavailable Monday night.

Since you brought astronomy into this. 1/0=a black hole.

"...it's turtles all the way down."

Those games had a time limit of three days, with no time added.

What are some of the Game IDs?

I can't bring games back to life that have already ended.

7-5-2=0 so you can't divide both sides by it.

It could just as easily be negative infinity, because if you come at it from the other direction -2, -1, -0.5..., your numbers are opposite from the other direction. Division is not a "real" mathematical entity. It's the inverse function of multiplication. Since any number * 0 = 0, the equation 0*x=...

There won't be an automatic time increment, I'll just add more time if it looks like it's going to need it. I decide how much on a game by game basis.

E.g. If your time is at 1 day left, but your opponent has 20 days left, don't expect much time to be added.

I think you're asking if you can view what the board would look like when opening moves are specified on the "Start A Game" page. In which case, no, there's isn't away.

The DNS servers are back up and running. But I went ahead and bought secondary DNS service from another provider. We now have 7 DNS servers in five different geographic locations, so such problems should almost never occur again. As soon as the DNS came back up, everyone started hitting the site whi...

Looks like we're having DNS troubles again. Anytime this happens, you can still access the site through the URL http://66.54.199.11/~netchess/.

That's an aweful lot of instruments, and you still have time to play chess?

Anyway, I found all the emoticons I'll ever need:
http://paragon-hosting.net/~kama/board/ ... de=smilies

Maybe I'll have to institute a rule stating no more that 50 emoticons per message?

Here's some info on how to remove it:
http://www.pchell.com/virus/swen.shtml

I haven't actually read it, but it looks like it says how to get rid of it.

I believe this emoticon is appropriate:

I've already received a couple hundred of these:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/te ... 091903.htm

You could, but it's not a puzzle then.

0/0 is undefined because it has an infinite number of solutions. The idea that any number devided by iself is 1 is just a generalization, not a rule, and the same with anything to the 0th power.

That's just for me. Eventually you'll see any posts there also on the main page. Do the "see you in two weeks" the same way, just post it here. I don't want to get the forum too segmented so that people have to check 10 different forums just to see 10 posts. Also, it's not likley you'll see a "Serve...

This document is intended to present guidelines for posts in this forum. It will evolve over time, so check back from time to time to see if anything new has been added. Only puzzles, game commentary, and opening discussions may be posted here. If you have something that doesn't fall in that categor...

It'll probably be a while. There's more than twice as much data to go through than the last time the stats were ran, and the stats program locked the computer up on several runs before it finally finished. So the program is going to have to be rewritten before any updates are made. I'm planning to g...

It's probably somewhere around 160,000. But there's no mathematical way to determine the exact number of moves, the only way would be to count them all.

purplekiller wrote:me thinks hamot played too much "Pacman"

See, now I have to go find a Pac Man one.

I can download more!

Ok, I'm just playing with the poll thingy:

It looks like DST isn't supported at all. So we'll just have to remember to add/subtract an hour.

Apparently the default was set to GMT. I've changed it to Eastern time, but daylight savings time still doesn't appear to work.

Also, if you go into your profile, you can set the time zone to whatever your local time is.

This new forum should be a little nicer. If there are posts you need to access in the old forum, you can still access it at http://www.net-chess.com/wwwboard/wwwboard.html, but posting has been disabled.

If you want to reply to a message there, just copy the text and quote it here.

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