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Thibault de Vassal    (2006-04-08 17:51:15)
Drag & drop...

... isn't implemented yet ! The interface to play is a click & click one.

Go to "My messages", choose a game (click Game # or the rook)... the board appears.. click on the piece to move, wait the page loading, click the destination square, then submit.

Feel free to give me your impressions about the interface. Thank you in advance.

Thibault

Per Lea    (2006-04-08 23:23:25)
My messages/My games

I found it extremely confusing that when I wanted to make a move, my games are found under "My messages". To me, the logical place to look is under "My games"... It took me nearly 10 frustrating minutes before I managed to make my first move! Of course, once I know where to look, there's no problem. But it may be a problem for new players!

Per Lea    (2006-04-10 09:52:36)
Games appearing in short list

Thanx for obeying my wish - now the "My games" list is much easier to read. But why can't I just click on one of the games in this list when I want to make a move? If you prefer, you could put a symbol (such as the white or black rook) next to the games where it is my move, to make it easier to see where it is my move. Then there is really no need to list the games (where it is my move) under "My messages" as well.

Patrice Verdier    (2006-04-11 14:06:50)
French Interface in preferences

In Preferences when I choice the French langage, only list in left of the page (Mes messages, mes parties,...) are writed in French Why not all the site ?

Thibault de Vassal    (2006-05-25 12:10:06)
Messages

Hello Phil.

There's no chat yet, if you want to send a message to players, you can use this forum... Private messages are authorized during the games.

Thibault de Vassal    (2006-05-25 12:22:25)
FICGS__CHESS__CLASS_G__000001

Did you confirm your registration at this tournament ?

(please don't post your messages several times ;))

Thibault de Vassal    (2006-05-25 12:26:04)
refreshed page

Phil, when your browser ask if you want to submit the form again, you don't only refresh the page... Click on forum to refresh the page.

Please post your messages in a unique thread.

Thibault de Vassal    (2006-05-29 13:06:48)
Sorting games

Hello Trent. That's a fine suggestion, thanks.

Actually, there are several ways to sort games usefully, hard to choose. Now the games (in 'My messages') are sorted according to your time of response. Thus the first game appearing is 'most probably' the one you should consider first.

About one of your messages I forgot to respond (sorry), I'll try to offer to play on a javascript/java interface later [help welcome :)] , but I think HTML is quite ok and most compatible. On some computers it consumes less time on dial-up than other servers using Java...

Thibault de Vassal    (2006-05-29 13:32:45)
Remaining time

Hello Heinz-Georg !

'My games' is only a short overview of all your running games (as Per suggested), useful when you have a lot of games. Adding clocks would be too much space consuming.

My preferred page is definitely 'My messages'... Using both should be efficient enough.

Heinz-Georg Lehnhoff    (2006-05-29 13:51:27)
Remaining time

Hello Thibault!

What a pity! Everything I would like is a short overview of my running games - with the remaining time(s). I don't need the start date of the tournament at this page. You can delete it to get more space. My messages doesn't contain further information which I need.

Thibault de Vassal    (2006-06-03 14:05:02)
Repetition of position

Repetition of position doesn't lead to a loss, as it's now impossible to make a move that provokes such a situation. (message would be 'Incorrect move'). So the pure Chinese rules apply.

The change of rules have been announced in the news (page 'My messages'). Everyone is supposed to read it, as it's the first page appearing when you log in.

Cheers.

Heinz-Georg Lehnhoff    (2006-07-10 20:06:15)
Vacation and reflection time

Hi Thibault

Vacation seems to be a great problem on all chess servers. The way you manage it is very special. I don't think, that your way is "hard to use". Of course you can always abuse vacation to have more time in time trouble. But your way is very easy. Take 10 days of vacation and play on. And at the end of a year add the not consumed vacation to the reflection time of all of your games.

Now you suggest that a player can not play during his vacation. That is ok. But if the player starts playing during his vacation "loosing the days leave taken and not used yet" is not ok. "Maybe it won't be appreciated in some particular cases". Too much and unnecessary administration. Let the server work.

You don't want to give up your concept (adding vacation time to the reflection time), am I right? You already have announced the corrections on "My messages". If you must change your concept, you would have to rewrite parts of the software.

Nevertheless I would like to say how I imagine the vacation rules on my "perfect server".

I can make the following things with my 4 weeks of holiday:

- If I'm on holiday far away from home or don't like to play chess for a while, I can take a leave in all tournaments.
- If I have much work (sorry - I had to earn money and my employer doesn't take it into consideration, that I would like to play more chess) and can't take care of all tournaments for a while, I take a leave in single tournaments. If the overload is past, I play on without losing the vacation which I perhaps haven't taken.
- I cannot take a leave in a rapid tournament. That is ok - rapid means rapid. There shouldn't be any way to get more time for reflection in this kind of tournament.

It's a pity that no more players express their opinion on this topic in this forum.

Thibault de Vassal    (2006-07-19 12:39:31)
Public comments

Hello Gino.

Indeed, no way to message your opponent if not your turn (you may wait to play a move and ask him - message window when confirming your move).

About public comments, maybe we can improve it... 3 ways IMO :

1) Public comments should be available only when the game is finished.

2) A checkbox in your 'Preferences' to authorize public comments from your opponents. (I don't like this one much..)

3) I specify in the rules that comments are simply authorized.

What do you think is best ?

In my opinion, comments should be always available... I see no reason why it could perturb more than private messages.. By the way, this option was asked on the forum previously when looking for a way to warn players who obviously last games too much... Maybe we could see and wait.

Thibault de Vassal    (2006-07-24 19:23:24)
Copyright issues

Like everywhere else, Dirk Jan... at your own risks ;)

http://www.ficgs.com/membership.html

06. Warranties and limitations of liability

(...) FICGS shall not be liable for what members will do if they don't respect these "Terms and Conditions" or for what members will publish in the forum, news, comments or messages to other members.

Benjamin Aldag    (2006-08-20 22:37:05)
How can i send a message to another.....

Hi,

how can i send a messages to another member of FICGS ? Is it only possible by playing with a member move by move, or is there another way ? It would be nice to send a message to anyone anytime.

Benny

Thibault de Vassal    (2006-08-22 18:15:39)
Private messages

I don't think a kind of webmail could be really useful... Emails could be displayed (player's choice) for connected players only. What do you think ?

Don Groves    (2006-08-23 05:04:33)
What about this case...

An opponent just resigned and said "good game" to me in his message. But now his game no longer shows up in my messages, so how can I answer him and express my gratitude for a good game?

Thibault de Vassal    (2006-08-23 14:28:39)
Private messages

Hi Don.

A way is to leave a public comment... I'm thinking about a funny and efficient way to "connect" players (who want to be). Not so easy... All ideas welcome :)

Don Groves    (2006-08-24 00:39:25)
re: private messages

ICCF allows this by keeping finished games in a players current game list until the player decides to remove it. This way players can continue to exchange messages about their game until at least one decides to stop. -- Don

Ilmars Cirulis    (2006-09-20 01:24:07)
I'm sorry

Please delete one of these two messages.

Ilmars Cirulis    (2006-10-03 22:53:33)
... dead!

IMO advantage is 100% enough for win in both variation, at least for me (+engine :D). (It is sad that I don't have money (enough) - I could offer you a bet.) :D P.S. Question not about Traxler - how do you make empty lines in messages?

Thibault de Vassal    (2006-10-03 23:01:05)
not dead

I just added some lines.. Forget about this, Ilmars :) .. there are too many lines to analyze, and there's no way to prove anything !

If you want to bet on this, you'll loose money for sure... ;)

To begin a new line in messages, just type "< br >" (without the spaces)

Thibault de Vassal    (2006-10-09 10:56:23)
Server peaks of charge

Hi all and thanks for sharing your views.

I agree with Marc, there's no reason to slow down games by force. I'm just thinking about an emergency system that would delay (a few minutes at most) the moves to appear in 'My messages' and 'My games' with an appropriate message if too many players are sending moves at the same time - in future. Some games run particularly fast (30 moves played in half an hour).

The idea of delaying the sending of moves is interesting but I'm not convinced yet. I fear it wouldn't be used a lot and too many options is not good IMO. (more, the delay wouldn't be 100% accurate) As for me, I just 'accepted' to have 10 or more pending moves continuously, I delete emails (or set email notification off) and come back later to the server... Another way would be to filter moves responded before a defined time in 'My games'. Not so useful...

Thibault de Vassal    (2006-10-10 10:42:53)
Thomas

Hi Thomas.

I'll create the games and tournament as soon as all pairings and names / nicknames are ok. I send my list in a few hours. Players will just have to connect and see their running games in 'My games' or 'My messages'...

Best wishes.

Thibault de Vassal    (2006-10-14 18:33:37)
Chess and Go diagrams / Forum update

A major update for FICGS forums (& blogs) !

Now you can insert Chess & Go diagrams in messages...
(useful to submit chess problems, analysis and so on...)

See the FAQ in help section - http://www.ficgs.com/help.html - for details, in example here is the position of the last game in the FIDE world chess championship between Veselin Topalov & Vladimir Kramnik, just before Topalov blunder 44. ...Rxc5 ??

ChessPosition (see diagram)

Diagrams format is quite simple (see Help), please note only one diagram / position will be displayed per message.

Also minor bugs (links, search functions) corrected...

Scott Prestwood    (2006-10-28 19:58:33)
Connected players

What is the "Connected players" list in the messages for and why does my name stay on it as others are changing, and the list of others in the tourney I am in do not show up in the list?

Thibault de Vassal    (2006-10-31 09:50:28)
Red mark + Message

Graham, really ? Please note the red mark is only displayed on the 'move' page, when you're to play a move. (not in the viewer page ie.)

Sebastian, that's quite right, messages may be forgotten on the 'move' page... But I thought it would be hard not to see it on the 'move_confirm' (cf. url) page, above the 'send' button... That's a problem to displace the board at the bottom IMO :/ And a popup window wouldn't be appreciated... I have no better idea at this time.

Thanks for feedback.

Daniel Khayman    (2006-11-19 18:20:37)
Messages

Hello everyone, I'm new here and have joined after recommendation from Mr. Wayne Lowrence, my good web friend and chess master (watch out for him:-). I've been trying to communicate within the site via text message but that seems to be impossible unless the receiver is your direct opponent; can anybody help me out? Is there a way of sending texts to whoever one likes? Thank you for dropping by, Daniel

Thibault de Vassal    (2006-11-19 21:05:29)
Messages

Hello Daniel.

Sorry, this feature is not implemented (yet). This kind of webmail shouldn't be necessary here IMO. It has been discussed already, but all suggestions & arguments are welcome :)

Best wishes.

Wayne Lowrance    (2006-11-20 21:12:28)
Messages

Hi Dan. Welcome aboard. This is nice site. I agree, the site is a very good place to play CC, But it is not very friendly only because of the feature you mention. When I first came aboard that is the first thing I noticed. Consider this a second vote for a place that we all can converse and get to know each other better. Wayne. ps Dan I know your a tough cookie and will do well here

Daniel Khayman    (2006-11-20 22:13:29)
Messages

hello Wayne, i'm glad you've popped in. yeah, apparently not many players here like to have a friendly chat while playing but, hey, you can always find a way around it so, if you wanna talk, my friend, just post a topic here and we'll discuss it......or maybe we can do by the usual e-mails :-). thanks for your welcoming Wayne and hope to meet you soon across the board.. daniel p.s.: today my son has been hospitalised for 10 days to examine what appears to be a certain case of autism: the final diagnosis will be made at the end of this session but i'm not to optimistic anymore; he looked like he'd been improving but it was only a mirage or maybe just my irrational hope that all this be a bad dream from which i'll soon wake up. i've woken up, alright?!?! what can you do? life goes on and he's forever gonna need me so i can't afford to despair. the greatest match of my yet short life has begun. see you around Wayne.

Wayne Lowrance    (2006-11-21 01:56:08)
Messages

Dan I will answer you via email. I think it is frowned upon to carry chit chat on this link. Very sorry my friend about your son Wayne

Daniel Khayman    (2006-11-21 04:36:37)
Messages

cool

Thibault de Vassal    (2006-11-21 11:40:05)
Messages

Hello Daniel.

So sorry to read this... Please just tell me if you want your post to be edited.

All the best, Thibault.

Wayne Lowrance    (2006-11-21 18:51:35)
Messages

Dan I have lost your e-mail somehow. Dan, Dorothy and I continue to pray for you and your son. Would you send me your e-mail please. I have more to say that best be personnal. Keep up your faith my good friend Thanks to all members of this forum to allow me to communicate with my friend Wayne

Don Groves    (2006-11-25 20:42:20)
"Next" request

I would like to see the "Next" function changed to move through a player's games by going to the next game in the list instead of going to the front of the list each time. The reason for this is: if I have skipped over a game because I don't want to move in that game until I have given it more thought, I can't use "Next" to step through my games but must instead use "My Messages" to keep skipping that game. With a long game list, this gets tiresome.

Thibault de Vassal    (2006-11-28 13:38:30)
FICGS chat !

Hello to all.

You probably noticed this new window on the right... :)

This is a chat window, here you can write to everyone in the international chat, and to people from your country only (in your own language !). You can moderate the messages by clicking on the arrow just before each message (please use it with moderation)...

Question is : Should it be permanent or not ??

Two ways :

1. It could appear only from time to time...
2. There should be a way to close the window during the session.

Feel free to tell me if you encounter any problem... Thanks for feedback !

Thibault de Vassal    (2006-11-28 16:24:12)
Improvements

I just added 2 features on the chat window :

Now you can close it by clicking the arrow just before 'International chat'
Now you can refresh the messages by clicking on 'International chat'

Thibault de Vassal    (2007-01-22 11:26:58)
problems with playback

Hello Michael.

Sorry, so many things to implement yet :)

What do you mean 'Whenever I play back a game' ?

I use Firefox and Explorer and I didn't see that until now ?! (if I understood well)

I'll add a download button for all games, right now you can try to click the printer icon in 'My games', there's a list of your games in PGN format.

You can see who's online at the bottom of the page 'My messages' or go to http://www.ficgs.com/informations.html

My best.

Michael Finkelstein    (2007-01-23 04:37:26)
problems with playback --

Dear Thibault, Thank you for your kind attention to my issue. I appreciate your efforts here very much. When I am at the start of a game which I wish to play back, I hit the forward button to play the next move -- when I do so the screen drops a quarter of a page. I then have to go to my screen up button to move the screen up again so I can see the move buttons. Or, when it is my turn to move, I click on the piece I want to move, and the screen again drops down a quarter of a page -- so I have to do a screen up button to get back to the board and click on the square I want to go to. I assume this is a unique problem to me since I saw no posts on it. What do you think, do I need to do a better job of explaining my situation? In regard to the light by the names of people online, I find it helpful when I logon and go to my games to see in one view which of my opponents is online, that way I can know if I will be making several moves before I log out since my opponent is online too. It is more tedious to search on my messages to see if any of my opponents is online. It would also to nice to have a buddy list so I could see stats in one view on my friends here. Thank you so much for allowing us to download all our games in progress at once. I did not mean to be critical. This is a nice site and you do a nice job here. Thank you again for your response to my question. Mike

Michael Finkelstein    (2007-01-23 21:25:52)
problems with playback --

Thibault, When you are looking at your own game, or any game in the site, you see the chess pieces on the chess board on your computer screen. Belown the chess board are the arrows to move the pieces forward and back in the game in order to replay it. When you click on the arrows to move a piece forward or back as you replay the game, the screen drops a quarter of a page. Thus, to get back to the arrows to replay another move in the game you have to scroll the screen up. Also, I just noticed that when viewing my game where it is my turn to move, the arrows for replaying the game are not present. This is a problem since I may not have played that game in many days and would like to replay before making my move to remind myself of how I got into the position. This is a nice play to play, but I do think you shoud visit queenalice.com to see some of the nicer features that you can incorporate here to make the experience better. Thank you for your kind consideration, Thibault. Mike PS I note that when I write here I do put in paragraph spacing but it does not show up in the preview or post. Yet your messages do have paragraph spacing -- how do you do that?

Scott Prestwood    (2007-04-16 15:27:14)
skip

I usually have to go to messages to make sure I am attending the game with the greatest amount of time pressure. Would 'skip' go to the next game with the shortest amount of time left?

Thibault de Vassal    (2007-06-04 03:38:43)
World Team Championship

Hello Dan.

It's been discussed already... See the last messages of this thread :

http://www.ficgs.com/forum_read_294-Team-Championship.html

Thibault de Vassal    (2007-07-17 12:12:43)
Game sorting

The page "My messages" displays only games where it is your move - sorted by 'date of last move played'. I'll probably add this option in september, there will be a (probably long) thread "Wish list" :)

Thibault de Vassal    (2007-08-13 05:40:04)
Hello Vitalii...

More accurately :

1) Posting private messages from anyone violates applicable laws.
2) Slander violates applicable laws.

These two were included in the discussion / accusations, whatever the facts about these threatens...

More accurately :

I'll apply the rules letter by letter from now...

... furthermore (not consequently) :

ANYONE WHO WILL POST SUCH ACCUSATIONS AGAIN WILL BE BANNED FROM THE SITE, cause this is definitely not the place for it.

Best wishes, Thibault

Sergei Ivanov    (2007-08-13 11:57:51)
Thibault de Vassal

1) "Posting private messages from anyone violates applicable laws."
It was PUBLIC MESSAGE, the message --- [moderator : name deleted] planned murder Dmitry's , saw many people, it has been laid out at forum IM of [moderator : name deleted].

2) "Slander violates applicable laws."
It NOT SLANDER - this TRUTH and it has already confirmed 4 persons.

Thibault de Vassal    (2007-08-13 14:03:37)
Sergei Ivanov

1) I didn't say the contrary about this particular point, actually I don't know anything about it... but some private messages were posted (and of course deleted) during the discussion.

2) I didn't say the contrary about this particular point, actually I don't know anything about it... but there were some slander about drugs, weapons or mafia... no proofs, finally this is definitely the place for such accusations.

WARNING :

Writing the name of the accused player in this thread is a way to accuse him again, it will lead to be suspended during a while.

Philip Roe    (2007-09-01 04:24:39)
private/public messages

I too would like to send private messages, perhaps to congratulate the winner of my tourney. Also, can one add public comments to a game that is finished? Either ones own game or someone elses?

Thibault de Vassal    (2007-09-01 10:24:20)
private/public messages

Hello Phillip.

Yes, it is possible to leave a public comment for your own finished games (you can find it through 'My tournaments'). I'll work on the private message facility soon.

Garvin Gray    (2007-09-01 10:39:31)
offer

Ilmars offered to swap credits again, but as I had less than ten e points, so couldnt do it.

Obviously Ilmars would have to confirm this offer.

I believe that you can see all the previous chat bar messages, so you can at least follow our conversation about this matter from there.

Thibault de Vassal    (2007-09-09 15:28:33)
FICGS update & wish list

Hello to all.

You probably noticed a new extension to the chat bar, it delivers some random messages and news (forum, problems, public comments, entries, login). It also automatically warns a player if he started an advanced tournament [bullet, lightning or blitz games], which is more convenient... As it refreshes every minute, you shouldn't log out automatically anymore until you close the chat bar.

Other changes :

- Serbia & Montenegro (SCG) has become Serbia (SRB) and Montenegro (MNE).
- New players will start with a 1800 chess rating.
- Lightning tournaments become Advanced tournaments (blitz, lightning, bullet)
- New quotes added from the forum :)
- Some Google optimizations...
- Waiting list for unrated no-engines tournaments is open !
- Minor bugs corrected.

I did not implement the private messages facility yet... I feel it could create some problems (not technically), I still have to think about it.

This is probably a good moment to open a wish list and discuss all changes you'd like to see on the site...

Best wishes, Thibault

Thibault de Vassal    (2007-09-10 18:39:27)
Insults

Hello Andrew.

"Limited access to the server" means (like ICC) that a player still can play his moves, but can't post anymore, ie. on the forum. About tolerance, I have been less tolerant in the past, but like in any game, some turned round the rules and the result was not so good. Trust me, it is not possible to say after 15 messages (provocation -> insults) who "started" and who must be banned.

Anyway, "I will always beat you ! - Show me, let's play a game !" won't be considered as provocation, but provocation about the person (including the IQ / rating 'formula') has not its place in this forum IMO.

Don Groves    (2007-09-21 04:31:25)
One more thing...

Thibault escrit: "About the clock in My games, should I understand that you never used this page before, after one year playing at FICGS ? :)" I've always used the "My messages" page instead ;-)

Don Groves    (2007-09-23 00:46:41)
One more thing...

You are correct, Thibault! My Games is easier to use than My Messages. So why don't you send us directly to My Games after logging in? ;-)

Thibault de Vassal    (2007-09-24 01:16:36)
My games or My messages

Hi Don ;)

Why... why... why such good questions ? :) .. well, I quite like to see all games notations first, to look for the game I'll think about before without clicking all of them. Anyway, taste & colors only ;)

Garvin Gray    (2007-09-24 07:41:22)
site messages

Another reason could be so we see any important site change messages as our first port of call

Thibault de Vassal    (2007-09-27 21:57:34)
New update (2007-09-27)

A new update :

- Private messages facility (see bottom of My messages) has been implemented, you can send a message that will be sent by email to your opponent. You can disallow other members to send messages to you in Preferences

- Now you'll be redirected to the next game by default after sending your move. You can change this option in Preferences.

- Go scorer, now much more convenient, you just have to click on the groups to remove before to score the game.

Garvin Gray    (2007-09-28 03:28:13)
pm's

Proposal for site rule, now that private messages has been enabled.

Publication of a private message without the authors expressed permission is forbidden and will lead to ...... (insert penalty here).

Dan Rotaru    (2007-12-06 14:37:01)
re: Where is the PM-Tool?

In "My messages" screen, scroll down.

Thibault de Vassal    (2008-01-11 21:52:46)
mails, game search

About personal emails, two ways : the form at the bottom of My messages page, or the public comments that are sent by email too.. but I've to make it clearer and easier to use (ie. to find a game that just finished).

About game search, it is possible to enter a game number in the form below the menu. I'll add a title to the form to make it clearer, thanks !

Benjamin Block    (2008-04-23 17:51:07)
Free bullet &lightning.

Thanks it is really funny with free entery but bow we will get lots of messages in the chat?

Thibault de Vassal    (2008-04-23 22:11:45)
Free bullet & lightning bronze games

Hi Benjamin, I don't think so 'cause chess bullet & lightning bronze waiting lists may be closed soon. A better way is to use the challenges option in "My games" as there are much less chances to start a game while the opponent is offline (and no more messages in the chat).

Volker Koslowski    (2008-04-28 10:10:33)
Too much...

Hi Thibault!

The idea is nice but seeing the full conversation history at every move is a little bit to much I think. For me it would be enough to see the last message from my opponent and the message I've sent to him the move before. Maybe it is possible to introduce a new option at the preferences where we can set the number of messages that will be shown at the game?

Regards!
Volker

Thibault de Vassal    (2008-04-28 10:40:03)
Conversations

Hi Volker, it is possible to delete past messages with the "delete conversation" option with the javascript interface, but anyway I'll try to find a trick in a few days. Best, Thibault

Volker Koslowski    (2008-04-28 11:01:53)
Conversations

Hi Thibault!

That's a reason why I didn't find the delete option. I still use the old plain HTML interface which I prefer more than the javascript interface. So I will wait for your new trick and in the meantime I will switch to the other interface from time to time to delete messages when thy are to much for my taste :)

Thank you and greetings
Volker

Andrew Stephenson    (2008-04-29 10:17:10)
messages

Hi Thibault I sent you a private message - did you get it??

Thibault de Vassal    (2008-05-19 06:35:14)
Major update (may 2008)

Hello to all, a new update including :

- Regular tournaments with prizes (see thread "Free tournaments with prizes")

- Norms, titles and prizes are now announced by email.

- Players with Epoints are shown in the connected players list (My messages).

- Affiliate links : For each new player referred by your link (see My account) posted on the world wide web, 1 Epoint will be added to your account.

- Search games function improved : You can now search games by opening and by rating (White & Black)

All feedback welcome :)

Thibault de Vassal    (2008-06-10 15:19:31)
Rules : 11.1 Netiquette

Hello all, I would like to apologize to all members for reading such unacceptable posts in this forum. Rules are not so easy to apply in some cases, now I've taken measures.

Thanks for understanding.

11. General rules

11. 1. Netiquette

(...) It is possible to leave public comments for your games and to send private messages to other members. No player may post in forums or send to another member any voluntary message that contains abusive, insulting, provocating, advertising, vulgar, foul, racist, sexist or other discriminatory or politically sensitive content. Doing so may lead to being immediately and permanently banned. You agree that the webmaster, administrator and moderators have the right to remove, edit, move or close any topic, comment or message at any time should they see fit. Responding to a provocative message is strictly forbidden and may lead to get a limited access to the server during a few weeks, at the moderator's discretion. In this case, please just warn the moderator or webmaster in private.

Ilmars Cirulis    (2008-06-10 16:27:21)
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Because his messages are so angry. :)

Thibault de Vassal    (2008-06-25 12:03:42)
Khaled

Bonjour Khaled, il est également possible (peut etre plus efficace) d'envoyer un message à quiconque par le formulaire situé en bas de la page "My messages".

Cordialement,
Thibault

Marc Lacrosse    (2008-07-05 19:36:23)
Qualification information ?

Because i did not realise that I had qualified for two WCh tournaments I recently enrolled for a third one and had three tournaments beginning almost simultaneously in january, which proved to be too much for me.
And now the deadline for the next Wch (005)is approaching and it just seems that i will win WCH_STAGE_1_GROUP_M_01__000004.
So I am hesitating : when will Wch-004 next stage begin ?
I do not wish anymore to have more than one tournament starting almost at the same time.

More generally speaking, I wish I could get the following infos permanently updated on my "My messages" page :

* I enrolled for a tournament of type X on date Y. Presently there are already Z players enrolled for this tournament.
* I registered for championship X on date Y. this is supposed to start on date Z.
* In tournament Wch-X my present result ensures (or leaves the possibility open) that I will be qualified for next stage tournament that is supposed to begin on date Y.

Your opinion ?

Marc

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