Unfortunately looks like the "Red Hot Pawn" site will be down for up to 24 hours starting tomorrow evening, the following message was issued on their site:



Hope that doesn't mess up the UM chess matches too much.

As long as the chess matches stay there and don't get wiped out, i'm okay waiting 24 hours to continue.

The matches won't get wiped out, so it should be ok.

It's 3 AM Saturday morning here. Is the site still down, anyone know? Before I was getting the site, but getting a message that it was down, but now all I can get is a "cannot find server" page.

Oh, well. I can claim that I lasted for days in the two practice games I'm playing anyway.

Yeah i'm still getting 'Cannot find server', so they must still be at it. It should be working again later on today hopefully.

Yeah, still getting the down server. What is it now, 2pm in England?

2.08 You were actually pretty close. But its BRITAIN which uses it.


Its now 10.22 odd GMT here and its still not up

I did use to live there, i know the time zones.
Sorry, i did mean the UK.


Still down eh. Last time i check was about 2 hours ago. Bah.

Itys sooooo annoying

It's probably a conspiracy!

MY GOD!!!!!!!!!!! Its 1.02 now! And its still not up, this is driving me nuts!

2.28 AM - Maybe not long to wait, I'm now getting this 'We will be live again shortly. Thank you for your continued patience.' as opposed to 'The page cannot be displayed'

Well, the fact that they took the time to make something to say they'll be back soon, probably suggests we have a long wait in store. Otherwise, why bother right?

There is an old saying, 'a watched pot never boils'.

Talon...would you care to match wits with me?

That's the chess server back up now

Sure, on PHP, Practice or Official?

Although I'm currently playing 6 people, I think thats the max amount of matches you can play, so you may have to wait until I finish one.

Woohoo! Thank goodness i was wrong!

Practise might be good for a start since I haven't played in many years.

Whenever you are finished let me know. Chess is after all a game of patience.

well........saru is picking on me ( he threatened to de-mod me unless I let him him win......cos he's a bully like that ) so I'll have a spare game going very shortly if anyone fancies it.




P.S.....it's all true about saru, don't let him try to tell you he won fair and square or anything

*lol* it's all lies I tell you, lies

This is weird! Saru and Talon are both trying to trap my kings between their bishops and queens!

And it just back-fired I didn't even see that Bishop to the right

Thanks for the queen, Talon!

Wouldn't it be humilating if, me having been giving you tips yesterday, were beaten by you today LOL

See what I said about confidence

Well, you never know, this no Queen thing might be an advantage...... don't know how, but it might

LOL!

Aww! You're probably just distracted. You're only playing, what? Six games right now?

Not just that, your last move with the pawn as well, if thats the first stage of what I think it is then your a lot better than I gave you credit for.

Should I disillusion you? The truth is, I'm just making it up as I go along here. I was hoping to catch your knight, though.

Dang it! You saw where I was aiming and blocked me!

hmmm, you didn't do what I was expecting

I just glad that it was practice.

Should I ask what you were expecting? I was trying to get my knight into position to take out your rook, if that makes any sense. But you blocked me with the pawn.

*shakes fist at Talon*

ARRGHH.

I rather not say in case you go with it , I just thought the pawn was the beginning of a strategy.