was in a bad mood!! ignore my rantings!
rex--log out and log in to update your ranking--it lists you at 1500--i think you are a little better than that:)

Sorry for my long absence, Ravermeister. I have made my turns and now I'm ready to fight!

Cool
Lets Rock

6 hours under the limit the games begin!! Cutting it kind of close

yes!!! the games are begining! Be ready Storm for the battle

Dear LeRoy:
What is the translation of the Cyrillic statement in your posts.
(Is that a signature?)

Dear Rextrent
There are quite good russian<->english free online translators, for example http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe ... tnG=Search

Kipling

....if you can dream - and not make dreams your master;
if you can think - and not make thoughts your aim,



Будь в силах ты рассудка не лишиться,
Безумцами в безумье обвинён;
Отвергнутый, в себе не усомниться,
Не вдуматься, за что ты оскорблён;
Будь в силах ждать— и ждать, не уставая,—
Будь в силах не бороться с клеветой,
Терпеть вражду, вражды не разжигая,—
И всё ж не слыть ни трусом, ни ханжой;



Будь в силах ты мечтать— о достижимом,
Будь в силах грезить— не смыкая глаз,
Будь в силах пребывать невозмутимым
В свой славный час и свой бесславный час;
Будь в силах зреть, как истиной, открытой
Тобою, дураков морочит плут,
И дело жизни всей твоей разбито,—
И, в этот прах склонясь, продолжить труд;



Будь в силах ты всем, скопленном помалу,
Рискнуть ва-банк за карточным столом,
И проиграть, и всё начать сначала,
Не пожалев ни разу ни о чём;
Будь в силах не пускать в отставку тело,
Когда оно отслужит полный срок,
Будь в силах, если сердце ослабело,
Одною волей гнать по жилам ток;



Будь в силах ты не важничать с толпою
И не теряться в обществе князей,
Будь не раним ни дружбой, ни враждою.,
Ум в каждом чти— и всё ж не чти ничей,
Будь в силах ты всю жизнь лететь стрелою
И всё же— на мгновенья мерить век,—
Тогда твои— Земля и всё земное,
И главное, мой сын, ты— Человек!

Be able to not lose you mind,
By madmen in безумье it is accused;
Rejected, of itself to not doubt,
To not ponder, for what you are offended;
Be able ждать—and to wait, not getting tired,—
Be able to not struggle with slander,
To suffer enmity, enmity not kindling,—
And all to not have a reputation neither the coward, nor the hypocrite;



Be able you мечтать—about achievable,
Be able грезить—not closing eyes,
Be able to stay unperturbable
At the nice o'clock and the disgraceful hour;
Be able to ripen, as the true opened
You, fools are fooled by the cheat,
And business of a life of all yours is broken,—
And, in this ashes склонясь to continue work;

not a good translater!

Be able you everything saved помалу,
To risk ва-bank behind a card table,
And to lose, and all to begin all over again,
Not having regretted never about what;
Be able to not start up in resignation a body,
When it will serve full term,
Be able, if heart has weakened,
Одною will to drive on veins a current;



Be able to not put on airs you with толпою
And to not be lost in a society of princes,
Be not

I hope my games are not as complex as these messages or I will have no hope!!!!

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or, being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise;

If you can dream - and not make dreams your master;
If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with triumph and disaster
And treat those two imposters just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with wornout tools;

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on";

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings - nor lose the common touch;
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run -
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And - which is more - you'll be a Man my son!

the best post of this thread!!!
Great words

....yeah better poet than fighter jedi knight, no doubt!

Compare original and english->russian->english translation : - )

Where is Rocklizard? He not made no one turn. Anybody knows he will play?

Where is the Russian advisor link?
I need help with my game

Strange, very strange. Rocklizard agreed to play and even choose a map. And now he dissapeared.
I'll send him a message. So Goo please wait a little.

Russian advisor link is closed due to technical reasons.

I wonder - what is "Russian advisor link" - can someone explain?