Animal ? Why the LOL ?

RE:IYT...If you look down exactly 10 messages,you'll see someone else mentioning IYT ? And yet you jump all over me ? Thnx...

smuttylad, I didn't 'jump all over you', I sent you a polite message saying that this isn't a board to post a message doing nothing but slam IYT. The message you mention further down addresses the suggestion of limiting rooks game numbers.

Just Funny smutty

Ok Animal,no worries....

Fencer is in charge, I just help keep this board to what it should be :o)

Who is Fencer ? Is he the owner ?

That's me.

why is everybody upset when sombody wants to limit the number of games?

Uil: If you buy 100 tulips and then the seller says you can only keep 20 shouldnt you be upset then :)..dont mention football thats forbidden!! LOL

for an unlimited-games-account ... easy isn't it ? ~*~

i wouldnt like to see a limit on the amount of games we can play
uil i for one have many games if i was limited i would sit here twiddling my thumbs most of the time , alot of my opponents move at differnt times of the day so i would end up with no one to play

If it matters, there is a limit for rooks which is 1000 started games at once. I know it would be very difficult to reach that limit, and i doubt it anyone ever has, but the limit is still there. I think 100 is a little too extreme to limit. If you are going to lower the limit, make it something a little more reasonable like 400 or 500.

I know its still not perfect, but I have noticed that the down times seem to be shorter. Way to go Fencer and/or anyone else involved! :)

Are you the owner ?

Yes, Fencer is one of the owners of this site.

You can find out more about the site WITH THIS LINK

BBW (BIG BAD WOLF)

well I don't know what to say.....
I haven't been ablt to access this site since Tuesday afternoon australian time and it is now Friday evening :(
I have ONE game waiting and when i click on it it gives me their (my opponents turn).
I understand Fencer has been having problems as I emailed him direct and he so kindly explained it sort of.
It is hard for someone like me when your times is limited to catch up on games....today I have now been playing 4 hours to get thru backed up games.
I love this site and the people and would wish all the best to Fencer etc :)

Ok thnx BBW !!! :)

Bernice: Which web browser do you use?

Gubbe: I am the seller!

LOL...and im sure you give the buyer what he pays for!!

try me, most of my Swedish customers love me

Maybe i already hsve :)

I have windows 98 V2 using IE

It sounds to me like a corrupt cookie.! Have you tried deleting the BK ones & re-logging in.?

yes :( have deleted every darn thing...defrag, cleaned out all files, rubbish bin, cookies, old files, new files etc etc...you name it...I did it LOL...thanks

Im not one for complaining about a win LOL...lets face it i dont win too many.
But when someone resigns, instead of letting me make that final move it just gives me the proverbial SH--TS.
I am an unrated player and HE? had a rating of about 1500...what a crock of c rap...excuse me :( sorry harley

<Try to Delete Temporary Internet Files of IE by theai menu: Tools -> Internet Options. After that close all of IE window. If do not help, try to upgrade IE and FIX your windows by Windows Update.
Mainly use latest cumulative patch for IE. I recomend to use all critical patch from Windows Update.

thanks LIQUID :)
Have already deleted TEMP INT files. but will try and gett the IE upgrades...thanks so much

Bernice. I have resigned a game many times when I knew I was going to lose. Not out of poor sportsman ship but to speed things along. Many players do that. He likly didnt mean to be rude at all. I don't see the need to complete a game especially a long game like 10x10 reversi if I know I have no chance of winning. I resign, say WTG gg or what ever and end the game to get on with other games or start new ones. I never ever thought it was considered poor sportsmanship like conduct

In many many cultures, to resign before the end of a game shows true sportsmanship. The idea is that one recognizes their weakness honestly and honors his opponent by showing that they have been beaten soundly with no hope of winning. Resignation is often seen as a recognition of superior skill. In this age of multi-culturalism, we must think first before we qualify our opponents' actions.

Rose: What does WTG gg mean?

way to go - good game ~*~

How can some people possibly manage to play at least 1000 games in one day on here beats me. I be lucky if can get on here & stay on long enough to play all my games each day.
Its sometimes so difficult to get on here at times & wonder why I bought membership at times.

What I dont understand is why the site is easily accessable to some but not others. For the past 9 days I have not had one single complaint about the site. I play here alot too! I have the site open for some times up to 10 hours (I dont play 10 hours consecutively but I do have the site open that long) I havent had one down time in the last 9 days. But I read that others are having great difficulty accessing the site. Has anyone else but me noticed that site access has improved immensely or is it just me here?

I have recently implemented a restart-server-if-deadlock-occurs feature. It was not an easy piece of work and it needs to be finetuned. The application server restart is actually very fast - it takes only 5-10 seconds. But the overall site performance can be lower when the server is starting up. When it happens [the well-known "site is temporarily down" page], it usually helps to wait 10 seconds and reload the page. It works for me perfectly.
Of course, this is only a temporary solution. I want to make more improvements tomorrow or next week.

It has been better for me too. And I have noticed that the times that I actually can't access the site have been for significantly shorter amounts o time. If I try back in a couple minutes, it is usally fine again for me.
On webtv, we don't see the "site is temporarily down" page. Most of the time I get a webtv pop up saying "Brainking.com is to busy to use right now"
But again, I too have noticed a definite improvement. Way to go, Fencer.

HURRY!!!! Have FUN in the SPIDERS WEB TOURNY!!! Starts Tues 12th August..all welcome!! :)

i seem to have lost all of Sundays moves on all my boards...even games i won are now back on my game page....is this just something that happened to me or anybody else have the same thing...???

can ya suspend timeouts again for a bit..i won about a dozen games with people i know play alot due to they timed out...it took me about 5 hrs after work mon to get on here and now it keeps jumping off on me...my games are ok for a day or 2 im not mad i know your working hard on this this is still the best site around...the problems will get better before we know it...thanxx

i thought the problems couldn't get worse but i guess i was wrong about that...sure gonna be hard to pull off the same moves in games i won with them knowing how i'm gonna move my next few pieces....any chance of finding sundays moves somewhere....eddie's games may have timed out but mine were won by playing....is this site getting worse or is it just the twilight zone i'm stuck in whenever i get here...or try to get here i should say...lol

eddit spaghetti: yea, 2 of the games were mine! (out of 8 total I timed out on by less then 1 hour)

The site seems to be running really good when you are able to get on - I had a problem getting on the site last night to play games (and with a new job that started today) - So I'll only be able to play during certain hours during the week - and if the server is down during that time... UGH! (hopefully Fencer will reinstate my games - all 8 Battleboat games which droped my rating from 1st to ... well, not 1st anymore) :-)

BBW (BIG BAD WOLF)

Wait a minute - what buckwheat said is true - many games were put back on the board that were already played - so it is possible the 8 games I timed out on had been played, but reset?

I just notice that tournament that I already started are now BACK in the tournament list waiting for players - and new tournaments that I created are gone! Seems like they had to do a restore of the database or something and a lot of "older" data got put back! Hopefully Fencer will be on soon to explain some of this!

I have seen several internet chess sites and i saw that they had ads for companies. Could brainking do ads to get money? (and then maybe use it to get a better server and more games?)

For those of you who are wondering is it just me, I guess not becasue I have a number of games I have moved on that have either timed out or gone back to where they were a few days ago too.

Let's hope Fencer can fix this one up ... got to it my friend :)

It appears yesterday never happened... it was all just a dream.. .lol...
I'm sure Fencer will have something to say about this when he gets a chance. I personally am not going to make any further moves until we hear from him.

COOL! I'm tied (with 0) with the most moves yesterday! :-)

the idea is nice, but what happens in game like battle boats, or the dark variants, where the whole purpose is to find out what the other guy is hiding?

Please read Server News.

apoligize for the inconvience..??....like the other player knowing my chess moves now...or my tank game that i made the sneaky move in that's backed up to ....funny how it's right where he can make a different move now to get around what i planned...a game site that can just snuff out a days moves and call it an 'inconvience".....and the games that timed out...why can they be reinstated but the ones i won are back on my gamesheet....your whole site is an inconvience....i'm sorry i started playing here....