Fencer:

Artful Dodger: Hey art is that killer dog for sale:))

Artful Dodger: Well, RTE had been created before Chrome emerged, so it was never tested with it. I'll check it later.

Fencer:  If I past a tourney link using rich text editor:

MadMonkey: Yeah, I used it for a while. It didn't seem significantly faster (I never had complaints about speed, personally), and I missed the things I used FireFox for.

Chrome is keeping me perfectly happy.

rod03801 & Artful Dodger : If you used Mozilla's PRISM you wont get faster, as it runs websites as applications rather than inside a browser

You can get it as a Firefox Add-on or a stand alone application

Fencer: I haven't experienced any problems with Chrome here, personally. I use that now instead of FireFox, as I was sick of FIrefox using up so many "resources".

Artful Dodger: Thanks. Just out of curiosity, what is not 100% compatible, regarding Chrome and BrainKing?

Fencer: That's pretty cool tool! You can even get email reports on site availability.

I know people like Firefox but it runs slow for me (not sure why as I've reformatted) but Chrome is fast. Very fast. So one thing that seems to give me problems (not just on BK) is when I use Firefox. Chrome isn't 100% compatible for use here but it's still very fast for my needs.

FrancescoLR: Furthermore, if you try to check out Host Tracker test, as it is clearly described at the top of this board, you would know that the current average response time is less than 1 second. It proves that BrainKing is not slow, globally said. We cannot be responsible for local network problems.

FrancescoLR: Nothing. Check your connection.

yesterday i stay over 8 hrs on computer and blackberry to made a total of 389 moves !! when i put record of moves i made that in less than 1 hour !
what is going on ????

cowboynoel: Go to the settings on the left hand side, then click on calender and mark the days off that you need.

how do we go on vacation here?

plaintiger: "score of finished games" is the score in previous, finished games (or matches) between you and your opponent in this game type. It doesn't concern the current match at all. Note that if you play a match of several games, it is counted as one game for all statistical purposes.

So 1:4 (=0) means that the player mentioned first has won 1 game, the second player has won 4 and no games have been drawn. When your current match is over, one of those numbers will go up by 1.

plaintiger: I believe it means the results of other games between the same opponents.

okay, i see this question's been asked on here but i don't see that it's been answered, so i'll ask it too: what does the "score of finished games" mean? i'm in a five-wins match; each of us has won two games so far, and the "score of finished games" says it's 1:4 (=0). i'm guessing the '4' is the number of games played so far...but what is the '1', and what does "(=0)" mean?

thanks...

Not one problem in California!

No problems either for me in France.

Snoopy: i had no problems either ... of course gouwe gozer and i are both from the netherlands so that doesnt say much ... maybe the problem was while crossing the sea/ocean

you could try to bookmark the ip address of brainking and use that .. this will work as long as the ip address doesnt change .. and it doesnt need a dns so it might be fast if the problem is with your dns

Gouwe gozer: it was the fact that alot of ppl couldnt even get the log in page up yesterday
i tried for over 2 hours it was very annoying
ive now bookmarked the link Fencer gave us so if it happens again i can check..lol

I'm almost every day online, depending on my available time on the day and sometimes in the night. Sometimes I stay very short, sometimes for a long(er) time, but I can't remember BK was slow for the last several weeks. No problems at all
If I understand well the EU wants to install a fast network all over Europe, if that's true and this dream comes to reality we've nothing to complain in a "few" years

Bwild: I hope so, yesterday I couldnt even get BK to load....the castle came up and that silly dragon, but nothing else...I couldnt even sign in.

Bwild: No version of BrainKing can solve occasional network problems. That's how the internet works.

brainking 3 should be so fast!

rabbitoid: I've just made another test and all nodes show OK status with less than 1 second response time. So I guess the problem is solved.

Fencer: Sorry, can't do that from here (work), the firewall won't let me through. I can use a browser, but that's it. I can't even ping a server.

rabbitoid: It might be interesting if you post a traceroute output because, of course, my own one is flawless (probably because it does not cross our country border).

I've also tried an online traceroute tool to check the route from some place in the world. Looks like there really is "something on the way":

TraceRoute to 81.91.83.6 [web.brainking.com]
Hop (ms) (ms) (ms) IP Address Host name
1 20 8 27 72.249.128.105 -
2 16 19 23 206.123.64.22 -
3 12 18 15 216.52.189.9 border4.te4-4.colo4dallas-5.ext1.dal.pnap.net
4 44 20 16 216.52.191.34 core3.tge5-1-bbnet1.ext1.dal.pnap.net
5 14 19 20 66.79.145.97 dal005-dalext1-846-cr1.dal005.internap.net
6 38 25 36 66.79.147.186 cr2-cr1.dal005.internap.net
7 67 89 71 66.79.147.189 acs007-dal005-841-cr2.acs007.internap.net
8 38 96 52 66.79.147.1 cr1-cr2.acs007.internap.net
9 50 49 48 66.79.147.198 acs007-wdc005-844-cr2.wdc005.internap.net
10 60 65 58 66.79.146.201 cr1-cr2.wdc005.internap.net
11 Timed out Timed out Timed out -
12 Timed out Timed out Timed out -
13 88 88 79 66.79.147.10 nym009-phi004-813-cr2.nym009.internap.net
14 109 84 99 66.79.158.9 bsn006-nym009-9-cr1.bsn006.internap.net
15 102 115 Timed out 66.79.147.14 cr2-cr1.bsn006.internap.net
16 144 148 139 66.79.158.6 bsn006-lon005-6-cr2.lon005.internap.net
17 161 176 221 77.242.206.242 ams003-lon005-4-cr1.ams003.internap.net
18 200 229 236 195.69.145.206 tr3.pop1.pra.sloane.cz
19 214 207 197 62.240.161.146 v103.bb1.pop1.sve.sloane.cz
20 245 223 222 77.48.243.130 web4u2.cust.sloane.cz
21 243 201 227 81.91.80.97 nix2.web4u.cz
22 198 186 187 81.91.83.6 web.brainking.com

Trace complete

rabbitoid: If you experience speed issues, I always recommend to visit http://host-tracker.com and check BrainKing accessibility from different places around the world.

Which is what I have just done and it shows that there is no problem in about 65% of tested locations and the rest is showing a "no reply" error message. Since it is definitely a network problem somewhere, there is nothing we can do about it - BrainKing is fast and stable but some network nodes are probably malfunctioning.

Somewhat slow today
I mean really slow
way beyond turtle
snail is fast by comparison
I'd say approaching Cardinal speed

alexlee: It wouldn't, but the team-t haven't been around that long.

rabbitoid:
Would that enclude Team Tournaments too? There are some pretty old Team ones.

pedestrian: Ok, got it. I need to click running, then again show.

To answer my origninal question, the longest running seems to be this one: ► ALL Checkers for dummies (under 1500 + urated)◄ started in July 2003.

rabbitoid: That's odd. I fooled around with it a little, and if you choose a tournament type (rather than leaving it on 'all tournament types') it actually shows more running tournaments! I don't know if it shows them all, though:

one game for each two players - running (482)
two games (switched colors) for each two players - running (226)
single elimination - running (423)
triple gammon - running (4)

I was trying to find the longest running tournament on BK.

The only method I see is tournaments, select "running" and go to the last, only it doesn't seem to work. If I do that I see only 348 running tournaments and as earliest something that started late last year. That can't be right, with all the zillions created each day and the turtles happily subscribing to each and never moving. I myself have a running one that started in 2007. Anyone know how to go about it?

Asking Fencer is of course a possibility, but the info should already be there somehow.

Pedro Martínez: I've a game at home which is on a CD. I can choose the level " easy " for children or else the " hard " level for adults. At the beginning, I was asking myself what could be the difference. I've noticed that the letters which are given are different : example : in the " easy " game, you receive more vowels and letters than we can find in many words, but in the " hard " game, you more often receive difficult letters as " K ", " W ", etc...
Of course, it's always more easy for the player which knows better the language, but it's also interesting for the beginner.

Mélusine: What would distinguish the “hard level” from the “easy level”?

Roberto Silva: Yes, french and english have the same alphabet, and yes, you're right, some letters are more used in a language than the other : example with the letter " W " : in a dictionnary french/english, there's 1 page for this letter in french when there are about 15 pages in english !
In the 2 languages, the combinations of letters are also different : we have " QU " in french but " TH " is exceptional although we see it commonly in english.
I'd like to play Scrabble in english but the problem is that my vocabulary is more limited than someone who speaks english everyday in his (her) country. I think several levels (for example : one hard and one easy) would be necessary for this game.

rabbitoid: Except with the word " KIWI " !

rabbitoid: It's not that Z is overrated, just it's nice to get a really good score when you get it. Q without the U is the worst.

Mélusine: K and W are a pain, X and Y slightly less, Z is overrated since verb conjugation is permitted which makes the 'ez' suffix legal.

Pedro Martínez: Oh yes, it's true, because there are very few words in french which have these letters. It's terrible for us, when we take these letters !
I remember games I finished without being able to put these letters !

Could always go the route of using 'root' languages such as Latin.

There's an easy solution to making word games balanced and fun to everyone: artificial languages!

Bring on Klingon Scrabble!

Bwild: "I imagine the alphabets are quite different also.... what would be the French equivilant of "q"?"

I'm pretty sure English and French have the same alphabet, though of course some letters are more used in one language than the other.

I know it's possible. I saw the Coneheads play it on SNL. :)

Bwild: K, W, X, Y and Z are all worth 10 points in the French version of Scrabble. And I don't think it's possible to play Scrabble in Japanese. :)

Lets face it folks,multilingual word games are non starter!

I imagine the alphabets are quite different also.... what would be the French equivilant of "q"?, or even Japanese?

coan.net: It's not only the dictionary that is different in the various languages, it's also the distribution of the letters and the value in points of each. I think the only common thing for all languages is the board layout, but I can be wrong here.