heavenrose: yes we will, thanks

heavenrose: I don't understand why you think people avoid him to be in piece only because they are saying goodbye and sharing their good memories. Everyone has the right to say goodbye as far it is respectful, or why do you think it's negative ?

rod03801: thank you for that, I didn't know about it

Carnie: thx. main goal is just to have fun by meeting in real and have some real playing somewhere. i think it would be nice to meet also Fencer but i don't think anyway there is a "fast" solution for brainking. i guess if it would be there would already be a solution, so i think spring is a good time in order to organize things. like date, location etc... it can even be in a small group, if there is not enough interest to do it...everything is open

ketchuplover: I know that some American like to put ketchup even on cookies, but i guess if you like to join us in Europe we will provide tons of ketchup only for you

Aganju: I totally understand that

Hey is there any interest in around Europe to have like a big Brainking meeting beginning 2018? We could meet for 2 days in spring 2018 in an European country with low living costs, for those who wouldn't be able to afford it otherwise...
We could have like a live tournament ...or is there already some similar projects around? We could meet in the near of Prague /Czech Republic and have a chance to see Fencer as well and might speak also in person about Brainkings future...

hey can someone explain me, why someone that i have blocked can reply to a comment of me to another person

Marshmud: I can imagine that without implementing BK on social medias and creating new web interfaces it is hard to increase the new user rate, even if the main bugs get solved by a new programmer. to think in future you need also someone being able to spread the wold through internet and social medias, so that it reaches out new people... I actually believe that without a good pr actions and implementing i.e. into facebook games etc. it can be harder even for a new team, which only focus on programming. if the goal is to get new users, there must be thought about new ways...maybe.

but if there are some players which you mentioned with ability and knowledge about BK, would be interesting to hear their view on it. But I guess we will never know? Did someone ask directly Fencer about his perspective on a minimum amount for taking over the side?

Marshmud: Im sure he was active on this site through other processes, since he reacted some days ago to a contact mail of me. so i don't think he doesn't care. i believe he does. but he's a programmer, he does other ways to keep in touch through the contact mail form without logging in or make visible actions to anyone of us...

so yes, everything was already talked about a lot of times, doesn't make it less interesting to speak again about or even to make jokes about, right? haha

it's still the biggest mistery what happens after 2018, so yes, it will come up again and again on all discussion boards, why not?

Aganju: I agree

Walter Montego: you can give the check to me and I run it for you, if you provide the double amount ;-)

Dear all we search for good cloning backgammon and others, players who like to join BGBedlam's Fellowship Multigammon and join some of the teams. We are still waiting with joining the openteam tournaments:
Multigammon Mayhem

you are welcome

coan.net: thank you for your very fast support, i'm very happy about it and appreciate your effort

Aganju: if we make small teams of only active players it should work...maybe 4 - 6 players...i'm at multigammon mayhem team - we would have 5 active players

coan.net: please cloning backgammon 2 wins match team tournament i would be enthusiastic about it...

winterangels: As far I understood it is not 100% sure yet. Fencer announced that it might be unsupported after 2018. But this is only one possible scenario. option 2 is for Fencer to sell brainking or he might come up with a third option when time comes, but yes it's possible that the site will run unsupported from 2018 on. It's on you to decide if you take the risk to pay for one year and if BK will work till then.... but maybe I'm wrong, it's just how I understood Fencers announcment

Fencer: it was very satisfying to read the whole interview, after i went through the first one that you gave in the past.... respect for all of your time on the answers and for your passionate work on brainking. brainking helped me a lot of times to stop thinking about work.... or to have a short break from researches.... who knows, maybe i gonna think about a non-profit concept for brainking....IF i find the time

grenvthompson: thanks for the explanation and the link. i've been lucky as my mouse with scroll wheel works very well on this site. while using firefox on the newest mac os.

grenvthompson: I think the scrolling of the mouse is controlled by the operation-system of your device and the mouse itself. I don't think any browser site can stop the scrolling of the mouse wheel... I assume the issue is somewhere else...

Carnie: you have the possibility to delete a game before you make the 1st move.... so you have the possibility to make such decition but only at beginning (there is a link on the bottom "delete game", which disappears if you decide to make your first move instead...

purchasing brainking makes to me only sense, if getting first the possibility to look into the accounting of the last years. Followed by a deal which includes a handing over to a new programmer. If a group comes together than I don't see a problem on who gonna decide what, cause for every serious organisation you gonna define the rules for every member since beginning.... for a group to take over I think the only issue could be to get together and deals done, so it sounds time consuming.... maybe better if only a few people comes together from a country, where programmer doesn't cost too much per hour... here in switzerland regular programmer asks between 80 to 200 euro for each hour of work...or some thousands euro a month if it's gonna be a full time job, which probably doesn't make sense....

Carnie: I agree, but let's say no investor will be found, that makes Fencer a great offer. what if he decides as announced to shut down the site instead? in such worst case situation i would prefer IYT or Gold Token to take over. BUT i clearly prefer the solution of brainking staying alive under a new ownership.... brainking is cool! me I started at Gold Token and IYT, after I met this site I stopped there. let's hope Fencer gonna be fine with some offers

Bluefin: might be a very good idea...at the end of the day, if options runs out, IYT or Gold Token could be a chance

Fencer: yes from my side also, i enjoy playing here and don't miss anything on it, thank you for your work

Fencer: I can very understand that

Dear all, yesterday I took my time to answer all of your question. I need to admit that I needed over 4 hours for the answers.... My english is not the best, 'cause only learned autodidact-ed, so I hope I could answer them properly and understandable... have a nice start of the week to all...
http://brainking.com/en/Interviews?ht=35

rabbitoid: I think wtf can be sayd very classy ...or not?

ThunderGr:

rabbitoid: of course

Roberto Silva: OK, you're welcome and sorry for my temper

Roberto Silva: dear Roberto, as I'm tired to think about what's wrong with you here the answer that I wrote to rabbitoid, which matches perfectly for you too: " I clearly am NOT A GIRL and I will not try to proove to any one of you that I'm a LADY, i'm 41, so don't call me a girl and stop fighting about my gender or am I in a kindergarten? and to be correctly I'm a lady with temper so stop annoying me...wtf"

rabbitoid: I clearly am NOT A GIRL and I will not try to proove to any one of you that I'm a LADY, i'm 41, so don't call me a girl and stop fighting about my gender or am I in a kindergarten? and to be correctly I'm a lady with temper so stop annoying me...wtf

ellieoop: thank you

Hrqls: Thank you, the thankfulness of refugees and political activists of presevo was a great motivation, thank you :-) happy to be at my warm home again ...

awesome: if you might not like nectarines, try to walk for 400 miles under the rain wit 30 kilo bagages and kids, maybe without socks and flipflops at around 10 degrees ... like here, than you might consider to like peaches AND necTARINES... while you wait to get help from institutions and eu/bruessel yOU COULD try to laugh...might help :-) i stop chatting and thx for your humor...

ThunderGr: Thank you for your solidarity. It was actually not so funny to loose over 200 games by time out. And as the work here was very intense on a emotional point of view (always need to be in control, to not show weakness infront of 1000 people asking us 5 people in charge (me and some of youth for refugees, presheva) for food, infos and medical assistance was so difficult, that i thought too if i explane, maybe fencer would make an exception for at least 1 day. i decided i just accept that.. and i'm so hell of happy, that i leave this place to recover my emotions at my home country... sorry for sharing all of those private things, i thought it is necessary to proove i'm not telling lies. (ip adress could show that i changed the country) but anyway, i think i'm just totally emotional at the moment and need just to go back.. 1 or 2 days ago (lost the time feeling) we had again the mandate to accompany over 3 thousand refugees coming by feet on rainy days etc. familys little children, it was rainy and the registration camp was overfloghted by rain. people stand in the rain, after walking illegaly through the near borders.... so when police stoped as to reach the camp, cause too many refugees it escalated to a mass panic... i went in the middle trying to calm down the crowd, while my 4 team member tried to help the police, but they just leaved the place (corrupted state)... etc. etc. etc. so sorry for being so emotional, it was maybe a mistake... people here that plays since some years against me maybe now me as some kind of people that is speechless (speachless is written wrongly i know). so i think my time outs are what they are... thx and looking forward to play (the situation with the mass panic and agressions between some of the refugees is on radio television of serbia to see, rts) so again, sorry for my emotions, i'm maybe not anymore in control of my coolness and speechless way :-) thanks for understanding and just forget what i wrote

ThunderGr: no problem, i really can understand that and fencer was really nice by offering vacation days, which i don-t need, it was only concerning fischer clock games *hundreds of them ... its a fair offer of fencer and at the end of the day, there are only points im loosing... in front of this tragedy im seing here every day, i feel like its not the end of the day.. .i appreciate fencers offer really much, thank you for your supporting word Thunder Gr

moistfinger: hi, i have no problem with vacation days... i have loooots of games with fischer clock set :-))) so no vacation days are allowed :-)))) no problem, i really can live with that now, i have no joice :-) and at the end of the day it is fair to all other brainking players, if i get time out...

Fencer: Hi Fencer, thank you very much for your support and email, it took 45 minutes to download your email :-)
I appreciate and understand, there is no possibility to prevent fischer clock games to time out *already 100 went time out... it-s fair and i understand the rules... SO SORRY TO MY GAME OPPONENTS FOR ALL TIME OUTS, tomorrow evening im back in zurich switzerland. thanks

I have a main problem. As I-m for 5 days till tuesday evening in a part where the internet infrastructure is mostly of the time down, I-m not able to prevent going time out... is there a possibility for an exception...i mean could an admin think about to stop my games going time out till tuesday evening? Im on a humanitary trip with oppositional from preshevo serbia, the most poor part of the balkan... we are here with our borderfree association from switzerland to document with media the crucial situation of around 3000 to 5000 refugees coming per day... so i try to login before i go to sleep, but there is no way to keep the connection up for more as 10 min. cause the infrastructure is very minimal here and sometimes not possible to play... i wrote yesterday to fencer, but he didnt answer yet... is there another admin that could think about to make 1 exception and prevent me to go time out? i really care about my games, so i would like to be able to play them down as usual after im back in switzerland zuerich *tuesday evening... please help

Fencer: welcome back, problem is solved since the 16th, thx for your support

hi, i guess this question has been posted already but i'm wondering if it is a common situation at the moment that games doesn't time off, what about you?

DeaD man WalkiN: you maybe mean the pawn registry. the list of pawn users, who askes for a sponsor for a paid membership. for that you need to use the contact form and request to fencer to be listed on the pawn registry. you have the possibility to public a message, as far as i know... http://brainking.com/en/PawnRegistry

Aganju: mine didn't change

Bernice: at me it happened a lot of times, but in relation to the amount of games i played it happened rarely... it can happen sometimes i just guess... in real life i rolled 5 times in a row double-1 and i through the dices in different ways, very funny but only one time...

Fencer: what about a single 50% discount on the Brain Rook Forever membership? maybe for those who finances on the same time a 3 or 6 months abo for someone else?

Aganju: Thanks for the explanation, I think I understood now.

rod03801: thanks a lot, i understand now :-)

happyjuggler0: in the SB FAQ there is written "...and is based on a theory that points earned with a stronger opponent are more valuable than with a weaker one."

--> so I think that the stronger opponent has a higher BKR-Rating, right? But on the specific tournament the BKR Rating of the players are actually the Rating they have today and not the BKR they had at the point when the Sections were ended.

So my question is, how could you calculate the SB today, if you are missing the BKR-Rating the system used to calculate the SB.

I still assume that the SB were calculated right at the point the section ended, cause if it were to 0 then, i ask myself why no one used to claim when the sections ended. Maybe the right calculated SB get missed over the years....?