Antje: I've had a quick look at your recent games and I don't think you did time out.

I have a question for anyone who signed up for a tournament of mine.
Ive gotten a PM from someone who claims i timed out on one of my games, and she's upset with me for not upholding a better standard.
I never recieved a message that i timed out. i had to go in to work unexpectedly last night and then came home and slept, but i made sure i woke and made the first move on my list before the time went to zero, in fact it was one minute , but i had NO message about a timed out game in my message box. so my questions are:
1. did anyone else time out to me that i dont know of?
2. can it be possible that i time out on a game and not be notified?

arpa: You can leave any current team and join a new team. All current team tournaments which you were originally in will continue like normal with you in them.

Now i play in an team named A, i like to play an new team tournament in a B team. It's possible or i must to wait to finish entire old tourney?

http://brainking.com/en/Tournaments?trg=11791

Hyper Backgammon is a pretty quick game, so a 21 point cube match is Perfect for this game:

Hyper 21 - Starts November 5th

= = = = = =

Plus since some do not know how to play with the cube, some practice tournaments have been set up where NO BKR Ratings will be effected - great way to jump right in and learn.

Oct 20 - 5 Point Cube Backgammon #1

Oct 30 - 5 Point Cube Backgammon #2

mrloupcity: WE need 3 more ant takers.

21p backgammon #1

Need two more players for Travelin' Tank Battle. Who can beat Fencer?

Sign up! Times a wasting....

Bry: No separated BKR.

Fencer: Is there going to be a seperate BKR for BG using Doubling Cube?

I have onloy played BG here anbd it seems a totally different variant to what we are used to already?

The first doubling cube tournament.

Sign away!

Travelin' Tank Battle
Halma Hoopla

TC:

DanDanDan: Thank you

Not enough backgammon yet?

All backgammon games starts in 24 hours... or so...

Congrats to TC...the winner!! ;)

Thanks Vikings, I thought I didn't have much experience either. Just wanted your ok first. I joined!

Eriisa: go ahaid and join, you don't have that much experience that it would be unfair

Vikings: I had wanted to join, but I got a rating.

only 3 more people needed for the unrated players pond, a few players are in it with low ratings so this is a good one to learn the game
http://brainking.com/en/Pond?g=1303&trnst=0

Nightstorm: TYVM for Ur time
and help

:o)

mrloupcity: mr loups neck 1700-4000 Nackgammon

I still don't know how to put tourneys on.
TYVM

:o)

ive created some quick tournament games for anyone interested, backgammon and others!

http://brainking.com/en/Tournaments?trg=11680&trnst=0
one


and two:
http://brainking.com/en/Tournaments?trg=11681&trnst=0

ScarletRose: A record chess game between Nikolic - Arsovic (Belgrade 1989), with 269 moves.

Chess is infinite: There are 400 different positions after each player makes one move apiece. There are 72,084 positions after two moves apiece. There are 9+ million positions after three moves apiece. There are 288+ billion different possible positions after four moves apiece. There are more 40-move games on Level-1 than the number of electrons in our universe. There are more game-trees of Chess than the number of galaxies (100+ billion), and more openings, defences, gambits, etc. than the number of quarks in our universe!

The longest Chess game theoretically possible is 5,949 moves.

for more, see the fs ;)

It's unlikely that a chess game would go over 100 or even 75 for that matter. But I've played many games that neared the 75 mark.

DanDanDan: Wow.. Maybe a Worlds Record?? :)

lovelysharon: I think it's cool that you two have played a game so long with so many moves. keep it up for sixy more and you might have the record ;)

I wasn´t criticizing. I just stated this case as an example of a long lasting game without having slower players... :)

congrats Jason... 996 moves to be exact...

lovelysharon: ;) Its been a great game neck and neck for hundreds of moves

sorry I don't follow general chat... and it may be my style of play in this type game that has made it last so long... not giving up now... :) although i do believe Jason may have it...

Andre Faria: And the winner has already been determined! Fencer is unwise for not upgrading the system so that in tournaments like this winners are declared as soon as they are mathematically assured, even if all games are not finished. Even ****** IYT has that.

lovelysharon: Yep, I know. I stated that in the general chat. Almost 3 moves/day.

In this kind of games there´s a big risk of someone being stucked for more than a year...

Andre Faria: I know seems my game with Jason is holding things up there... but we've been moving right along... now at move 989.. :)

http://brainking.com/pt/Tournaments?trg=4259&tri=12397

Pioneer54: I'm still playing in a tourney that started:

24. November 2004, 06:05:17

I was a knight when I renewed but found I couldn't play in any tourneys. When I looked at all of the running tourneys I was no longer playing in but they were still running, I realised it would be months before I could even join any new ones. So I went to the rook membership.

You really have to plan carefully if you join a tourney. Even the 7 day tourneys can take a long long time. ;)

Re: on Time

I sympathize with BG's earlier comments. I've entered quite a few tournaments with longer time limits, thinking that would not matter, and MAN, DID I EVER GET BURNED!!? Now I'm stuck in events, including some in which I finished my games many weeks ago, due to the fact that one player or another--who has way too many games going--is moving almost constantly at the "11th hour".

Nothing to do but wait.... and wait.... and wait.... and wait.... However, when browsing the tournament list, I no longer even consider those listings that have time limits greater than 5 days, and I'm even a bit hesitant at that level.

It has been argued that an access problem or emergency could cause some timeouts. I thought that is what the "autovac" policy was for. Even so, I would rather deal with that than the slow play alternative; after all, there will be other tournaments, other times.

rod03801: thanks ;)

By clicking on the individual game, and scrolling down to the move list.

Bry: wow...that's a looooooong tourney. How can you tell when it started?

DanDanDan: Oldest Running Tournament??

Here

7 days time limit....... Only 15 Players....

Started 22nd May 2003.

baddessi: thx.....

redfrog: you must be! Good luck with that!

I must be crazy...1800 limit...first 4 to sign

Bry: My guess is that your 21 day tourneys finish in about the same time a 7 day move tourney would. Generally speaking. There's always acceptions.

I just played in a backgammon tourney, can't remember the time controls, but I went to bed with no moves in any games, and woke up to having timed out in three of my games! whoah.

BG: Apologies - that wasn't directed at you, I was agreeing with your comments - it's like Eriisa has stated others see the 21 days and go on and on and on and on and on about it being too long.

BG: Mine was a general comment not a reply to you.

Why do some people seem to take great delight in holding tournaments up? I don't know. Perhaps they want to see the other's results first. Perhaps they have too many games.
I don't know a way of avoiding them other than restricting oneself to the fast tournaments, but even then...

Sorry Eriisa, I was directing my comments at bumble.

I knew that, BG. I just didn't want you thinking that we thought different.