Does everyone use all that Brainking offers now? Certainly not. I see fellowships dwindling, and those in fellowships not using the boards or participating like they should. How often are there new opinion polls? There is one now. How many noticed? Pond games are becoming fewer and it is harder to get people to play them. I can't remember the last time I used a poker table. Everytime I do look at the tables there is no one at them. So there are some good things here that are not being used to their full potential. That is not Fencer's fault, it is ours. So before expecting Fencer to take lots of time implementing new features, lets take advantage of the ones that currently exist. Fencer has a life outside of brainking too. He worked hard to build it up. I am sure he will not just let it die. If you have comments to him, I am sure you can just message him directly or if you think there is a better place to play, you can go there. I enjoy it here. I routinely have between 300 to 400 games going at a time. Sometimes more. So just enjoy the games. Better yet join my fellowship, Brian's 1971 Pub and play in our battleboats games tournaments that start September 15th. (Paying members only)

Brian1971: You're absolutely right, there are lots of great games here and board games are classics, there isn't any need to constantly tinker with them and add new variants as those are often silly; I mean Ponds, really? I'm a huge fan of hyper-backgammon though, great invention. thechosen0ne who started this discussion seldom plays on this site but that is exactly what Brainking needs most, more players!

someone get rid of this rubbish....its a scam.

Bernice:i removed the post and banned the account from this board

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

speachless: Actually, I sent you a response (about 3 hours ago). Please check your mailbox for details.

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

speachless: It is so sad that this had to happen. I am pretty sure none of us wanted to win on time-out like that. Too pity Fencer decided not to suspend the timer for one day...considering it has already happened by mistake more than once...

ThunderGr: You have 34 days and 21 hours vacation days left, surely that should see you through it?

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...

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

speachless: It is my opinion that the clock on a site like this serves as a means to prevent abuse and mischief by players with no spirit of sportsmanship. The main goal is to provide the most entertaining way to spend your time by playing games. The rules exist to provide this and exceptions to the rules are always welcome by everyone in the spirit of enjoying the games. When a player like you, which has so many games at a high level of quality, interest and entertainment gets into such a rare situation as this one, I think it is imperative for the administrator to provide the means to secure the entertainment of all players involved. Very few players are in this for vain points and ratings. I think that I speak for the vast majority when I say that, in this specific occurrence, Fencer should had suspended the timer globally for a day, so that the entertainment of the players involved in these games would be preserved, rather than giving the excuse of "fairness" for not doing so. If a player had a problem with that, he/she could request the time forfeit specifically for his/her games and be done with it.
I, for one, am really disappointed for winning our game on time like this. Being indifferent is one thing, being in such a situation and requesting an exception is another.

I am not saying it is the end of the world or anything, I just feel that it is unacceptable to miss the spirit of the rules in favor of the letter of them.

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

when my market is peachless I settle for nectarines

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...

speachless: you do a great job! even when its not your job :)
i hope you also get some rewards from the thankfulness of the refugees ..

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 ...

there needs to be more people like you in this world. you're doing a wonderful,thing.

ellieoop: thank you

My most sincere apologies to those who I timed out with. I just got my computer back after 5 days in the shop.

badgerboy78: Hey, don't worry - we won!

BGBedlam:

I too need to aplogise for timing out and not being omline, This is due to a combination of connection problems and Ciminod's illnesses which required round the clock care (some of you know what happened to him ) sorry to all those I timed out on it was unavoidable.

Oh and Speachless ~I agree there should be more people like you in the World.

ketchuplover: How would you measure an hour of access? This is not a real time site, you can open a game, spend 2 hours thinking of the next move, then click Submit and log out. Was it 2 hours of access or just 2 minutes of server time?

I think it's best we forget that idea ever happened

I think I found a typo in the rules for Czech checkers.

When a pawn reaches the last row, it turns to a queen immediately and the queen can move and any spaces diagonally.

I think the second "and" was supposed to be an "in". I would actually suggest rephrasing the sentence to "When a pawn reaches the last row, it turns into a queen immediately and can move any number of spaces diagonally."

Sorry if posting in the wrong place.

Bronius: You write "I think the second "and" was supposed to be an "in". If anything, the second "and" should be a "to".

Bronius: there is a board to report faults

Dice Cheater, that would imply the queen can simultaneously move to multiple spaces!

Bernice, thanks. Didn't notice it.

for anyone else?

ketchuplover: Looks OK to me from one network and a little slower from another one. Could be a network issue somewhere.

crashed. Better now.

I normally use Google Chrome most of the time and firefox if I want to do something that doesn't support Chrome fully.

Brian1971: Google uses shady practices in their products. Firefox is much safer.

Firefox a few minutes ago

ketchuplover: ive been having heaps of probs as well......

is now #40 at http://chess-links.org

Fencer: I hope you plan on having a sale on the brain rooks this Christmas. I like the ones with the colors that have a percentage up to 125 percent.

♥♫βaβyĢіґŁŁє♫♥: I do too.

♥♫βaβyĢіґŁŁє♫♥:   I all ready asked fencer and he told me he will not have a sale this year

beach: Oh that is a shame.

beach: He should reconsider, after all it brings in holiday revenue plus adds spark to the site. I have a feeling many would love to see it.

♥♫βaβyĢіґŁŁє♫♥:   I agree I thought he would get into the Christmas spirit and help those that would like to get a membership

♥♫βaβyĢіґŁŁє♫♥: i agree ... i might buy another year :-)

♥♫βaβyĢіґŁŁє♫♥: It's certainly a good one, probably my favourite too.

Oh yes, Fencer could make an effort for Christmas

Makes me wonder if Fencer is considering the end of Brainking. When was the last time we had anything really new or improved here? I can't remember anything recently. I spend lots of time here so I hope that is not the case. My membership ends in February, which I am looking for something significant that proves Fencer is dedicated to the future of brainking.

Brian1971: you have a terrific sense of humour lOL

Bernice: Sadly I am not kidding.