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Subject: Re: Slow games

rabbitoid: I know I was being polite, I have a ludo game that is now going on 6 years at the speed its going it will be 2016 before it ends

9. February 2012, 20:11:06

rabbitoid

Subject: Re: Slow games

norrsken: Welcome to the turtle victim club
I think 10 years is highly optimistic
beach: a professional turtle won't usually time out. He'll just play his moves at the last possible second.

9. February 2012, 19:12:07

beach

Subject: Re: Slow games

norrsken: you have to be careful with those 21p move games, I play alot of games and find there are lots of people that take along time (and within the time limit) to make there moves which they are entitled, only benefit is that by mid march they start to time out in the games.. You are better off sticking max to the 5 game matches and if you like to play fast stick to games that are 3 days or less, There are many people here who play large quantities of games and they play fast and they do not time out. Many of us with the higher paid memberships are here because we like the unlimited amount of games and we play all our games daily

9. February 2012, 18:45:22

norrsken

Subject: Slow games

I am involved in a backgammon tournament with 21 p matches. After 8 weeks one of the matches has reached 7 completed moves. With more than 20 moves per game and roughly 20 games per match the tournament will last for maybe 10 years with the response times one of the participants use. He is involved in more than 3000 games. I think there should be a limit so you can't have so many games going on. Even if you are on the highest membership level. I am 64 and maybe I will have to make "The final resignation" before this match is over.

6. February 2012, 13:54:48

Subject: Re: Timeout on "weekend"

thisbeme: Sat/Sun is calculated according to the server's time zone, which is eastern europe. So the BK weekend is over at Sun 6 pm EST, or in PT even at Sun 3 pm. It starts already early on the other hand, though.

6. February 2012, 01:28:13

Mélusine

Subject: Re: Timeout on "weekend"

thisbeme: Perhaps because now, in your country, you are on Monday ?

6. February 2012, 01:18:05

thisbeme

Subject: Timeout on "weekend"

Chess (thisbeme vs. Tibs)

Logik (sacha vs. thisbeme)

Saturday sunday is my weekend I should not be timing out while it is still sunday in "standard vacation" games.

4. February 2012, 23:43:34

Roberto Silva

Subject: Re: Special Request

Gabriel Almeida: Agreed.

4. February 2012, 14:14:31

Subject: Re: Special Request

coan.net: Oh yes... It seems great to me (and I think you also use that motiv) different type of games. It would be increased with the aleatory factor! :) So:

- 1 "random chess games" tournament;

- 1 "random checkers games" tournament;

- 1 "random gammon games" tournament;

...

I think it would be very interesting!

4. February 2012, 00:02:24

Purple

Subject: Re: Special Request

coan.net: Checkers if you can find a team.

4. February 2012, 00:01:02

furbster

anti reversi or behemoth chess? :)

3. February 2012, 23:58:51

coan.net

Subject: Re: Special Request

Gabriel Almeida: I can try to get some new team tournaments set up this weekend - any suggestions on games? I usually try to mix it up with popular are not-popular games, but always open to suggestions.

3. February 2012, 17:23:46

Purple

Subject: Re: Special Request

Gabriel Almeida: Tiger Checker Club challenges any team in the world!

3. February 2012, 16:26:07

Subject: Special Request

Hi people (Fencer, Coan, Tanein), how about more team tournaments? And any kind of action to "vote" games and/or type of tournament?

24. January 2012, 01:37:14

pattypoo

Subject: Re: White blank pages

Thanks Fencer, could be.

24. January 2012, 00:52:53

Fencer

Subject: Re: White blank pages

pattypoo: I've just logged in your account, opened some games, visited discussions, viewed a couple of other pages. No problems at all. Perhaps it is a WebTV issue?

24. January 2012, 00:48:36

pattypoo

Subject: Re: White blank pages

I'm still having trouble with the white pages.

22. January 2012, 17:46:38

Subject: Re: White blank page.

Fencer: works fine for me now,too.

22. January 2012, 14:38:41

crosseyed_uk

Subject: Re: White blank page.

Fencer: It's okay now thanks.

22. January 2012, 13:57:03

Fencer

Subject: Re: White blank page.

crosseyed: What about now?

22. January 2012, 12:57:06

furbster

Subject: Re: White blank page.

crosseyed: yeh i'm having the same problem

22. January 2012, 12:45:07

Subject: Re: White blank page.

crosseyed: same here,hun

22. January 2012, 11:18:31

crosseyed_uk

Subject: White blank page.

I am unable to get in to any fellowships today. I get a white blank pages and have to either go out of the site or back click. Is anyone else having the same problem?

18. January 2012, 18:58:26

ketchuplover

Subject: Re: Hurray! 1000 wins!

Aganju:

congratulations :)

18. January 2012, 16:30:41

joshi tm

Subject: Re: Almost impossible

furbster: I like the idea allowing Pawn members playing ponds, so then there are more players playing. As the current rules state that Pawn members always use the last known move this should be fixed.

18. January 2012, 16:14:18

furbster

Subject: Almost impossible

To get this achievement!

http://brainking.com/en/Achievements?p=1&aid=141

It would be quite cool if pawns were allowed to play in ponds, and there would be more competition too! :o)

Any thoughts?

18. January 2012, 16:11:42

Fencer

Subject: Re: Ah, Rolinda my love

Gabriel Almeida: Maybe we should add it to the achievements.

18. January 2012, 15:10:42

Subject: Re: Ah, Rolinda my love

rabbitoid: Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeessssss! I've been flirted too! Thank you for your desire, Anita! :)

16. January 2012, 16:25:12

Subject: Re: Hurray! 1000 wins!

Aganju: With great results, particularly in line games and chess. Congrats, Aganju!

16. January 2012, 13:16:57

Subject: Hurray! 1000 wins!

Modified by Aganju (16. January 2012, 13:17:42)

After exactly 190 days of playing BK, I just won my 1000th game (having accumulated 631 losses in the same period, which was the easier part)
:-)

13. January 2012, 01:06:40

Here comes BrainKings official revolution. It starts gentle and will end sweet.

9. January 2012, 17:41:02

Subject: Re: Ah, Rolinda my love

Modified by Gabriel Almeida (9. January 2012, 17:41:17)

Aganju: If you are beeing flirted for more than 5 people, you receive an achievment...

9. January 2012, 17:35:23

Subject: Re: Ah, Rolinda my love

Gabriel Almeida: I hope not (BK becoming a meeting site).
Looks like there are people out there that are dumb enough to answer these ads (or they would have given up on it).
Maybe we should have a BKR rating for this too? If you fall for it, 'you lose the game' and rating points; if you can control yourself to ignore it, you 'win' and go up?

9. January 2012, 17:11:01

Subject: Re: Ah, Rolinda my love

ScarletRose: Love is in the air... BK is now a meetings site?

I must be really ugly... noone contacted me!

7. January 2012, 20:27:03

ScarletRose

Subject: Re: Ah, Rolinda my love

rabbitoid: LOL.. I see you had a message from redrose1 as well.. I got a hi from them as well..

7. January 2012, 19:37:59

Universal Eyes

Subject: Re: Ah, Rolinda my love

rabbitoid: I received the very same message on my wall last night within minutes of when they joined the site.

7. January 2012, 12:55:12

Subject: Re: Ah, you're a popular guy!

Bwild: don't say this untll you lost against rabbitoid. his pokerface iron now.

7. January 2012, 12:51:40

Subject: Re: Ah, Rolinda my love

rabbitoid: I got her note too... Hope her picture arrives soon... ;-)

7. January 2012, 08:53:50

Subject: Re: Ah, Rolinda my love

rabbitoid: lol..your a popular guy!

7. January 2012, 08:35:10

rabbitoid

Subject: Ah, Rolinda my love

All my life I've been waiting for you
Of course I'll write to you right away, not forgetting to add my BK, GT and facebook passwords, and adding visa numbers as an afterthought

(for those of you who don't know what I'm raving about, have a peek at my wall)

7. January 2012, 04:54:30

don't know why, fencer is like a tax collecter. but if one does some own black economy, i'm not telling. if we only could play for cash of a sort.

7. January 2012, 03:32:18

paypal is not sellpal. company is fraudulent to sellers except you sell rooks.

6. January 2012, 21:09:03

Subject: Re:

Thad: I'm still froze out...same thing..was using ebay

6. January 2012, 20:39:04

Thad

Subject: Re:

Hrqls: Ha, ha, hardly. I was doing a lot of eBay sales at the time.

6. January 2012, 08:21:11

Hrqls

Subject: Re:

Thad: wow! that just mean you are rich :)

6. January 2012, 08:19:29

Thad

Subject: Re:

I had trouble with PayPal. The froze my account and accused me of laundering money. Ha! I've seen people do it in movies but wouldn't have the slightest idea how to do it in real life. I hate PayPal!

5. January 2012, 23:43:32

Mort

I think with paypal it's a case of 99.9999% of the time there are no problems, but with any unlocal system (as Fencer has experienced) they can get it wrong. And with a lot of companies (and as witnessed owner/directors/politicians) they don't like admitting they've got it wrong.

5. January 2012, 22:00:34

MadMonkey

Subject: Re:

Thom27: I have just looked it up

Never heard of it before. It seems a sort of cross between Chess & Jungle (with some Breakthrough in as well lol) from what i have read. I know Fencer has many games on his list that have been asked for, and i guess its a case of when he gets time, and which ones he chooses.

I must say though, this game 'Arimaa' does look fun, interesting and hard

5. January 2012, 20:52:14

Thom27

Modified by Thom27 (5. January 2012, 22:04:25)

I suggest implementing Arimaa. Till September is plenty of time to cope with the complexity of this game.

Edit: link to Arimaa

5. January 2012, 17:12:54

ketchuplover