I would like to thank "whathefuh4", (Mary Lou and Natasha), for the kind words. It certainly has been a pleasure playing with such wonderful people --- but the time has come to hang up the old finger. Time to hit the road. Take off the old cleats. Find a new strawberry patch; but while you can lead a horse to water, you can't make him lie on his back and float. So I'm almost just going to say it certainly has been a pleasure playing with such wonderful people.

Been thinking about playing left-handed under a different pseudonym. Something like "gazortinplatt" or something like that. ~~~say no more~~~ "Live long and prosper"

Your friend,

seldom

Fencer: That was kool!

Fencer: good stuff

MadMonkey: LOL! I thoroughly enjoyed the queen's gambit and loved the main character, such brilliant actress.

Dice Cheater: Yeah sorry, I binged watched them all in one day, so it just seems like a film

MadMonkey: Are you talking about the Netflix mini-series? I didn't know they'd made a film

MadMonkey: I was fascinated by that kid....he was absolutely unbelievable

Bernice: I watched it a couple of weeks ago, loved it, great film, though maybe predictable

I did see something on YouTube as well, where they interviewed World Champion Magnus Carlsen (and other Chess Masters) about the film, and the games played in it. That was very interesting

Fencer: Fencer....seeing as you love chess....I loved movie on NETFLIX called QUEENS GAMBIT....I used to play chess very badly hahaha years ago but I loved this movie.

YOu may also be able to get it on You Tube...I dont know

Papa Zoom: Thank you! There is more on Facebook or YouTube. Updated daily.

Fencer: as a former avid chess player, I very much like it. The speed was perfect as it allowed time for quick analysis yet kept the game moving.

__chess__: I prefer my own solution, which is also fully automated - just input the game IDs and let the engine do the rest. By the way, if I had the same attitude (there are other game sites, why to create a new one?) 19 years ago, this site would not exist.

Furthermore, this is just a PoC (proof of concept) and there are endless possibilities to improve the former idea.

Fencer: Of course all this is unnecessary. just use xboard to play the game and any screen capture tool that can create videos.

SL-Mark:

Fencer: Captured pieces ... Sweet.
Your highlighting the move squares and red check lines is a nice touch.

I agree. :)

ughaibu:

Okay, the FINAL final version (notation added below the board). I will stop spamming here. Thanks everyone who sent me their feedback, much appreciated.

https://youtu.be/_NVECmY1gl0

ughaibu: it sure is

This is nice, Fencer talking about the future of BrainKing.

Fencer: Captured pieces ... Sweet.
Your highlighting the move squares and red check lines is nice touch.

MadMonkey: Yeah, I thought it might be better to choose a game which I didn't lose. However, the video generator is quite CPU-consuming, so I don't think we would ever add something like "create a game video" functionality to BrainKing. Maybe as an external service in the future.

Fencer: I think its great watching games like that, I was cheering furbster on, but sadly you prevailed

SL-Mark: Captured pieces added.

https://youtu.be/Efr1hW3BaxU

Fencer: Looks great.
Would add list of captured pieces.

Fencer: That's pretty cool! It would be neat if every game had an "instant replay".

MadMonkey: Yes, mesmerizing. My wife had a similar comment.

Walter Montego: Hmm, that's unlikely. I don't plan to host any videos here, and I don't think it's possible to replay videos backwards on YouTube (or is it?).

Fencer: I like that Fencer, just right speed.....in fact it's quite mesmerizing watching it

And you found a game tenuki lost, that didn't happen very often

Fencer: That seems like a good speed.

If that is made a part of BrainKing, will it have pause and backward play?

I created a simple application that takes a PGN file (chess notation) and generates a MOV video to replay the game. It's just a side project, something like a programming exercise.

This is a sample output from the BrainKing database: https://youtu.be/OA73wSwNbHE

Any feedback would be appreciated. (Too fast? Too slow? Some info missing?)

rabbitoid: OK, found the info on a "help" page.

Hi, I'm asking this for someone who lost her password. has anyone here ever gone through this?

The form on the login page says: "Did you forget your user name or password? Use this form and the link to your password change page will be sent to your e-mail." but the form asks only for an email? I don't see the logic

Aganju: You’re totally right. This exists in France.

Carnie: things might have changed... nowadays, some countries have laws that require web sites to allow them to delete all accounts and history. Fencer probably would have to do that manually.

Carnie: it's the user ID 83705. But you cannot access it anymore; the usual link <https://brainking.com/profile?u=83705> fails (and shows your own profile instead).
However, 83704 and 83706 are fine (both are from July 2009).

Looks like someone asked to be deleted explicitly. Or got deleted for exorbitant behavior in some way.</a>

Carnie: It was Jesper_10 ...though how it is deleted i do not know

Carnie: I've never seen this before.

Nothingness: Where it list a players bkr, it shows 100/4000 on the tournament sign up page. So, put 1400 in place of 100 and 1700 where you see 4000. Then only players between that bkr can accept your game. This is just to the left of the <=

When creating a new game im given a few rating options. Such as < or <=.. what do these mean? Let's say my chess rating is 1600.i want to put up a chess challenge but only want my opp rating to be between 1400-1700.. what symbols do I put on the challenge

Mélusine: Happy New Year

There is a place to discuss other game sites

Bernice: You brought it up on a public discussion board, which invites comments from the public. But, yes, that being said, it would be appropriate to end the topic at this point.

Me, to have no problem on the net, I pay with a virtual card. It’s a card valid for only one transaction and I choose the amount I want.
Happy New Year everyone.

Clandestine 1: not necessarily.....I have antivirus installed and lets drop it as it has nothing to do with you.