Only thing I can think of is to make sure the person has not had a problem in their real life. some tragedy or something. Or did you say that they were moving in other games?

I quote: "In Arpa's defence, I have played a hundred or so games with him and find his play to be timely, he moves at least once a day."

But there are AT LEAST 3 games which were started more than 14 days ago in which not a single move has been played!!

Is there room for me to stand on Grenv's soapbox?

but dont read any sad books or they will make you cry as well....

You do not have to get more games, read a book and stop crying

I get really annoyed when people say..." go get more games" why should we?

<soapbox>the best question was: why enter if you're not going to play? Wait until you do want to play and then enter, there are plenty of tournaments.</soapbox>


:)

That's how I look at it too, Sunfire

I do not care how long it takes for a player to make their move, I just join more games and that player will make their move someday...... If you got plenty of games going you should not even notice a couple of games going slow.

In Arpa's defence, I have played a hundred or so games with him and find his play to be timely, he moves at least once a day.

WTG PGT!!! thank you for supporting our site! As a rook,you can now join as many tournaments as you like,and when the "slow"players do finally move,it will be a pleasent surprise.

Fencer - when you do have it possible to have tournaments/games with no vacation days allowed - hopefully they will show up on the game sheet a little differently, or able to sort no vacation games a little differently in case you do plan to take a vacation, you can try to hurry and play those game quickly. :-)

I have created the New Year Janus Chess Open for all players!
The best games of this tournement will be published in the German chess journal "Rochade Europa"!

Fencer, I think that that would be a GREAT idea - or maybe even restrict vacation days to 3,4 or 5 days for the ENTIRE tournament. But what I still don't understand is why anybody would want to sign up for a tournament and then not take part for three weeks. I think that's just completely inconsiderate.

It can be solved by introducing tournaments where no vacation days can be used.

I agree, people are indeed playing within the current rules. But the rules need to be changed. And yes, the idea has been discussed before, but I thought my idea (about limiting the length of vacation time to double the length of the move limit) was original and deserved mentioning.

I'm aware of the RULES. This country has some bloody stupid laws, too, but just because they are laws is no reason to lie down and accept them. They need to challenged if they are not the RIGHT rules.

Sorry pgt and Thad u feel this way. but it has been brought up by lots of people. Again sorry more then not they r just using up their vacation time they have left. But when they put on this site an auto vacation, I truely think the BIG BOSS or head people for this site did not think that somepeople would use it to take the fun out of the tourneys.

This is a turn base site and after u become a rook member u get 30 days vacation. And there is no rule that says that u can't use them all in a row.

And if u read the rules they can take the full time they have to make there moves. Yes lots of us don't think it is very sporting for people to do this but, they r not breaking any rules.

WoW been a long time for me to write this much at 1 time. Sorry moderators this is off topic but just thought they would like to know that it has been talked about over and over again.

Back to my corner I go to hide out poof.
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I agree that something needs to be done. Perhaps limiting vacation between moves to twice the length of the move limit. For example, in your case, there is a 3 day limit per move, so vacation time between moves could be limited to 3 extra days (6 days total).

I want to make some remarks on the following tournament.

Fast Start - First 5 to sign - Backgammon #575 (Backgammon)


The tournament was opened to start on 5th December, and today, 18th December, all of the games have been completed - except for one player, ARPA, who has not made a single move in three of the games.

I have repeatedly asked him politely if he would mind making some moves, but to no avail.

At the risk of being accused of taking a cheap ride, I have today upgraded my membership from Brain Knight to Brain Rook, so that I cannot be accused of sending this message for the wrong reasons. It is entirely reasonable for play restrictions to be imposed on those not contributing, or not contributing very much!

Now as a Brain Rook, I would like to state my case strongly! This tournament was advertised as "fast start" and in my simple mind, that also implied "fast play". I find absolutely no fun in playing tournments which last a month, let alone a year. I could well be dead before this tournamnet is over if ARPA does not make a move soon.

I checked up the games outstanding of the other player in the tournament, and they were 315, 80, 254, and 22. ARPA had 795 games outstanding! Why would somebody want to enter a tournament when that many games were outstanding? Did he REALLY intend to play in it?

IS THIS A FAIR THING FOR OTHER BK MEMBERS??

I'd love to hear your views.

Red Squirrel Grouped Nuts ~Spider Linetris

Congratulations The Big O, winner of this tournament

You are all welcome to sign up for our MERRY CHRISTMAS tourny!!

Might you want to join, please ask for membership.

Have FUN :-)

Why is that confusing? this way more people get to play them ~ pawns included, some of which are very good players and some of which have since become members , so it is good for BrainKing as well as for players. I don't have to name them ~ it's just something I do.

One thing confuses me Nirvana, these tournaments are named after your fellowships right? So how come you do them as general tournaments rather than purely in the fellowshiops?

☺☺☺☺☺ Happy Christmas ☺☺☺☺☺

Nooks and Crannies Christmas Regatta


Red Squirrel's Dry Roasted Nuts


Uncensored and Steamy's Naughty but nice ...

Are you like me, a fair game-player, but your BKR indicates otherwise? Are you unrated in some games, and just want to HAVE a rating? Would you like to play other people who share your position? Then join this tourney for any game in which your BKR is less than 1700. Set to start on New Year's Day, this tourney is restricted to those whose BKR's are less than 1700 (any game). Even if you have earned a high BKR on some games, and are just working on others, join the ones where your BKR is low! Most importantly... HAVE FUN!!!

Ramblin' Games for BKR less than or = 1700

Are you just learning how to play some of the games? Have you wanted to try some new games, but were afraid? Well, then, let's learn to play them together!!! And maybe make some new friends along the way. Scheduled to start after Christmas...take a risk...sign up for games you've never tried...and most of all, LET'S HAVE FUN!!!

Ramblin' Games for NEWBIES...

I just set up my first two tourneys, if anyone wants to check them out. In The Navy and Night of The Amazons

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Only ONE more Day to sign up!☺

Scarlets Winter Wonderland at the Amazon Island

Scarlets Winter Wonderland at Sea

Come Sail Away!!

Come Sail Away!!

Come Sail Away with Me!!

Back on January 1, 2004, I started 2 new year tournaments. Well Year 2005 is near, so 2 new year 2005 tournaments have been created!

Details on tournaments:

5 days to move

5 player per section

1 tournament for 1 games each, other is 2 games each

Both to start on January 1, 2005 - 0:00 time acourding to BK Server time. (So to start right after the clocks turn to 2005!)

Signup's open to everyone!

Check out tournament for any more details

To sign up:

• Year 2005 (1 game) SIGN UP HERE
  
• Year 2005 (2 game) SIGN UP HERE
  

Good luck to all!

Also to those who have asked, I will start back up the "Fast Start" tournament after the first of the year (or maybe before if I can get caught up on things.)

Nooks and Crannies Mixture. ~Anti Reversi : shmoula

Red Squirrel Grouped Nuts ~ Reversi 10x10: shmoula


Red Squirrel Smashed Nuts ~ Backgammon: arpa.

Nooks and Crannies Mixture. Reversi 10x10

Congratulations shmoula ~ winner of this tournament.

Red Squirrel Chipped Nuts ~Line4

Congratulations The Big O, winner.

Nooks and Crannies Box of Delights. Pente.

Congratulations to arpa, winner of this tournament

Red Squirrel Grouped Nuts ~Spider Line4

Congratulations to The Big O, winner of this tournament.

Thanks Chuckaroo, lets have another lol. I dont often play Checkers these days :o)

Congrats Madmonkey on winning my checkers tournament!

Nooks and Crannies
needs Crowded Backgammon players
Red Squirrel History Group
needs Anti~checkers players

Anyone welcome to join!

Thank You!

Nooks and Crannies Box of Delights ~ Line4

Congratulations Hrqls winner of the tournament.

Anyone (In my fellowships) need me on they're Halma 8 x 8 team ?

Red Squirrel History Group's Chess Tournament

Congratulations NOMOEO winner of this tournament.

jasons games room needs 2 team players for crowded backgammon can anybody help out ? bkr not important .

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only around 3 days left before the team tourney starts

Or higher :-)

You have to be a rook, nothingness.

how do you do it? or do you have to be a rook or higher?

Gabby ~Red Squirrel History Group's Battleboats Plus ~Battleboats Plus.

Paula29 ~Nooks and Crannies Box of Delights. ~Dark Battleboats

Ughaibu ~Red Squirrel Smashed Nuts ~ Loop Chess

Hanis ~Nooks and Crannies Mixture ~Dark Battleboats

Hotel California and backgammon join forces to hold the first tourney for the Hotel. Come one come all :-)

I actually didn't want to play in such a large tournament because i fear i will die of old age before it finishes, that's all.

Actually that's been a problem with all the team tournaments, one slow player means the sections don't finish.

It would be better if at least a match could be decided by winning more than half the games instead of waiting for everything to finish. Until then I will probably not play them.

true

i didnt look at the section size .. but people said they didnt want to play with teams of 12 persons because they would have to play too many games that way .. that confuses me

The section size also affects the number of games played. Assuming the section size is constant, the number of team players doesn't affect how many games each player playes - it is simply (games against each player) * (teams per section - 1).

the bigger the teams needed the less games people have to play in a team tournament .. isnt it ?

lets say we have 120 players ... which can be either 10 teams of 12 players or 20 teams of 6 players

the 10 teams of 12 players let all 12 players of each team play against the corresponding player of all other teams .. giving 9 games per player in a team

for the 20 teams of 6 players this would mean 19 games per player in a team

maybe i am confused though ;)