I do not favor limiting either the advantages or the number of games Rooks can initiate, but I do strongly believe the price for a Rook membership should increase. For what they receive, a more reasonable price would be $45 or $50 per annum.

I have my own complex set of reasons for purchasing a Knight membership, but admit the Rook is by far a much more attractive deal. Why is it that, of the paying members, there are roughly twice as many Rooks as Knights? It is simple really. The benefits for Rooks are a lot greater than those of Knights for only a marginally steeper cost. Current contracts must be obliged, of course, but at some future point a price increase for Rooks should be worked in.

Putting limitations on Pawns is meaningless. It sounds good in theory, but any user can get around it by simply creating another account.

of course it makes no difference altogether,
whether one moves for a few hours in 100 games
or in 500 games - he has always only one of them loaded PERIOD ~*~

I don't agree with the Brainrook aspect. I see no reason to limit games in that way. What kind of performance issues are we talking about if somebody is playing 300 games at the same time? I can't imagine it is a lot... disk space might be the biggest impact...

I personally think Brainrooks should have unlimited games.

Zucan

It cannot be that there are 6000 user the most play free and pay nothing and some other "Brainrooks" are paying their amount and some of them play so many games 200-400 so that the server is collapsing!
For a player with 200-400 games the brainrook amount is to less!

It cannot be that there is no money for a better server, no money for the programmer who works hard for a nice site and earns nothing for his work!
But he has to make a reset every one or two hours round about the clock because we all can play and play and play....!
And the best is all are crazy and happy if there are players with hundreds or thousands of games!

Have you all considered that fencer at one day says "Good bye",finishs Brainking and then our nice site is away forever!

That`s why I suggest to reform the structure of the membership:

1.Brainpawn: As before but only free for one year!
2.Brainpawn: After one year he pays 6 Dollars in the year, that is really not much!
3.Brainknight: As before
4.Brainrook: As before , but limitation 150 Games

That is a lot of games but if somebody wants to play more games he should buy a second account!

eddie spaghetti
the meatballs are ready
to pounce on you
but leave them alone
and they will go home
to contemplate how they can amass 2000 wins!

Way to go! Hope I can reach that milestone here one day. Congrats! ô¿~

Let us all play 2000 games,and all play 385 games simultaneously!
Perhaps is it good for the overburdens server?
If Eddie can increase the number of synchronous games to 500?
Fencer is sure very glad!
Who has the record?

Congratulations, Eddie! 2000 is quite impressive.

Maybe we should start calling you Super-eddie spaghetti :).

Congratulations Eddie. I agree with all you wrote. I would say alot of us come here to relax, have fun & play games. You pay & play, great to have members like you :)
(p.s. Wots a win ???)

Ill add my congratulations as well :) you go for all you can get eddie...as you said it is your money paying for it :)
Good one and go for the 3000 :)

W2Go Eddie!!! :o)

Congratulations, Eddie! Don't stop posting your milestones and keep having fun - it's what this place is all about, surely?

way to go Eddie, i guess i really helped you get there faster lol your a great guy

Nice one Eddie, good job. Carry on and let us all know when you reach 3000;

Congrats Eddie...WTG :-)

I am happy to see you got 2000 wins and I am sure it will be 3000 real soon!! All the players here should be happy for you!! But then I only saw 1 that isn't.. that is his/her problem :)

Awesome feat.Plus you are a class act.Congrats.

Damn Good show old chap!! lol :)

HEY now! I was trying for the 2,000 losses! Only approx 1200 more to go LOL

Congrats Eddie. It's people like you that are the backbone of sites like this.

Way to go Eddie

... and it looks like you will be hitting 2,000 losses soon also! :-) Possible the first user on BrainKing to hit the 2000-2000 club! :-)

wtg eddie.

joe

congrats

2000 ! impressing ... :)

and I was already surprised by my quick 555 ... :P

you go Eddie ... and why for 3 ?? 5000 ! :D
you're a database on your own ... ;) ... ~*~

Way to go Eddie.. Don't pay any mind to anyone who says anything negative. At least you arent doing anything illegal online like some ppl do. You are enjoying your self and thats all that matters. I feel sorry for people who dont have anything else to do with their lives but worry about what other people are doing!

Same here Eddie..congrats on 2000..go for 3000!!!

Let me say it again eddie: congrats on 2000 wins!!!

feel sorry for someone that likes to play games as a hobby?...thats all this is to me..say whats ya want to whomever ya want it doesnt bother me..i play for fun to relax after long stressful days at my job...if i was or am slowing the site down by playinf so many games all fencer has to do is say so but like everyone else i payed to play here and i feel im getting as much as i can for the money i spent..i hardly believe the games and moves i make slow this site down...this site has lots of content and graphics that fencer has worked hard for us to put in no other site lets us make unlimited tourneys etc...i love this site do to all of its options and its growing and expanding...unfortunetly this site is getting alot of complainers etc that the other sites have had i try hard to stay out of it because it does no good to whine all the time when i can be playing my evenings away relaxing.well whatever i already said more than i wanted to...this site is great...and i will continue to play as much as i can here...thats just one of the things that sites like this are made for in the first place...to play games...dont feel sorry for me uil... of all the things in this world i could be doin...playing and spending my time here is my choice and i enjoy it...see yas in the games...sorry i mentioned i won so many games..i wasnt trying get this kind of attension.. was just for a moment happy i accomplished something in what i enjoy doin...ill keep it to myself from now on....

I close this discussion and ask the Pope to declare all game junkies holy

I think Eddie is smart enough to make his own decisions

Gubbe, try to remember my messages as I wrote them. I NEVER promised a new server, i promised to contact some people about it (what i did), but i doubt i can find sponsors to create addicts. Chief KM: I never said I don't like Eddy, I feel sorry for him

As far as i know is Eddie a paying member with unlimited games/moves

I can not understand anyone not liking eddie spaghetti.

I dont "judge" anyone for playing too much, maybe when Uil has given Fencer the server he has promised..then Eddie can double his amount of games :)

At least he is slowing it down doing what was intended for this site, playing games and having fun instead of continual moaning, groaning and complaining. Have a wonderful day all ☺

no Gubbe, but he has played here about 4000 games in that time (385 right now) and playing on some other site: we call that an addict! What do you want, give him an award for slowing down the site the most of all

Way to go Eddie and I agree, this place is the greatest!

Do you think he should reach 3000 wins with prof. help?..congrats to 2000 Eddie :)

is playing over 2000 within 1 year worth a congrats. I think Eddy needs prof. help

well done eddie :)

Congrats, Eddie!!!

Congrats Eddie. I agree with you.

i got my 2,000th win today....i got it faster here than i did at gt and iyt...this site is the best,,,,,,,,

This happens occaisionally with Webtv... The quickest way I have found to fix it, is to leave the site, hang up, re- connect and come back. It seems to me that USUALLY helps. It has always worked fine when coming back to that game later. Sometimes I don't think you even have to reconnect completely. Sometimes leaving the site and coming back helps. But not always.(unless a significant amount of time has passed)

.. but the player who is sitting on my game list on 'zero time' has not moved since the 19th of July!! ("kitster") and he has another 17 games in a similar situation and his only other game he has been playing will end up at 'zero time' in about 4 hours.

Jules :)

It's working fine now for some reason. Thanks anyway.

Send an email to Fencer - email address: fencer@brainking.com
Tell him the exact Game ID and describe the problem. He will fix it for you.

Goodluck :-)

In one of my games I want to move a certain piece (a knight) but every time I try to click on it a message pops up on my Webtv that says "The item you have chosen contains a kind of information that can't be used". All of the other pieces work fine. Any other move I could make would be very bad. I'm not quite sure what to do.

for some types the amount of games is entirely inessential.
I actually do not pay for restrictions but for lacking of them.
and even your impression based on the view of chess is not complete.
in correspondance chess you have only 3 days per move,
but the reflection time cAn be accumulated, that is necessary
to keep up the quality-difference to otb chess ... ~*~

PS indeed I prefer the 3days tourneys too and the best
gameplay in chess I acchieved when it didn't extend 30 games.

I think the timeconrol of the most tournements is with 5 or 7 day much to long.Best is 2 or 3 days!
By the way there are players with more than 100 games simultaneously,some have over 200 or 250 games!
Nobody can tell me that you can play good with so many games.
There should be a limit for the maximal number of games (100) beacause it is an impertinence for all opponents.
In addition it could help the overburdens server.

That sounds good to me BBW! Or make it an even 7 days...