thanks to those who signed up for the Sunshine Club--we now have a team and are signed up..


im waiting for that tournament too

hehe, i see! i was told that the system updates like every hour so... i guess i freaked out a few minutes too soon! :D

thanks for the help though! I came over here to say: "nevermind me, it just started!"

TeamBundy: Pity some people didn't appear for the tournament, I expected more games than that in 1st round, especially in hyper

Looking for shogi and loop chess team. Zetes told me he is looking for shogi team aswell. Warning: I never played shogi and don't know the rules yet

Congratulations to taikoki on winning my St Pat's Day Backgammon tournament http://brainking.com/en/Tournaments?trg=7164&tri=29533&trnst=10. Interesting also that his real name is Patrick

bwildman: just 2 more days!
(see link below)

UnRated Open Pente for beginners 0-1499

Is that possible to have another team tornament of czech checkers?

Need some team a player of swap five-in-line? I'm free.

Am I confused, the Team tournaments started yet I thought they started next week?

Skyking: yes your confused lol

That's what I thought LOL

I have 2 tournaments that is set to start later this month.

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►►►►► Happy 3rd Birthday BrainKing ◄◄◄◄◄ - This is set to start on September 26 - which just happens to be pretty close to BrainKing's 3rd Birthday. All Games. Would be cool if we could get enough players to play in each game type! (That would be at least 4 for each game type)

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►ALL games for dummies (under 1500 & unrated) #11◄ - Set to start on September 30th, this is the 11th "Dummies" tournament.

This tournament is for players rated BELOW 1500, or unrated - so it give a good chance for players to try new games.... without being "killed" by expert players.

What do these tournaments have in common?

http://brainking.com/cz/Tournaments?trg=5726&tri=18760
http://brainking.com/cz/Tournaments?trg=4756&tri=14411
http://brainking.com/cz/Tournaments?trg=5512&tri=17696
http://brainking.com/cz/Tournaments?trg=5590&tri=18214
http://brainking.com/cz/Tournaments?trg=5590&tri=18218
http://brainking.com/cz/Tournaments?trg=5590&tri=18219
http://brainking.com/cz/Tournaments?trg=5590&tri=18221
http://brainking.com/cz/Tournaments?trg=5590&tri=18222
http://brainking.com/cz/Tournaments?trg=6571&tri=24029

Pedro Martínez: Perhaps BBW watching them not to run too fast? Except trg=3097&tri=10064, I don't know what connects that one.

fungame: It also proves that you are the man!!

Vikings: But there are more in common in fact, all 3 wins final, all accept unrated players, all standard vacation, all running

Pedro Martínez: Oh, and they are all 4 days to move or more. Actually only one is 4 days, the rest are 5 or 7 days to move.

Congrats to TMM43 for winning the quick players club bckgmmon #2 tournament!

Here is the sign ups for #3:
http://brainking.com/en/Tournaments?trg=11133&tri=58593&trnst=0

BIG BAD WOLF: Those tourneys have two major things in common.
1) You
2) They were all started last year

Pedro Martínez: And you point is......??? I never claim to be fast and I try join tournament with long limits. But I'm glad you felt like taking the time to research this fact..... even though for anyone smart, I mention right in my profile that I'm not a quick mover so what you are saying is nothing new... but I hope you feel beter for pointing out what is already in my profile...... Something that I already admit openly in my profile for the whole site to read. I'm sure you have helped every single person on this site without a mouse who is unable to click on my name and read my profile on their own. I'm sure they will thank you.

I don't really see what the fuss is about. Players are allowed up to 30 days per move, it's not a live site.

I have nothing against slow movers, I'm in a game that was started in 2003 and I don't have a problem with it. But when I see a person who is the ONLY obstruction from a tournament to move on for SUCH a long time, it drives me nuts. If I saw other people were waiting for my games to finish in order to get their prizes frome prize tourneys for instance, I'd do everything I could to move as fast as possible in such games.

Pedro Martínez: I agree... There is something wrong when you are the last to finish games in many different tournaments. We have gone through this before, and yes you have the right to play as slow as the limits allow, but why would you want to, and why so consistantly?

This being a GAME site, I think games should be the priority. Why one would volunteer to do such a time consuming, non game playing job as a Global Moderator when they clearly dont even have enough time to play their games in a respectful manner is beyond me? This goes back to another debate I have had before.... Moderators and Globs, including BBW have gone on record that they do these jobs as a favor to the site and there is no ego involved. But how are you doing a favor to the site by distracting your time to the point where you lag in your games? Its funny that BBW never worried about too many pond games until he happened to hit the number one ranking.

BBW, you are an intelligent man, why does it take you years of playing 500 or 600 games at once to realize that is too many for you? Or why did it take you months of playing 50+ pond games only to realize this was too many, and coincidently, it happened to be the same time you hit the highest ranking? No ego????? If it looks like a duck and walks like a duck.....

I received this and would like to know why I got 0 points. This one timed out in our game. And then I get this ..
Your opponent ran out of time (Hyper Backgammon) (show game)
You are the winner.
Pbarb2: old BKR = 2004, new BKR = 2004 (0)
Universal Eyes: old BKR = 944, new BKR = 942 (-2)
Game type: Hyper Backgammon
Tournament: Big Time Backgammon
Ok question is this..Why is it zero when if I won it I would get 15 or lose 15 if I lost. To me this tells me that anyone can time out and you can't get ahead in your ratings. He only lost 2 for timing out.
Example:If he times out in 10 of my games I have nothing to gain. Is this fair? He timed out in quite a few. But why should I or anyone be the one to suffer for a time out.
Note: I am not just picking out UE. It has happened with others before..also. It is just that UE happens to be the one in this case.

Pbarb2: I am just guessing but I imagine the win/lose point projections were at the time the game began and was markedly different at the end as both of your BKR's had changed.

You received not 0 but something less than 1.

And it´s because of UE low rating comparing to yours, not because he timed out.

Pedro Martínez: Well since you are unable to read a persons profile, you would know that when asked - I will try to play games faster if needed and asked, but trying to make a point on a public board is not asking nicely now... is it? Czuch - you have to be smarted then that. It takes at least at a very minimum 15 days to finish a pond, and many more days for bigger ponds or longer day ponds - and you can very simply Look at my ratings chart and tell I started to slow down in games (Chart starts to have less "points") when my rating was in the 2300-2400 range, long from the #1 rating in the game - WHICH I'm not number 1 - PLUS I'm still playing in active games and even though I never said I was stoping - just not playing in as many which I still have active ponds I'm playing in, and will be starting more once those are complete. Even though all this I have said before, but since you are not smart enough to remember either - I will repeat it all again. When I started getting so many games, I had plenty of time to play and was able to keep up with games. With a new job and other things in my private life, my on-line game playing time has went down and have been unable to play as quickly So many games were started when I had time, and unfortunatly were not complete before my on-line time went down. It is not news that I'm now not a quick player - it is a fact that I openly admit - and is something that I openly admit in my profile. I find it very funny that in one week, I have one person telling me I'm not playing enough - then have another player - ALONG WITH THE SAME FIRST PLAYER - telling me I'm playing too much.

*EDIT: First took out the "idiots" comment since some might take it as I'm trying to call Pedro an idiot, which I did not mean it as an insult - so I removed it.

*ADDITION: For Czuch: Since you may not know how to work the charts, MY POND CHART FOR MY LAST 20 OR SO PONDS - as you can see, when I started to slow down, I was not close to the #1 position, and even diped to 2100 at one point. If you can not understand the chart, please PM me and I can try to explain them to you.... since I know they can be a little tricky.

BIG BAD WOLF: It's just amazing that on a game site, it takes you less than an hour to reply to my post with such a long one, yet more than 11 months to complete an anti-froglet or small-espionage game or more than 10 months to complete a backgammon game.

Pedro Martínez: My point exactly.... too much on his plate. Seems he cares more about being a glob and playing on these boards than the tournaments he has committed to. Maybe his upcoming vacation will help clear his head? When are you going to be gone BBW? I dont think you actually said that?

All tournaments have time limits for players. Check the time limit before you enter tournaments. If you prefer faster tournaments then pick tournaments with shorter time limits. If you choose to play slower, pick tournaments with longer time limits.

Further discussions complaining about people and the time limit of tournaments or games need to be taken privately with that person.....unless you prefer to be put on hide.

Andre Faria: and Purple.. Thank you.

Finnish server chess open starts 11.11 it should become strongest chess tournament here ever. PM me that you are strong and i invite you. Where can i read how to do that link?

Salkkuman: I'm not sure if "open" is the right attribute since the tournament is private [invitations only]. Anyway, if you want to make a link, just copy and paste the tournament URL and BrainKing will convert it to a link automatically. Like this: http://brainking.com/cz/Tournaments?trg=11149&tri=58777

Fencer: Where, pray tell, are the FIVE 'Moderators' that are supposed to be moderating this site?

I ususlly enjoy reading this board, but lately it has become too cluttered with comments by Pedro Martinez, ChuckChuckers, & BBW about BBW's slow play and/or other activities. I like these players, but would not this bickering be better done among them with PMs? If not, how is all of this relevant to tournaments?

The Global Moderator Not A Floosie gave a warning and it stopped right there. Sufficient I think.

Pioneer54: The 5 moderators are not online, but 2 GM's are.

The posts are "on topic" as such as they are regarding moves made in tournaments.

If you seriously expect such posts to be moderated, where do we stop? You cant please anyone. If the posts were un suitable, BBW, as a GM and the brunt of the conversation, is big enough and bad enough (excuse the pun!) to take the matter elsewhere or put an end to it. Plus Purple is correct.

I read reams and reams of posts cluttered with comments i dont care for, but that's life, it's a discussion board.

Just my opinion.

Bry: Actually as a side note, since the "digs" were pointed towards me, I do not like to moderate those types of posts since it would seem too much like I was "abusing" my power to help myself (Unless it is CLEARLY over the lines). But don't worry - I can handle the idiots who like the bring up the same subject every few months since they apparently can not read my profile, or remember what was said last time.

DUMB QUESTION TIME: Our team 'BrainKingSupporters' is in the 2.nd row of 2.nd section of 'Don Perignon Backgammon Tournament'

Must we finish 1st to keep from being eliminated?

ClayNashvilleTn: It's not a league table as such. You just have to have more points than any other team when all the games are played. I think you're second alphabetically.

2nd in average BKR of the team, actually..

It is ordered just like regular tournaments, Clay.. and as myfawny says, the team with the most wins, wins..

rod03801: Thanks for the info. Back to the drawing board! LOL

rod03801: Ie, that's what I meant!

myfanwy: Thank you too

Following addresse is an true example for the Dom Perignon Backgammon Team Tournament for interested friends.

http://brainking.com/en/TeamTournaments?tri=49&trnst=10&p=0


When tournament page comes to screen, look for the section 2.
At this section find the BrainKingSupporters.
At the row of the BrainKingSupporters, you'll see:

1- The number of team BrainKingSupporters (it is #2 for BrainKingSupporters)
2- The name of team BrainKingSupporters and when you click on it, the fellowship page comes to screen.
3- After the team pictures and BKRs of the team, you'll see all the results of the opponent teams in the cells like '3:1'. The means of the number at the left is your total team wins, at the right is your total team losses.
4- If you wish to see the results of the games on the player base, follow to reading. I advise you bring your mouse pointer over the result numbers (on the '-'. Then, you'll see the mouse pointer changed to 'hand sign'. At this position click to 'right' mouse button for opening a new browser page and see the team players at this new page. You can use this move on the previous page as much as you need.
5- On this matched players page, at the middle of players in any row; the number of two games (which is clickable -preferable- with the right button of your mouse) are ready to see the game. The ended game scores (if any), you'll see them under the clickable game numbers.
6- If you clicked on any game number, the page of this game comes to screen. After the seeing the situation, you may wish to write some things to your team friend (like an advice or support), on the game page, click on the letter icon at the right of your team player's name. Warning! please don't forget to write the game info in your message. This message is only readable from the message owner.

I hope it helps!

how does this time out n vacation time work becouse i'm play a tournie n the person i'm playing timeout last week got more time everyday sense i checked his vacation time on saturday said he had 0 days left yesterday it said 5 days today it says 6 day just how does this work?

prettymama: Check out these 2 links:

http://brainking.com/game/FAQ?ht=20

http://brainking.com/game/FAQ?ht=24

Cornucopia

Splish Splash

Midnight Skinny ~Dip 3

Rockpool Fandango

Even More Scrabble

Anyone who wants to join in is welcome to do so.

http://brainking.com/cz/Tournaments?trg=11125&trnst=0

On the tournament tables, what is the difference in points and score. Which decides winner?

Not that it matters though