The 1900-2100 Chess Tournament is limited to 12 players (3 sections of 4). 5 days per move. Begins immediately after sections are filled (sign-up deadline March 15). Invitation only (request via message). Must keep 5 game slots open until play begins. All qualified welcome. First come, first serve. R*L

Fencer: Can you check this game for me. For some reason I only see 5 white pieces on the board.
Same for my opponent. thanks
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More Jousting for 1800 and under...starts March 8th!! Look for it in the "Tournaments" Section.

Yes folks.... WE HAVE A WINNER!!!!!

Looks like my sentimental favorite, Mr. IOU. Is the winner by a long shot!

I had the inside scoop, since I was palying him, and... well, you know the rest of that story :)
Congrats mrioupcity!!!!!

Thanks!

I will probable be starting the First 5 - ALL games tournament on Monday (since this weekend is going to be busy for me.

So there is plenty of time to join. Each section needs at least 4 players to start, with a max of 5 players per section. Good luck to all!

BBW`s new "All-games-tournement" is nearly full :).Even so we need one more player for the section "Extinction chess"!

Its a three man race...
Bwildman
mrioupcity
kevjon

Go fellas, go!!!

Thanks chat...

hiya is hello and vgl is very good luck

Does anyone know what 'hlya n vgl' means?
It was a posted message to me, in a game, and I haven't had a chance to ask the person, as they are not moving very much.
Thanks for any help :)

We are down to four now folks.....
tmj91702
bwildman
myioupcity
kevjon
Who is it gonna be?

There's a three-way tie in the Backgammon section 2 of the Brotherly Love (Beginners) tournament. Congrats to Knightmare, rhiannon and gasper!

Nothing special nor fancy, no prizes nor donations, just plain old reversi 6x6.
Stevie's Reversi 6x6
Have fun and enjoy the games :o)

Steve R

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In an effort to please Fencer, I have made an ALL GAMES - First 5 to sign up tournament.

► BBW's First 5 to sign up - ALL GAMES #1

I'm still playing with how I'm going to do this - maybe 1 tournament a week, or possible every 3 days or so - I'll take a look how people are signing up and how quick the games fill up to determin when I start the tournament. Maybe I'll make a "popular games" tournament which starts every few days, and an "unpopular games" tournament which starts every week or so - I'll see how it goes.
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► BBW's First 5 to sign up - ALL GAMES #1
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But I will also keep regular backgammon, nackgammon, 5-in-line, and Spider Line 4 since those are 4 of the most popular, and at time I can start 2-3 tournaments a day.... which would be imposible to do with the "all games" tournament.
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Any other comments or suggestion about these, please feel free to share them here or in my Message Box! Good Luck to all!

(and my last comment on the subject before I start to talk about tournaments again)

... if anything, it has made me move slower because people would get me mad and I would go and play Civ III for awhile just to cool down - which took me away from playing on here.

OK - My next post will be about tournaments - I promise! :-)

Sorry BBW... You owe no 'explaination' to me or anyone else.... I am just talking to myself out of boredom, I guess...

It's because the site has stayed up while I have faster internet connection. I have always had 1-4 days a week that I have moved many moves... that is if I can stay away from the white screens and such. (for example, today is a bad day - I will not get as many moves in today - but if the site stays healty tomorrow, it may be a good day for me to make many moves.)

(*edit: when I say bad day - I mean not able to make many moves, not that the site is bad today)

upchuck maybe..maybe not, only he knows

Jason also numbers look better in Dollars than pounds LOL

You said BBW has been moving well 'recently'. I guess you mean 'faster'?
Do you thing this 'recent' change has been because of any of the pressure he has gotten on these boards lately?

Jason: Fencer has always worked in USD hasnt he. Once he changes to Euro, then we will talk Euro's I guess LOL

Thats easy to say now Steve.... Who is your pick then?

one question ...why is it dollars as opposed to pounds ? i was hopeing someone else might have asked to save me asking lol

BBW has been moving well recently upchuck, so its no surprise to me :o)

BBW has recently finished two games...
We are down to 6!!!!

Thats fine Harley :o) Thanks

Steve, I can't go as high as a dollar a player, but I can do 50 cents a player, hows that?

Is there anyone who would like to join me in sponsoring this tourny? Stevie's Dollar donation per player Reversi

Maybe match the amount I put in, or even offer a prize for the winner etc.
Anything is better than nothing even 40 cents per player is $12 at the present amount of players. There is a limit of 50 players, so only need 19 more.

Have fun and enjoy your games :o)
Steve

Dakotaspring has timed out of two games.

Only 7 left...Who is it going to be????

I'm first!

* USA * fellowship....first 32 to reply play you win you advance....March Madness comes to BK

Go to my profile, and to my tournaments, and you can gety there thatw way, I think!

Sorry, am not too good with links Harley. I am on WEBTV, and it is possible to do, but takes some HTML which I don't really deal with...

Any chance of a link for that tourney, IMupChucKing?

BTW...

Pawnchucker is looking good, at a perfect 10-0 record in group #5!!!!

Who will be tha last person to have a finished game?????
As of right now, there are still 8 players left without at least one finished game.
spoker2000
tmj91702
fixitdave
dakotaspring
bwildman
mrioupcity
kevjon
bigbadwolf

Who will win the competition to be the last person to have a game finish????

lovelysharon: I will fix it.

could you please check into this tournament .. Neznalek's tournament in gammon games #3 .. I am listed twice in round 3 section 3 ...

Any rook is free to start any tournaments - I know Bry also has "Mini backgammon" tournaments he does - they usually start fast (but have a longer time limit)

Caissus - Feel free to start any tournament you think there needs to be - I will probable not do any "Fast Start" for some of the games you mentioned (antichess, hordechess) basicly because I don't think there is enough people who like it.

But one of the ways I see is try some (Like I have just recently with Reversi, Halma, etc....) - just to see if anyone would be interested.

What I have found (and will keep on doing) is backgammon (which I can sometimes start up to 2-3 a day!) is the most popular. Also Nack, Race, and Crowded gammon is also pretty popular. Spider Line 4, Battleboats & Five in Line also usually fills up within a day or two.

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But again, feel free to create any type of tournament you like. I don't sign up for my own currently because I'm tring to get my total game count down - but I know many others like the tournaments, so I try to keep them going for everyone else!

... if they did not like it, they would stop signing up, and then i would stop creating them! :-)

Harley,normally you create a tournement if you want play yourself.How do you think would the tournement site look like,if every rook would create so many tournements (for others)? And how many players would join in these many tournements?

I probably would, Caissus, except I'd feel like I was stepping on BBW's shoes... er.. paws!
And does it really matter if its BBW starting them, or a lot of different rooks?

Hi folks,you all are rooks and can create your own "fast start tournement",in which you want play.You must not wait on BBW`s endavours. Perhaps I should start too to create a series of tournements, someting like " much faster start,..." for chess, antichess, hordechess, januschess, ...,...,:)

i like the fast start games too!! :)

I like "fast start" a lot! Because i know that i can sign up for "Five in line" anytime and start playing within a day or two.

My suggestion for a site "all games" tournament would be so hopefully more people would join it - and then there would not be a need for other "all games" tournaments - since they normally don't get as many users. If there was a "MAIN" Site tournament - lets say once a month, I believe it would get many sign ups, which in turn make the tournament beter.

And like harley said - A lot of people like the "Fast start" tournament - I'll be the first to admit I have a lot up right now - that is because I like to try them with different game types to see what kind of response I get..... so those will disapear soon, and you probable will not see those game types again. :-)

Aww, I like BBW's tourneys! It means I can usually find a tourney thats likely to start that day or the day later, and because they're only 5 people I don't have to wait forever for them to finish. They're simple, quick and easy. Huh, go figure why I like them so much!

BBW,at the moment we have six all-games tournements in the tournement list, most of them have only few players.There is no need that you creates so many tournements especially if you don`t play in your own tournements.
A tournement should be a special event and sometimes less is more.Perhaps makes a limitation sense, for instance two tournements per rook per month?

Fencer - because a lot of the games I make are "Fast Start" games, meaning once 5 players sign up, I will start it - if it has many type of games, it would not longer be a fast starting tournament.

I have a lot of tournaments right now because I was just trying a few different games - I will try to keep my tournament's down.

Also, any plans for a regular "all games" tournaments. I would love to see 1 "main" tournament (site created / Fencer created) that started every month or so.