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Why does a game not time out when all vacation days are used up,the game timed out at 11 minutes after 7 and it is now 11 minutes after 10 and has not timed out !
Mélusine: Most chess, checkers and gammon type games work fine (except for loop chess, where you can't reuse captured pieces because you can't see them, and maybe Xiangqi and Shogi, not sure).
Most other games don't work, but as stated, any phone browser should work fine.
Mélusine: the brainking app for android doesnt support all game types as far as i remember .. you can play some games with it, and that works quite well
for the other games o0n brainking you have to use your phone browser, which works ok as well
Does someone play with the application Brainking on Android ? I don't find it on Apple. Is it better ? Do you find the same games ? Question to Fencer : Will the application replace this site in the future ?
Carnie: Congratulations, but your opponent could have tried something like 171.- K4b3 winning after 172. Kc1 with any king to c2 or after 172. Ka1 with any king to b2 ;-)
The good side/ is you can play at bugcafe for cheap. Try a month for just 5 USA dollars, 3 months for 10.50 or upto a year for $30. That is cheaper than brainking.
furbster: How old is that picture of himself that he uses on the site? I don't think it has ever changed since I have been on here. You're only allowed to use old pictures of oneself on a dating profile. Everywhere else must be recent. lol :P
Already posted on the interview page, but it case people don't see it there this may be of interest. Fencer agreed to be interviewed again, but the system doesn't allow the same person to be interviewed twice so the username Filip was created. http://brainking.com/en/Interviews
Bernice: At least it advanced to round 2... check Play Cloning Gammon for a prize. 10 years (today!) in round 1. Three cheers for the great turtles who have made this achievement possible!
Clandestine 1: and it is only on Round 2....so would have a hell of a long way to go....Some of those people could be dead by now. and looking back at some of the winners to go to the next round...I only checked the first 6 or 7 and one hasnt been on this site since 2009, so this could go til 3009 hahahahaha
Here's a great example of how some players can suck the life out of what was supposed to be a fun tournament.
I do wonder what the winner of this tournament will actually win. Ironically the tournament was called lucky 13. Bet the creator didn't think that it would take approx. 13 years to play out.
It is so quiet at brainking the last couple of days. Either people are in mourning over the brainking news or people are actually playing their games and finishing tournaments so they are completed before the end.
ellieoop: Thank you ellieoop:( it was devastating as she was only 50 years old , but for some of us life does go on and we have to make sure we go along with it ;) It kills me daily to think of her, but she is in a better place....
Just piggybacking on ellieoop's endorsement, Goldtoken is an excellent site with a committed owner and an active programmer who consistently add new games and update the site's features. The memberships are reasonable and they frequently give out short term free membership trials as well as free upgrades to a higher membership level. Yes, they are overly involved with the discussion boards and I have had my own battles with them over it, but that should not dissuade anyone from playing games there. They have so many variants of so many games, I don't know of another site that offers that much variety. They finally added Connect Six which is great and if they ever implement Frog Finder, I'll never need to go anywhere else again. If anyone needs help over there, you can message me as well. I'm JerNYC on there, too.
Carnie: Some will and some won't. However there is no guarantee that will as Fencer will no longer be handling the operation of the site. Even if it goes on without supervision from someone, if a problem arises there will be no one to turn to fix it.