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14. Junho 2009, 18:59:48
AbigailII 
Assunto: Re:
Bluefin: N game/win matches already alternate colours. No need to specify this again.

14. Junho 2009, 18:59:12
Vikings 
Assunto: Re:
Bluefin: If you selected a 2 game match, the second game will start after the first is finished and will automatically alternate the second game to the other color

14. Junho 2009, 18:57:13
Bluefin 
Thanks for the info. What I wanted was to play a single opponent a two game match ,alternate colors.

14. Junho 2009, 18:18:42
Roberto Silva 
Assunto: Re: Posting games
Bluefin: If you choose 12 games with alternate colours, the server will create 12 separate games, 6 with white and 6 with black. If you choose 2 games, it will create one of each.

If you want a match against a single opponent that consists of several games in a row, choose the 4th option (the one just above the chat box).

14. Junho 2009, 18:15:52
pauloaguia 
Assunto: Re: Posting games
Bluefin: Depends on what you're trying to accomplish. Maybe the option you want is to have a match with 2 games? (As opposed to a single game match, the default option).
The check box you mention is for when you create multiple games/matches to have them start in alternating colors (so, if you create 8 games, 4 will start and white and 4 will start as black).

14. Junho 2009, 18:02:11
Bluefin 
Assunto: Posting games
When I post a game of chess and select the box for alternate colors, I only get 1 game of the color selected, or 2 single games. what am I doing wrong?

14. Junho 2009, 07:40:08
talen314 
Assunto: Shogi Database Software
Modificado por talen314 (14. Junho 2009, 07:42:13)
Shogi Database Software is available from this site. http://superheroshogi.blogspot.com/. It uses KIF format. I don't know about psn. The interface is in Japanese but uses mostly kana.
talen314

13. Junho 2009, 18:35:19
Herlock Sholmes 
Assunto: Re: Just curious.....
AbigailII:sorry, I made mistake ... what I meant was: if there is no move during 30 days period game should terminate ... I can't imagine playing one move a month using internet ... my move would go even faster thru Atlantic to Europe using kayak ...

13. Junho 2009, 17:35:22
AbigailII 
Assunto: Re: Just curious.....
ChessVariant: 30 days should be absolute maximum for a game

Well, that may work if you play most of your games against your buddies at school, who are available to play for about the same hours as you do. But on a global site as BK, any game that moves faster than 1 move/day is a bonus. Even if you spend 12 hours a day, from 9 AM to 9 PM monitoring your game list, moving within a minute if you have games to play, and your opponent also spends 12 hours a day doing the same, there's still no guarantee the game moves faster than once a day. People live in different timezones, and play during different times a day. Some people only play from the office - others do actual work and only play from home.

13. Junho 2009, 12:54:54
Fencer 
Assunto: Re: Byes
MadMonkey: I will delete it.

13. Junho 2009, 12:07:13
MadMonkey 
Assunto: Re: Byes
Fencer: IS this one part of the same problem, it says Waiting, (he has since yesterday morning lol) yet the games have started

Madhouse 2009 - Week 24 (Backgammon)

13. Junho 2009, 11:18:15
Fencer 
Assunto: Byes
It should be fixed for all future tournaments.

13. Junho 2009, 05:36:16
Czuch 
Assunto: Re: Byes
Modificado por Czuch (13. Junho 2009, 05:36:57)
Roberto Silva:the main page it says there are 9 players on the tournament, but I only count 8.


I wonder if that is the crux of this problem? Maybe someone had signed up and then removed themselves, or been removed by the creator just before the start, or something like that?

13. Junho 2009, 04:55:50
Good Luck :)FLR 
Assunto: Re: Just curious.....
ChessVariant:sorry to interfere .. my suggestion is to do as i do now ..
i sign ONLY for tourneis with no vacation allowed, tourney with the fisher clock or with 2 or 3 days max per move
i have tourney on from 3 yrs ago ......pple dont move quick so i had to change the way to play
only fast tourneis including pond

13. Junho 2009, 04:47:00
Herlock Sholmes 
Assunto: Re: Just curious.....
Babe68:I am not an expert in all those vacation/time for move/time for game issues ... but you are right it has to change ... I was once playing chess on another site, than quit playing my games, came back to the same site after several months and my time was still ticking and the other guy was (at least I think so) waiting for my move ...  it's idiotic ... I am playing now backgammon and my opponent moves every second day ...
my question is ... what is the pleasure of playing such a dynamic game for weeks or months ?
I understand it's turn based site but common, 30 days should be absolute maximum for a game ...
after 30 days it should be over ... if you are traveling constantly and have no time to make 1 move in a week than please do not join a game ... start collecting stamps or something ... they can wait ...
Andy.

13. Junho 2009, 04:32:26
Babe68 
Assunto: Just curious.....
Hi All

I have about 25 different tournament games with ONE person that NEVER moves our games. The time just keeps rolling over and over. They never time out. He never moves. Will they ever end??? lol

Is there anything that can be done? It seems like such a waste of game space, and surely they are holding up the tourneys!!!

Just curious....

13. Junho 2009, 02:57:42
Herlock Sholmes 
Assunto: Massacre Chess Club wants you !!!!!
Modificado por Herlock Sholmes (13. Junho 2009, 02:59:39)
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play and discuss this new craze on our site ... we have stairs, tournaments and a team to join ...
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13. Junho 2009, 01:28:39
MadMonkey 
Assunto: Re: Byes
Roberto Silva: I did say when i created both the weekly & monthly ones, that i would give the Byes a proper testing

13. Junho 2009, 01:25:34
Roberto Silva 
Assunto: Re: Byes
MadMonkey: It still says "Waiting", yet the games have strated already. Also, on the main page it says there are 9 players on the tournament, but I only count 8.

Should we start making a list of all the problems this tournament has?

13. Junho 2009, 00:53:42
MadMonkey 
Assunto: Re: Byes
nodnarbo: No, it went like that hours ago before i even mentioned the Byes problem.

13. Junho 2009, 00:51:29
nodnarbo 
Assunto: Re: Byes
MadMonkey: do you think that Fencer might have put it on waiting until he can get around to seeing what's wrong and fixing it?

12. Junho 2009, 22:09:43
coan.net 
Assunto: Re: Byes
MadMonkey: I would guess it goes along with that same bug - something in the code where it created the tournament probable got messed up (which explains the wrong number of player slots), and probable did not get to the point of changing waiting to running or something. So since that is with one of the "buggy" tournaments, I wouldn't worry about it yet.

12. Junho 2009, 21:32:15
MadMonkey 
Assunto: Re: Byes
coan.net: Thats ok chap, i realize some people may not get the gist of Eliminations and Byes

Any thoughts on my last post ? Possibly that is related to the same Bug, i can not see how a Tournament can just stay Waiting

12. Junho 2009, 21:26:22
coan.net 
Assunto: Re: Byes
MadMonkey: .... and my more detailed explanation wasn't really geared towards you, but a more detailed on it for anyone else who might be confused about it. (Did not mean to sound like my whole post was directed at you... that part was more of just a general layout of how the byes should work.)

12. Junho 2009, 21:23:37
MadMonkey 
On a similar point, BUT on the actual Tournament mentioned earlier.

Why is this one in Waiting status ??
It has been like it since 11.00am when most of the others started.

Madhouse 2009 - Week 24 (Backgammon)

12. Junho 2009, 21:19:23
MadMonkey 
Assunto: Re: Byes
coan.net: I know how Eliminations work, i play Darts every week in them

I do not see how anyone can complain that certain players get "too" much credit for winning a Tournament

It is not the players fault who entered a Tournament, they took a chance and participated. Whether they won one round or 10 rounds, they put there name down....and if anyone complains about someone winning something too easily the answer is simple, enter yourself

To me the more games started, the more Tournaments started, the more people get to play games, and that is why i thought we were here.....simple

12. Junho 2009, 20:37:43
coan.net 
Assunto: Re: Byes
MadMonkey: Already people complain that some players get "too" much credit for winning a tournament when there are only 4 players in the tournament - having only 2 or 3..... I honestly don't think that is a good idea. 4 is a good minimum number.

But as for the elimination tournaments, you should ALWAYS have either 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, or 128 spaces for players

  • 4 sign up - have 4 player elimination tournament, no byes
  • 5 sign up - have 8 player tournament, with 3 players getting byes
  • 6 sign up - have 8 player tournament, with 2 players getting byes
  • 7 sign up - have 8 player tournament, with 1 player getting bye
  • 8 sign up - have 8 player tournament
  • 9 sign up - have 16 player tournament, with 7 players getting byes
  • 10 sign up - have 16 player tournament, with 6 players getting byes
  • 11 sign up - have 16 player tournament, with 5 players getting byes

    ... and so on. At first when I looked at your tournament examples you posted below, at quick glance I first thought... Oh, those look OK - but then noticed they were a 12 section tournament with 8 players, and a 14 section tournament with 9 players... which of course would be interesting to see what the system does in later rounds when there is an odd amount of sections to match people up against.

  • 12. Junho 2009, 20:07:34
    MadMonkey 
    Assunto: Re: Byes
    alanback: Exactly what i meant to write

    On the same subject, the lowest value should be 2 really. OK its a straight Final, BUT at least the 2 people that entered that particular Elimination would get to play

    12. Junho 2009, 19:53:06
    alanback 
    Assunto: Byes
    There is never a need or a justification for byes after the first round in a single elimination tournament.  It's easy to calculate the number of byes.  If there are N players and X is the next power of 2 higher than N, there should be (X-N) byes.  Of course, if N is a power of 2, there should be no byes.

    12. Junho 2009, 19:38:35
    AbigailII 
    Assunto: Re:
    Czuch: It looks like things will sort themselves in the next round.... that nobody will get a bye then,

    Incorrect. For the first tournament, there are 2 matches, and 4 byes. So the round will have 6 players (winners of the two matches, and the four people with byes). That means there will be 2 byes. Now, it may very well be that the two byes actually "play each other" ("winner" of 13 against 14 against "winner" of 15 against 16), but that means there's still a bye in the round after that.

    It's a complete mess.

    12. Junho 2009, 18:00:32
    MadMonkey 
    Assunto: Re:
    Fencer: Trust me, if there is a problem i will find it

    12. Junho 2009, 17:30:04
    Fencer 
    Assunto: Re:
    MadMonkey: Heh, that's funny. And it's interesting that nothing like that happened when I was testing byes before releasing them. Well, BrainKing is already too complex and even a small change can cause unexpected problems.

    I'll look at it soon.

    12. Junho 2009, 15:00:32
    Czuch 
    Assunto: Re:
    MadMonkey: Yeah, that is totally whacky!

    It looks like things will sort themselves in the next round.... that nobody will get a bye then, but the pairings of who plays who, make absolutely no sense at all?

    Why does the guy rated 1900s get a first round bye anyway?

    12. Junho 2009, 14:32:57
    MadMonkey 
    Assunto: Re:
    Modificado por MadMonkey (12. Junho 2009, 14:33:38)
    AbigailII: Agreed

    I knew it was wrong, but wanted to make sure, so i messaged a few people as well

    Will be interesting to see what happens after the first round lol

    12. Junho 2009, 13:54:19
    AbigailII 
    Assunto: Re:
    MadMonkey: That looks very wrong to me. The first tournament has only 8 players - there's shouldn't be any byes to begin with. The second tournament has 10 players - 6 players should have byes, the four remaining players should play the two matches in the first round. Ideally, the two matches should be distributed over both halves of the bracket; that is, if the winners of the first round matches keep winning, they should meet in the final.

    If you use the schema below, and fill in the participants in order, then there will not be byes, and first round winners will meet as late as possible.

    1. ------+
    +------+
    16. ------+ |
    +------+
    8. ------+ | |
    +------+ |
    9. ------+ |
    |
    +------+
    | |
    5. ------+ | |
    +------+ | |
    12. ------+ | | |
    +------+ |
    4. ------+ | |
    +------+ |
    13. ------+ |
    |
    +-------
    |
    3. ------+ |
    +------+ |
    14. ------+ | |
    +------+ |
    6. ------+ | | |
    +------+ | |
    11. ------+ | |
    | |
    +------+
    |
    7. ------+ |
    +------+ |
    10. ------+ | |
    +------+
    2. ------+ |
    +------+
    15. ------+

    This also easily generalizes to 32, 64, 128 participants (and to 8).

    12. Junho 2009, 13:01:17
    MadMonkey 
    hmmmmm ok PLEASE someone explain to me this:

    Madhouse 2009 - Week 24

    Madhouse 2009 - Week 24

    Byes take effect in the FIRST round on an Elimination Tournament. Looking at these 2 examples something odd is happening. The only way this can work here is if you are having Byes in the next Round & the next etc..etc.. so you could get a Bye to the Final.

    To me using Byes, the first column of games should be 4, 8, 16 etc... where the empty spaces are Byes as such. Other games in the Tournament are fine whether they have 5, 7 or whatever amount of players.

    PLEASE tell me this is a bug

    11. Junho 2009, 13:15:13
    Mort 
    Assunto: Please Fencer...
    About the more boards for fellowships..

    http://brainking.com/en/Board?bc=1&plla=988251

    Is it, is it not happening? By this conversation I thought you were going to increase the number of boards that a fellowship can have by 2 or 3.

    11. Junho 2009, 13:10:05
    Mort 
    Assunto: Re:
    ChessVariant: It's probably the Vegas lot and all other USA based gambling groups moaning about losing business.

    And your right, they could easily make it that each gambling site has to have a licence which they must pay for.... and have to renew annually.

    And I'd probably guess that the online companies within a heartbeat will say.. "YES".

    11. Junho 2009, 03:50:57
    Herlock Sholmes 
    Assunto: Re:
    Modificado por Herlock Sholmes (11. Junho 2009, 03:52:00)
    alanback:but do you know why ? because those greedy, fat cats do not know  how to profit from this gambling ... don't worry, if they could get 40 percent of gambling site income it would be suddenly legal ...
    this is what I think about what is legal or illegal in this country ...

    11. Junho 2009, 03:30:08
    alanback 
    Assunto: Re:
    nodnarbo:Internet gambling is illegal in the US.

    11. Junho 2009, 02:05:24
    nodnarbo 
    Assunto: Re:
    alanback: did they say why?

    11. Junho 2009, 01:13:08
    alanback 
    Assunto: Re:
    Czuch:Indeed.  One hopes that non-US players weren't affected, but who knows?

    11. Junho 2009, 00:55:02
    Czuch 
    MidnightMcMedic

    11. Junho 2009, 00:50:07
    Czuch 
    Assunto: Re: U.S. Deals Blow to Online-Poker Players
    alanback:

    11. Junho 2009, 00:47:51
    alanback 
    Assunto: U.S. Deals Blow to Online-Poker Players

    In an apparent crackdown on Internet gambling, federal authorities
    in New York have frozen or seized bank accounts worth $34 million
    belonging to 27,000 online poker players, according to representatives
    for the players and account holders.


    In an operation that began last week, the office of the U.S.
    Attorney for the Southern District of New York froze or issued seizure
    orders for bank accounts in Los Angeles, San Francisco and Arizona held
    at Wells Fargo, Citibank, Goldwater Bank and Alliance Bank of Arizona.


    A spokeswoman for the U.S. attorney's office had no comment.


    9. Junho 2009, 22:48:57
    Fencer 
    Assunto: Re: Dan & Kyu

    9. Junho 2009, 22:19:01
    joshi tm 
    Assunto: Re: Dan & Kyu
    aaru: How are these calculated? Other than the BKR I think as the higher BKR here has a lower dan rating

    Go Ceiter 2260 - 2 dan
    Go 13x13 ad0 2414 - 4 dan
    Go 9x9 Ceiter 2142 - 1 dan

    9. Junho 2009, 14:14:43
    aaru 
    Assunto: Dan & Kyu
    I see that we have dan & kyu in Go.
    Nice.

    8. Junho 2009, 19:12:23
    alanback 
    Assunto: Re: Congrats Fencer!
    Czuch:To my surprise I found that my first login was on 12 February 2003, so I've been here even longer.  My how time flies!

    8. Junho 2009, 13:49:14
    Mort 
    Assunto: Fencer.....
    You mentioned that you might be increasing the number of boards a fellowship can have, by the talk I thought you were going to increase the quantity to maybe 6 boards??

    Is it happening???

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