New Year Topplayer`s Chess Invitational

20 players have joined and we have four groups now.All have a rating above 2000 BKR and 16 of them above 2100.If all agree I will start this tournement now ealier,on Monday,22.12.2003.If everybody disagrees please send me a private message.

Stevies Checkered reversed Line of 5

As stated in my post and on the tourny, if you have signed for any of the tourny games, you need to sign for all 3 games, not just 1 or 2. When it comes to starting the tourny, anyone who is not in all 3, will be removed from what they have signed up for :o(
Have fun, Steve

TNP

When I set up single game tournies, I tried to get it as 5 players per section, this means 4 games, so you get 2 in each colour, making it more fair :o)

Well in that case it's either 2 white and 1 black, or 1 white and 2 black (and some people will get each). I'm not sure exactly how it works, but i read somewhere it's done using "Shurig tables". Not sure what those are though! :-)

In a tournament where there is only one game played for each 2 players, how is it decided who is which colour ? for example, in BBW's 5 in line tourny, I am playing white in 2 out of 3 games.. surely that's an unfair advantage ? (not that I'm complaining ! LOL!)

NoMeansNo: What is suppose to happen is the tournament creator is suppose to start the next round. (And a tournament creator is just another user on this site). So because this ONE other user who did not start the next round of the tournament after 2 weeks, instead of just asking for it to start you start to blame the whole site!

At time like this, I guess I would have to agree with what rod said.

Only one more anti chess enthousiastics is waited in anti-chess tournament.

Thanks for joining my tournament

Personally, I say that the more complainers like that, that leave, the better.
Not a loss to the site..

NoMeansNo

you do not need to beg, just a polite ask helps.. and also fencer does not get paid! otherwise he wouldn't have a job as well... this is a relatively new site, so all the membership money goes into running the site!
Obviously with it being a new site, there will be glitches, but there again, what site DOES NOT HAVE ITS FAULTS!!!!???
instead of putting fencer down, you should be thanking him! he and liquid run and maintain this site by themselves, inbetween working! and what other sites give non members so much!!! NONE!!!

<Big Bad Wolf wrote:
> A nice message asking is prefered, but whatever

I guess I'm too spoiled and am used to the numerous other, professionally managed sites, where all these things happen automatically (or are done by people who care even if they are not paid), so I did not imagine I was supposed to beg for the new round to be started. My mistake.

<Fencer wrote:
> If you don't like it and want to take advantage
> of more features, upgrade your membership.
> That's what everybody does.

I'm sorry but I hate being forced to do something. I'm glad to see everybody else is happy. Keep up the good work.

I've just started the second round.
However, I don't understand why do you complain? You pay nothing, you can use a free service on this site as you can. If you don't like it and want to take advantage of more features, upgrade your membership. That's what everybody does.

I'm not sure I'm understing everything.

1st - In THIS TOURNAMENT, before all the games were finished, you asked in here about the next round - where you were told that all the games had to be finished in each section before the round 2 starts.

2nd) Looks like the last game in round 1 was complete at the end of November (couple of weeks) - and since you mentioned it on this board before this, you expected Fencer or whoever to be watching VERY closly for the last game to finish so the 2nd round can start?

3rd) The second round is ready to start - This has to be done by either the tournament creator or Fencer (Fencer does it when the tournament creator does not). Hopefully when Fencer signs on, he will see the messages on here and start the 2nd round (Since now the games ARE finished and the 2nd round CAN start)

4th) Your friendly game had nothing to do with the tournament games.

5th) There will be 3 players in round 2 of the tournament which I'm sure will start tomorrow since you have now brought it to the attention of the site owners (A nice message asking is prefered, but whatever)

NOTE: All games in round 1 NEEDS to be finished before the round 2 starts. Fencer does not have time to keep an eye out on all tournaments that round 2 does not start - it is usually something for the tournament creator to do, the down side is sometimes the creator forgets to start round 2, or leaves the site. In that case, Fencer is always happy to start the 2nd round for people AS LONG as he is told about it AND AS LONG as all the games are complete in the first section.

I hope this helps - but if you are leaving anyway, good luck and have fun!

BBW (BIG BAD WOLF)

Yay! Thanks for the eye-opener! LOL
Now it's all done. :)

Thats because it is a match and not a single game :o)

I resigned my one friendly game to get over it, I even got the "You resigned your game against..." message, yet it still shows up as a live game with my opponent's turn to move. Is that normal?

I did bring this up before, right here. He told me to wait for the next round. I think I've waited enough.

N.

I'm sure all you had to do was ask Fencer to start the next round, which no doubt he now will. Obviously it was an oversight by the creator of the tournament.

It's a known fact non-paying members are only allowed to play in one tournament. I was unfortunate enough (several months ago) to join the one that will obviously never end (round 2 was completed several weeks ago), it will just hang there forever between round 2 and 3, so I am leaving this sucky site. Congrats Tragedy on your win!

Cheers,
NoMeansNo

P.s. The tourney in question: "Join mine I joined yours" or something like that, abandoned for good,
http://www.brainking.com/game/Tournaments?trg=988&tri=4020

New Tourny set up to find a mini allrounder
Stevies Checkered reversed Line of 5

OK, anyone entering is expected to enter all 3 tournaments, this is to find a good allrounder of Checkers, 5 in line, and Reversi 6x6. We will do this by adding up each players 3 S-B scores, and hopefully get one player on top . Knights would need 15 game slots available. To keep number of games down, it is only 1 game per pair. Have fun, Steve R KM :o)

TNP

If you have a rating of 1800+ please message me for an invite to this all-star checker tournament.

My problem was viewing tournament games in progress. I've used other websites, and developed certain habits. It's kind of like learning a new game. All I wanted to do is play chess. I don't mind getting familiar with a new style of site, but when people assume that I must know something because announcements are viewable only when you click on certain buttons, there ought to be a way for newcomers to get up to speed, especially when they are complete idiots like me! You wanna play chess with a complete idiot? You're on!

Just a reminder of a couple of tournaments that will start on january 1st, 2004 - they are filling up with players, but more are always welcome!

All games - All Players - All Skills.

► Y E A R • 2 0 0 4 ◄ - All Games (1 game) ☺ ☻
- and -
► Y E A R • 2 0 0 4 ◄ - All Games (2 game) ☺ ☻

Again, everyone is welcome to join these tournaments - the FIRST 2004 Tournaments!

BBW (BIG BAD WOLF)

The "Threaded Discussion Boards" is on Fencer's list, along with many other things :-)

First he is going to finish, test, and release BK 2.0, and then work on such other things. However, he views this as a game site, with discussion boards as an added feature (which it is) so i wouldn't count on discussion boards being high up on his list ;-)

What was your problem with the tournaments? Finding a link to the tournament page of a particular tournament?

Make that "Moderator Fencer" and "Most Active Player Steve".

This tourney will be Started up Later this Afternoon.. Early evening..

Scarlets Silent Night Serenity

Open to any and all players.. Hurry.. deadline to sign up is Dec. 15th.. Hope to see you there!

Thanks. I'm starting to get into some games now. Like ughaibu says, a list of game types would help. It could only be one link on the Main page, like "Click to browse tournaments in progress by game type" or whatever.

Another thing I find difficult on BrainKing is when I'm reading a reply to a particular message, it's hard to find the message to which it was replying, especially when several conversations are going on at that board. I'm used to having a thread feature, where the computer finds the previous msg in the thread, which could be several days previous. Some people do not check their messages every day. Even if I want to, I might not get the chance to access and internet computer each day.

Checkers Family Holiday Jamboree is now underway. gl to everyone that entered.

Last day for sign ups is Dec.18.
Best of Luck to all participants!
Also,message me for an invite if you'd like to join KM Halma 10x10 fellowship. :-)

ughaibu: Will be done.

New Year Topplayer`s Chess Invitational

Invited players please join ,we start after christmas!

Felix: Any ideas how to make this feature more user-friendly?

WTG Steve!!! learn something new every day!! :)

Click on my link below, then you will see the tourny tables, then click in the position of a game you want to look at(shows as a dash for running games or a 1 or 0 for finished games.)
This can be done on any tourny as far as I know :o)

Every time I log on to view tournaments in progress, I cannot find any to watch. I see messages on this board and on others that seem to indicate that people can view tourneys in progress, but I do not see any instructions anywhere on BrainKing describing how one can look at boards in progress. Is there some big secret here, or is it just me?

We managed a total of 34 entrants to KM & Roses Raiders & ESP Prize Tourny Its now on the go, so good luck to all involved :o)

Steve R KM
TNP

The Final of this round is now underway .
Good luck to Fanciann for KM,Fiona for UK,Molly for USA/CAN and Whikki for Europe.
Final

Steve R KM
TNP

Scarlets Silent Night Serenity

Open to any and all players.. Hurry.. deadline to sign up is Dec. 15th.. Hope to see you there!

Perhaps it would be clearer if the rounds were at least divided somehow (like with a Horizontal Rule), or possibly even put on seperate pages?

Affirmative.

if THIS is the tournament you are talking about, then mangue is correct - the second round is finished with Rabbitoid the winner!

Please give me a link to that tourney [just reply to the notification message].

You're right. Message fencer on that one, seems a glitch to not have the button to activate the next round.

the second round is finished in tournament 1514. Rabbitoid is the winner.

It looks like 4 sections are complete, each with a winner. I would think they now have to play each other. I don't see any button to activate it.

When you click the link with in the message that tells you all sections are completed, see if there is a second round to start. there will be a button to click if there is.. if there isnt then the tourney is over. Depends on how many entered the tourney,,, Want me to take a look at it for you to verify?

I got a message that all sections were complete and I'm not sure if the next round starts automatically or if I have to do something.

HURRY! THE SPIDERS WEB tourny starts tomorrow!!...its for all players of any ability & it is unrated as its just for fun!

Gl

M4tt (SPIDERM4N) :)