I agree : Rod, Pedro and I should have moved on to the next round as we won the same, and evenly won against another

Fencer : can you please fix this and make Rod and Pedro also join the last round ?

The first doubling cube tournament

JerNYC: to make that accurate you have to do it per game type

personally i play my gammon types several times per day, but i sometimes postpone my moves to the next day in tougher games which require more tought like chess or froglet or pente

also the day of the week might be important as i sometimes dont make a move at all on fri-sun (my weekend/family time)

El Cid: as we cannot set vacation days anymore, i mean to assign them to specific dates and are dependent on the automatic use i am strongly against your suggestion .. i might be on vacation or a working trip without spare time to play for more than 1 month ... that is what my vacation days are for

you can see i didnt use all of them this year, so i dont delay games on purpose

if you want games which cannot be delayed, then use any of the appropriate time controls

Bernice: i noticed later in the description of your tournaments. nice!

Bwild: ah, Bernice sent the prizes by herself, not via the site, i see it now

furbster: thanks!!! :-)

furbster: hmm .. i need that magic SB spell again ... mathematically i will become 2nd in my second due to SB calculations .....

Bernice: your profile shows 18 tournaments organized by you, and none of them prize tournaments?

in case i won any of your prize tournaments: thanks!!

Royal__Flush: feel free to offer one ;-)

happyjuggler0: i like the idea of the finals being replayed as they should have been ...

Roberto Silva: +1 :-)

Pedro Martínez: i guess luck played a bigger part in this one than in most backgammon type games ;-)

crosseyed:

i have to say: it feels great to win a tournament for which you worked so hard for for more than 9 years! :)

The first doubling cube tournament

Gabriel Almeida: thanks! great posts!

rabbitoid: lol i am in that tournament as well .. although i cant make it to the next round anymore as i end as 2md in my section

the matches which havent finished yet are all between active players ... so hopefully it will proceed to the next round next year ? .. hmm maybe in this case (cloning gammon) inactive players would lose sooner due to timeout as thats much faster than finishing the game itself :)

Gabriel Almeida: i agree, he would probably not have predicted this :) and neither would some (or any) of the participants have thought of that

we all didnt have any experience with cloning gammon yet, and didnt know it can be a very long game

some players might even got bored of it and stopped playing, others might have left the site as there can happen in a lot in real life in 8 years

when i joined the tournament i just was together with my gf, we just rented a house, had no kids, and had plenty of spare time .... 8 years later our jobs got busier, we own a house, and have 2 kids, and little spare time ...... and i think i am not that extreme, i can imagine other to have a much larger change in life

some might not have joined, others might still have joined as they liked the game and will just await the outcome as it wont hinder them in any aspect




ooohhh the memories .... great evenings of playing board games and computer games seemingly without limit :)

could we get back to the subjects about brainking itself please instead of attacking specific players

if you have any grounded comments/remarks/.. about a specific player, please send a pm to Fencer as he is the only one who can do handle player accounts

Gabriel Almeida:


first : it's a tournament of cloning backgammon which can take a long time to finish (2 games of le club that still have to be finished are from me, while i and my opponent do play actively)

second : why would it be a problem that a teamtournament takes this long to finish ?

ThunderGr: 3 days and 16:30 :)

thats why i have my weekend days which give a dead time of less than 2 days for normal games ... and as i still have 19 vacation days left for the rest of this year, that seems to be fine

for games with green or red dots (fisher clock games) i can have a dead time of more than 3 days though, so i have to chose my games/tournaments carefully and usually login once or twice during my weekends to save the time pool ... it happened a couple of times where i didnt manage that this year though so i think i timed out in 4 games this year .. the rest i lost within the time limits :)

(not counting the tournament which started in the weekend which i didnt realize, where i lost all first games of the matches :))

my "tip" was meant sarcastically :-) ... the purpose of this site is to play games, not to try to let your opponent timeout :)

most opponents will try to cooperate with your time limits if you ask them .. you cant expect them to pay attention to it all the time ... the responsibility of the timecontrol of my games is fully mine

i had some very nice opponents save our games with fast time limits lately :)

Tip: learn to know your opponents playing times ...

For example: my "dead time" is between thursday 17:00 and monday 9:30

so if you want to win against me on timeout, then make sure i will have little time left on a game, and make your move on thursday evening (cet) .. there might be a chance that i wont make my next move until monday morning 9:30 (cet)

or if you want to win our game by your own skills then make sure you make your last move before thursday 17:00 to give me time until monday morning 9:30 :)

but above all: it is my own responsibility wether i timeout or not, you are not to blame for it

Thom27: this will not make the slower players move faster .. they will just timeout in those fast games, but that doesnt make them use up their vacation days or let them move faster in other games

Aganju: you are correct, it is totally the fault of the one accepting the game .. i am on the other other side of this lately as my weekends seem to be quite busy, too busy to play games .. and have timed out in a couple of games lately, but i blame it all on me

i turn down all fisher clock invitations, but once in a while i do join a fisher clock tournament: when either the reward is nice, or when i like the tournament because of its organizer or theme and i want it to have a nice amount of participants ....

joining fisher clock tournaments is a bit of a gamble for me ... a lot depends on the timezones of my opponents .... i expect to lose 1 or 2 matches in the tournament, but hope to win enough of the other matches to move on to the next round ... but of course i try to win them all without timeouts :)

Bernice: lol :)

ThunderGr: i noticed :) ... but its a nice idea, if i ever want to go into hiding, i will use the name your proposed (only you can find me then :))

ThunderGr & Bernice & Marshmud: I am still here ..and I am still Hrqls :)

There is a bug in the message system which doesnt show the name, but it does show when you go to your friends list

Aganju: I like that idea of showing the average speed on someone's profile .... this speed can differ greatly though for various types of games

435152: feel free to start a new club with even faster time controls

just post the rules of that club on your profile, and a list of the members .. and make sure everyone on that list obeys the rules, otherwise you will remove them

this is an open forum which is intended to be about brainking

we allow a few off-topic posts, but when there are too many then we will gently ask to continue elsewhere

both the posts of aaru and of dice cheater are within the topics of this forum, so they are both allowed

however it shows of respect of the original posted to leave his thread on his topic, and not hijack it for your own topic

therefore dice cheater could best have started a new thread instead of posting his opinions about slow players as a reply on a post in the thread of aaru

aside of that : the subject of slow players have been talked about a LOT already and there are many opinions about this .. the site offers many ways to setup your games and tournaments, so you can always find a game with a time limit which you like best ... and if you somehow do get stuck with a slow player you can always ask him gently in a pm to move faster (i am not the fastest player, but i can move faster against specific opponents when asked)

about the problem with the timeouts of aaru .. i have no idea as i hardly use the fishers clock, and i am glad speachless is looking into them as well :)

furbster: i have no real solution .. but i started a game again, and will try to climb up to (and above) your level :)

aaru: please send a list (any list) to me in a pm :)

aaru: when you have the full list,please send them to me as well :)

aaru: make a list of the games you posted in here and send it to him again :)

aaru: have you sent these games to Fencer as well in a private message ?

winterangels: maybe the game was part of a multi-game match? you won the game but didnt win the match yet?

happyjuggler0: this time of the year is always the time of slow moving due to a couple of reasons:

- it is a week of days off for a lot of people and they might valye their time with friends more important than playing games online
- it is a week of days off for a lot of people and they might use it for a vacation and might not be able to be online
- it is the end of the year and everyone knows how many vacation days they still have left on this site, so they might decide to use them for not timing out, and use their time for other stuff in the real world

personally i usually am a slow mover during the weekends (spending time with kids and family), and am mover faster during the workweek (what else to do during breaks at work.. ;-))

personally i always try to keep it so that i always have at least 2 days till my next timeout and join only games with 3 days per move or more

personally i keep my vacation days for emergencies (as i needed them this summer) and in the end of the year might use the remainder to spend some time with family or do the stuff in my house which i have neglected too long

personally i never timed out in any game that i remember and i wont do so this year either

personally: if you want me to move faster, please let me know and i might speed up those specific games

personally i think it is as important to move fast, as it is to know which tournaments with which time control you join ..

John Rivenburg: take care, take your time to heal. i hope it will be as good (or better) as before...

computeropponen: i played a few games of chess with my mother on here and she does exactly what you says .... i know she is no cheater though :) ...she just wants to play it on a real board so she views my move and then sets up on a real board to contemplate her various moves and often she leaves the board standing there for several days before making the real move :)

Justaminute: agree,i meant that it was not automagically recognized

thisbeme: maybe your opponent didnt understand the rules of chess in detail and he wasnt trying to exploit you?

a draw cannot be claimed on this site, it can only be offered.
you have to agree on the draw to be performed

just decline the draw and continue the game while having a cheerful chat about the rules of a draw?

if anyone thinks they are modded unfairly on this board, please contact me

i allow a lot more than the previous mod on this board, and hope to be fair and honest to everyone

this post is not to start a discussion, just to ask you to send me a pm if you think you are being modded unfairly on this board

JerNYC: bots and software is always a problem on a game site ... not just for new players .. for example i could start using some chess software as well, and just claim i got more time to think about my moves to clarify my raise in ranking (if i would ever raise :))

for new players something else might happen: some people tend to finish winning games first, beore they finish the games in which they seem to lose .. this tends to a higher ranking for new players and a high win/loss ratio at first

(also games which you are winning usually require less effort and will be finished faster from your side, than games which you might be losing in which you have to think about every move several times)

Pedro Martínez: he is not banned or hidden on this board

badgerboy78: not all foolishness ... he made a valid post at first and a discussion came from it ... from his point of view it was a good feature to have

about half of the posts were about that ... the rest was childish ... and he is banned for crossing the line (although others werent as polite as i would like either, but they didnt cross the line yet)

Marshmud: he is banned ... i was on my bike from work to home

jadarite: i meant you calling us all bitches, that has nothing to do with the discussion

we talked about your wish as well, in fact discussed it to quite some length and came up with some solutions which might work as well .. and are probably easier than to change this site

jadarite: this profile of yours shows you have completed no games yet, that is what cd power was pointing to

you might have played more games on another site, but that doesnt contribute to your experience on this site .. cd power means some experience is needed to know what you are talking about ..... like me i made a few misclicks and lost some games due to that, or my opponent was polite enough to recognize it and take no advantage of it

or you played more games on this site with another account ... then why not use that account right now ?

jadarite: i sent you an official warning .. stay polite and dont use rude language or you will be banned ... this is the first and last warning

i let this go on as i thought the language was (just) not over the edge, but now it goes too far .. i will let these messages stay as to not destroy the history

jadarite: if it works then it might be the best solution :)

jadarite: please keep it nice .. this board is about brainking, no personal attacks

your question doesnt apply to shogi alone

jadarite: there is the "cancel this move" button

i like the idea of Aganju: save the link as a favorite, click on "cancel this move" and revisit the favorite link later to complete the move for real

jadarite: if that is is just what you want, and your reasons for it, then i suggest to make a habit of checking your move before hitting the submit button .. you can move your move, recheck it, double check it, ..., and then hit submit (or cancel)