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4. januari 2013, 08:52:13
pedestrian 
Ämne: Re: Question as a pawn
pedestrian: Or not - it seems the tournament has started, and that you're in it.

4. januari 2013, 08:51:07
pedestrian 
Ämne: Re: Question as a pawn
JerNYC: Yes

19. september 2012, 12:37:43
pedestrian 
Ämne: Please join:
Ändrat av pedestrian (19. september 2012, 12:37:58)

3. maj 2012, 20:09:34
pedestrian 
Ämne: ALL20

Nobody has dared to enter this tournament yet ;-) The good news is that you can still join.

It’s a multi game tournament: 

ALL20

The rules are simple: You must sign up for all 20 games. The player with most points combined in all 20 games is the winner and will receive a symbolic prize of 10 brains.

Message me if you want to play and I will invite you. Remember that you must sign up for all 20 games. For technical reasons, I had to divide the tournament into two sub-tournaments because some of the games are 5-point-matches. You will have to sign up for 17 games in one sub-tournament and 3 games in the other. 

The number of players will be between 4 and 11. If we get 11 players, that means 200 games for each.

Links to the sub-tournaments:

ALL20 (sub-tournament 1)

ALL20 (sub-tournament 2)


21. april 2012, 16:07:10
pedestrian 
Ämne: ALL20

Here’s another multi game tournament: 

ALL20

The rules are simple: You must sign up for all 20 games. The player with most points combined in all 20 games is the winner and will receive a symbolic prize of 10 brains.

Message me if you want to play and I will invite you. Remember that you must sign up for all 20 games. For technical reasons, I had to divide the tournament into two sub-tournaments because some of the games are 5-point-matches. You will have to sign up for 17 games in one sub-tournament and 3 games in the other. 

The maximum number of players is set to 11. If we get 11 players, that means 200 games for each.

Links to the sub-tournaments:

ALL20 (sub-tournament 1)

ALL20 (sub-tournament 2)

(#2 is set up to use doubling cube. This will only affect Backgammon; the other two games can’t be played with doubling cube and will be played as regular 5-point matches instead.)

/pedestrian


10. mars 2012, 09:01:32
pedestrian 
Ämne: And the winner of the 1st BrainKing Decathlon Invitational is...
...tenuki!

With 74 of 450 games still going, nobody can catch up with tenuki's impressive score: 75 points in 81 games. Congrats!
Full details here.
Thanks to all who played, and enjoy your remaining games!

/pedestrian



28. februari 2012, 16:13:57
pedestrian 
Ämne: Re: Never-ending tournament
Thom27: That's an interesting idea, but I'm still not convinced that Go can compete with Anti Backgammon in this respect. How many moves would a game of Go take when played this way? Forming the 'perfect grid' you speak of should take 180 or 181 moves, but you will most likely have placed some extra stones early in the game that don't fit into the grid. I'm guessing slightly more than 200 moves would be realistic?

28. februari 2012, 09:15:59
pedestrian 
Ämne: Never-ending tournament
A word of warning: The never-ending tournament begins tomorrow. If you signed up and you don't really want to play forever, now is the time to leave 

23. januari 2012, 23:26:39
pedestrian 
Ämne: Re: Members neded.
crosseyed

3. januari 2012, 20:02:37
pedestrian 
Ämne: 1st BrainKing Decathlon Invitational, halfway standings
Half of the games in the 1st BrainKing Decathlon Invitational are now completed. It looks like it will be a close race between Pedro Martínez and tenuki

Here are the standings:

Pedro Martínez... 37 points in 42 games, 48 games remaining
tenuki.............. 36 points in 42 games, 48 games remaining
pedestrian......... 36 points in 66 games, 24 games remaining
mangue............. 29.5 points in 66 games, 24 games remaining
AlterMann.......... 24.5 points in 61 games, 29 games remaining
SentineL............ 23 points in 59 games, 31 games remaining
varkala.............. 12.5 points in 33 games, 57 games remaining
milionovej kluk.... 11 points in 54 games, 36 games remaining
Hrqls.................. 8 points in 12 games, 78 games remaining
lukulus............... 7.5 points in 15 games, 75 games remaining




25. november 2011, 00:16:46
pedestrian 
Ämne: Re: Tournaments in rating groups

13. november 2011, 18:11:38
pedestrian 
Ämne: Tournaments in rating groups
A few new tournaments to sign up for, based on BKR:


And some backgammon variations, 7 points matches with doubling cube:


26. oktober 2011, 20:29:02
pedestrian 
Ämne: 1st BrainKing Decathlon Invitational
This is to announce the start of 


The winner is the player who scores most points in all 10 games combined. I'm eager to see how this concept works out.

You can't sign up for this (it's an invitational!) but you can follow some strong players face each other in some of the toughest games on BrainKing.

I'm still thinking about creating an open section featuring the same 10 games, but I'm not sure if there's sufficient interest. Message me if you're interested but remember that it will add a lot of games to your games list.

25. augusti 2011, 08:55:47
pedestrian 
Just to remind you that these start tomorrow. Lots of sections only need 1 or 2 more players:


Rating based tournaments designed to give you opponents of roughly the same playing strenght. All-play-all, max 5 players per section.

14. augusti 2011, 15:24:28
pedestrian 
Ämne: Tournaments in rating groups
Rating based tournaments designed to give you opponents of roughly the same playing strenght. All-play-all, max 5 players per section:


Please sign up - games start August 26th.

26. mars 2011, 17:01:58
pedestrian 
Ämne: Re:
Groeneveld: Are you aware that your tournament is set to start on April 30? No need to hurry yet 

19. februari 2011, 10:00:38
pedestrian 

12. februari 2011, 00:35:29
pedestrian 

25. januari 2011, 08:33:18
pedestrian 
Starting tomorrow - some tournaments just need one more player!

Rating based tournaments designed to give you opponents of roughly the same playing strenght. All-play-all, max 5 players per section:


Some games tend to have higher ratings, so I made a few extra:

January Backgammon and Hyper over 2100 (these are 5 pt. matches with doubling cube)
January Backgammon Variants over 1900 (these are 5 pt. matches with doubling cube)

Please sign up - games start January 26th.

19. januari 2011, 09:13:08
pedestrian 
Ämne: Tournaments in rating groups
Starting a week from now!

Rating based tournaments designed to give you opponents of roughly the same playing strenght. All-play-all, max 5 players per section:


Some games tend to have higher ratings, so I made a few extra:

January Backgammon and Hyper over 2100 (these are 5 pt. matches with doubling cube)
January Backgammon Variants over 1900 (these are 5 pt. matches with doubling cube)

Please sign up - games start January 26th.

5. januari 2011, 10:35:33
pedestrian 
Ämne: Tournaments in rating groups
Rating based tournaments designed to give you opponents of roughly the same playing strenght. All-play-all, max 5 players per section:


Some games tend to have higher ratings, so I made a few extra:

January Backgammon and Hyper over 2100 (these are 5 pt. matches with doubling cube)
January Backgammon Variants over 1900 (these are 5 pt. matches with doubling cube)

Please sign up - games start January 26th.

22. november 2010, 22:16:42
pedestrian 
Ämne: 16-player random tournaments

Please sign up for these tournaments:

16-player random chess - needs 2 more players

16-player random checkers - needs 10 more players (are there no checkers fans here?)

16-player random lines - needs 4 more players

16-player random miscellaneous games - needs 5 more players

To get the achievement “Random tournament winner”, you must win a random tournament with at least 16 players. These tournaments are designed to meet this criterion.


15. november 2010, 19:09:23
pedestrian 
Ämne: 16-player random tournaments


Still a few slots open for these five tournaments. Each tournament starts when 16 people have signed up.

A series of elimination tournaments designed to help people get the achievement “Random
tournament winner”. Games are divided into 5 sections with one random tournament each:

16-player random chess, featuring all chess variations except dice and behemoth chess

16-player random checkers, with a mix of all checkers variations

16-player random lines, with a mix of all line games

16-player random random games, with a mix of games that contain a prominent element of
randomness: All backgammon variations except grasshopper, all ships variations,
the various kinds of dice poker, dice chess, behemoth chess, ludo, and guessing
games like logik, frog finder and frog legs

16-player random miscellaneous games, with all the games that don’t fit into the other categories:
reversi, go, espionage and a bunch of games from the ‘other games’ category.

Pick the one(s) that suits you best!


5. november 2010, 17:21:54
pedestrian 
Ämne: Re: 16-player random tournaments
rod03801: Thanks a lot! Should be corrected now.

5. november 2010, 14:58:15
pedestrian 
Ämne: 16-player random tournaments
Ändrat av pedestrian (5. november 2010, 17:21:30)

A series of elimination tournaments designed to help people get the achievement “Random
tournament winner”. Games are divided into 5 sections with one random tournament each:

16-player random chess, featuring all chess variations except dice and behemoth chess

16-player random checkers, with a mix of all checkers variations

16-player random lines, with a mix of all line games

16-player random random games, with a mix of games that contain a prominent element of
randomness: All backgammon variations except grasshopper, all ships variations,
the various kinds of dice poker, dice chess, behemoth chess, ludo, and guessing
games like logik, frog finder and frog legs

16-player random miscellaneous games, with all the games that don’t fit into the other categories:
reversi, go, espionage and a bunch of games from the ‘other games’ category.

Pick the one(s) that suits you best!


1. november 2010, 01:15:20
pedestrian 
Ämne: Fast random games
Fast random games

Starts 3 days from now, please sign up :-)

28. oktober 2010, 10:23:08
pedestrian 
Fast random games 

Please sign up :-)

29. juni 2010, 16:58:50
pedestrian 
Ämne: Re: How do you sign up for tournaments ?
"GERRY": I hope that is obvious from the first line of my post dated 29. June 2010, 13:58:39. In this case, they prevented a new member from finding those tournaments he could actually enter. It's just an opinion, of course.

29. juni 2010, 13:58:39
pedestrian 
Ämne: Re: How do you sign up for tournaments ?
Ändrat av pedestrian (29. juni 2010, 13:59:28)
Jump This: What you're talking about is the prize tournament that are, annoyingly, placed on top of the tournament page. Scroll down, and you'll find the regular tournaments. Those are for people like you and me who have no 'brains'  (No, you can't buy 'brains' anymore, which make those prize tournaments a bit pointless IMO).

As I said, you have to click each tournament (after you scrolled down) to see which games it contains. But in your case, since you know what you're looking for, you should do a search for Spider Line4. You'll find the search options right under the prize tournaments. Use the drop down that says 'all games' and change that to 'Spider Line4' and click 'show'. Now all the tournaments listed (except, still, those annoying prize tournaments) will contain a section called Spider Line4. Note that you still have to click each tournament to get to its sections, and also note that the Spider Line4 section may be closed. Unfortanately, you can't narrow your search to show open sections only.

I warned you it was complicated - but only until you get the hang of it.

29. juni 2010, 13:30:36
pedestrian 
Ämne: Re: How do you sign up for tournaments ?
Ändrat av pedestrian (29. juni 2010, 13:31:21)
Jump This: Hard to tell what you're missing, but the tournaments here are a lot different from IYT. First of all, most tounaments contain several game types. Every tournament is divided into sections, each containing one game type, but you'll have to click each tournament to see which sections it has. Or, if you're looking for a specific game type, you can narrow it down a bit by searching for tournaments which contain that game. But you still get the full list of sections, and you may find that you can't join the game you searched for, because that section already started.

All very confusing, I know, but give it a try.

25. maj 2010, 00:06:40
pedestrian 
You can still sign up:

Chess Lottery

starts in 24 hours.

18. maj 2010, 23:58:27
pedestrian 
You can still sign up for the Chess Lottery tournament.

Now one week left!



11. maj 2010, 23:53:14
pedestrian 
Ämne: Chess Lottery
Still two weeks left to sign up for:

Chess Lottery

Random tournament involving all chess variants, all-play-all. It'll be fun!

6. maj 2010, 09:48:17
pedestrian 
Ämne: Chess Lottery
Random chess tournament, starting May 26th:

Chess Lottery

24. april 2010, 00:19:31
pedestrian 
Ämne: Pedestrian's 38½ Birthday
Need a few more players in some of these games:

Pedestrian's 38½ Birthday

Two days left to sign up!

19. april 2010, 17:08:54
pedestrian 
Ämne: My first tournament
A few selected classics, new and old:

Pedestrian's 38½ Birthday

(I just wanted to test how tournament creation works. Incidentally, this coincides with my half-birthday.)

14. januari 2010, 06:30:39
pedestrian 
Ämne: Re: Tournaments with multiple game types - is it possible?
Nothingness: That is interesting. I'd be very interested in seeing how you set it up. Do you have a link to the tournament?

9. januari 2010, 11:37:05
pedestrian 
Ämne: Re: Tournaments with multiple game types - is it possible?
Thanks for the inputs so far!

talen314: Yes, I had something like that in mind when I talked about a way to ‘work around’ the current system. But I’d still prefer a tournament when you played all the selected game types against the same opponents. From a sporting point of view, that would be the fairest way to find the tournament winner.

MadMonkey: Thanks for putting the suggestion on your list! I get the impression that Fencer has plenty to do with the upgrade he’s working on, but maybe a different system for tournament creation is part of that too – who knows?

An additional problem is the ‘match type’ used for the different games. It would be nice if that could be set separately for each game type. One of the game types in a brainking decathlon could be a backgammon match using the cube, but I think you’d have to set that up as a separate tournament in the current system.

I suppose an invitational tournament would make most sense, to make sure that everyone is playing all the games. But I’ll probably wait and see how tournaments work in the new Brainking 3.0 before I decide what to do.

8. januari 2010, 14:45:35
pedestrian 
Ämne: Tournaments with multiple game types - is it possible?
Not sure if this belongs here or in the ‘feature requests’ forum, but here goes:

I think it would be interesting to organize a tournament similar to decathlon in athletics. Each two opponents would have to play ten (or a different number) of pre-defined game types against each other, and the accumulated score in all game types would decide who qualifies for the next round.

Apparently, this can’t be done in the current tournament structure (correct me if I’m wrong). So, I wonder if there is a practical way to work around it, for instance by starting tournaments in each game type and then calculate the overall winner manually; or (preferably), if an option could be implemented in Brainking 3.0 to create tournaments with multiple game types.

I’m considering buying a brain rook membership to set up a tournament like this, but I’d appreciate any input from more experienced tournament creators before I start.

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