Ed, backoff has been trying to teach me tablut. But I seem to be especially dense over the game!

hmmm. I see. If it is not chess or checkers, I really don't know how to play it. I am a savant, some will even say an idiot (without the savant part.)

and see, I'm usually the opposite. I know the moves for chess and checkers but manage to lose everytime! LOL, my BKR at Gothic is in the 400s!!!

450 Eriisa, so you are hanging in there, making King Michael feel good. Maybe you should play the "giveway" variants, but just play normal. You would be champion! :)

LOL!

realtime chess-variants@brainking seem desirable ...

e.g. yahoo is just too chAotic for quickchess-tourneys anyway,
and gothic/janus surely would be attractive in kinda otb-atmosphere ...

although for pente there already are quick-tourneys weekly - why not ... ~*~

I think real time games are a good idea, but I'd rather see them on a separate site, maybe a BK Real Time with cross membership, or something like that. I know the atmosphere on a real-time site is very different from that of a turn-based site.

I used to set aside a weekend afternoon every now and then and play in tourneys on the Gaming Zone, but I do prefer the leisurely pace of turn-based tournaments. Guess it's my bbs roots... :-)

Maybe it could be set up as a poll - Real-time play, or not. If enough people want it, go for it. If not enough vote for it to make it worth the time and effort, it might not be such a good idea. (Although this whole topic about real-time games really isn't relevant to the topic of the board ;-) )

Well Kevin, an earliest post was linking slow play of some players as a function of their game volume, and the site stability was listed as a possible limit to the upper bound of the number of games that could be played concurrently.

I just suggested that the new hardware would not only cure the perfomance problems in general and those that are game laden specificially, but it would also support real-time play seemlessly.

Actually, it is very easy to add because BK code is already flexible enough to make such improvements.
Of course that it will not be released immediately after the hardware upgrade, it must be deeply tested [and discussed] first.

I have a proposal for another form of game which could be used in friendly games as well as for tournament games: instead of fixing the timeout as a certain number of days per move, fix a total timeout per game. this copies the usual system used for real-time games in chess, but if a sufficiently large time is chosen, is as good as correspondance games.

for example, a one-day game must finish within 24 hours. the first player to overstep the limit loses on time. this is as good as a realtime game.

a 60 days game is probably more than enough for an ordinary chess game. in a lot of positions you can answer fairly quickly, in others you like to take your time. it's up to the player then to manage the allowed time. you want to take a week to think about the first move? fine, but the rest of the game still has to fit into the allowed time.

some care must be taken to allow for time zones.

I think this form is particularly well adapted for tournaments. take, for example, the coming gothic tournaments. the proposed timeout is 7 days. it is dead certain that with the number of players which are going to participate in this, there'll be the professional snails who like to take their time up to deadline-1 minute. as I remember, Ed showed us recently a game of his that lasted
80 moves; such a game would take 560 days, more than a year and a half...

you might get games that when a player is loosing that he waits untill the last possible minute to move his piece , unless the other player was online at the exact time he would loose the game

What about to add a rule that each player must make a move within, say, 10 minutes after his opponent's last move?

that would be better for real time games i feel

no. if you have a 1 day game, you have an allocated 12 hours; the opponent too. if you wait until your last minute, you have one minute, the other guy 12 hours.

I could do with someone else joining this so I can start it later today please :o)

This is an invitational checker tournament for people who are just learning the game or do not yet have a very high skill level. It is a good opportunity to play the game and not get beat up. Please message me for an invite.

OK, I will

Very funny Ed. You are one of the games Masters and this is for beginners. Anyone rated over 1600 will be considered a ringer here. LOL. But we have some Super Bowl type checker tournaments ahead and you will sure be welcome there.

Can anyone explain this? I was removed from a tournament (All Games-Mini Tourney\'s-5 Players Only-No 12 Snadné keryo pente) by a message saying I did not have enough game slots for all the tmts. that would be created by me, or something like that!? My game page shows 24+24, which is wrong. I do have 24 games in progress but the only tmts. I'm signed up for are:
--goodfoods atomic chess 9/13, 8 games;
--BBW's Corner chess, which will probably be cancelled since only two players have entered.

So I have just eight games pending, combined with 24 going; that is 32, which would still leave 18 open, but my page says I have just 2 open. What became of the other 16???

sometimes the "+XX" games gets stuck. (I had a +7 for about 2 weeks)

Once fencer reads the message, hopefully he will be able to fix that part up. (The +XX games actually count the tournaments which have "closed for signup" and waiting for the creator to start) .... and not the number of games you actually are signed up for.

Anyway, Fencer is on now - hopefully he will read this and fix it for you - or possible send Fencer a nice message and ask him to fix it.

i have a +25... +1 has been there for about 6 weeks... now i have another 24 appear! so it could be the same as pioneer54???

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GOAL: To have at least 4 players in EVERY game. I would love to see a each tournament start!

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We need some more players to sign up for the Checker Tourny.. to be be started: Sept 15th

Please sign up and have some fun together! :-)

This is a Fast Tourny 1 day to Move, everyone its Welcome, Reversi Or no Reversi Players enjoy it ;-))

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Thanks alOt for the Tourny in memory of TTONNA!!

God bless you,
~*Radiant*~

As I reread the board here to review the individuals who voiced opinions that ultimately lead to the change in format for the tournament, I see that some of these same people have not yet joined the new event.

Now I would have thought those who were potentially excluded under the old setup would have been the first to join the new one!

This will be 2 days per move. We will invite the good, the bad and the ugly. If interested message me for an invite. Thanks

The next Madhouse Scrabble tournament has been set up, just go there to enter :o)

but this was in my in box this lovely morning

From: NoMeansNo
Date and time: 2003/09/14, 01:05:13
Subject: your description is

"I'll play anything, send me all your invites."

WHY?

You have way more games going than you can handle! (see my posting on the message board).
You're holding back dozens of tourneys, at least 100 people! Think! DON'T sign up, DON'T start new games, PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Instead, DO play the ones you already have going, I'm begging you!
Geez....
You P$ss me off, (wo)man...

NoMeansNo



Now just to let you know, NoMeansNo, in the only tournament we have together, I have no moves, it's the other persons move in EVERY game.

Total number of your started games: 413 (?)
Opponent's turn in 413 games:

I have no moves to make.

WTG backoff :))))))))))))

People like Backoff KM are the lifeblood of Brainking.

All I know is I'm not saying nothing this time. I got enough nasty messages from people who do not even know me last time, I opened my big mouth. :(

You too. Erlisa, are the kind of person who is vital to Brainking in my very humble opinion. :o)

Join the club, nobody likes an internet tough guy.

Thanks Chief KM! :) I'm glad you are here too.

backoff, please don't let that crap bother you. It is NONE of his/her business how many games you play, when you play them, or anything.

...not the BK off-topic whiners convention.

NoMeansNo...If you want to limit your exposure to uncompetitive tournament schills, just enter tourneys which require a BKR of 1600 or above. That should filter out most of the problem players.

peace

LOL, shame on you Backoff! LOL

I disagree with peacepickle, NoMeansNo. That would limit you from meeting new players who could learn from your expertise. I enjoy playing higher rated players so I can learn from them.

Hi all, I had just started a tourny as part of the KM November sponsor a pawn campaign just before the crash. So here we go again, it would be nice to see the same players sign up. There were 20 before, so if we get more this time, the more the merrier :o)
Stevies Anti Reversi Prize Tourny 2nd try
Have fun :o)
Steve

I waited 2 months for that sucker!

OK Here goes again.

We had a superb 28 people signed for this the first time around, lets see if we can get the same? Prize Tourney One Year Rook Membership

It would be nice if the winner was already a member that they donate to a pawn somewhere, but this is only a suggestion :O)

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If like me you have scrapped all games and started from scratch your Main Page will look quite bare LOL

Sign up here for ALL Checker Variations and get some games going again :o)

Oh, and have fun!!

Checkers, Checkers and More Checkers

~~Aragon KM~~

There are some people who created new accounts that were wiped out and they have not all come back yet.

I think I will scrap the 2003 championship and make a new one in January 2004.

I am not sure of who was lost from QuizMasters Asylum . However, I have re-created the QMA Postcard Tourneys. So if you would like to join, come on over!

Also, I will be starting new Super Fast Tourneys in a few days.

That makes sense to me,and like Aragon...I'm scratching all games and starting over.

This site is going to be very busy for the next couple of weeks I would imagine. Fencer is working hard to restore games that have been lost. The ratings are skewed now, and this has the chance to permanently effect all subsequent games being rated.

Given this is the case, I think we should have a moritorium on the creation of new tournaments for a while. New tournaments means new games which means activity which means the website would be taxed.

How about we let Fencer just work on getting things as close to normal as possible without putting the extra load on the server?

Let 's take a 2 week break from creating new tournaments to let things stabilize a bit.

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