*frown* at Ian!! LOL, is it you thats causing confusion with BlueSteel?! I dunno, memory like a sieve... forget to breathe if someone wasnt there to poke you when you stopped... leave your head on the bus if it wasn't screwed loosely to your head... [walks away muttering about Ians memory]!!! :oD

We've got 4 so far signed up. It's =2000 so should leave lots of room for great competition. Check it out in the tournament area.

How are the games harley??!! :)

BLUE STEEL: Even when the date passes, the tournament won't start until the creator starts it. They don't start automatically.

:( Well put it this way, Art, I dont think I'll be going in for any more chess tourneys anytime soon!!

Ian... nudge nudge, I DID sign for your tourney so I know its not properly started yet! :P
You closed for sign up, now you have to press another button to start the tourney :D

Well, maybe it's time I joined one of yours. :) I need to branch out. But I stink at most other games as I've never played them.

But Art, that's the way you learn. You should have seen me in the first 3 games of Atomic Chess. LOL

I dont have any tourneys to sign up for right now! maybe I should start a few, it HAS been a while. Any suggestions?

Parachute Checkers ;-)

Consider it done!

I've been having a LOT of trouble accessing this site lately! Some other people here tell me they've had trouble too! I keep getting a pop-up message telling me the site is "too busy to use right now". As a result of not being able to access my account, I have timed out on FOUR of my tournament games with only ONE move having been made by my opponent. Since I was unable to get in here to play, I lost the game without ever having been able to make a single move! What is causing this access problem? How is it being addressed? And what happens now to those of us who keep getting shut out of our tournament games????

Howling Wolf

I've been having a LOT of trouble accessing this site lately! Some other people here tell me they've had trouble too! I keep getting a pop-up message telling me the site is "too busy to use right now". As a result of not being able to access my account, I have timed out on FOUR of my tournament games with only ONE move having been made by my opponent. Since I was unable to getin here to play, I lost the game without ever having been able to make a single move! What is causing this access problem? How is being addressed? And what happens now to those of us who keep getting shut out of our tournament games????

Howling Wolf

I've been having a LOT of trouble accessing this site lately! Some other people here tell me they've had trouble too! I keep getting a pop-up message telling me the site is "too busy to use right now". As a result of not being able to access my account, I have timed out on FOUR of my tournament games with only ONE move having been made by my opponent. Since I was unable to getin here to play, I lost the game without ever having been able to make a single move! What is causing this access problem? How is being addressed? And what happens now to those of us who keep getting shut out of our tournament games????

Howling Wolf

I've been having a LOT of trouble accessing this site lately! Some other people here tell me they've had trouble too! I keep getting a pop-up message telling me the site is "too busy to use right now". As a result of not being able to access my account, I have timed out on FOUR of my tournament games with only ONE move having been made by my opponent. Since I was unable to get in here to play, I lost the game without ever having been able to make a single move! What is causing this access problem? How is it being addressed? And what happens now to those of us who keep getting shut out of our tournament games????

Howling Wolf

Running a website costs mney. Making a site run faster and better cosst money.

Tep roblem right now? Too many free riders!! There are too many people who play close to 20 games and are not paying members.

This slows the site down and then the paying members suffer.

HOwling Wolf, please don't takew this the wrong way, but, you are not PAYING anything, so I don't think you have much to complain about.

Granted, people are ALLOWED to play up to 20 games for free, so it isn't really their fault.

so, i think Fencer should lower the amount of games people can play for free. If that upsets soem of them and they leave, oh well, that is an income loss of ZER since thye re not paying anything!

Howling Wolf, if you time-out on a game during a time when the site is having problems I'm sure Fencer would re-instate the game for you if you message him. Especially a tournament game.

Congrats to Pioneer54 who won Keryo Pente in Eriisa's Free For All!
Congrats to lovelysharon who won Section 3 of Backgammon in Eriisa's Free For All!
The rest of the games are still running.

Thanks, Eriisa! It was a really fun event against some really tough competitors.
: )

Congrats to TheBig O who won Spider Line4 in Eriisa's Free For All

Glad you enjoyed it Pioneer, its the first tourney that I tried.

Still looking for chess players mainly for the end of this week, so if you have a few spaces come and sign up :-)

Just a reminder, you have about 2 days left to sign up for my 4th Spider Line4 tournament. It will start as close to May 1st as I can :-)

CAN A NEW MEMBER SIGN UP FOR TOURNAMENTS AND HOW

You can if you haven't already joined a tournament (being a non-paying member). Click on the "tournaments" link on the left. A list of all the tournaments will come up. Click on the tournament you would like to join. A list of available games in that particular tournament will come up (there could only be one). Click on the game type you would like to play. If you are eligible to join (rating, membership, number of players join already, etc) then a link will appear above the list of already participating players saying something to the effect "Sign me up for this tournament." Then, when it starts, as long as you have enough open spots for the games, the games will automatically appear on your main page :-)

Madmonkey man, I'd love to sign up for more chess, but I have to wait for the final game I have in the chess tourney I'm in to end.

Why is it that in any tournament, there will be someone who just won't make moves until the last possible moment? I see the person online all the time, they have a forced move so they don't even have to think. Maybe I'll get lucky and he'll timeout :(

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dizave: thanks, i only have 3 ppl for dark chess (im one of them lol) & no one for normal chess so i guess those just won't even start.

The game site has a very sick friend. Patty(PattyMelt, PepperMintPatty) who a lot of you have played many games with is serioiusly ill and may not be back to the site to play with us anymore. So a lot of her friends wanted to have a Tournament set up in her name! So come on every one! Let's all Play For PATTY!

WHen the first round of a tournament is complete, whne does the second round begin? Does the tournament creator have to do anything?

Rose: My thoughts are with Patty. I was only chatting to her just before things got that bad, but i didn't know who to ask about her health.
I am glad that you know what is happening & can only send her all my wishes.
M.M.

Dmitri, it starts as soon as all the players have finished their games in all sections.

The creator of the tourney gets a message saying all the sections are comlete, they visit the tourney and click a new button to start the second round.

I see. I asked because I am in a tournament created by Patty, and it doesn't look like she will be able to start the next round any time soon.

I am now running Patty club Dmitri.. let me look into it

OK, this question (request) is mostly about THIS TOURNAMENT - where this rule comes into play:

"It can happen that only two players are at the last round. In this case the 3-wins match will be arranged, otherwise the tournament result would depend on one game only which is not fair."

Well my problem is that the first round was set up with the "two games for each two players" rule.

My probable is that it is a Line 4 game where White normally has the advantage in the game. My first game with the higher ranked player is with the color black. Which means if we play a 3-wins match, I'll be stuck with black twice - which is a big disadvantage for me to start the game with (it will be hard enough for me to win as white against the other player!) (NOTE: That is if a 3-win match changes colors each game - if not, I'll be stuck with Black all 3 games!)

Anyway, since you can now set up tournament with the "two games for each two players" rule - maybe you should switch it where it is not a 3-game match at the end of those types of games. Possible set it up with either a "two games (switched colors) for each two players" game, or something like that.

I would rather the tournament end in a tie then to have a player have to start with a disadvantage (which really takes the fun out of the games!)

BBW (BIG BAD WOLF)

Most of the top Line 4 players will tell you that black (second player) usually has the advantage at Line 4.

Just go to the tournament in question & it will give you an option to - remove yourself :)

Well it actually does not matter it "I" have the advantage or disadvantage - either way, someone is getting the short end of the stick with how the last round of tournaments are set up if there are only 2 players left.

(For Spider Line 4, it is an advantage to be white - and for some of the Pente games, some people are VERY stong in certain color's)

So in general, I believe it is a rule that could use updating now that we have the "2 games per 2 players" option.

:-) BBW (BIG BAD WOLF)

SilentBob is the winner of my second prize tourney.. very well done... payment for your membership has been made to fencer, so as soon as he is able, he will make you a brain knight member here... enjoy it!!

Thanks EVERYONE for joining the tourny for Patty!! :-) GlAd so many peeps are playing.. I sent her a card yesterday telling her also about this tourny.. I do just pray each day she isn't that bad nor in any pain..

Thanks a Mill again and... we actually can use mOre players! :-)

Any particular games need more players Josetta? I've signed up for a few already but if you're short...

LOL Harley :-) sign up for all!! ;D

I signed up for Halma 10x10 and I am all alone there.. I have seen a couple of games where there are only 1 or 2 players.. just check out the list - hopefully that are games you are willing to play :-)

Thanks for your observative action, harley!!

Hmm, I asked for that!! LOL, ok, I'll go look!! :o) Count me out for the halma 10x10 though, I'm not keen on that!!

but thAnks for all the other signUpS :-)))

Now avaliable for sign ups.
All welcome.
Starts Fri 9th May.
:o)

Fencer,

Have you any idea when these "team" tournaments between fellowships will be finalised?, just not heard anything about them for a while.....

Cheers,

Bry.

Yeah, I would like to know that too, not complaining in anyway, a rough heads-up on new features etc would be nice.

Big thanks to all who have signed up to play in Patty's tourney!
Just need a few more sign ups for some games in order to get the minimum of 4 per to start...

Thanks again all. Patty will be pleased!!!

Bry: Don't worry, I didn't forget about them :-) I will post more information later.

Fencer, on my profile under 'tournaments signed' there are a couple still there that didn't start because not enough people signed up. The rest of the tournament is either ongoing or finished, is there any way to get rid of these? It looks like I have more tournaments waiting to start than there actually is!

harley: Please send me the tournament names, I will check it out.