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Thema: Re:

Marshmud:
All sites have issues. None are perfect.

11. Juli 2019, 00:37:44

Thema: Re:

Marshmud:
Agree

11. Juli 2019, 00:37:17

Thema: Re: Team tournaments.

Crosseyed Mary:
I was just looking around sites. And this site seems good. Just a bit inactive. Thanks everyone for the discussion.

11. Juli 2019, 00:37:15

Thema: Re: Team tournaments.

Kookaburra: Unfortunately those are games I don't play.

11. Juli 2019, 00:36:43

Thema: Re:

Kookaburra: I agree that Goldtoken has a larger player pool but with all due respect, you cant compare GT to BK.

11. Juli 2019, 00:35:26

Thema: Re: Team tournaments.

Crosseyed Mary:
I am involved mainly with the checkers and chess fraternity there and we seem to be doing ok. It has a very good turn based implementation of checkers there. The best I’ve seen. Especially with the Restriction and 11 man ballot. Also have a couple of other clubs as a sideline.

11. Juli 2019, 00:32:40

Thema: Re: Team tournaments.

Kookaburra: I am already a member in Goldtoken and have been for many years. To be honest I do not like the layout there. So I just play regular games.

11. Juli 2019, 00:31:10

Thema: Re: Team Tournaments

Marshmud:
Doesn’t sound very good does it. Thanks

11. Juli 2019, 00:30:02

Thema: Re: Team tournaments.

Crosseyed Mary:
If you join Goldtoken let me know. I am kookaburra there and own a number of very active clubs. And also some clubs I assist with in chess com. I can help you. It is a bit tricky when you first join a site. We also have a system in Goldtoken where when new people join we arrange some games for them from some friendly people.

11. Juli 2019, 00:24:34

Thema: Re: Team tournaments.

Kookaburra: You could do it but I think you will find that you are flogging a dead horse at times.
The apathy is from the players in this site.
I cannot navigate around Goldtoken peculiar way of joining team games or signing up for games.

11. Juli 2019, 00:13:35

Thema: Re: Team Tournaments

Kookaburra: Most of your answers can be found on this board: https://brainking.com/en/News

Go back to 1 January 2017

11. Juli 2019, 00:12:45

Thema: Re:

Crosseyed Mary: I didn’t mean to criticise. But I am in the Checkers and Russian checkers and both haven’t taken off. I don’t really like backgammon much and so far it has taken off. I am doing ok in them. Maybe people just play individual games here and clubs are not so important. That’s ok. People play what they like.

11. Juli 2019, 00:09:39

Thema: Re:

Kookaburra The creator coan.net does choose games that are more popular. He does his best and has done it for a very long time.

11. Juli 2019, 00:08:21

Thema: Re: Team Tournaments

Crosseyed Mary:
Maybe they could reduce the number required. But sounds like there is no development happening here.

11. Juli 2019, 00:08:21

Thema: Re: Team Tournaments

Kookaburra: No he still comes in but not every day.

11. Juli 2019, 00:07:25

Thema: Re: Team Tournaments

Kookaburra: It is not always four players and four teams.

11. Juli 2019, 00:06:19

Thema: Re: Team Tournaments

Crosseyed Mary:
Is this an unsupervised site?

11. Juli 2019, 00:05:53

Why don’t they choose team challenges with games that are popular. Who chooses the games?

11. Juli 2019, 00:05:30

Thema: Re: Team Tournaments

Kookaburra: He has other interests that take up his time.

11. Juli 2019, 00:04:53

Thema: Re: Team Tournaments

Crosseyed Mary:
You are only talking about 4 teams of 4 players. That isn’t many.

11. Juli 2019, 00:04:13

Thema: Re: Team Tournaments

Crosseyed Mary:
Why did the owner lose interest in this site?

11. Juli 2019, 00:03:43

Thema: Re: Team Tournaments

moistfinger:
I agree when you can’t get 4 teams of 4 players for a game. It isn’t very active. In Goldtoken I have a number of clubs and can get 40 checker players in a tournament. It is a good site here. Just not very active. And the clubs here don’t seem to do much.

10. Juli 2019, 14:29:41

Thema: Re: Team Tournaments

moistfinger: It is an active site but perhaps not in the areas you would like.
What may have caused some decline was when the owner made it clear he had lost interest in this site.

10. Juli 2019, 14:14:00

Thema: Re: Team Tournaments

Kookaburra: Yes they can but only join one team per tournament game. So if they are in several fellowships it makes difficult to get enough teams to sign up.

10. Juli 2019, 13:48:25

moistfinger

Thema: Re: Team Tournaments

Kookaburra: You are quite correct, it isn't a very active site.

10. Juli 2019, 05:58:54

Thema: Re: Team Tournaments

Crosseyed Mary: Don’t they join teams? Just wondering.

8. Juli 2019, 02:21:49

Thema: Re: Team Tournaments

Kookaburra: It is difficult to get team tournament games running as players are in so many Fellowships.

8. Juli 2019, 02:17:51

Thema: Re: Team Tournaments

Crosseyed Mary:
Same with the ordinary checker one. Maybe I don’t play games that are popular here.

6. Juli 2019, 03:51:17

Thema: Re: Team Tournaments

Verändert von crosseyed_uk (6. Juli 2019, 03:58:29)

Kookaburra: The reason it did not start was it required four teams to start. There are only three teams signed up for the tournament.

6. Juli 2019, 02:53:53

Thema: Team Tournaments

Verändert von Kookaburra (6. Juli 2019, 02:54:29)

I was looking forward to the Russian Checker Team challenge and it didn’t start. It would appear at this site clubs do almost nothing and team challenges almost non existent. Is there any hope for this to improve????? I am looking to leave currently as this doesn’t seem like a very active site.
I am new here.

19. Juni 2019, 23:11:33

Aganju

Thema: Re: So I guess

Verändert von Aganju (19. Juni 2019, 23:12:21)

DeaD man WalkiN: some people simply don't know the rules. Don't get angry; refer them to read the rules, and to stop playing if they don't like them.

Aside from that, I can understand that the doubling cube can be an extremely annoying thing, especially if you don't understand it - your opponent roles a lucky 6-6 and turns the game around, and then has the audacity to double... but that is Backgammon. [this is an explanation, not an excuse!]
He needs to learn to use the cube. And if he cannot lose, he should go play with dolls instead.

19. Juni 2019, 22:49:52

Thema: Re: So I guess

DeaD man WalkiN: So its a game using the beating cube? A multi game match? Well you can start by offering a double before you roll your first set of dice.. Still not sure why he is angry?

30. Mai 2019, 09:25:15

Dice Cheater

Thema: Re:

Carnie: His BKR is higher than yours so he should have won outright; the fact he didn't beat you and asked for a draw means points for you and points taken away from him.

18. Mai 2019, 00:57:05

cool1cat

Thema: Re: Brainking

Gabriel Almeida: hi

15. Mai 2019, 03:37:24

Bernice

Thema: Re: Brainking

Gabriel Almeida: welcome back...not too much has changed really.

14. Mai 2019, 23:37:24

Mélusine

Thema: Re: Brainking

Gabriel Almeida:

Hello ! And happy to see you again here. For me, all works.

14. Mai 2019, 15:07:09

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Thema: Re: Brainking

Gabriel Almeida: Since Jan 2018 after fencer announced the site would not be maintained as it was in the past and no guarantees, all I can say is I've had no down time.

14. Mai 2019, 14:08:53

Thema: Re: Brainking

Verändert von crosseyed_uk (14. Mai 2019, 23:50:41)

Gabriel Almeida: Fencer still maintains this site. He is in the site more than we expected.

What is new

A scheduled downtime of BrainKing is planned on Thursday 25th April 2019, 07:30 GMT+02:00 due to a system upgrade.

As far as I am aware this did happen. And you can see previous updates.

14. Mai 2019, 12:14:23

Gabriel Almeida

Thema: Brainking

Hi people. I've been away for a long time, as I thought it was finishing... is the site still maintained? How is this by now?

11. Mai 2019, 14:22:32

Thema: Re: Brains.

Marshmud: Thank you for that information.

11. Mai 2019, 07:40:19

Fencer

Thema: Re: Brains.

Marshmud: That's right.

11. Mai 2019, 02:47:51

Thema: Re: Brains.

Crosseyed Mary: Not since about june 2014. Originally it was a problem with paypal and treating the sale of brains like gambling. I remember him talking about but dont quote me. I just know you cant manually buy them and since all the cheating with brains all brains for membership is done manually by fencer now.

10. Mai 2019, 23:05:45

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Thema: Brains.

Does anyone know if you can still buy Brains?

4. Mai 2019, 21:12:39

ughaibu

Thema: Re: Thematic tournament.

Aganju:

Thanks.

4. Mai 2019, 18:35:14

Aganju

Thema: Re: Thematic tournament.

ughaibu: i don't think 'Handicap' is implemented - you could only have players agree to voluntary make a poor move or move sequence as another way of 'Handicap' for them. There is no way to start with a piece removed.

3. Mai 2019, 15:32:29

ughaibu

Thema: Thematic tournament.

How do I set up a shogi tournament in which the players each give their opponent a handicap in one of two games?

28. April 2019, 01:34:08

Mélusine

Thema: Re: Glitch.

Crosseyed Mary: I don’t know. I noticed this since only a few days.

28. April 2019, 01:30:57

Thema: Re: Glitch.

Verändert von crosseyed_uk (28. April 2019, 01:32:47)

Mélusine: So it is not just me that his has happened. You have confused me a little. But what you are saying now, it did not do that before. It has been like this for weeks.

28. April 2019, 01:24:05

Mélusine