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.

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

Join the club, nobody likes an internet tough guy.

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

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. :(

People like Backoff KM are the lifeblood of Brainking.

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

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

I have no moves to make.

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.

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

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

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!

Thanks alOt for the Tourny in memory of TTONNA!!

God bless you,
~*Radiant*~

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

REVERSI

CaoZ

Please check out the Fellowship: PepperMintPatty´s Challengers!!

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! :-)

Starting in about a week, is the ►► B I G · B A D Tournament! ◄◄

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

CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP!

Thanks!

BBW (BIG BAD WOLF)

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???

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.

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???

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.

OK, I will

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.

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

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.

that would be better for real time games i feel

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

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

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...

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.

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.

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 ;-) )

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... :-)

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 ... ~*~

LOL!

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! :)

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!!!

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.)

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

oooooookay....I have no clue what you guys are talking about :)

LMAO@Erissa. I give you head start, I'll be white this time

PPppppPP only when I have a cold chance to win!

*looks nervously over at PP*
Oops, I better not say that! *starts hitting the delete key* giggle

lol, want a tablut game Eriisa?

Hey, backoff! I think ESPN should cover our games! well, not tablut. I still haven't figured that one out yet!

I have never really liked "real-time" play games - which is why I stick around all the turn-based games sites.

But I know many people do like "real-time" games (and for some reason, many of those people want turn-based games sites to be more like real-time game sites)

I would actually like to see the programming time spent on new turn-based games/variations then have the time spent on configuring real-time games. There are already many real-time game sites out there, but only a few good turn-based games sites - and would love to see this site keep improving itself!

sounds good then ;))

sure, of course!

no i meant would be still be able to play our normal , turn based games too ?

I am not really sure. Maybe it would be specified as a fixed amount of time per move, like 1 minute or 20 seconds, or a total amount for the game, like 1 hour. As soon as your game is being viewed, your timer starts.

would the real time play be an extra option or for all games ??

...when the new hardware comes online, the site will be fast enough to support real-time play. When you move, no waiting for the refresh to hit. Of course there is a great deal of coding to be done for this, and Fencer and I have not even discussed this as of yet.

I am just wondering if people would be interested in this real-time play option.