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Subject: Re: Brains.

Marshmud: That's right.

11. May 2019, 14:22:32

Subject: Re: Brains.

Marshmud: Thank you for that information.

14. May 2019, 12:14:23

Gabriel Almeida

Subject: 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?

14. May 2019, 14:08:53

Subject: Re: Brainking

Modified by crosseyed_uk (14. May 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. May 2019, 15:07:09

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Subject: 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. May 2019, 23:37:24

Mélusine

Subject: Re: Brainking

Gabriel Almeida:

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

15. May 2019, 03:37:24

Bernice

Subject: Re: Brainking

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

18. May 2019, 00:57:05

cool1cat

Subject: Re: Brainking

Gabriel Almeida: hi

30. May 2019, 09:25:15

Dice Cheater

Subject: 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.

19. June 2019, 22:49:52

Subject: 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?

19. June 2019, 23:11:33

Aganju

Subject: Re: So I guess

Modified by Aganju (19. June 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.

6. July 2019, 02:53:53

Subject: Team Tournaments

Modified by Kookaburra (6. July 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.

6. July 2019, 03:51:17

Subject: Re: Team Tournaments

Modified by crosseyed_uk (6. July 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.

8. July 2019, 02:17:51

Subject: Re: Team Tournaments

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

8. July 2019, 02:21:49

Subject: Re: Team Tournaments

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

10. July 2019, 05:58:54

Subject: Re: Team Tournaments

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

10. July 2019, 13:48:25

moistfinger

Subject: Re: Team Tournaments

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

10. July 2019, 14:14:00

Subject: 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. July 2019, 14:29:41

Subject: 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.

11. July 2019, 00:03:43

Subject: 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.

11. July 2019, 00:04:13

Subject: Re: Team Tournaments

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

11. July 2019, 00:04:53

Subject: Re: Team Tournaments

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

11. July 2019, 00:05:30

Subject: Re: Team Tournaments

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

11. July 2019, 00:05:53

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

11. July 2019, 00:06:19

Subject: Re: Team Tournaments

Crosseyed Mary:
Is this an unsupervised site?

11. July 2019, 00:07:25

Subject: Re: Team Tournaments

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

11. July 2019, 00:08:21

Subject: Re: Team Tournaments

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

11. July 2019, 00:08:21

Subject: Re: Team Tournaments

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

11. July 2019, 00:09:39

Subject: 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. July 2019, 00:12:45

Subject: 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. July 2019, 00:13:35

Subject: 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. July 2019, 00:24:34

Subject: 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. July 2019, 00:30:02

Subject: 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. July 2019, 00:31:10

Subject: Re: Team Tournaments

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

11. July 2019, 00:32:40

Subject: 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. July 2019, 00:35:26

Subject: 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. July 2019, 00:36:43

Subject: Re:

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

11. July 2019, 00:37:15

Subject: Re: Team tournaments.

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

11. July 2019, 00:37:17

Subject: 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. July 2019, 00:37:44

Subject: Re:

Marshmud:
Agree

11. July 2019, 00:38:57

Subject: Re:

Marshmud:
All sites have issues. None are perfect.

11. July 2019, 00:40:22

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Subject: Re: Team tournaments.

Kookaburra: This is a very good site to play games in.
Perhaps you could set up some tournaments and you will see that players will sign up.
It seems a shame to have full membership and only play a few games.

11. July 2019, 00:48:09

Subject: Re:

Kookaburra: What I meant is GT has a active owner, and a paid full time programmer. This site just needs a new owner with passion to move it forward. This sites code is wrote that way, far brilliant to any out there, just his passion went from his game site to his family. I understand your frustration, but Im one that has teams in all the team tournaments so Im trying to keep them going and asked coan a year ago to lower the minimum players, in which he did. Ive been trying to get a checker team together for many moons. Just not many play checkers, sadly.

11. July 2019, 01:20:41

Subject: Re: Reliable.

Modified by crosseyed_uk (11. July 2019, 02:05:25)

Marshmud: I recall your disappeared on two occasions for a very long time. So can you guarantee that won't happen again? Otherwise I could send you team challenge game.

11. July 2019, 01:59:35

Bernice

Subject: Re:

Marshmud: Marshmud I remember when you were going to buy this gaming site, but greed got in the way of settlement if I remember correctly...It is amazing how some people are selectivein memories, but then i guess that does happen in old age hahahaha....Gone are the days when you couldnt get a game unless you were on here 24/7 because they filled up so quickly...How times change ;

11. July 2019, 03:58:04

Subject: Re: Reliable.

Crosseyed Mary: Been cancer free two years now so hopefully I dont disappear lol. My friends knew what was going on. I dont play team challenges, and none of my team members want to either, just team tournaments.

11. July 2019, 04:08:15

Subject: Re:

Bernice: No, I back out as I was going through a tough go. Its a shame, because fencer was going to stick around a full year for free. I had mctriva and another programmer from Greece to me help out, but honestly I didnt think I was going to be around another 12 months. Some thought his asking price was high, but it was fair. I had problems on my end it had nothing to do with greed.

11. July 2019, 04:40:16