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Anyone who has played me recently has noticed that I stopped playing. I have run into some bad health of late and am trying to correct it. Part of my problem is using my hands and the computer. I sincerely apologize and the good Lord willing, I'll try to come back,.... I miss my Fevga...... John
Can't get into brainking.com I can get into .cz, that's how I enter this message however: the graphic files aren't loading so the only games I could play are those where the graphics happened to be in cache
crosseyed: lol yeah but peeps have complained about that sort of thing so I thought I'd cover it. But then, they'd have to read my boring profile to see it in the first place! I used to have an extension that I could do a ctrl * and I could post different prewritten messages with one click. But with the upgrades to Firefox that option didn't work any longer. Like I said, Im a bit lazy. ;)
crosseyed: I put on my profile "good Luck" and "good game" so my bases are covered. ;) I wish there was a button for each as I'm a bit lazy and if I type something, it slows down my rhythm. lol
badgerboy78: There were others besides me that complained? It wasn't the slow play itself as it was that you were putting out new invites for the same game type with faster time limits. My perspective was, hey, why not just move faster in our game? I understand the limits of being a pawn and I play at multiple sites so I don't have to rely on any one place. On Brainking, a game that takes a year is considered fast. Ha ha...
I get annoyed with pawns that send me a message complaining about slow play, even if they chose a game with a 2 or 5 day limit. I generally respond that they should buy a membership so they don't have to beg for moves. I play way more games than most people but I'm retired and that is my choice.
Justaminute: well said, I play a lot of games because I want there to always be games when I log on, that's why I have a membership and that's why I like this site the best
Artful Dodger: That is good advice. Pawns play a small number of games so every game matters to them and they sometimes begrudge a slow player taking up one of their slots. I am playing a lot of games at a 3-5 day per move rate but some at a 10-15 a move rate. I have about 200 games on the go and perhaps make 60- 100 moves a day. The point is the 10-15 moves a day game takes a week to get into my top 100 games if my opponent responds within 24 hours. I could of course reduce the number I am playing to 60-100 so I could move every day in every game but I want there to be games to play whenever I go onto the site. That’s why I pay a membership fee. Similarly if I am playing against a lot of slow players and I am not getting enough games I just increase the number of games I am playing.
I only see the rate of play being an issue for pawns (and admittedly knights) but as AD said the answer is don’t enter a tournament with a time limit you are not prepared to play. I’ve also heard people complaining a time limit is too fast, same applies.
Ok, that was 5 words but I threw in two as bonus words. ;)
I learned this the hard way and now limit myself to mostly 3 days per move tourneys. I'll go as much as 5 but that's it. If I sign up for a tourney that takes forever, it's on me. While I do find it annoying that some opponents take up all their allotted time, that's their right.
Ok, now I'm like way past the three words of advice.
computeropponen: To compare Crosseyed to yourself does her a disservice. She has completed 12600 games and made 234 posts of which 1 caused some friction with the powers that be. You have completed 39 games and made 154 posts most of which are complaints about the same tedious subjects.
crosseyed: i am in the same situation as you. what i have talked about all based on the fact. people consider me as a complainer. what i sugguest that you better say something good about this site. don't forget for the owner of this site, it is bussiness he has to make every one happy.
Modificado por crosseyed_uk (21. Octubre 2013, 12:40:48)
computeropponen: I have never said this was a bad site to play games in or for posting. In fact I will put this site as the No1 site to play in. However in the past there were some problems with this site and when I tried to alert the site owner, he deemed me as complainer. You must have been bored to dig up an old post.
computeropponen: you said below "...i don't pay much attention to the time control here...". Well that's exactly your problem, and you should stop projecting it onto others. The time controls can please any taste, yours included, but if you don't care about them when signing up, then stop caring (whining) about them after signing up.
rabbitoid: my opponent time left is 42 days and 15 hours per MOVE, not per GAME. if he move exactly like that, it will take more than a year may be two to finish one game. what a long game!! i don't like a blitz game, what i want is a reasonable chess game what is fast action or slow snail action? you tell me.
computeropponen: This site is a bad choice for you if you like to blitz. What you find here is more the equivalent of correspondence chess. For fast action better go to FICS at http://www.freechess.org/
computeropponen: i played a few games of chess with my mother on here and she does exactly what you says .... i know she is no cheater though :) ...she just wants to play it on a real board so she views my move and then sets up on a real board to contemplate her various moves and often she leaves the board standing there for several days before making the real move :)
i don't pay much attention to the time control here. once i accepted an invitation to play a chess game, my opponent moved quickly and i like it, i hate people move slowly to make me sick. during the game my wife called me to pick her up,when i came back i found out that i had only 30 min vs his 1 hr 35min, first i was very surprised then i realized the x was set up for 3 hrs per game that i did not know abt it. i lost the game under x pressure. now i get the idea how to invite people to play the game i wanted. set the X CONTROL PER GAME
computeropponen: There are two ways: you can go to a player's page and invite that person directly, or you can make an open invitation to players in general here at BrainKing (with some restrictions if you want to).
For the general invitation, on the left side of the page near the top there is a category called "new game". Click it.
Then select the type of game you want to play, then pick the parameters that you want. Be careful on time controls and such so that you get what you want; there are default settings but I suspect you won't want to use those.
Hrqls: no one is a cheater here, only suspect of cheating. you don't know what the guy is doing. how can you prove it? when my opponent logout after seeing my move every time, i know what is going on, he may not use a computer program, but i am sure that he is looking for some help, most likely he try to find the move by trail and error method. when he find his move on the board and login again. the reason is: he has no ability to see the move over the board.
If someone on the "waiting games" page has an invitation that states that it is a 5 wins match and my color is black, does that mean that all of my games in that match will be black, or does it mean that my first game is black and alternate each game after that between black and white, or is it something else perhaps?
Hrqls: a draw cannot be claimed on this site, it can only be offered. you have to agree on the draw to be performed
just decline the draw and continue the game while having a cheerful chat about the rules of a draw?
Actually not correct. Where normal rules of chess apply the game is draw when there is a three fold repetition of a position and a player claims it. The issue is that Brainking does not automatically recognise it (it would be very complex to programme I imagine) but the rules on the site advise you can appeal for arbitration. Ideally of course this is settled between the players.
(ocultar) Evita perder partidas por tiempo. Los miembros de pago pueden activar la opción "Festivos Automáticos" en su página de Opciones que de modo automático permite establecer como festivos aquellos días en los que se perdiera una partida por tiempo. (pauloaguia) (mostrar todos los consejos)