Está prevista uma operação de manutenção no servidor do BrainKing que obrigará ao seu encerramento temporário na Terça Feira, dia 26 de Julho, pelas 01:00 GMT. Esta situação deve-se a operações de conversão do nosso servidor de aplicações. A operação não deve exceder as 2-3 horas.
Parece que adicionar novas línguas ao Brainking vai se tornar num evento regular. Graças ao excelente trabalho de rabbitoid com a ajuda de Cerise e tycho, podemos começar uma nova dezena de línguas suportadas e o número 11 pertence ao Francês.
Gostaria de anunciar que a colecção de línguas suportadas pelo BrainKing atingiu o número 10. A tradução sueca foi fornecida por Hasurami e Andersp :-)
Estou feliz por poder apresentar duas novas línguas e estender assim a nossa colecção de localizações do BrainKing. Os heróis do dia são estanto que traduziu o site para Esperanto com uma pequena ajuda de martinbr, e cicko que fez a tradução completa para Romeno :-)
Existem também alguns melhoramentos na funcionalidade de controlo de tempo para jogos, torneios e charcos que trarão uma melhor flexibilidade e jogabilidade.
Continuam a chegar novas línguas! Desta vez anunciamos 2 línguas ao mesmo tempo - Turco (totalmente traduzido por Ebru) e Holandês (traduzido por Hrqls e vic, testado por wekke e Radiant Aunt).
Aproveitem :-) Fóruns para estas novas línguas vão ser criados em breve.
Foi lançada a quinta língua suportada! Desta vez é o Eslovaco e os meus agradecimentos vão para os tradutores blizz e noger. E claro, para os utilizadores que os ajudaram nos testes - temo, agentura office e vaizi :-)
Existem também, alguns melhoramentos no sistema dos clubes, a maior parte dos quais tem a ver com a língua e estrutura dos fóruns.
Graças ao espantoso trabalho do chessmec (iniciado por Dresden) que trabalhou arduamente para traduzir todo o site do Brainking para Alemão, é possível a partir de agora usar o site nesta língua. Convém referir, também, a equipa de utilizadores que o ajudou nos testes necessários (diogenes, Caissus, danoschek, andreas, Sumerian, Mely, Luke Skywalker, estanto and snowflake).
Nota: O Fencer continua a falar apenas Inglês e Checo, qualquer questão em Alemão deve ser endereçada a chessmec :-)
A principal fonte dos recentes problemas do site foi resolvida. Contudo, algumas situações estranhas poderão ainda acontecer(valor negativo no tempo restante dos jogos, etc.), por essa razão o tempo de jogo continuará suspenso até tudo se encontrar resolvido.
Olá,
uma vez que estámos a ter problemas inesperados com um dos nossos servidores, de momento a performance do site está muito má. Por favor tenham paciência, o problema será resolvido assim que for possível.
Consequências:
O tempo para os jogos e charcos está suspenso de forma a evitar timeouts. Deixará de o estar assim que se resolverem os problemas.
Vão acontecer períodos de indisponibilidade do site e o carregamento das páginas vai estar lento, neste momento estamos a correr em apenas uma máquina que se encontra sobrecarregada. Os testes e as tentativas de pôr o segundo servidor a correr podem causar a inactividade do site. Por favor não reportem isso como um bug.
O valor para o "Tempo restante" de alguns jogos está a aparecer com um valor negativo muito elevado.Trata-se de um problema temporário e inofensivo, por favor não reportem esta situação.
Alguns jogos (nomeadamente batalha naval) estão instáveis. Esta situação tem a ver com os problemas já mencionados, por favor não o reportem e deixem os jogos estar como estão até o problema estar resolvido.
De forma a organizar melhor os fóruns e preparar o suporte para novas línguas, vários fóruns sobre jogos foram combinados num único (ex: variantes de Damas, variantes de Reversi, etc.). Quer dizer que certos fóruns podem desaparecer da lista de fóruns preferidos - não é um bug, é uma consequência desta alteração.
Graças ao espantoso trabalho da aissi e do pauloaguia que trabalharam incansavelmente para traduzir todo o site do BrainKing para Português, agora é possível usar o site nesta língua. Mais mudanças sobre a nova estrutura multilingue do site irão surgir nos próximos tempos (especialmente nos fóruns e clubes).
Nota: O Fencer ainda só fala Inglês e Checo por isso mandem os comentários em português para o pauloaguia e para a aissi ;-)
A prize tournament in backgammon (created by Luisifer) with 13,000 CZK membership value, sponsored by thirteen sponsors, who earned our endless gratitude, has been created :-) Only Czech or Slovak players can apply. (Why? Because that's how Luisifer defined his rules. In case of questions please ask him, not me. Thank you.)
Since we plan to upgrade our database system to a new version supporting a better and more secure crypting system, please go to your Profile / Change Password page and use it to reset your password. It's okay to set the same password as you use now, the purpose is to activate the new store function.
After the database is upgraded (within several weeks), it will be still possible to set a password on the Login Page. However, who follows this instructions now, will not be surprised if his password suddenly stops working after the upgrade is performed.
1) I have added a new option for paying members on the main Settings page - the banner ads can be moved to the page bottom. The purpose is to give them a possibility to see interesting links related to our site content without being disturbed by them in other cases.
2) The system of Server News has been improved and separated from discussion boards. Soon it will be applied to fellowship news as well. Since the new structure is not fully compatible with the current one, it is recommended save important posts from the News boards (if you are a Big Boss) because I cannot guarantee that all of them would survive the conversion.
BrainKing introduces a new chess variant called Fischer Random Chess. By the way, in case somebody is still not aware of it, since the last week we have another backgammon variant Hyper backgammon :-)
1) BrainKing brings two Five in Line variants - Pro Five in Line and Swap Five in Line.
2) Users with Brain Rook or higher membership level can create Ponds, starting today.
We apologize for the "deja vu" effect and the return in time (2 hours to the past), caused by a bug in the configuration files. Due to this situation, the game time will be suspended till tomorrow morning.
Everything works correctly now. Sorry for the inconvenience.
Modificado por Fencer (21. Dezembro 2004, 09:44:51)
1) A planned downtime of BrainKing is scheduled to the 2nd January 2005, due to moving data to archive databases. The whole action should not exceed 1 hour. The game time will be turned off, just for a case of unexpected events.
2) There are still several days left for everyone who didn't take advantage of the Christmas Special! Everybody who pays for any kind of membership (or extends the current one) and makes it to the end of this year (2004), will automatically get one FREE month of the same membership as a Christmas present.
Modificado por Fencer (13. Dezembro 2004, 09:18:29)
1) Christmas Special! Everybody who pays for any kind of membership (or extends the current one) and makes it to the end of this year (2004), will automatically get one FREE month of the same membership as a Christmas present.
2) And for the doubtful ones, there is one temptation - BrainKing brings the first multiplayer game which is accessible for paying members only. The number of participants is unlimited and the name is Run round the Pond.
3) The User Agreement has been improved in order to make it more understandable and clear.
Hello,
as you can see, all hardware problems have been (hopefully) solved and BrainKing is operating in its standard way.
Now it is time to announce the very first third-party tool created for BrainKing paying members. It is called BrainKing Notify, it should be working on all Windows platforms and after installation it keeps you informed about a number of games to play.
Important: This application was developed by Klokan, not me, therefore all questions/suggestions/reports send directly to him, please. It can be downloaded from this site and after some testing period, I will officially add it to BrainKing domain.
The last note: The application works for paying members only.
...phew, I've reincarnated "Maja" the database server and after a sleepless night we've moved (with Fencer) the database back to Maja. This was the cause of today's downtime.
The game time will be started again as of Friday 26th November 2004, 12:00 GMT+1 after a sufficient review of full BK functionality.
Modificado por Fencer (22. Novembro 2004, 16:09:17)
Due to a sudden malfunction of the database server, the whole BrainKing is currently running on one machine only, which can have a negative impact on the site speed and response time. This is the reason why the game time has been suspended until the problem is solved.
If somebody can observe a "time warp" effect (missing last moves in games, etc.), it is caused by a broken data replication to a backup machine. I recommend to continue in games with their current status and not to report it as a bug.
Global BKR recalculation based on all finished games since October 2002 will be performed next week, most likely as of Monday 25th October 2004, 8:00 CET. This process can take 10-15 minutes which will cause a temporary site unavailability.
New system of timeout calculating and processing has been launched in a test mode. It means that initial values of "time left" can be a bit inaccurate. After all tests are passed, the time for games will be started again (most likely on Friday 15th October 2004, about 12:00 CET).
Modificado por Fencer (1. Setembro 2004, 11:17:43)
BrainKing brings 3 new games - Jarmo, Alquerque and Froglet. My thanks go to white for those little froggies and Sinay for boards of Jarmo and Alquerque. Yes, I know that boards for Jarmo and Alquerque are too big, I will add smaller ones soon.
Besides, lots of bugs was fixed (e.g. multiple jumps in Czech Checkers) and added several improvements.
I have added a simple bug tracking and reporting system. It is accessible through a new Bug tracker menu item. This first version will be improved in the future, according to requirements and feedback.
For Pente players: The World Championship will be held in Las Vegas, NV on August 7 & 8, 2004. You can find more information here.
1) The First Team Tournament has been started! Although some minor bugs can occur (i.e. in score counting), it should be working properly.
2) The User Agreement has been officially released and is valid for everyone. I would recommend to read it at least once.
1) I have added a new page Store where you can order an original BrainKing.com T-shirt and more similar things in the future.
2) Suspended time will be restarted next week, most likely as of 10th July 2004 (Saturday).
Okay, I don't say anything ... let's wait and observe :-)
We've already found some small bugs but they should have no negative impact on the functionality. One of them is showing incorrect red numbers at the menu column, so please don't report it, I am aware of it.
Btw, what not to try Battleboats Plus, Dark Battleboats and Amazons? :-D
A scheduled downtime of BrainKing is planned on Monday 28th June 2004, 7:00 a.m. GMT+01:00 due to a conversion of our database. The process should not exceed two or three hours. In case of additional problems I will inform about the situation on BrainKing.info.
A scheduled downtime of BrainKing is planned on Saturday 12th June 2004 due to a replacement of damaged hardware components. The process should not take more than 2 hours, hopefully.
Ehm ... hmmmm ... well, due to unexpected problems, we have decided to re-launch former BrainKing 1.0 again, until all possible [recently detected] performance bugs are fixed. I am sure it's better to have at least this site running. Sorry :-) We will try the switchover again next weekend, probably.
UPDATE: Due to recent access problems of WebTV users, I have stopped game time [to prevent timeouts] until it is solved. It will be started again on Monday 14th June 2004.
A scheduled downtime of BrainKing is planned on Saturday 5th June 2004 due to a conversion of our database. In case of additional problems (which are not expected) I will inform about the situation on BrainKing.info.
IMPORTANT: The "suspended time" will be turned off within several days [as of 9th January 2004]. Please make sure that none of your games (where it is your turn to move) has "0" as time left. Thank you.
Update: I have temporarily disabled posting on discussion boards for non-paying users. It is a short time solution before I improve our anti-spam filter.
Due to some New Year bug, several games had been finished by a timeout. I would like to ask everybody not to panic, everything is under control now. Please send me game IDs of all timeouted games, I will restore them. Thanks and I apologize.
IMPORTANT: The "suspended time" will be turned off within several days [as of 14th November 2003]. Please make sure that none of your games (where it is your turn to move) has "0" as time left. Thank you.
Since the description of the recent events is too long to be posted here, please read it on BrainKing.info before you ask me about anything. Thank you.
A hardware failure has occured at our web/database server. We are currently running on the second server only and the time for games will be suspended until the first one is fixed. Since we have only Saturday database backup, all Sunday and Monday actions are lost. I apologize for the inconvenience.
I have added two new tournament options:
1) Unrated tournaments - no games generated for the tournament will affect the players' BKR.
2) Private tournaments - only players invited by the tournament creator can sign up.
These options can be found on "define new tournament" page (visible for Brain Rooks only).
I have added pgn encoder for chess games. Since I have never used this format before, I would like to ask anybody who is familiar with this format to test it. There is a new link "download pgn code" at the notation column of chess games.
(esconder) Se procura uma mensagem mais antiga de um dado utilizador clique no seu Perfil e use a opção "mostrar mensagensdeste utilizador", no topo da página. (konec) (mostrar todas as dicas)
Está prevista uma operação de manutenção no servidor do BrainKing que obrigará ao seu encerramento temporário na Terça Feira, dia 26 de Julho, pelas 01:00 GMT. Esta situação deve-se a operações de conversão do nosso servidor de aplicações. A operação não deve exceder as 2-3 horas.
...phew, I've reincarnated "Maja" the database server and after a sleepless night we've moved (with Fencer) the database back to Maja. This was the cause of today's downtime.
