Fencer: You know the old saying ? If it ain't broken don't fix it. Why do you keep making changes? I can't see if my friends have made their moves anymore. None of the commands work either. Are these temporary faults?

i have the same problem

After playing on a game neither the option of going to main page or picking a game from the drop down list works? No matter which I choose the first game on my game list is what I get?

julie67660: Non. Il faut recommencer l'invitation.
Le forum en Français est ici

quand on refus une demande d'amis publique (sans le faire exprès) on peu plus recommencer pour accepter ?

Bernice: Black Rooks are allowed 3. If it is a non black rook, perhaps they had 3 before the restriction came to pass.

I thought people were only supposed to be "BigBoss" of 2 fellowships?

how come there are some out there with 3?

..... Compared to dial up days...

toedder: I have had intermittent problem even in simple layout!!

Bernice: Have you tried switching to the "Simple" layout? And to activate the "lightweight" version in your settings?

Bernice: i also have some problems connection to brainking.nl .. sometimes it brings me to google where i can click on the link and the connect without problems (this indicates a DSN problem on my site) ... but today often that doesnt work but brainking.com always seems to work for me

Bernice:
Yes I have lost many games because I have a limited time to make moves so if Brainking doesn't load or takes forever to load when I am able to make moves then I lose (uaually the games I least want to lose).

Bernice: me too

anybody else having probs connecting to BK....anything up to 2 mins for pages to load...on the home page the dragon flies across before anything else even loads...so annoying, cant log in...takes ages...all other games sites are fine

jouer: This conversation would be better suited for our "Other Game Sites" discussion board : http://brainking.com/en/Board?bc=54

This board is about brainking specifically. Thank you.

jouer: Does anyone know if it's possible for Peter to restore the turnbased games that may have expired while pente.org is "down and out"?

happyjuggler0: Thanks HappyJo...:)

jouer: Check out the discussion board for this tournament: Brf's 5th Annual St. Pat's Pente Tourney

D0 we know how long 'temporary" is? And do we know why it's down?

jouer: according to what Brf wrote yesterday on SPP fellowship's board, it is only temporary downtime..

jouer: This is also handy place to try http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/

Just put pente.org into the box and see what it says....in fact i will

It says It's not just you! http://pente.org looks down from here.

jouer: There is a Host Tracker link at the top of this page, which is recommended to use if someone has connection issues with BrainKing. It works for any other sites too and now it shows "Connection refused" error from all worldwide nodes. It means that pente.org is down and everyone has the same issue.

I have not been able to log onto pente.org for the last couple of days. Is anyone else having that issue?

Jaqueline

ellieoop: I was inaccurate, though. At the very top of the page that you go to from "Photo Albums" (from the link on the left), would be your own albums, if you had any. THEN under that are the latest albums from other users.

rod03801: thx. rod. i surely wouldn't have know that.

ellieoop: If you clicked from the side menu (left), yes indeed you see most recent albums of other people, and most recent comments. To see your OWN album, you need to do it through your own profile.

i clicked photo album by mistake and it says that it is my album. there's lots of pix but i don't know any of these ppl., i have seen some of the names on the site. any explanations?

MadMonkey: gremlins!

Fencer: That is what i thought, as we would have to check a box to confirm it

Is it only Big Boss & Little Boss that can ??? most odd

MadMonkey: Teams cannot remove themselves. It is always triggered by a user.

Why do Teams keep removing themselves from my Fellowship

It's easy to re-create them i know, and have them back, BUT when i do that all the players have gone............

Thanks, I missed that one.

Bluefin: http://brainking.com/en/News

Looking for the page to set up vacation days
Can't find it this time ??

Ignore previous post - finger trouble!!!

How do I move in this game where there is no "submit" button, and no "roll dice " button. The only way I can see to get out is to offer a draw or resign. HELP!
Game ID: 5086246

thisbeme: You have PM to fencer. Its same as in OTB game when you call referee and in correspondence chess when you write to tournament director.

Of course, there is benefit. If you are trying to win you have more time to do it if defender wont claim the rule. In OTB game I claimed 3fold repetition in very bad position, so my opponents' chances to win were very good - but you are right, my chances to win were tiny:)

thisbeme:
Dude.
Lukulus gave you a clear explanation how it works here.
Please accept it and stop spamming. Nobody is going to change it.
Thank you.

lukulus:

3 fold repetition can/has to be claimed of this site?

Me personally I don't think there is much benefit to 50 move/3 fold repetition claims not being handled automatically on the server. If you reach a position where you have a valid claim that can be made against you the odds of you winning are very tiny anyway.
If there is a claim draw button, I haven't noticed it.

Justaminute:

It is not part of the game to win on time with a lone king,

It is irrational to award a timeloss if that if playing the worst possible moves would still win or draw.
You can claim a draw in a quickplay finish, if the player isn't trying to win by normal means.

thisbeme:
I don't agree that trying to win on time is pathetic, it is just part of the game. The same thing happens in over the board chess, if you have a half hour game or a longer game with the clocks going back to be completed in 15 mins it sometimes comes down to player with a technically won position being short of time and losing. Time management is part of the game on brainking and competitive over the board chess.

thisbeme: I think players play lost games not because achievement, but because lack of chess etiquette. They are mostly beginners and they play until end and they hadnt occasion to learn it as we both had. I agree with you, it is anoying, but we can do nothing with it. Even more annoying it is in positions which are mathematically lost like often happens in backgammon or dice poker.

Even on ICCF server can play beginners and rules has count with every possibility. You can try to ask someone from ICCF:)

I disagree with you also in case of 3fold repetition (and also 50 moves rule). Such programs shouldnt be allowed. It is responsibility of every player to watch for for such situation and when this occure to inform referee. Referee on BK is Fencer and he can claim game as draw if you tell him (and you are right:). And he did it quite quick in my game. In OTB game you havnt such program, have you?

thisbeme: hooray for the constructive feedback! every site needs fresh ideas from its players

i dont know if you already did so, but could you post the mancala variant on the feature request board or on the mancala board ?

the reason why there is not real 'autopass' is that in that way there can be no talk between the (passed) game moves .. personally i would love real autopass or maybe an option to turn it off and on .. but fencer likes this site to be more social than the usual game sites on which you just make your moves

cd power:
This site has a 1000/2000 move/most moves in a day achievement. This means that lost games are more likely played on when the game if no longer entertaining.
The Laws of chess are clear the lone King never wins.
ICCF doesn't envisage a player playing on with bare king and there is no incentive to play on with a bare king. My suspicion is a bare king on ICCF wouldn't get the point and if it did the rule would change. They have rules envisaging the possiblity of adjudication and backdating time extension.

Implementing the Laws of Chess can't be that hard there numerous open source programs that correctly detect 3 fold repetition, 50 move rule and insufficent mating material.

As to why so many game.
When I was a pawn and later a knight I tried to enter prize tournament only to be denied due to no unrated players being allowed.
When my knight was about to go back to a pawn I entered as many tournaments as I would be severely restricted as a pawn.

It is perverse that the pawn can in theory win higher membership, only to be denied entry to free prize event due to lack of rating and the ratings take ages to get because of restriction on games.

This issue isn't about me, it is about whether a player who can't obtain the victory conditions of a game on the board should gain victory on the clock.

If someone really doesn't understand they are totally lost or really wants a game to accumulate moves fine, but anyone who thinks they should get a so called "timeout win" when it is impossible to achieve the game victory condition is IMO a bit pathetic..

Would this site be better if chess rules were correctly implemented?
Would it be better if you didn't have to make to click pass or enter the only legal move available?
My understanding is Fencer actually wants to improve this site and can only do that with constructive feedback.

happyjuggler0:
The same person who responds to bug posts told me as much. I noticed I timed out and was showing over 30 points (if you get 25 you've won usually)!

BTW why have mancala (blatantly won for the starter) and not Owari/Oware which is drawn with perfect play and a better game?

cd power: Exactly

rabbitoid and lukulus: I agree with both of you, well said.

thisbeme: I enjoy the games I am playing against you, so don't take this the wrong way, but if you are so worried about timeouts, then why are you playing over 3,500 games at once? The bulk of the responsibility belongs to you, and I don't like that you're placing fault with this great gaming site that Fencer has built.

Anyway, there are some arcane rules that are extremely difficult or costly to implement. For the chess draw rules, for example, to be able to recognise a 3 time repetition of the position you'd need to memorize something to identify a position for each move, and compare the position to previous ones after each move. It can be done, of course, but slow down the server.

To implement this timeout draw rule, which is controvertial anyway the server would need to know which position are "unwinnable" or "unlosable". OK, some things are obvious as a lonely king, but others are just as unwinnable and far less easy to identify.

Surely there are more important things to implement and correct on brainking?

This is not OTB game. Playing on BK or similiar server is like playing correspondence chess on ICCF webserver. And there is time exceeding counted as forfeit - look at point 6.f http://www.iccf.com/rules/2009/PRWebserver2009.pdf