I can second BBW on that too.... I have been playing very fast indeed! No problems whatsoever.

I've been playing games for the past few hours - and I have had no slowness problems - very fast.

Except it was down for "upgrades" for about 3 minutes.... but other then that, very fast for me tonight. (Mid-Illinois-USA)

I have just played 14 games and it has taken me 1hr 15mins to play them :(
I am not a paid member, and think Fencer does a good job...BUT...the times taken to get onto this site and play games is definately a deterent to being a paid member I think :(....I love this site and the people (on the whole) that I have met have been wonderful...is there anything on the horizon to speed this site up???

glad i could help :)
you just enjoy yourself there :)

thankyou so very much! it worked:) don't anyone miss me to much while i'm playing with ellie here in sunny florida:)

try deleting your cookies, if you have had yours set as auto log in as i have done, i had to do this to let my daughter get on to the site
hope this helps

cats4954 is here visiting me, and she's tryng to log in so she can set up her vacation days, everytime she goes to brainking.com, it gives my page, i even logged out, and she did it again and we stll get my page. can someone tell us how to do it. when i logged out, the log in page was there, when she logged in she got mine.
thx. ellie

Hi are you going to have Battleships hear soon?? that would be cool..

send a message to fencer with the game number. If you go into the message boards you will find him faster if you look at "tournaments" where he is listed as moderater. Click on his name and send message including the game number.

I'm playing a backgammon game no#82972 between myself and Kneightskye and part of the came up missing, who do i e-mail to get the problem corrected. Or what do I do to correct the problem, thanks for any help you can give me RSM

The last three days have been frusterating for alot of people. I for one have gotten alot more work done the last few days as the site is harder to get in to. I dont think it matters where in the world you are or the time of day either. Saturday at 8:30 EST I wouldnt think the server would be clogged up enough to stop me from getting it but alas.. 2 hours later and I finally get in..

More memberships mean bigger, better, faster server PASS IT AROUND!!!!

I am having the same problems in the evening. Sometimes,I get on the site and right in the middle of a move I get the message Brain King.com is to busy to use right now. This may last a few minutes,or several hours. I'm using a webtv.

well it is mainly morning for me i just cant get in...so dont bother. Now morning for me would be evening for most of america.It is annoying but i think we should wait and see if it continues....Fencer does a great job :)

...every evening and the sluggishness and as Angus stated not worth waiting for. I thought perhaps it was my dial up but I have been making my moves at my office puter which is quite sophisticated...and goodness me, lag time is exasperating. What gives? I recently joined, like the site and I agree Fencer appears to be a cool person. Wonder what is up? Good to know it isn't just my imagination! :D

I have not been alert enough to document the times, but probably every day there is a time when the site is so slow it's not worth waiting for, and maybe every other day *at least* I can't access it at all for at least a couple of hours. I know Fencer is and has been doing a great job, but I have to admit this is getting annoying and I hope it will be permanently fixed soon.

For the past couple of weeks I've noticed that brainking has experienced downtime every evening, on average a couple of hours per evening starting at around 8pm GMT. Often it's back up and running by 10pm, but on ocassion has been down again shortly afterwards until around midnight GMT. These problems are occuring every day here, and whilst intermittent, there does seem to be a pattern to the times we're getting the page cannot be displayed errors.

I've spoken to a few other people who are having problems getting on the site between those times and was wondering whether this is just a temporary problem, or something caused by rush hour traffic...lol.

This is a really great site and I'm sure you'll all agree that Fencer is highly dedicated to it! I for one, appreciate all the time and effort he devotes to the site, both in keeping it running and also in research and providing such a good range of games! Keep up the excellent work Fencer!
Everyone agree this is the best games site there is? :)

Also wondering... is there any way you would be able to update the brainking info site when downtime is expected to last a while or if there is a known cause. We would really appreciate the updates!

Blaze

New to the site...thanks to ScarletRose! I hope you will all give me a warm welcome here...I do play backgammon and a beginner at Chess (LOVE IT). I am from N California, USA just outside her capitol which is Sacramento. I think I am going to enjoy this site! Just wish the moves could be done faster...like on Dailygammon. Just an observation.
Be well,
~RaVen~ (Lily on Caissa, Warrior Queen on Dailygammon and Scorpion Queen on IYT)

thanks Brian and Kevin for the info :)

and good luck for your games ... :) ... ~*~

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2 of your games were deleted with less than 4 moves (actually not a single move!) so while they count for your win/loss, they do not count for your rating.

has anything changed with the ratings system ?

today, I finished my 4th king's-corner chess game.
but no rating has appeared yet ... any hints anyone ?

thanks in advance ... ~*~

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:o) Clever Hunk, a minor error, I'm sure Thomas Edison didn't worry too much about such small mistakes :-D

correction made,was in a rush,my apologies people.

I think I like gothic chess.great idea.
chinese chess is good too,wonder if fencer ever thought of it for here?
my idea for a variant would be "seige chess"
same as gothic chess.
played on 10x10 board
the addition of 2 new pieces,2 of each:
the cannon-movement rules as per in chinese chess.
(my newly invented piece,the archer)
the archer-movement is horizontal or vertical,can move 2,3, or 4 spaces only.it can not move 1 space.
can jump over pieces to land on a space.
because of the larger board,the number of pawns will be increased.

Scooby: It is most likely due to an older version of the page cached on your system. The only way to solve that would be to delete the internet files, forcing it to download the ner version of the page.

Hey Scooby,

That happens to me too on occassion. Sometimes the board will be fine then when I click on a piece the board does go nutty. I am on MSNTV so it might be that. However I just go back to the main page and click on the game again and it works fine.

Thankyou !! .. our hero ;-D

Done :-)

Hi Fencer :-)
I was wondering if this Friday (18th) and Monday (21st) are going to be considered as public holidays(please), as they are Bank Holidays here in the UK for the Easter break .. or whether us UK residents need to book them as vacation days ?
Thankyou :0)

Hello, on my games, when I click on a piece to make a move, the board goes nuts! in some cases it goes back a number of moves. it also never saves the move. any thoughts??
thanks

okay CH what would be the difference between the rooks and the castles,are they not the same thing,or are we looking at two different types of pieces...other than being slightly comfuzed it sounds like it could be fun and one heck of a challenge.

we tried this on a physical real board with a variety of pieces.to much movement power [ie queen,2 bishops,etc]makes this to hard.

pssst, Clever Hunk... 2 rooks, 1 bishop, 1 castle???!

Sounds like a good game though, interesting!

I had another idea for a new game.
I wanted one of potential great strategy & fun based on an entirely new concept.
this game could only be possible as a computer game,but it is a board game.
basically it is played on a board [6x6] OR [size as yet to be determined.to large for this concept would make it too difficult.too small would be to easy.]
all squares on the board are the same color,white.
when a piece on the board moves onto a square.the square changes color to black.each time any piece lands on a square,its color reverses again.
the object is to turn all squares in a line,diagonal,vertical or horizontal to the same color.
when this is accomplished,any of an opponents pieces on that line are removed form the board.
game is won when all opponents pieces are removed.
piece can not land on the same square as an opponents piece.
pieces used in the game are chess pieces as follows:
1st row - 6 pawns as in chess.
2nd row - 2 knights,1 bishop,1 castle,2 pawns.
pieces's movement are governed the same as chess movements.except pawns can move 1 square or 2 in any direction.

of course number of pieces can be adjusted depending on board size decided on.

fencer,ty again for created the crowded backgammon idea I had.I have submitted a few ideas.I know you are really busy,but someday,would love some feedback on what you think..any of these original game ideas interesting¿
what can I say,the wheels just keep turning.bet you can smell the wood burning from there.

This is the position: http://www.brainking.com/game/ArchivedGame?g=68120&i=71
At this point, I tried to capture his pawn en'passant at c3, however I was only allowed to move my pawn on d3.

Oooops sorry harley, must get my eyes checked out again lol :) thanks for putting me straight. Well if there is plans to allow that my name is on top of the list lol :)

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wiktor256: En passant captures are allowed in Dark Chess. Maybe it is a bug, please give me the game ID and I will look at it.

Fencer, can you clarify dark chess rules about taking pawn en'passant. In one of my games, I suspected that my opponent moved his pawn, so I tried to take it en'passant. However that move wasn't allowed. Is that a "feature" or a bug?

wiktor256

I would like to thank Fencer for adding the new feature to allow us to know when the site will be down. It is a nice alternative to what I suggested. I saved it in my files for reference.

In case some of you have not noticed.. when you Log off site, it shows you logging out, when you log back in it shows you registering new account. I had someone check this for me out of curiousity.

Thanks Dakota Spring, I did write to them, but there was no response! which annoyed me a little... as I do have a membership there...and yes as far as the membership goes, i have no fault, I have some very good friends on there too... so I will be sorry to give up my membership there for that reason, but also some of my friends are non members!

yes Fencer its a great site, i joined in november, but didnt play a game till 3 weeeks ago! within a day of playing i had bought a membership! I was that convinced it was a good site now :)

chattytea: it may not mean much but my husband and I are on webtv. We signed up with IYT and they do not allow multiple accounts so my husband got the membership and then we wrote to them and then my account was working immediately...so I don't see why your daughter couldn't play...I agree with you on IYT...only 25 moves on there is not good but as for the membership I don't find it too bad. As much as I play here I'm glad you get unlimited moves especially for non members. Keep up the good work fencer :)

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TO THOSE WHO ENJOY BACKGAMMON:
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It was concerning to be attacked here and not able to respond. I think your solution to be fair.

TT, I've removed your message, and to be fair I've also removed the messge that upset you so much. Hope this is acceptable, if not, let me know in general chat and I'll explain further!

The person who created a new account had the first login in Dec 2002, should have been finished registrering by now i suppose LOL

Jenny Wren, it wasn't me suggested one fellowship allowed for a pawn, I just commented on it in a later message. It was just a suggestion put forward by BIGBADWOLF. As far as I know theres no plans to allow pawn members to join fellowships (yet!).

the problem you encountered was reported by many users ...
I'm not sure what happens to cast it ... I cAn use my 2nd ID
(granted to paying members even for playing unless in the same tourney)
without problems even from the same browser profile - onto that
a former girlfriend has her own profile on my puter and used it too,
until she left iyt a few months ago ... but as I enter the web in full
stealth-mode anyway, I'm probably not the average user to give advice ... :")

for me monitored boards are one of the main attractions at brainking ...

at the moment I'm playing so many tournaments, it would be almost
physically impossible to monkey around - don't see the sense anyway ... :Þ

about one year ago we used those additional IDs to create little
soap-operas on the boards - for harmless fun ... but meanwhile,
a lot of senseless background noise makes it almost futile, there.

thanks to Fencer and Harley it won't happen here !
Cheers ! :) ... ~*~

yes i realise it was since the power outage, as thats when i sent the mail, i did write via a members mail...and yes they did have a lot of mail sent then, as we all know they had so many problems then, which i respect. I am an honest player, have never set up another account, just to get ratings up!