https://brainking.com/en/Board?bc=158452 Jan 1 2014 Pente Tourney for 6month Rook! en https://brainking.com/en/print/Board?bc=158452&ngi=1170987 Brf: And it 'only' took me three more weeks to notice your reply. Are things slow in the Pente world or is it just me? Sun, 16 Aug 2015 22:14:15 CEST https://brainking.com/en/print/Board?bc=158452&ngi=1170831 Thad: Sorry haven't checked this one in awhile. Dein and Spavacz split it due to the tie. so 3 months rook membership for each of them. Tue, 21 Jul 2015 18:37:45 CEST https://brainking.com/en/print/Board?bc=158452&ngi=1169567 Who got the prize? Tue, 24 Feb 2015 20:52:27 CET https://brainking.com/en/print/Board?bc=158452&ngi=1163732 Brf: I don't think there's a fair way to have a finals in Pente here on BrainKing. That's nothing against you, it's the way Fencer has programmed this site. I love the Fischer clock, but I think allowing more extra time per move is the way to go (see my earlier post). Aloha! Fri, 28 Feb 2014 03:50:41 CET https://brainking.com/en/print/Board?bc=158452&ngi=1163718 zoeyk: Yeah I get not being one with the Fischer clock. I'm not a large fan myself but in this instance it worked like it was supposed to and I was able to get a quick tournament started and completed before March 17. I think it is useful for some tournaments but it is inconvenient when you have something unforeseen happen and need automatic vacation to cover your ass. Thad: I'm not sure why it chose not to default to another round to try and settle it. though with the parameters set to 3 wins match for a final round with 2 players. That'd make things tough, I'd prefer a final round of 4 or 5 at least. Add to that the fact any final round is on a Fischers timer so then dein and spavacz are tied to their computer on these games for quite some time with no vacation allowed. I thought someone would win the whole thing this time myself and was hoping for a fast tourney with no next round. it'd be nice to have a checkbox on tournament setup for "force tiebreaker" or something though. Thu, 27 Feb 2014 05:43:08 CET https://brainking.com/en/print/Board?bc=158452&ngi=1163711 I won't be signing up for tourneys in future that use these time settings.  Wed, 26 Feb 2014 21:34:50 CET https://brainking.com/en/print/Board?bc=158452&ngi=1163699 Lame that the rounds stopped. BrainKing tournaments need some work. Tue, 25 Feb 2014 23:33:58 CET https://brainking.com/en/print/Board?bc=158452&ngi=1163693 Good job, Dein, Spavacz. I'll have fencer split the prize between you. Zoey, had you tied them and we had a 3 way tie in one section, I believe it would've went to a round 4. but with only two players left the tourney called it finished. I'm glad those Fischer times were able to get this completed before March 17 too! that was close :) see you all in St Pats! Tue, 25 Feb 2014 15:39:50 CET https://brainking.com/en/print/Board?bc=158452&ngi=1163689 oh,.. i see there is no next round. congrats you two. Tue, 25 Feb 2014 07:19:36 CET https://brainking.com/en/print/Board?bc=158452&ngi=1163681 good luck dein and spav. have fun in round 4. thanks for the games all. Tue, 25 Feb 2014 04:58:40 CET https://brainking.com/en/print/Board?bc=158452&ngi=1163208 What a great-looking Final Four. Wish I could be in there with you, but I'll at least be watching from the sidelines. Good luck everyone. -Aleph_1 Sun, 09 Feb 2014 18:15:55 CET https://brainking.com/en/print/Board?bc=158452&ngi=1162987 Well, I did my best but still managed to post a goose egg. Tue, 04 Feb 2014 00:41:20 CET https://brainking.com/en/print/Board?bc=158452&ngi=1162914 ah, sorry we couldn't complete our games. we can play them out sometime if you like. Sun, 02 Feb 2014 18:11:22 CET https://brainking.com/en/print/Board?bc=158452&ngi=1162903 Sorry to have to drop out, everyone. I'm unexpectedly travelling right now and won't be able to keep up with the time controls. -Aleph_1 Sun, 02 Feb 2014 14:33:06 CET https://brainking.com/en/print/Board?bc=158452&ngi=1162874 I am having to move from my cell phone from work without study time on my laptop. No big deal, but the depth of my moves may be less. I'm just eye balling things at surface level. Sat, 01 Feb 2014 19:47:11 CET https://brainking.com/en/print/Board?bc=158452&ngi=1162871 For future tournaments, I would recommend a longer bonus time. I usually set the bonus for 1 day & 4 hours. That way, if you move on Monday at lunchtime, for example, you know that, even if your opponent moves almost immediately, you've still got until the same time the next day to make your next move. I'm having some time issues with the current settings. Sat, 01 Feb 2014 18:30:58 CET https://brainking.com/en/print/Board?bc=158452&ngi=1162822 zoeyk: Well I mentioned it in the tournament description Here but essentially I chose to use a Fischers clock to speed the tourmament up so as to end by the St Pats tourney. The Fischers clock has 3 settings Initial time on the timer to start with...here 5 days, Bonus time awarded (if any) for moves made....here I chose 8 hours...so for example 3 moves would net you 1 more day on your "clock". The Final setting is total bankable time (a stretch goal for sure) but I set a 10 day max time allowed (move bonuses would not be awarded for over 10 days left on your timer). Remember also that the time you have listed is all the time you have to play the entire game, with the addition of 8 hour per move bonuses of course. the format you usually see in the tourney looks like this: (Time control (?): Time: 5 days, Bonus: 8 hours, Limit: 10 days, no days off) or in other areas the shorter version 5/8.0/10 [ time given @ start / move bonus / Max Time allowed ] sorry if you thought vacation was an option here...the whole point was a fast turn-based to end all rounds by March 17th....which I think is doable and with the move bonus you could've stored up quite a few days past the initial 5 days to get you out of a tough spot later. That was my theory anyway. Wed, 29 Jan 2014 04:28:43 CET https://brainking.com/en/print/Board?bc=158452&ngi=1162811 brf, to be honest i have no idea how all these timer settings here work. im absolutely baffled and lost on that info. and i fear as a result i may time out by not understanding it. can you give me a 101 crash course for dummies in regards to said settings? thanks. Tue, 28 Jan 2014 09:13:57 CET https://brainking.com/en/print/Board?bc=158452&ngi=1162643 Well it looks like Round 2 is imminent, so congrats to all of you that made it and for doing it in what looks to be record time. Since we ended up getting more people than I thought and there are 6 sections that is going to make things interesting since I have 5 players per section set up. I'm pretty sure you all won't be playing together in Round 2, likely it'll be something like two '3 player' sections or somesuch. with the winner(s) of round 2 advancing to round 3. if I do this again at some point down the road I could set it up as 6 players per section? but then there would be 42 players or something no doubt :D what does everyone else think? leave it as 5? increase to 6? Mon, 20 Jan 2014 18:15:02 CET https://brainking.com/en/print/Board?bc=158452&ngi=1162632 Looks like I will be the lowest ranked survivor into Round 2. Bring on the slaughter! ;-) Mon, 20 Jan 2014 08:47:10 CET