grenv:
I don't think this is a solution because the "spirit"of tournaments is to have a winner. i think that paying members should self restrict their games to a number they are capable of playing.I've met with players having 1000+ games going on. I don't blame them,they want to have alot of games to play.That's their problem.But when it comes to having timed out 2 or three times,then they should understand that they have to lower down the number of games going on...

alanback: I'm still playing in a tournament that started October 2005!!!! It's called "the first doubling cube tournament" or something like that.

I think tournaments probably should blow up after a year and running games continue on as "friendly's" on the assumption that nobody cares about the result any more.
:)

alanback:
I got stuck to similar situations before. Some players are really slow on playing, and for this reason, I play only elimination tournaments now...

Just finished a tournament that started in December, 2005!

7 Points BackGammon > 2100 1/4

I count that you have bore off 11 and have 4 left to bear off

Fencer: Exactly. Thanks for understanding.
Anyway, I'll take alanback's advice and just take it easy.

AlliumCepa: I think Pedro's point is that spirit_66 suggests that all Romanian players are cheaters (which is how it really sounds like it). And such remarks should not be posted anywhere.

Pedro Martínez:Children, children, ... play nice.

AlliumCepa: ME jumping to general conclusions? ME being insulting? LOL You are either kidding me or there must be a few brain cells missing inside your skull.

Pedro Martínez: Do not jump into such general conclusions - it's insulting. You don't know all Bulgarians, neither all Romanians. It's like the statement that "All black people are criminals."

AlliumCepa: Bulgarians are no better than Romanians.

Pedro Martínez: If you don't believe, check those two players: Iana Florin and Iana Florin 1. He told me himself these two accounts are his.

spirit_66:

Pedro Martínez:
YES!!!!

spirit_66: Are you trying to tell us that people from Romania are cheat(er)s

paully:

Look where he's (Marian_colonelu) from I know him as a cheater.

Marian_colonelu has been offering a draw in a few of our games to avoid losing. Beware of this.

nabla: actually I had nowhere to stay in Calgary so I planned to creep out of town and park é sleep in a truck stop but I missed every one of them so just kept going.

paully: That's odd, you make it sound a bit like you are bragging about driving while drunk

AlliumCepa: its not a long journey for those who love driving.
I drove right through from Winnipeg to VCancouver a few months ago, only stopping in Calgary for a few hours to get drunk !!!!!!!!!

Pedro Martínez: Correct. Yes, it is.

AlliumCepa: But Winnipeg is in Manitoba, isn't it? Or is 750 miles "close enough to travel"?

paully: Count me in! I am a "Wild Rose Country" resident

Hi all,
I am looking to start a backgammon club for any users here that live in Winnipeg
Currently the only players I know in Winnipeg are
Myself paully and
pops635

If anyone else is living in Winnipeg and would like to start a club with me, let me know by PM

Also if you do not live in Winnipeg but are close enough to travel, feel free to also respond

Thanks

You can also join my fellowship
Winnipeg Backgammon

Pedro Martínez: i messaged fencer and he fixed it up. They no longer have their ladder positions

Pedro Martínez:

That's a damn cheating!!!! What other will you expect from the eastern mafia????

playBunny: My guess: "Noddy". Will check that in a dictionary.

Pedro Martínez: What's "Dumb" in Estonian?

What do you think about this:
http://brainking.com/cz/ArchivedGameList?u=74454&op=73476&tp=23

All games between these two won by NODDY, resigned by PVAHT. NODDY is the current leader of the backgammon ranking, BKR 2797.

wetware: thanks so much for all your help with that Gerard. It was much appreciated and always good to see someone going out of their way to help others

paully and others interested in MATfixer:

Those old links seem to have been corrupted.  This ought to work:  http://toedder.net/bk/matfixer.zip

Gordon Shumway: the link wont work for me?

I limited the joining this time to allow no pawns.
Any pawns who wish to play me please feel free to send an invite

Thanks

719 moves -> AntyTryktrak (aaru vs. Lu-Tze)

paully:
They should kicked out all!!! Damn cheater!!!

kocmoc should have all wins stripped from him.
he is possibly a multi nick with WildBoy or even if not, there is considerable cheating to attain the rating in Hyper Backgammon that he has
kocmoc's profile even shows he is wild boy as his profile reads as such
"kocmoc (wild boy)"

Here are some examples of cheating

1. He has played 18 games against WildBoy and won every one of them. This is virtually impossible.

2. Here is an example of an intentional bad move to allow his kocmoc ID to win the game
Hyper Backgammon (kocmoc vs. WildBoy)
With black clearly losing, black chooses not to hit with the 18 to 14 move a no brainer

3. Here is another example of an intentional bad move to allow his kocmoc ID to win the game
Hyper Backgammon (WildBoy vs. kocmoc)
The dice 5-4 should have been used to go from the 2 point to the 11 point sending black to the bar.
Instead, WildBoy opts to set his own pieces up for black to take them

This is blatant obvious multi nick cheating that should lead to kocmoc getting all his ratings stripped from him and any multi nicks banned from the site.

This message has also been sent in a pm to Fencer for his use.

paully:
Thanks

Marian_colonelu has a number of times offered a draw in matches where I am about to win.
I know this is not exactly cheating, but some players clicking quickly may not notice and then accept
Please beware of this type of behaviour

Please sign up -> 1500 ;), 10000 :D, 1600 ;) (single elimination for 8, Fisher's clock 3/0.8/15 with autopass & immediately start)
More informations about Fischer's clock on BrainKing & BrainRook

Grasshopper - I need 2 players more
&
Grasshopper - 4
& other games

paully: I can't explain that.  It works for me on either firefox 3.0.3 or IE 7.0.5730.11.
I know Chrome is not supported at this time.

wetware: I tried to load that url on firefox 3 IE7 and also google chrome and none of them worked?

I like this tool.  GABBI is--according to their web page--"...a free web utility that allows you to create and save a backgammon board
diagram. You can create the board manually and/or import/export to or from gnubg."

GABBI--Generate A Backgammon Board Interactively

Nice for creating board positions from my crazy games that I can then paste into emails for my pals!

(If you've got your own favorite utilities, please let me know.)

playBunny:You might add that backgammon without the cube is an integral part of backgammon with the cube, since most matches include a Crawford game and other cube-dead situations.

grenv: Then I think that your analogy is both too strong and too weak. It's too strong because Chess without the king is not Chess whereas any gammon game without the cube is still the same gammon game. The scoring changes, as well as a touch of tactics, but not the game itself.

On the other hand, the cube/king analogy is too weak. If you said. referring to the game of Grasshopper itself, "Shall we play Chess where all the pieces are the same, get placed on the board one after the starting with an empty board, and where the pieces must start in the centre and each piece must touch another, and whereby placing any piece which forms lines of opponent pieces which are "bracketed" by that piece and another of the player's get turned into pieces for that player?" then you'd be about right in matching Grasshopper to Backgammon.

Or putting it a different way, if the board was unrolled so that it was flat and went in only one direction and the quadrant boundaries were drawn as hedges and the peices were turned into frogs then Grasshopper could be called Froghopper and nobody would think that it was derived from Backgammon any more than Reversi is derived from Chess.

playBunny: yep

grenv: Shall we play chess without a king next?

Are you referring to Grasshopper being without the cube?

aaru: Shall we play chess without a king next?

alanback:
Please sign up -> 8000 :D & 1200 ;) (single elimination for 8, Fisher's clock 3/0.8/15 with autopass & immediately start) WITHOUT CUBE (for this moment Grasshopper is only without cube)
More informations about Fischer's clock on BrainKing & BrainRook

Grasshopper - 2
&
Grasshopper - 2

aaru:I have no idea what all that means.  Give me plain old backgammon with a cube :-)

Please sign up -> 8000 :D & 1200 ;) (single elimination for 8, Fisher's clock 3/0.8/15 with autopass & immediately start)
More informations about Fischer's clock on BrainKing & BrainRook

Grasshopper - I need 3 players more

&

Grasshopper - I need 4 players more