thank you Bob.:))

I have a Chess tournament waiting for sign ups by invite.
If you want to join up, request an invite from me.
< href=?/game/Tournaments?trg=2865&trnst=0>Checkmate #1 Tournament</>

Have fun,
Ustica

I hope we do. The chances of everyone winning something are 1 in 5. Can't beat them odds.

Its on everyones main page, so all have seen it that visit the site. 9000 players have been here in the past, but not that many use the site now. I would also presume that most pawns who will not pay for membership, will not pay to join a tourny. So I get the feeling you will not get many more join :o(

Only about 2,000 active players

See, 2.9% of the active users signed up - better then 0.6% if you use the number of 9,000! :-)

Sorry Lythande

I don't know about that Steve over 9000 people here and 58 signed up. Not real good.

*nods* :)

I am sure its on enough boards etc for everyone to know about it LOL
I guess Lythande meant a link direct to the tourny

That would be up to Fencer. He is working on puting a link about more prizes on the server though so everyone will know.

It would also help if everyone told someone else about the tourney in your games. Make sure they know.

<Hey Linda, in these adverts for the BKFRPT, can you start linkinging somewhere to the sign-up page? Might get more folks there that way. :>

In answer to BBW's question.

If you are a paid member and win a tournament section it will go to the pawn of your chose.
Your chances to win in this tournament couldn't be greater please enter. ;•) Here

The more people who enter, the more sections we have. More sections = more winners!!!

If you are already a paid member and win a section, can we use the 6 month brain knight membership and give it to a pawn of our choice?

I have some great news. MORE PRIZES
Each section winner will receive a 6 month brain knight membership. This applies only to pawns.
Your chances to win are great. Please enter.;•)
As we say in my area the pot just got sweeter.

*Note* If you are a pawn or a knight you can still enter this tournament even if you are already in a tournament.

A tourney for the non expert Checkers players to have a chance to win :o)
Steveie's quick Checkers under 1600 BKR

Have fun and enjoy the games :o)
Steve

Congratulations to sarok for winning the Reversi 6x6 competition in the Brotherly Love (Beginners) tournament!

Congratulations to alesh for winning Round 1 Section 1 of Backgammon in the Brotherly Love (Beginners) tournament! :)

Helping Brainking Tourney
Stevie's Dollar Donation per player Reversi

Hi all, for every player who enters this tourney ,I will donate 1 dollar to Brainking. So more pawns and Knights can join in, I have set 1 game each and max 5 slots needed (means 2 games each colour too). If less than 15 players, I will donate 2 Dollars per player. Have fun and enjoy the games :o)

Would be nice if I could find 1 or more players who are willing to donate the same amount, to double or treble the money etc :o)

Back by popular demand

ALL games for dummies (under 1500 & unrated)

This is the best place to try out games which you may not normally play, or play when you know the "experts" are not going to beat you after 4 moves!

NOTE: If anyone has a rating WAY over 1500 by the time the tournament starts, I will remove them. PLEASE DO NOT join if you are really good at a game, there are plenty of other tournaments set up just for you!

Good Luck to all!

If you are a knight or a pawn and do not have room to enter this tournament and would like to pm me with your nic & Id # We will get you in. Thanks ;•)

I was thinking about setting up a simple ladder for the BK reversi players similar to the GT ones, one ladder per variation.
If you are interested, please let me know in one way or another.
It would be set up on my website and accesable from BK. But the games would have to started manually etc.

Steve

Congrats to RAHVIN666 for winning the Spider Line4 CHAMPIONSHIP Invitational (1-10) - which the winners of the #1-10 of the "Fast Start" tournaments competed!

(There are still a few games to finish in the tournament, but RAHVIN666 has already placed himself as the winner. Congrats!)

So there is Niki LOL I see Egzot only has 1 now. Maybe Longjohn needs to delete one, but then it may delete both. So I reckon LJ needs to get in touch with Fencer :o)

Bernice has some quite valid points. I don't know all the answers but I can try!

Would he be expected to refund if this was the only money forthcoming???

No, mainly because I hope its not the only money forthcoming! We need to keep on and on until the amount is raised for a new server.

Secondly.....are people giving Fencer the money they have pledged already??

I have no idea. Theres still a link for the 'get a better server' on the 'temporarily out of service' page you sometimes see when BK is down. Some people choose to upgrade a friend, and donate that way. Linda has ideas about collecting the money for her tournament - once she has enough people. Other people hold tournaments with a membership as a prize. And I guess some would just send in what they can. Its all donating.

I have read where "So and So" will donate $40 if the sun dont set etc....
ok....assume it hasnt set....has the $40 been paid...we have to look at this realistically(sp)

I guess that would be between the person pledging the money and Fencer.

This isnt a hypothetical situation...for Fencer it is real, for the rest of us it is playing with people who in most cases will never meet and will never have any contact with apart from the internet

Its real enough to me. I may never get to meet half of you, but I feel I know you as well (maybe better in some cases) than I know people I mix with daily. I can't see you or touch you, but you are just as much my friends as anyone in my 'real' life. Some may think that is sad, I like to think of it as an online community. My home inside my home. I would be disappointed if I couldn't get online to 'speak' to you all each day. It wouldn't seem the same at any other site. BrainKing is special. I feel it every time I log on, and it never changes no matter what is happening on the surface. Fencer has built a site like no other, and I for one will work my socks off to keep it online.

The 2 latest tournaments to sign for appear to have duplicated themselves.. LJ's backgammon, and Egzot's atomic chess... I just wanted someone to be aware :)

ok maybe we should here it from the big man himself ... maybe there are lots of people like bernice out there who would like to know ..... now if we all sent fencer a message he would have no time to do anything thing else .

ps fencer did make one remark on bk .com then said he would explain more ...but nothing yet

*shakes my head*
Bernice had you taken your own advice and asked Fencer you would know.

OK...i am bound to get a few ANTI- Bernice posts on this....but has anybody ASKED Fencer exactly what he wants?

Ask him what he is going to do with the small amounts of money he is going to be getting (maybe)
ask him EXACTLY, what he wants.....stop assuming, stop thinking thru his mind...just let the man get on with building the site up.
Ask him....what would he do with $450....ask him for gods sake....stop sending useless donations... 100 people X $5 in a tournament.....how long would this take to eventuate...the thought is good the final result could be a long way down the track......
either put your money up....or shut up and let Fencer get on with it....only my opinion

I can appreciate and understand what Linda is doing with her tournament to raise money...the question I ask is.....
If this IS the ONLY money raised... $450 for Fencer....what will he do with $450 when that is only a 10th of what he needs....do we go back to trying to raise another $3500, and go through all this explaining etc etc again???

***Edit*** the reasons I ask is...what would he (Fencer) do with $450...it isnt even a deposit.

Would he be expected to refund if this was the only money forthcoming???

Secondly.....are people giving Fencer the money they have pledged already??

I have read where "So and So" will donate $40 if the sun dont set etc....
ok....assume it hasnt set....has the $40 been paid...we have to look at this realistically(sp)

This isnt a hypothetical situation...for Fencer it is real, for the rest of us it is playing with people who in most cases will never meet and will never have any contact with apart from the internet

Of course I'm afraid of cats - they see the BIG BAD WOLF, and they think I'm a piece of furniture or something so they use me as a scratching post!

Hum... I think i'm getting off topic again.

To stay on topic - JOIN ONE OF MY TOURNAMENTS! :-)

I'll accept that challenge! (That is to stay away from them)

I'm entering very few new tournament, especially 1 day tournaments! :-)

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BTW, sorry to go off topic all, Just trying to help out another member :)

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LMAO, ok you got it now.

hummm, try <"a href=http://www.afl.com.au>Footy</a"> without the "

don't forget the a in a href, and then </a"> (without the ") at the end

for an external URL, just paste the whole link behind href=

You got it. Happy linking.

Tomorrows lesson, BOLD LETTERS

Just put the link in the middle of a href= and <"/a> (again without the ", I need that to show you because it will not show without it). When you copy and past link:

i.e. http://www.brainking.com/game/Board?bc=45

remove everything before /game because some people use different methods ( http://www.brainking.com, www.brainking.com, brainking.com, newbrainking, etc) to get in, removeing that part will allow everyone to use your link.

to make a link (I'll use your tournament for example)

<a "href=/game/Tournaments?trg=2751&trnst=0>Go Here<"/a>

Just remove the "

Let me help you with that link

Go Here

Once we get enough people interested we can give out more info on how to pay by pay-pal fees are charged. We first have to see an interest. :•)

How will you accept fee? Ithought it had to be over certain amount due to admin fees etc on paypal and so on. Or am I getting confused with something else Fencer was on about?

BTW I am not whinging, I have signed up :o)
and ideas only come from talking about it

BK Fund Raiser
Instead of talking about it all day, we're doing something to raise money. We are trying to set up a prize tournament to raise money for BK. The tournament will be backgammon with an entrance fee of $5 with all proceeds going to BK. The prize will be $50 to the winner. Get a chance at $50 and help BK all in one. You will be asked to pay the fee of $5 once we know we have enough interested players. All entrance fees will have to be collected before the tournament can begin.
In order for this to work well we are hoping for at least 100 entrants which would be $500
$450 would go to BK and $50 to the winner. Please only serious entrees please. If you sign up for this tournament we will take it that you will be willing to pay the fee.

You can sign up for this tournament
Here

If you do not play backgammon and would like to donate please send me a pm. Thanks :•)

Yea I did ask it before, but it got "buried" without an answer - and the pawn in question has been watching this board for an answer. The pawn has already found 5 free slots, but just in case trying to find 2 more if needed.

So I figured I would repost it in case Fencer missed the first post. :-)

BBW: Yes, exactly.

Have you asked this in the last couple of days BBW?