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There's something I really detest: You get a winning position against an opponent, you know you won, he knows you won, and instead of pressing the resign link he lets the time run out. Now that's asocial behaviour!
alanback:Massacre Chess has this clear advantage that there are no "empty", endless moves ... you either capture or say goodbye ... however, everything can change in the last several moves when situation on the board looks badly ... so, play till the end ...
tfra11:I would say also that there is a difference between quitting and acknowledging the inevitable. In backgammon in particular, I will resign only when I have no mathematical possibility of winning. To resign earlier would be quitting.
I would go so far as to say that in other games, such as chess, you should resign a clearly lost position because to play on implies you don't think your opponent has the ability to play out the clear win. Of course, the question whether a game is "clearly lost" requires some realistic evaluation of the opponent's ability.
I resign a game that I too know Im going to lose so I don't waste time.. Isn't it still an achievement for the winner if I resign? I thought it was. it is still a win for them
tfra11: You want me to drag on a lost game for god knows how long, on the off chance that my opponent may get an archievement? Get real. If that's going to be the effect of archievements, I hope they'll disappear as soon as possible.
I play for as long as I think there's a realistic chance of archieving a result other than a loss. Otherwise, I resign. I'm here for the game play, not for pushing buttons or archievements.
tfra11: I consider it very poor etiquette to continue in a game that has obviously been won by the other player.Besides,as a pawn with only 20 games to play at once wouldn't you be annoyed if a player waited until the last minute to play a pointless move in a game they could not win?
tfra11:It is good manners to resign a hopelessly lost game. You've done all you can do to win at that point, and the rest of the game is just meaningless dice rolls. There are many people who are annoyed at players who drag lost games out just for the sake of postponing the loss.
I love the site and the fact that you can make unlimited moves. The only downside seems to be the amount of people on the site that won't finish a game when they know they have lost. I'd like to earn the achievements and you can't do that when people always resign the game on you. Please just finish it out, who knows, maybe they'll timeout on you and you'll win the game.
I want to let all BrainKing users know that they are entitled to a free membership in the World Camelot Federation.
The WCF is an international non-profit organization that is dedicated to the preservation, popularization, and play of Camelot, one of the finest abstract strategy board games ever invented.
As most of you probably know, both Camelot and its variant Cam are played on BrainKing.
There are currently 197 WCF members, spread throughout 14 different countries. The organization is an informal network of individuals interested in any and all aspects of the game and its variants: Cam, Camette, Chivalry, Grand Camelot, and Grand Cam.
Membership comes with no requirement on your part. Membership entitles you to a couple of things. You will receive an occasional informational email from me regarding subjects like Camelot computer programs, rules questions, editions of sets, legal issues, games, problems, etc.
Additionally, you will automatically receive an invitation to play in the next WCF Camelot World Championship (email) Tournament. One just concluded two weeks ago.
I hope you take advantage of this chance to learn more about Camelot.
DeaD man WalkiN: My condolences ... the only thing that comes to my mind now is: life has no opposites and down, deep inside we live forever ... what dies is only our physical body, our immortal body of soul moves from area of mind to another ... what looks like death is not death at all ... it's illusion caused by our attachement to the external manifestation of the universal mind ... think about your grandson as still existing in simple another realm ... and you will meet him one day ... hope it helps you ... I am with you,
Bluefin: If you selected a 2 game match, the second game will start after the first is finished and will automatically alternate the second game to the other color
Bluefin: If you choose 12 games with alternate colours, the server will create 12 separate games, 6 with white and 6 with black. If you choose 2 games, it will create one of each.
If you want a match against a single opponent that consists of several games in a row, choose the 4th option (the one just above the chat box).
Bluefin: Depends on what you're trying to accomplish. Maybe the option you want is to have a match with 2 games? (As opposed to a single game match, the default option). The check box you mention is for when you create multiple games/matches to have them start in alternating colors (so, if you create 8 games, 4 will start and white and 4 will start as black).
When I post a game of chess and select the box for alternate colors, I only get 1 game of the color selected, or 2 single games. what am I doing wrong?
Shogi Database Software is available from this site. http://superheroshogi.blogspot.com/. It uses KIF format. I don't know about psn. The interface is in Japanese but uses mostly kana. talen314
AbigailII:sorry, I made mistake ... what I meant was: if there is no move during 30 days period game should terminate ... I can't imagine playing one move a month using internet ... my move would go even faster thru Atlantic to Europe using kayak ...
ChessVariant: 30 days should be absolute maximum for a game
Well, that may work if you play most of your games against your buddies at school, who are available to play for about the same hours as you do. But on a global site as BK, any game that moves faster than 1 move/day is a bonus. Even if you spend 12 hours a day, from 9 AM to 9 PM monitoring your game list, moving within a minute if you have games to play, and your opponent also spends 12 hours a day doing the same, there's still no guarantee the game moves faster than once a day. People live in different timezones, and play during different times a day. Some people only play from the office - others do actual work and only play from home.
Roberto Silva:the main page it says there are 9 players on the tournament, but I only count 8.
I wonder if that is the crux of this problem? Maybe someone had signed up and then removed themselves, or been removed by the creator just before the start, or something like that?
ChessVariant:sorry to interfere .. my suggestion is to do as i do now .. i sign ONLY for tourneis with no vacation allowed, tourney with the fisher clock or with 2 or 3 days max per move i have tourney on from 3 yrs ago ......pple dont move quick so i had to change the way to play only fast tourneis including pond
Babe68:I am not an expert in all those vacation/time for move/time for game issues ... but you are right it has to change ... I was once playing chess on another site, than quit playing my games, came back to the same site after several months and my time was still ticking and the other guy was (at least I think so) waiting for my move ... it's idiotic ... I am playing now backgammon and my opponent moves every second day ... my question is ... what is the pleasure of playing such a dynamic game for weeks or months ? I understand it's turn based site but common, 30 days should be absolute maximum for a game ... after 30 days it should be over ... if you are traveling constantly and have no time to make 1 move in a week than please do not join a game ... start collecting stamps or something ... they can wait ... Andy.
I have about 25 different tournament games with ONE person that NEVER moves our games. The time just keeps rolling over and over. They never time out. He never moves. Will they ever end??? lol
Is there anything that can be done? It seems like such a waste of game space, and surely they are holding up the tourneys!!!
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MadMonkey: It still says "Waiting", yet the games have strated already. Also, on the main page it says there are 9 players on the tournament, but I only count 8.
Should we start making a list of all the problems this tournament has?
MadMonkey: I would guess it goes along with that same bug - something in the code where it created the tournament probable got messed up (which explains the wrong number of player slots), and probable did not get to the point of changing waiting to running or something. So since that is with one of the "buggy" tournaments, I wouldn't worry about it yet.