tarcellius: Yes, the many options of tournaments can be both a good & bad thing. The bad, which you already pointed out is it is there are many many choices.

The good is that you can almost always find a tournament which will fit your needs. (And if you did not know, paying members of rooks & above are able to create any new tournaments.)

For a pawn with limits, you are limited to 1 tournament at a time - so you may want to look for tournaments with lower time limits, or tournaments that do not let players take vacation days (tournaments with red or green dots). If you get in a tournament where another player takes A LONG time making moves, you will be stuck in the tournament and unable to join another tournament.

Also there are different time limits like the Fisher clock games - where the important thing to know is the "BONUS" time - the bonus time will ALWAYS be at least the minimum time you have to make a move. So if a bonus is .1, it can cause your games to time out. But if you know you will sign in at least once a day, then a bonus of 1 (day) will always allow you time to make moves without timing out.

So for a new users, the best would be to go to the tournament page, search (filter) for the game you want to play - then find a tournament which will start some-what soon that has time limits which fit your need and give it a try.

There are also many discussion boards that cover all the games, and many different topics (like a touraments board) which will always get you answers to your questions.

Hrqls: yep! :)

Matarilevich: Thanks for the welcome message and the help. I was able figure out a few things with pauloaguia's help. My remaining confusion lies with the available tournaments. So many options! Is there not a standard "September" tournament or the like? Why so many competing tournaments on the same site? How should I decide which to play?

Matarilevich: your allowed to play one stairs as normal member

tarcellius: Welcome to BrainKing! I´ll try to help you.
Stairs is only for paid memberships.
As free user (Brain Pawn) you have a limit of 20 games at the same time. The limit of the tournaments is one for you.
You can accept a game in the section "Waiting games" or you can put your own game in the section "New game"
For getting a rating you need to finish 4 games of one type, at least.
Read the FAQ section, you´ll find an interesting information there.

tarcellius: Welcome to the site. I just sent you a private message with some pointers. Answer back if you have any doubts.

I'm new to this site and would like some kind of "getting started" page. This site is bewildering with its complexity of options. I have no idea where to begin and I can't seem to find any pointers (at least not in twenty minutes of looking).

I'd like to play pente, in the ladder (stair) or tournaments, and to get a ranking. But there are so many different options I can't tell what counts for what, etc. Any help?

shouldn't this button work for team tournaments and stairs as well? right now, if i use it in a stairs or a team tournament game, it takes me to the next game thats not part of a tournament.

Hrqls: Wie Wie. lol

King Reza: thanks i did, but now please dont clutter this board with posts about french posts ;)

Hrqls:Excellent.  Well done to whoever deleted that last post!  

Marfitalu: if i get any i will consult with fencer to give you 40% of it .. or do you want more ? (your help was worth more, but lets bargain ;))

(in pm :))

Hrqls: merci :)

Andersp: busy on it :)

Marfitalu: I suppose a moderator could stop her

gene: Il y a un forum pour les jouers francophones: BrainKing.fr :
http://brainking.com/nl/Board?bc=88


autre messages en francais en cette board seront efface

(or something like that: other french messages will be deleted)

for not Czech:I think she don´t understand

myslím,že nerozumí

imsoaddicted:  I don't think he understands that! 

gene: Rene this is a English board

gambler104:

je lis pas l anglais ni ecris desole

gene: English only please.

j ai par conpris le debut de ta phase escuse

gene: Vos plus que la bienvenue

je m escuse je remercier pauloaguia et bouncybouncy pour la reponse

: Lol, Aye, well done for that, BBW. You did a good bit of investigation for that bug report.

I can not answer your pm as you have me on block for some unknown reason

aiki kiki:

King Reza: lol

I wrote to him to explain to him

gene: Il y a un forum pour les jouers francophones: BrainKing.fr.

bouncybouncy:Ah, there is my favorite language again!  

gene: Vous avez jugé le conseil brainking pour les utilisateurs français.

ESCUSE MOI JE COMPRENT PAS ANGLAIS J ESPERE QUE CA VOUS PAS PEUR DE DISCUTE QUANT MEME MERCI

JE APPELE GENE JE VOUDRAIS DISCUTE DES JEUX OU DU BEAU TEMPS J ESPERE QUE JE VOUS EMBETE PAS JE SUIS FRENCH

playBunny: I knew I sat down once and figured out what all the differences in the win totals were - glad you remembered where I wrote it all down at.

playBunny: thanks for that very useful

imsoaddicted: Perhaps this will be informative? - http://brainking.com/en/ReadBug?bgi=892

play a game i;ll play, no chess

its funny if the other person isn't in to going any where.

nightmagic: if they are ok. go around them and we can.

they are linked. but maybe

Hrqls:may be! maybe not

nightmagic: i think thats what causes it .. pedro martinez has quite a lot of ponds won and the difference between the tournament wins on his profile and on the winners page is quite big as well :)

nightmagic: HEY! for all the points you all are going after>>>>>>>> don't forget your games>>>>>>>>>

no matter who won that person ???? if they won or lost/ crazy to me, i know who i beet and hwo i lost to. is he into all those points he can/t remember? lol

imsoaddicted: could be! (i guess thats it if you have exactly 1 pond win. have to check other players with more than 1 pond win to compare :))

Hrqls: did i bet u? if i ddid no show, but cool. ? :) I see you bet even yourself.....

Hrqls: unless it includes a pond win on my main page and not on the winners page