Carnie: I agree Brainking is a superb site. Its not about the site, its the people. GT can be hard to navigate. I hated it at first but the energy among the players is bountiful. Most of the players I play daily at GT are current BK players or past players. I like it for the card games and cribbage and the variants of hangman.

Carnie: things are stagnant here. No new games, no new faces, no new challenges. The people that I knew here are gone. Brainking has almost come to a complete stop. 

Carnie: I am on GT now as well (been there a week), but I wouldn't say I have moved there (They have Cribbage, and love that game lol)

By design, Brainking is by far a superior site (in my opinion), all options are on your left or right, and there are many options in your settings for changing things the way you want them to be. Goldtoken is just a mess, that needs a re-design, but it does what its there for, you play games, can have a chat, and it has lots of games brainking does not.

Sadly since Liquid left and Fencer lost interest brainking has lost its appeal. As Marshmud says, some things have got out of control, and only Fencer has the power to sort these things out. So if he is not about or doesn't have time they just go unchecked, people get fed up, and leave.......

There are things that I am sure wouldn't take too much to sort out or put right here, but we have had no new features or games to keep the interest going, BUT these things take time, and I suppose the interest in the first place to do it, and as Fencer said a few years back he has neither of these now......and pursues other interests.

It is his site, and if it falls apart no one but him can do anything about it.....a bit like having your car, if you do not keep it healthy and looked after, it to will fall apart.

It is a shame, and if Fencer was to show an interest again, I, for one, would be the first to get behind him

Living in hope.....

p.s. And if you do feel the urge Fencer, could we have a Like button for posts please, or a thumbs up / down, that would be cool

Carnie: I too have moved to GT. I'm here for my 20 years of play and the friends I made. In fact clandey, BGBedlam, Beach and I have a club called the BK gang, and we offer free two month memberships for free to new members. So if you want to check it out for 2 months, ask any of us. At BK I only help keep the team games going, but as support dwindles down that wont be in operation soon. No more Ponds. The tournament board spammed, now porn spam, no fun here, but my friends are priceless at BK except for Geomomo.

Bernice: I’m a 2003 but starting to wind things down here and move over to GT. 

Bernice: Have no fear, I am still here

OMG...I was just wondering how many are paying customers from all the real oldies that started and registered up till end of 2002....I looked at the first 30 pages and there wouldnt be a dozen that are stil paid up members.....

Bernice:

Very oblivable. Thank you.

CONGRATS on attaining your age to retire from games...you will be missed by all

seldom:

Finally Seldom is seen :) May your chaos be only slightly manageable :)

I would like to thank "whathefuh4", (Mary Lou and Natasha), for the kind words. It certainly has been a pleasure playing with such wonderful people --- but the time has come to hang up the old finger. Time to hit the road. Take off the old cleats. Find a new strawberry patch; but while you can lead a horse to water, you can't make him lie on his back and float. So I'm almost just going to say it certainly has been a pleasure playing with such wonderful people.

Been thinking about playing left-handed under a different pseudonym. Something like "gazortinplatt" or something like that. ~~~say no more~~~ "Live long and prosper"

Your friend,

seldom

Fencer: That was kool!

Fencer: good stuff

MadMonkey: LOL! I thoroughly enjoyed the queen's gambit and loved the main character, such brilliant actress.

Dice Cheater: Yeah sorry, I binged watched them all in one day, so it just seems like a film

MadMonkey: Are you talking about the Netflix mini-series? I didn't know they'd made a film

MadMonkey: I was fascinated by that kid....he was absolutely unbelievable

Bernice: I watched it a couple of weeks ago, loved it, great film, though maybe predictable

I did see something on YouTube as well, where they interviewed World Champion Magnus Carlsen (and other Chess Masters) about the film, and the games played in it. That was very interesting

Fencer: Fencer....seeing as you love chess....I loved movie on NETFLIX called QUEENS GAMBIT....I used to play chess very badly hahaha years ago but I loved this movie.

YOu may also be able to get it on You Tube...I dont know

Papa Zoom: Thank you! There is more on Facebook or YouTube. Updated daily.

Fencer: as a former avid chess player, I very much like it. The speed was perfect as it allowed time for quick analysis yet kept the game moving.

__chess__: I prefer my own solution, which is also fully automated - just input the game IDs and let the engine do the rest. By the way, if I had the same attitude (there are other game sites, why to create a new one?) 19 years ago, this site would not exist.

Furthermore, this is just a PoC (proof of concept) and there are endless possibilities to improve the former idea.

Fencer: Of course all this is unnecessary. just use xboard to play the game and any screen capture tool that can create videos.

SL-Mark:

Fencer: Captured pieces ... Sweet.
Your highlighting the move squares and red check lines is a nice touch.

I agree. :)

ughaibu:

Okay, the FINAL final version (notation added below the board). I will stop spamming here. Thanks everyone who sent me their feedback, much appreciated.

https://youtu.be/_NVECmY1gl0

ughaibu: it sure is

This is nice, Fencer talking about the future of BrainKing.

Fencer: Captured pieces ... Sweet.
Your highlighting the move squares and red check lines is nice touch.

MadMonkey: Yeah, I thought it might be better to choose a game which I didn't lose. However, the video generator is quite CPU-consuming, so I don't think we would ever add something like "create a game video" functionality to BrainKing. Maybe as an external service in the future.

Fencer: I think its great watching games like that, I was cheering furbster on, but sadly you prevailed

SL-Mark: Captured pieces added.

https://youtu.be/Efr1hW3BaxU

Fencer: Looks great.
Would add list of captured pieces.

Fencer: That's pretty cool! It would be neat if every game had an "instant replay".

MadMonkey: Yes, mesmerizing. My wife had a similar comment.

Walter Montego: Hmm, that's unlikely. I don't plan to host any videos here, and I don't think it's possible to replay videos backwards on YouTube (or is it?).

Fencer: I like that Fencer, just right speed.....in fact it's quite mesmerizing watching it

And you found a game tenuki lost, that didn't happen very often

Fencer: That seems like a good speed.

If that is made a part of BrainKing, will it have pause and backward play?

I created a simple application that takes a PGN file (chess notation) and generates a MOV video to replay the game. It's just a side project, something like a programming exercise.

This is a sample output from the BrainKing database: https://youtu.be/OA73wSwNbHE

Any feedback would be appreciated. (Too fast? Too slow? Some info missing?)

rabbitoid: OK, found the info on a "help" page.

Hi, I'm asking this for someone who lost her password. has anyone here ever gone through this?

The form on the login page says: "Did you forget your user name or password? Use this form and the link to your password change page will be sent to your e-mail." but the form asks only for an email? I don't see the logic

Aganju: You’re totally right. This exists in France.

Carnie: things might have changed... nowadays, some countries have laws that require web sites to allow them to delete all accounts and history. Fencer probably would have to do that manually.