I see. I asked because I am in a tournament created by Patty, and it doesn't look like she will be able to start the next round any time soon.

Dmitri, it starts as soon as all the players have finished their games in all sections.

The creator of the tourney gets a message saying all the sections are comlete, they visit the tourney and click a new button to start the second round.

Rose: My thoughts are with Patty. I was only chatting to her just before things got that bad, but i didn't know who to ask about her health.
I am glad that you know what is happening & can only send her all my wishes.
M.M.

WHen the first round of a tournament is complete, whne does the second round begin? Does the tournament creator have to do anything?

The game site has a very sick friend. Patty(PattyMelt, PepperMintPatty) who a lot of you have played many games with is serioiusly ill and may not be back to the site to play with us anymore. So a lot of her friends wanted to have a Tournament set up in her name! So come on every one! Let's all Play For PATTY!

dizave: thanks, i only have 3 ppl for dark chess (im one of them lol) & no one for normal chess so i guess those just won't even start.

Madmonkey man, I'd love to sign up for more chess, but I have to wait for the final game I have in the chess tourney I'm in to end.

Why is it that in any tournament, there will be someone who just won't make moves until the last possible moment? I see the person online all the time, they have a forced move so they don't even have to think. Maybe I'll get lucky and he'll timeout :(

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You can if you haven't already joined a tournament (being a non-paying member). Click on the "tournaments" link on the left. A list of all the tournaments will come up. Click on the tournament you would like to join. A list of available games in that particular tournament will come up (there could only be one). Click on the game type you would like to play. If you are eligible to join (rating, membership, number of players join already, etc) then a link will appear above the list of already participating players saying something to the effect "Sign me up for this tournament." Then, when it starts, as long as you have enough open spots for the games, the games will automatically appear on your main page :-)

CAN A NEW MEMBER SIGN UP FOR TOURNAMENTS AND HOW

Just a reminder, you have about 2 days left to sign up for my 4th Spider Line4 tournament. It will start as close to May 1st as I can :-)

Still looking for chess players mainly for the end of this week, so if you have a few spaces come and sign up :-)

Glad you enjoyed it Pioneer, its the first tourney that I tried.

Congrats to TheBig O who won Spider Line4 in Eriisa's Free For All

Thanks, Eriisa! It was a really fun event against some really tough competitors.
: )

Congrats to Pioneer54 who won Keryo Pente in Eriisa's Free For All!
Congrats to lovelysharon who won Section 3 of Backgammon in Eriisa's Free For All!
The rest of the games are still running.

Howling Wolf, if you time-out on a game during a time when the site is having problems I'm sure Fencer would re-instate the game for you if you message him. Especially a tournament game.

Running a website costs mney. Making a site run faster and better cosst money.

Tep roblem right now? Too many free riders!! There are too many people who play close to 20 games and are not paying members.

This slows the site down and then the paying members suffer.

HOwling Wolf, please don't takew this the wrong way, but, you are not PAYING anything, so I don't think you have much to complain about.

Granted, people are ALLOWED to play up to 20 games for free, so it isn't really their fault.

so, i think Fencer should lower the amount of games people can play for free. If that upsets soem of them and they leave, oh well, that is an income loss of ZER since thye re not paying anything!

I've been having a LOT of trouble accessing this site lately! Some other people here tell me they've had trouble too! I keep getting a pop-up message telling me the site is "too busy to use right now". As a result of not being able to access my account, I have timed out on FOUR of my tournament games with only ONE move having been made by my opponent. Since I was unable to get in here to play, I lost the game without ever having been able to make a single move! What is causing this access problem? How is it being addressed? And what happens now to those of us who keep getting shut out of our tournament games????

Howling Wolf

I've been having a LOT of trouble accessing this site lately! Some other people here tell me they've had trouble too! I keep getting a pop-up message telling me the site is "too busy to use right now". As a result of not being able to access my account, I have timed out on FOUR of my tournament games with only ONE move having been made by my opponent. Since I was unable to getin here to play, I lost the game without ever having been able to make a single move! What is causing this access problem? How is being addressed? And what happens now to those of us who keep getting shut out of our tournament games????

Howling Wolf

I've been having a LOT of trouble accessing this site lately! Some other people here tell me they've had trouble too! I keep getting a pop-up message telling me the site is "too busy to use right now". As a result of not being able to access my account, I have timed out on FOUR of my tournament games with only ONE move having been made by my opponent. Since I was unable to getin here to play, I lost the game without ever having been able to make a single move! What is causing this access problem? How is being addressed? And what happens now to those of us who keep getting shut out of our tournament games????

Howling Wolf

I've been having a LOT of trouble accessing this site lately! Some other people here tell me they've had trouble too! I keep getting a pop-up message telling me the site is "too busy to use right now". As a result of not being able to access my account, I have timed out on FOUR of my tournament games with only ONE move having been made by my opponent. Since I was unable to get in here to play, I lost the game without ever having been able to make a single move! What is causing this access problem? How is it being addressed? And what happens now to those of us who keep getting shut out of our tournament games????

Howling Wolf

Consider it done!

Parachute Checkers ;-)

I dont have any tourneys to sign up for right now! maybe I should start a few, it HAS been a while. Any suggestions?

But Art, that's the way you learn. You should have seen me in the first 3 games of Atomic Chess. LOL

Well, maybe it's time I joined one of yours. :) I need to branch out. But I stink at most other games as I've never played them.

:( Well put it this way, Art, I dont think I'll be going in for any more chess tourneys anytime soon!!

Ian... nudge nudge, I DID sign for your tourney so I know its not properly started yet! :P
You closed for sign up, now you have to press another button to start the tourney :D

BLUE STEEL: Even when the date passes, the tournament won't start until the creator starts it. They don't start automatically.

We've got 4 so far signed up. It's =2000 so should leave lots of room for great competition. Check it out in the tournament area.

How are the games harley??!! :)

*frown* at Ian!! LOL, is it you thats causing confusion with BlueSteel?! I dunno, memory like a sieve... forget to breathe if someone wasnt there to poke you when you stopped... leave your head on the bus if it wasn't screwed loosely to your head... [walks away muttering about Ians memory]!!! :oD

Can i say Sorry to all who signed up for my Beginners Chess tournament for such a late start.!
This was due to me totally forgetting that i had set this tournament up.!
Sorry again & good luck to all.
Ian.

Hi there, Blue Steel. I had a look and the tournament you're in is due to start on April 27th. It has the date on the page where your name is. Good luck! :)

I'm new to this site. I have signed up for a beginners tournament. It says last term to sign is April 10, 03. confused,when would this start? thank you, BLUE STEEL

.....is now open for signing up.
1 or 2 game formats, all welcome, have fun!
:o)

You're welcome. :) Welcome aboard!

thanks Dodger :)

Hi Weekend Player, I've changed it to seven days per move. :)

i would join but you have set the games to 3 days and as i work away from home 4 days a week :( just a thought

I need two more players in the ArtfulDodger tournament to start it and prefer 4 more. Any chess players out there?? :) Hope so! Oh yeah, it's U1800 so if your rating is 1800 or above, sorry.

Need one more for the ArtfulDodger Backgammon tournament and just opened another Chess tournament .. U1800 :) Join if you've an interest!

Thanks Fencer, everytime I thought I had it figured I realized I didnt. LOL.

Eriisa: The games in this combobox are sorted by the last move date and time of your opponents. I will add more sorting options later because they can be too CPU-resources consuming and I would like to upgrade to a faster server first.

I've been trying to figure something out.... When you are on a games's page, there is the buttone for next game with the drop down box. Is there a way to control the sort of games in that box? What order are they listed in there?

Game #s are 53302 and 72472. Thanks, Fencer, you're a peach! :)

Give me the game IDs, I will restore them.

I timed out on 2 games today, both with a 24-hour time limit. For 11 hours, I was not able to get into the site. Obviously, I could have played them well within the time limit if I could have gotten here. I seriously doubt that I'm the only person who timed out today because all we could get was a white screen. What are the chances of getting these games restored?

Well...i just watched The Masters (golf) and they could have a playoff so why not here?

at present there is no provision to create a tournament for certain members only. It would be much better for the original tournaments to play to a final outcome.

Just create a new tournament "Playoff Open Fast Backgammon" only open for the 3 winners.

bring on the single elimination tournys ...least that way you get a clear winner