Hi everyone... is it possible, that this game is a draw situation since both can't move further?
or is it an error?
Grasshopper (Alfredo Mendoza vs. speachless)

speachless: Yes it's a draw. I had one a while ago. The system does not recognize it, so if your opponent doesn't agree, it goes one forever...

speachless: Just send a message to Fencer; he will make it into a draw and end the game for you.

likewowman2cool:
Aganju: Thank's a lot to you both for your fast answer. I will send Fencer a notification to end the game...

a maximum of 3 more moves and we can start the second round of this tourney

LUCKY THIRTEEN

furbster:  Awesome!  I'm in the next round.  :)

furbster: Of course of the 33 moving on to Round 2, 13 don't seem to come to Brainking anymore.

rod03801: i'm still here .. and also in the next round ... :)

Hrqls: Only 7 1/2 years for round one? That is awesome! It is also why I won't play a backgammon tournament here. Ever.

happyjuggler0: 13 Point match, and two of them per player? The creator definitely should have used the Fischer Clock for timing it. Even so, that's a lot of games.

happyjuggler0: most tournaments are a lot quicker .. less players, shorter matches, faster time control ...

in the 8 years that i am here i won 32 backgammon tournaments, and lots a lot more ... so its quite doable to play a nice quick tournament :)

Hrqls: Haha. Me too.(Still here and in next round) But how many of us will still be around for rounds 3 and 4?

Hrqls: I am here 18 months only, and I have already won 32 backgammon tournaments (and 159 in total). One of them was a 21-point round-robin.

It really depends a lot on which tournaments, and who is in there. There are about a dozen players you should avoid, without them this tournament would have been done in two to three months; but a single one of them is enough to drag it to 5 years.

What are people's thoughts on how long a tournament should last? Just curious.

rod03801: lol! i will (there, and retired i guess ;))

rod03801:  It's pretty bad when you need both a match equity table and a mortality table to compute your match winning chances.

furbster: I'm through to the next round, but I'll be over 80 when it finishes, and there's no guarantee that I'll still have all my marbles my then. I think I'll just resign all the games and get on with real life.

pgt: you wont let the youngsters win would you ? it will just give them something to brag about ... you should know them the real power of age!

wetware: "It's pretty bad when you need both a match equity table and a mortality table to compute your match winning chances."

Lol! :-)

happyjuggler0: "Only 7 1/2 years for round one? That is awesome! It is also why I won't play a backgammon tournament here. Ever."

If you did play one, and got some of the "dirty dozen", it would be the only one that you would ever play. My one tournament, WASSAIL, has only recently started its second round, a comparatively zippy six years on. There are many dead accounts in that one, too.

Assuming it ends as a tie between myself and Furbster, who will be crowned number 1?

http://brainking.com/en/ReadEvent?evid=3042806

Czuch: BTW.... this one was started almost 71/2 years ago as well!

Czuch: You've given a link to your mailbox. ;o)

In the tournament that you're referring to, The first doubling cube tournament, it's hard to predict final scores without checking each unfinished game but furbster's win against you will gain him 4 S.B. points from your wins, which makes it likely that he'll beat your S.B. score.

pgt: I'm through to the next round, but I'll be over 80 when it finishes, and there's no guarantee that I'll still have all my marbles my then. I think I'll just resign all the games and get on with real life.

Lol. Let's hope not! But surely you can pass the baton on to some youngster and have them save your honour? Perhaps grenv? ... or his grandchildren? ;o)

playBunny: I wonder if I paid for a lifetime membership it would pass to my heirs to complete tournaments? An interesting thought.
I checked the mortality tables, and I now think I have enough time for one-and a half rounds more, provided the first round fo the tournamnet finishes by the end of 2014.

Czuch: If cardinal wins both of his remaining games, you, cardinal and furbuster would move on, If cardinal looses one game, furbuster moves on alone

The next round has started! How do I get out of it? I have 8 of my allowable 20 games (I was a paying member when I joined this tournament 7 years ago, and promised to pay again when a decent autopass system was introduced, but Fencer is not interested) I am currently just resigning each time I get a game to play in this tournament, but given past experience, even that could take a few months!

pgt: I don't understand the problem. If you look at the tourney, you're in a group with 4 others so you have 8 matches, no more. Resign them all and you'll be done playing it. You won't be able to join another tournament for the next decade, what with whikki and Somelaughs2 being in the same group, but that's a different problem. ;-)

pgt: I've got two of the slowest players. My other two opponents gave up one and two years ago respectively. What a travesty.

playBunny: I can only resign them one game at a time. So I need each player to play at least 4 or 5 moves (for a Backgammon each move) before the game disappears. At 5 days per move that will take about a month.

pgt: you dont have to wait for them you sholuld eb able to reign every game even if its their turn

furbster: Thanks for that. All the games have now disappeared, and my BG rating has dropped about 100 points, But I won't have to worry whether I'll live to see the tournament conclusion

This is why if I ever create another tournament, I will most definitely make sure it is timed using the Fischer Clock.

I didn't manage to make the 10-prime, but anyone had a 9-prime before?
Crowded Backgammon (Rainbow Days vs. Aganju)

Aganju: i'm pretty sure i did more then twice at crowded BG and some of my opponents too...if you like wide walls you should maybe try out cloning backgammon :-)

Has there been any progress as regards the bug where the first two rolls are identical? I seem to have been noticing this happening again…

No progress yet.Over to you Fencer?

Pedro Martínez: This bug is repaired, but not the following: if one submits a move in backgammon and goes directly to the next backgammon game, the probability to get the same roll again as in the previous game seems to be higher than it should be.

paully: Fencer should remove him.
Give him a break. It is his site and he can do whatever he wants with it. And he has more important things to do.
http://brainking.com/cz/Board?bc=1&plla=1127525

Thom27: The bug is repaired.
I beg to differ.

pgt: i just wouldn't care... if someone is so sick to play against himself, only to get to the first rate, he's just wretched. so who cares about people that wastes their own time... i just wouldn't give a sh... about this player :-)

Pedro Martínez: What conversation is this?

playBunny: It got me to check the link, and now after all these years my BrainKing.com discussion board count is zero after getting it to over 9000. Nice job Pedro! :) At least Feature requests is still at 4163.

After reading it I am not sure if Pedro is being sarcastic towards Fencer or is taking Fencer's side about the percentage of morons and miscreants on this site. With the count at zero, perhaps I will begin to read the board again, but I'm not planning on it. The linked thread is over 1½ years old.

Walter Montego: Lol. I also checked that link and had a large count drop to zero. ;o)

But what I meant was which paully post was he replying to? There isn't one in sight so there's also no "him". Similarly speachless' post is rather mysterious. It's shown as being in the same thread as Pedro's yet without the pgt post that she's responding to.

playBunny: He snared us both, did he? He's still got the touch even with the long hiatus. I've plenty of time to kill in this truck stop today, so maybe I'll check into it in awhile. If I do, I'll report my findings.

As for the question about the bug, I thought you had said a few things about that some time ago. I remember the identical roll business, but that's fixed. What's the other deal?

playBunny: oh, that's funny. i replied to the user pgt, but maybe he just deleted his previews post... :-) actually pgt wanted fencer to delete a user from brainking, because pgt meant a user, which is on position 1 on the ranking of a backgammon variation game - would have probably played against a fake user account to reach the 1st place. Pedro replied then to pgt with the link to the ones who wanted fencer to delete this user ...

so that's all about :-)

playBunny: The beginning of the conversation was removed, possibly by a GM. As usual, no word has been posted as an explanation thereof…

Pedro Martínez: why should a GM remove a post? the post wasn't problematic i think... funny as well...

speachless: Because you cannot mention a name here… names are bad. Nicknames are bad, too. It doesn't matter that naming names is not prohibited in the User Agreement, the GMs just decided that you can't do that.
http://brainking.com/en/Board?bc=1&plla=1130884

Pedro Martínez: oh, I understand... and yes, it makes sense...