Your restriction is to only be able to join one tournament at a time...as a non paying member.

What's my restriction? That your logistics suq?

HAHAHA good one Fencer LOL...but then I can't really talk either...I wondered why I couldnt go any further after i was eliminated from a tourney...but thanks to KEVIN...he made it possible :)

Of course. That's your restriction as non-paying member.

Yes, but the way it is currently set up, you cannot join a new tournament until all the games in your section finish. However, if you message Fencer (or maybe he'll read this), he can mark you as eliminated (as you have no chance to advance) and then you will be able to join another tournament.

I am being forced to sit and do NOTHING.! Why?
I am done with all my games. Sitting is boring!!!!

for those of us that are havig trouble getting on here, and then after playing a few games, it say's it's too busy, we sure do appreciate the suspended time.

why is game time still suspended? I thought Liquid was back. Downtime is much better.

I saw Amber last Sunday in Mannheim,Germany in our park. She was very hurry and she told me:Don`t worry,I`m happy!

can anyone help me find my lost love, Her name is amber she is 20 almost 21 and she last known to be in Orion Michgan. please tell me what you know or tell her Jon still love her

I bet you will stroke them carefully as first approach ... :D

A few weeks ago during a messy BK-day with timeouts for me,
I sent Fencer already a catalogue instead of a complaint ... hehehe !

Looking forward to visiting Praha, the first modern town in Europe
- and using the same currency that is accepted in Paris as well ...

the future will bring a new bb-net-axis
Berlin-Prague-Vienna-Budapest I'm sure ... :) ~*~

Yeah, i would lilke to have two servers of dual Xeon 3,06 GHz for loadbalancing.

Right, I am looking forward to the year when EUR replaces CZK, I don't like exchange rates ;-)

10-12 grands seems to be not too optimistic to get it into dry blankets.

e.g. Dell lowered the prices and the Euro is strong. *grin*

make it 15,000 and two twin-xeon2.8 are in reach ... :") ~*~

Uil: Just to make some estimation, $10000. That would be a good start. Maybe two machines could be purchased for this price, to make the site more stable [server cluster, load balancing, ...].

Yes, I am :-)))

You can read my profile.. its a bit like a novel, but I assure you, you can read where I am original from ;o)

are you from Dutch origin??????

Oslo is gret, i have been there 10 days ago. :-) But servers must be near to me, to Fencer.

Succes!! :-)

en je weet het, hč.. niet over twee nachten ijs :-)

Sorry, guys.. i told him to confirm everything extra good with everybody :-)

²¢½O ²¢½O²¢½ ²O¢¼ anyone own a webtv? Uh..would you like to buy mine? ²²²¢½O

???

You mean, I mustn´t change my flag yčt?? lol - think you ehmm, made a typo there.... L;)L

maar dat is niet zo erg; het is al na middernacht in Nederland :-)

other answer: I am 51, so 30 or 40 years is all I need for a free "rookship"

stop what ?? wishing good luck ? you lost me ~*~

What about Paris?? ;o)

Stop it Danoschek, I am not sure he will do this!
He has to believe in this site before he put any money into it. I know Jeroen Piket, a formally top chess player and now his right hand, so I can give it a try!!

Could it be Oslo?

I'm not sure ... Hamburg is internet-service capital of germany,
but I guess Frankfurt as center of the Telekom world
is better featured, most likely the dutch metropole also ...
not to mention 'Siemens' Munich ... hehehe !

have you investigated or are you just teasing back ? :P ~*~

Fencer, still no real answer, for example i asked about the price

About bandwidth. You are right, Czech Republic is not the center of europe.net but BK using about 1% of our available bandwidth.

And may i have e questin? Where is center of europe.net??? :-))

Now that sounds like a word ! Good Luck !! :)

lifetime errrrm how old are you Uil ? 0:) - okay, just teasing ... ;) ... ~*~

You mean, the server-issue will be solved and taken care of by a fellow Dutch man! I really need to consider to change my flag into that one of my Home-Country!!

Hartstikke goed, joh!! :-)

(btw: normally I am not thAt nationalistic; only when our Dutch National Skate team wins another WorldChampionShip on their high-speed skates.. lol)

Wish this server high-speed s:):)n as well..

that's a capital ö - different code of course ...

and maybe you should get over torturing your brain
over the life other people have and put it to Sergeant Chat.
(it's degraded since long, to pre-emptively catch yet another post)

I appreciate that Fencer does not make fullmouth promises
(certainly a new server will cast new problems at the beginning)

The Czech Republic is not the center of europe.net
- bandwidth problems are likely to be expected for a while yet.

But about only 100 players simultaneous as edge of capacity
really have to be overcome if it is supposed to work out ~*~

Uil: That sounds like a really good deal.

Fencer, what I want to hear is an answer on my idea a few weeks ago of giving a life time rook membership to the one who can arrange a new server for free by contacting his connections!
For example the FIDE (World Chess Federation) or Mr. van Oostrum (sponsoring chess tournament for much more money) might be interested to do so, but i did not get any answer! Do you really want your new server?

on my key board it is ALT 665 Ö
and yesterday all day i kept getting
HTTP error...505 internal server error
i couldnt log on at all from midmorning till close of play at about 5.30pm
Why do people make suggestions and then get shot down because of it?
You either donate or you dont.....end of story...there is no need to "blow your own trumpet" over donating..
Get a life and get over it.
Fencer will no doubt get it sorted in time, and I know it is annoying, but there is nothing any of us can do...so lets just let him get on with it in peace :)

²¢½ ²¢½ I am indebbted to you Herr Grubbe

use the alt-button to the left of the space bar...better end this "education" here :)

alt246 there!!!!!! nothing happened

LOL Chief..have no experience in Web-TV..but on this american keyboard you make an ö as i told you...nonsense or not :)

Nonsense Grubbe. My hi school German teacher assured me my spelling was fine..just before they let her go for dyslexia. (my webtv has a hard enough time with apostrophies let alone O with a little hat on it) lol

Chief KM...alt246 gives you an ö...then you can type Danke Schön :)

Can we get some number of actual users and the frequency of site access by users? This is not a hard thing to do since there is a last action value for each payer. That woudl give us some idea of what we are talkgin abotu in terms of necessary resources.

Also, Have Fencer and Liqui considered open-sourcing their code so that some of us who are programmers by trade could help out when we have time?

Okay, what do you want to hear? What happens if we collect the required money, buy a new server and some new problem occurs? Does the people want to be 100% sure that everything will be sorted out and no other problems can suddenly appear?
In order to be honest, I cannot promise anything and I don't want to force anybody to pay.

nicht wahr !

but german was counted out long before anyway
... and who out for a real exchange minds spelling ? :D ... ~*~

danke shoen mein herr

<')))>"
no message ~*~

Dano makes a point. Or two or three. (ein, swie, drie, feir, funf nicht whar?)

Both Fencer and Liquid are on line now so Jason and we other can expect the answers soon i suppose

insure you have read the information on the Technical Info page.
The Brainking hardware configuration is weak due to lack of resources; with the now high volume of users, this results in server overload.

Also read the Known Bugs page for information on bugs with the official JDBC driver, Connector/J (driver used to establish connection between application and database servers).

Please give the Fencer and Liquid the time and space they need in order to improve connectivity. These things take time.

Blaze

Once I had an uninvited one at brainking but that doesn't belong here ... 0:)

Indeed - jokies besides - everyone cAn figure that during that
particulary messy past week even the more patient folks started
complaining, thus most likely stuffing the inbox of poor Fencer.

I haven't btw as I assumed such exceptionary low site performance
as known doesn't have to be reported furthermore and certainly
is bugging nobody more than our webmaster ...

Timeouts are suspended, that's the core for me as serious player.

Extending the paid membership by that week would be greatly appreciated.

Fencer has always replied to any request by me.
1500 complaints assumed during the past couple of days
it needs not much arithmetics to calculate the required time.

Chill peeps.

Remains to wish best luck to Liquid now that the hardware does
not become his very personal screwdriver ... hehehe ! I mean it. ~*~