Jason: No, Pedro is right.

Binabik: If its a tournament game im certian you will also lose bkr no matter how many moves have been made .

Pedro Martínez: Thank you Pedro and Baddessi! I did look at the FAQ list and it wasn't there. So the worst that can happen is that you won't win the tourney. Thanks again!

Pedro Martínez: thanks Pedro

Pawns cannot delete their games. Tournament games cannot be deleted by anyone. If you resign a game where under 2 moves by each of the sides have been made, it still counts as a loss but you don't lose any BKR points.

Binabik: I believe that if you resign a game, it counts as a loss. You can delete a regular game before a certain number of moves are made, but I don't know if that applies in a tournament. I'll see if I can find out

What happens if you resign a tournament game when one or no moves have been made? Does that count as a loss for you in that tourney?

fungame: I still don't think I understand what you are trying to say.

So for example, a game where each player will have a total of 2 days to make his moves (weather he makes them in 1 hour, or starts to make them after a day. = = = Fisher's Clock: 2/0/2

So for example, a game where each player should never take more then 5 hours after the last player played to make a move = = = Fisher's Clock: .5/.5/.5 (or course this could end up taking longer then 2 days)

BIG BAD WOLF: yes, that's true but what if I want to limit time for one move, then my new option would fulfill this, you cannot do it with what you wrote, that way the opponent has for example 2 days for whole game, but what I wrote can result in 2 days for whole game but 5 hours for each move max. How can you achieve this now?
edit: perhaps not really 5 hours per move, but at least 5 hours added per move

fungame: Just set the bonus in a fischer's clock game to 0 - then the time will be for the complete game for one party (since no bonus time will be added for each move.)

BTW, for some time I was not sure about Fischer clock implementation, which of 2 possibilities it covers. Now I know, but anyway I think the other option I had in mind would have some sense too, may be it can be added. It differs by this: Limit doesnt mean the maximum time left in a game, but maximum time total in the game (the length of the game for one party)

mrloupcity: Looking at your games, I'm guessing you are talking about the "1.st Liberals & Talent Tournament - Crowded Backgammon" - http://brainking.com/en/Tournaments?tri=49714#1

If that is the case, then the time is using the new Fischer's clock time control, which in all Fischer clock games - holidays/weekends/vacations are not used. (That has been listed in the Time Help Section since the Fischer's clock was introduced.)

But because all of those games did not have days off, Fencer at first did not have the red dot next to those tournaments - since all would have no time off it did not make a difference. But I believe he added them recently so it would be easier to see by everyone since not everyone will go read the help about the new time control.

So you are right that it probable did not say "no time off" when you signed up - but all games using Fisher's clock has not vacation or weekend days.

mrloupcity: games with no days off have been implemented here some weeks ago, but the red dots only showed in the game invitation and in the tournament list, where you probably overlooked it.

It's new that the red dot is also shown in your game list, to make it easier for you to find these games, but the games themselves were no-days-off games from the start.

is the RED DOTS where not there yesterday. But now there are. TYVM for the time to write. Now back off the board. And to my corner. So that way will say out of every1s bis.

BIG BAD WOLF: I did not join any tournies that I could not take days off. So then I guess it has to be a bug. With the things going here at the house I have to be able to take days off. Well guess when I run out of vac days I'll be SOL and poele will get free wins. BBW thxs for repling.

Thanks, Fencer! That's awesome...
But shouldn't someone only be able to create tournaments only as far ahead as their current membership?

mrloupcity: Tournament creators have no way to change the type of days off a tournament has - so all tournament should have the same "days off" rules that where there when they started.

If you see something you think has been changed - it may be a bug, but nothing should be changing after it is created.

tournies that had aready started now have (no days off). At least to me this is not right. If I wanted to play in tournies that had no days off I would have signed up for them. So now what is going on here changing rule after something has started. I see on the BK board that they say lots of people are leaving this site or just not renewing. This may have something to do with it. It like changing horses in the middle of the stream u can get wet most of the time. So now guess if I don't want to play in tournies that have changed. Guess some people playing me may get lots of win over the rules changing.

:o{P

Fencer:

Fencer: Good job...*admiring* *admiring* *admiring*
:)

How come nobody admires the solved problem of too long Tournaments page?

chess variations

Czuch Chuckers: Congrats Czuch!

Congrats to me for winning the first quick players club backgammon open!

Time to sign up for #2
http://brainking.com/en/Tournaments?trg=10438&tri=52272&trnst=0

redfrog: "Selecting a particular game type to display is not really a solution"

I agree with Pioneer - there are a bunch of different variations on a few main game types here. There should just be 7 new filters, one for each group already defined on the New Game page.

That should be easy, right Fencer? Maybe even an 8th one just for Pente variations???? Just kidding... kinda...

Pioneer54: you can filter the games types at the top of the page....

Midnight~ Skinny Dip


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bring your own raincoats and umbrellas ....

Also note that those tourneys are only for 8 players. *shakes head*

The problem with these unrestricted creations is that Rook members can set up a tournament on a proposed starting date that far exceeds their membership. Kata, for example, is a member through June 2006, but has set up events that are not scheduled to begin for over 500 days!!? If she does not renew her membership, is there some mechanism to automatically cancel these remaining events? If not, isn't this an abuse of the system? Furthermore, isn't it a bit absurd to arrange tournaments that won't begin for more than 500 days from now? Wouldn't it be more reasonable to have a cutoff, say, 3 months or 6 months?

Also, since gammon tournaments are so popular, perhaps a separate page should be made just for those tournament types. Some of us are not interested in gammon, but we have to wade through the extensive listings to get to those we do want. Selecting a particular game type to display is not really a solution, it is tedious, too.

Pedro Martínez: Yeah, We need more!!!

Pedro Martínez: I´m sure I will enjoy them, if I´m still alive by the time... As much as scrolling the whole tournaments list...

I would like to thank Kata Liana for her great tourneys. What a pity it's possible to create them only till 2006....

Halma 10 x 10 winner

http://brainking.com/en/Tournaments?tri=49848

Jo

Open Pente winner

http://brainking.com/en/Tournaments?tri=49831

Jo

Or maybe a "Hide tournaments created by this player" feature.

Can you do something about the 567 tournaments that are showing on the tournament page?

Perhaps similar to the Waiting Games page?

August Assortment

All welcome to join in.

Jason: better, i think, would it be to group them by game type or time per move

hmm .. i think you already had that in your suggestion as the waiting games are split among the game types as well :)

so you can just ignore this message :)

rod03801: or group them to the person that created them ,like in the waiting games area , you would have to click the link to open all the tournaments a person has created

rod03801: Or possibly each person can only place a maximum of 5 tournaments in waiting tournaments at the same time.

rod03801: I agree. I think it would be easier to just show the (let say) 50 tourtnaments/ponds on one page (and still let people see the tournaments/ponds which start later.

rod03801: yeah. I know there are Tournies there that are not going to start for nearly 2 years. Maybe we sholud ask fencer to put a sensible time limit on it.

How many people may sign up now, and be pawns, or maybe even leave the site by then, that would wreck the tournies too.

Why is it necessary to create tournaments not set to start until the end of 2006???? 557 tournaments??? The whole page won't even load for me. (And what does load takes quite a while to do so..) Thank goodness only a few people have done this, or we could have thousands of tournaments on that page.

Just curious what the answer is.. My first thought is they just like seeing their tournament featured in the little green box on the main page that advertises tournaments to sign up for.. The more you have, the higher the odds of it being yours listed there..

or is there an actual reasonable reason??

your opponent is most likely using auto-vacation

http://brainking.com/en/Help?ht=9

whenever the time runs out it re-sets itself again and my opponent won't play so we can't finish the game! help!!!

BrainKing.com - Tournaments (Anyone Can Win)
http://brainking.com/game/Tournaments?trg=10365&u=367&trnst=0

bobwhoosta: On the sign up page [of a tournament] there is a warning containing the information about the required number of slots [5 or 10].

I have 5 slots available and would like to know about how many I should have before I run off and take the tournament world by storm. Does it depend on the tourney?

Bry:

Czuch : Most people "really" do not need 21 days, and most people move every day.

It's 21 days because that is "my" choice. There's no need to make issue over the length of the time limit.

If you do not want to join, fine. It will not make any difference. It will still be started.