TC: I checked that last time and I think I am outside those 10% in all games. I think you will run into the issue that a significant number of those 10% are not playing anymore just sitting there. But otherwise I like the idea.
Here a hint how you can make it easier for potential participants: Obviously, because of your 10%-cutoff-point, the minimum rating needed is different for each game. You could list that minimum rating, so anyone can see right away if he falls into it. I found it rather tiresome to scroll through the full list to find out how many people are in total in the list, divide it by ten, and then find the rating of that position to see if I make it. If you do that once, you save everybody that work, and maybe get more players? Not me though...

ketchuplover: is that a trick? Or would that be a treat?

computeropponen: FYI, the BKR never claimed to be mappable in any way to FIDE ratings. It follow a rather simple rule that only result in a relative difference; the absolute value has no meaning. Typically, games where a lot of people play, the ratings spread out very far (see Ludo or Runs); games where only a small number of people play, 1512 is already a top-10 rating (Portuguese Checkers). That is just a consequence of the definition.

I agree that 2000+ in Chess is probably about a FIDE master rating. Which implies that we have about 155 FIDE masters plus cheaters here.

computeropponen: This is an old discussion; it seems that 90% of the top-rated 100 chess players here on BK are using software (in other words: cheating), as they are just too good to be true.
I have talked with one player that is a verified International FIDE Master and he barely can make it into the top 50 players. So either all world class chess players are here under secret IDs (including all the dead ones), or there are cheaters between them.

Again, note that this is an ongoing (and by now boring) discussion on all gaming sites; some claim that the rules don't disallow software so it is not officially cheating (correct), some claim that it is a lie and that they are just that good (hard to believe for me), and some just never answer if asked.
And some might be really that good.

computeropponen: What I mean is that getting a draw is a slightly better result for the lower rated person (imagine you play chess with Karpov and manage to get a draw), and therefore the lower rated person gets in the next round.
A better alternative would be of course to play another game, but first, that is the choice of the person setting up the tournament (and he chose different), and second, that has other issues, like it could go on forever while all others wait.

Anyway, this is how it is defined, and who doesn't like it has the choices to not enter such a tournament or suck it up and play. And any tournament creator can define that matches are for '1 point', which results in repeat game, instead of choosing '1 game', which forces this kind of decision after a draw.

happyjuggler0: it depends on the way the tournament was setup. If it is for one point, you would have another match. If it was for one game, that game is done and that's it. In this case, a draw results in the lower ranked participant moving into the next round (a draw is considered a 'little win' as he should have lost with the lower ranking)

JerNYC: Because the complexity of verifying this fact can be extraordinary high, and even if it is low in many cases, someone has to code it for those cases.
The owner of this site has made it very clear, multiple times, that this or any other improvement of BrainKing is not high on his list of life priorities, so no such code is to be expected.

Come on guys, just some more people for all Espionage variants! there are 10 free Brains to win in each game, thanks to R.A.D.Y.!

* 10 YEARS ON BK

furbster: I hope that doesn't happen, because I am offline for two weeks before the 20th, so I would lose on time... I actually rely on it starting only that day.

crosseyed: But they are not added to the tournament!

Fast Tourney - All Games - Fast Start -Groups of 5

Warning: This tournament is not for slow players, you will time out. Don't sign up, if you cannot or do not want to make moves often enough.

If you like fast play, this should be right for you!

iv2: what's that 'Coin Chess' thing so many people are whining about, and why do we need it?

ONLY one hour left!
Mini Shogi PRICE Tournament - 6 month Brain Rook

MadMonkey: seconded!

Chaosu: Did you call him names maybe?
Otherwise, I agree. Copying the generated tournament completion mail is useless if the tournament has multiple games.
Actually, the good fix would be to have the message enhanced, but until then, when you copy and post it, you should add the game name.

likewowman2cool: interesting question.
- you have no 20 games running
- you have no tournament running

Maybe the tournament owner booted you? But the text would clearly say that.
How many games did you sign up for? Only that one (Triple Dice Poker 6D)? Or multiples?

Maybe the routine is not calculating correctly, and thought that you would get too many games with the tournament; but that would be wrong.

What happens if you try to get into it again? What message do you get?

Line Classics - Random game types: Five in Line, Line4, Pro Five in Line, Swap Five in Line, Connect6, Lines of Action, Breakthrough.

Only one hour left!

Backgammon for Brains (to 9 points) - win over 50 brains!


Random Treats (to 3 points) - Random Halloween Sweets (close your eyes while grabbing one)

furbster: You made it go away! Success!!!

Now there is one more broken. It is finished since long, but hang still there.

furbster: Lol. Agreed.
Be careful though, probably half the players on the list have retired by now, so once it is started, it will probably run another 10000 days.

hey you stole my name... I already have 'Trick or Treat' tournaments open. First one is for Brains.

Backgammon (to 9 points)

Random Treats (to 3 points)

Only one more player needed!
Random Fun! Learn a new Game!

chessik: I'd love to, but as a new player I have 0 Brains and there is no way to get any.

Well that would imply you're giving out (about) 134 prices, one per game...
Probably not what you wanted,, ;-)

I read that once you assign a price, it generates an order for you. Once you pay that order, the price will be enabled.
So check in your profile under 'orders'.

just made a new tournament with random games: Random Fun! Learn a new Game!

Can somebody give me a hint where to find a bit of info about 'Fellowships'? There seems to be no explanation anywhere (well or I didn't find it).

I understand that you go into a fellowship to play team tournaments, but what else is the point?
- can you be in multiple fellowships?
- if so, what happens if they play each other?
- how do you get to play if a fellowship has 100 members and the tournament only 5 games? Random?
- why are fellowships so eager to get new members (I got >10 invites the day I became a member)
- and most important: how do I choose the right fellowship for me?

Thanks for any enlightenment.

Vikings: Duh. Thanks!

Can someone help me understand this?

This tournament (http://brainking.com/en/Tournaments?tri=544073&sadb=1) has a 'time control' setting of 5 days 5 hours, but all the running games show more than that, like 7 days and change, even if no move is yet played.
Why would a player get over 7 days for his first move when the time control in the tournament definition says 5 days and 5 hours??

[the cited data will become outdated in some days]