alanback: I'm presently in the top 5 in all 5 positive gammon games, and there is nobody who is ahead of me in two of them. Anyone else have a better claim?

I have one: I claim that there is a number of years from now that both of us will would not be able to make any more claims....
While many can question your claim nobody can do the same with mine....

I've decided to quit playing here and on Dailygammon to save time for other interests. Since I'm finishing my games and tournaments, I'll still be around for quite a while; but as I survey my standings here, it seems to me I have a pretty good claim to be the top player of gammon games (excluding antibackgammon) on the site. I'm presently in the top 5 in all 5 positive gammon games, and there is nobody who is ahead of me in two of them. Anyone else have a better claim?

Hrqls: Yes i posted my post on the Brainking board, and he said the same, but thank you anyway. Lo)

WatfordFC: i asked fencer and he told me that such tournaments (with entry fees (brains)) wont be removed over time .. they will just keep waiting until enough players are signed up

he will fix this so that the tournaments will be removed after time and when that happens then the players will get their entry fees returned to them

WatfordFC: ah ok ... then i dont know either .. good question :)

Hrqls: The brains are deducted as soon as you put your name down for the tournament.

Vikings: Yes i am sorry, i didnt explian it correctly, yes your correct , i was talking about a non-started tournament.

Vikings: lol .. neither do i .. even the 2 of us combined have zero brains ;)

Hrqls: don't ask me, I don't have any brains

Vikings: ah! thats true .. never thought about those tournaments which dont start :)

when does the player actually pay the brains ? when the tournament starts or when (s)he signs up ?

Hrqls: I think that she is talking about tournements that some people sign up for that never get enough people to start and eventually time out on the tournement page

WatfordFC: when doesnt a game go ahead ? does a game ever stop without giving a winner & loser or as a draw ?

If you sign up to a game where brains are required for the entry fee, and the game doesnt go ahead, do you get your brains refunded?

we made many moves per day.. .lol... took a lot less than 22 years.. lol ... also was over way before any action points...

grenv: I hope that you are a good mathematician who do bad sums

Matarilevich: Yes. April 12, 2052

grenv: Could you calculate the end of this match?

Matarilevich: 3 days per move x 996 x 2 + vacation = about 22 years. Good thing they moved a little quicker, but still.

WatfordFC: 996 x 2 = 1992 + win = 1997 points for $$$ Jason $$$

Matarilevich: OMG!! lol WOW

WatfordFC: Maybe Jason us Sharon 996 moves

Does anybody know what the most moves in anti-backgammon is??

grenv: Okay, I didn't consider that distinction. I was just looking a the bug list and saw a similar comment about it related to crowded. Well then, good for me :)

jryden:not illegeal as you used both dice , just good luck you could bear off.

jryden: It is not an error. The rules say you have to use both dice, but there is no rule that says you need to move the maximum number of pips.

I don't think I should have been allowed to move 6-4 4-off in this game since I could have moved 6-1 3-1 and used all seven points on the dice. However, the system did let me swap the dice and do 6-4, 4-off. Is this an error?

http://brainking.com/en/ShowGame?g=1724204&i=16

Hyper Backgammon +2100 vol.3 (9p) 3day/move,
1day/move:
Hyper Backgammon +2100 vol.4 (11p)
Hyper Backgammon +2100 vol.5 (9p)
Hyper Backgammon +2100 vol.6 (9p)

I love backgammon. If anyone wants to play just send me an invitation.

rod03801: Oh, I'm sorry. I never thought of that. That is what it was. Thanks Rod..
BARB

Pbarb2: I just looked at your "Last 10 completed games" list, and I don't see any hyper games since the 12th. Are you sure they weren't part of multi-game matches???? BKR isn't affected until the end of the match. Look at the PM's you received at the end of the games.

How often are the ratings posted? I just noticed I won 2 hyper games and nothing changed. Then I lost a game still nothing. It has been a few hours now .. I don't know much about the ratings..Just thought it unusual. Thanks
BARB

Pason69: i play both on here as well as on dailygammon as well .. the players there often annihilate me :)

the good thing of this site though is that there are a lot of different games to play .. this is an allround game site while other sites concentrate on mainly 1 game type

gogul: Thanks! I like it here and find the competition ok. Was just curious about the level. Will probably try DG as well. It's always fun to develop!

Pason69: You´ll find more familiary games to play here (which does not mean you´ll find weak players), since it´s difficult as a rook to choose your opponents upon their rating if you play a lot of tournaments like you and most do. Allmost 1000 players is not a enourmous community, so you´ll find less top-players. But compaired to life you´ll find more players at your level on net and here also. It´s difficult to compare the sites, the rating system are different. If you surch to play against experienced players probably FIBS is a good adress.
I like the Galore sites for further questions about the game, it would not make sence to reinvent the wheel on every backgammon-site :)

Pason69: it is far weaker here than some sites such as http://www.dailygammon.com. at DG they talk A LOT about tactics and really analyse a lot of games as the site is totally dedicated to backgammon.. Brainking is more of a chat site and if you are after serious backgammon, this is not a good place. The boards here have basically no analytical information whatsoever

Hi everybody!

My guess is there is an answer ofr this somewhere, but I can't find it... How strong is the BG-community here compared to other sites? Compared to live? Since I only played it on the net, I have no idea. In eg chess, it's easy to compare the rating of a few known players net & live rating and get an idea of the level of play and how strong the site is. Are there anything like that in BG as well?!

Thanks in advance!

alanback: oops .. you are correct :)

Hrqls: Not by my arithmetic!

alanback: if it were not for #6 then it would also be true for #1-#7 :)

working to get ruin the list though ;)

A link:
http://brainking.com/en/Ratings?tp=23

alanback: established BKR only. If you count non established one player ruins it.

Very keen observation alanback

At this moment in time (approx. 0100 GMT on May 31), each player in the backgammon rankings from #2 to #5 has more experience than all the players above him/her combined.

grenv: Sometimes I have signed up for one day/move games, and have played my moves in the morning then when I leave for the day the game/tournament started, and by the time I come back to the site the next morning,, I have timed out, without ever knowing that the game had even started yet! That is very frustrating for someone who plays fast and is here everyday!

SafariGal: I'm just annoyed that I play every day, yet time out in 8 games all of a sudden. Then I have to wait months for certain opponents to move.

grenv: I am, in a round about way. But the time controls do bring some excellent options, but some people abuse them

SafariGal: i think you're making the same point as me. :)

grenv: but if you add 3 hours then as long as you make 8 moves in a day you are fine and should always run at a buffer of at least 24 hours. You should be playing once every 15 minutes all day every day !!!

This person plays every 15 minutes. You should play like this. (refer to bug link)
http://brainking.com/en/ReadBug?bgi=840

SafariGal: And I play ALL the time.

SafariGal: It was a tournament, and really with adding only 3 hours, once you run out of time it's impossible to keep up unless you don't sleep. Whoever goes to sleep first loses.

grenv: but it does give some of us the added option of finally playing fast games and not having to wait sometimes months to make a single move. Just a matter of being careful. I always make sure my opponent knows when they are playing a very very fast game with me