no one is "spamming" message boards. Also, you say

"I think it is really good to let people know about BrainKing - BUT I think it is REALLY bad to talk bad about IYT and recommend another site in the same post."

why? I don't see it that way at all. It is a foregone conclusion that Gary and I will not be playing there any more, but we don't feel like leaving it at that-- IYT pissed off a lot of people and now they are paying for it! They deserve whatever bad publicity they get, it is their own fault. you make it sound as if the complaints against them are insignificant, you say

"So you think the owner and customer service dept. has an attitude. So you think that IYT has become one of the snobbiest businesses. So you think they have the worst customer service.
"

I am not sure what you are saying here-- it seems that you are minimizing the importance of these facts, when in fact, those are several major strikes agfainst IYT! Gary and I were paying members of IYT and like many others, we felt jilted by their terrible responses and service. We are encouraging people to play games at Brain King because Brain King has shown itself to be what IYT is not, and that is great!

May I ask you a question?

Why do you want to "eliminate" IYT? So you think the owner and customer service dept. has an attitude. So you think that IYT has become one of the snobbiest businesses. So you think they have the worst customer service.

Can I make a simple suggestion? Just don't go there no more. I mean if you don't like it that much, just don't play there. Ask any friends you have there to come and play you here.

I'm not trying to start any IYT vs. BrainKing (there is good and bad about each) - but the bottom line is you play where you like.

I think it is really good to let people know about BrainKing - BUT I think it is REALLY bad to talk bad about IYT and recommend another site in the same post. It is just the wrong way to do it. Also spamming different message boards with the same post is also not a good way to do it.

Again, I'm not trying to start anything - I just think you are going about it the wrong way. Suggest BrainKing, and let everyone decided what they like the best! :-)

BBW (BIG BAD WOLF)

IYT ignores or is unaware of a fact that this site is aware of.most online users are fairly intelligent,liberal.they talk on/off line among themselves.good or bad customer service = the word spreads fast.this is also true for site performance.

Hey all -

There's something that I want to bring to everyone's attention. That is the attitude of the owner and customer service dept. of the gaming site referred to as IYT at www.itsyourturn.com. They have become one of the snobbiest businesses with some of the WORST customer service that I have EVER done business with, internet or not!

I have posted messages on 4 different IYT game analysis discussion boards telling of many of their problems in detail and HIGHLY recommending Brain King to everyone. My basic objective is to take them OUT hard and fast!

If you are like me and many others who have had many bad experiences with IYT and agree that they have become a terrible site, let your thoughts be known on both the BrainKing AND IYT discussion boards as many places as you can. That will give this site more exposure and will help eliminate an eyesore from the internet gaming landscape!


Gary Barnes

I'm only here for a couple of minutes before the night is out just want to say Happy St.Patrick's Day to everybody :)

tell your blue-haired aunt in florida thee 2 then:
2 old girls,long time friends were chatting.one had recently began dating again,"do you beleive in sex after 60?".she asked her friend in confidence,who answered with a grin"oh sure dear,but you can always stop the car".

nice girls use ky-jelly.
florida trailer park momma's use polygrip.

any more pillsbury jokes & you guys are gonna get in trouble with the blondes.

Hey, I resemble that remark!!!!!

Cariad was visiting her homeland, and while there went to a nearby supermarket on singles night to pick up a few things.

Several people noticed her sitting in her car with the windows rolled up and with her eyes closed, with both hands behind the back of her head.

One customer who had been at the store for a while became concerned and walked over to the car. He noticed that Cariad's eyes were now open, and she looked very strange. He asked her if she was okay, and she replied that she'd been shot in the back of the head, and had been holding her brains in for over an hour.

The man called the paramedics, who broke into the car because the doors were locked and Cariad refused to remove her hands from her head. When they finally got in, they found that Cariad had a wad of bread dough on the back of her head.

A Pillsbury biscuit canister had exploded from the heat, making a loud noise that sounded like a gunshot, and the wad of dough hit her in the back of her head. When she reached back to find out what it was, she felt the dough and thought it was her brains. She initially passed out, but quickly recovered and tried to hold her brains in for over an hour until someone noticed and came to her aid.

And, yes, Cariad is a blonde.

(The names have been changed to protect the innocent.....or have they?????)

Thanks for sharing, bumble! In reply: What's black and blue and brown and lies in a ditch?
A brunette who's told too many blonde jokes.

What do brunettes miss most about a great party?
The invitation.

Any more, dear bumble, and the guitarist jokes come out!

CleverHunk: How do you know when a redhead has been using the computer?
There's a hammer embedded in the monitor.

I won't say any blue hair jokes as I might offend a certain auntie that lives in a trailer in Florida.

I reckon we get Saddam, Blair, Bush and the rest of the UN inspectors etc to join BrainKing and argue out their diferences over a few games.
Theres no nationality differences on this site, everyone gets along great, be them from the US, Iraq or the UK. They should take a lesson from us, a couple of games, maybe a fast tourney and they'd all be best of friends and wondering why they were arguing in the first place!!

Katsiki.....Nagging is good, and we are becoming professionals! I say we start with Bumble and Loggerhead!!! Is this going to be a one on one...or a team effort!!! Either way....it is going to be fun!! :)

American checkers...now there is a game that I might be able to beat Cariad at!!!!

Humm.....nude twister: (Hey Katsiki!!!! Think we could talk those two big blokes into this one?????) LOL

Not a floosie - Me, you, cariad and red dragon, we scolds and nags Saddam good yes? We has practise first I think. Now who we picks....?

nude twister...hey fencer what do you think?maybe we can crack a copy of"sims"&make a few changes.
I was only kidding about gypsies,don't believe any stereotypes.especially about men & blondes.

bush,sassam...lets stop worrying about who has the biggest missile(phallic symbolism)...too much tetosterone poisioning.I hope the world grows up & abandon the need for weapons of mass destruction..thro our energies into something more positive...need more good karma.

if there is "liquid-white-out" & a postage stamp on your monitor screen,a blonde has been using your computer trying to send email.

I think Bush, Blair, Saddam and Bin Laden should get the 'Twister' mat out and the whole thing should be televised worldwide. To make it twice as humiliating, make it 'nude twister'.

Joke: (sorry cariad) How do you drown a blonde?
Glue a 'scratch and sniff' card to the bottom of the swimming pool.

Nighthawk1958:....so he's right about gypsies too? I wouldn't want to think what his rules for American checkers are.

fencer..great idea..will watch for honey checkers.
joke:
did you ever play gypsy checkers?
you steal the opponents pieces..lol.

ok,true some of us men couldn't find our butts if we were naked in a hall of mirrors.
but we learn it early.
at the moment of human conception,millions of male sperm cells are released,all looking for the egg cell.not one will stop & ask for directions.
and some men have a handicap,not enough blood to run the brain & the penis at the same time...lol.

seriously,about war:
war is destructive,wasteful,generates more hate& revenge.NO war ever resolved any deep rooted issue.a diplomatic solution must eventually be reached.but also true,we are forced in life sometimes to stand or fall.if do nothing,the terrorrism will spread.saddam is not just going thro a faze,to beleive that is niave.also,we live in a culture that is impatient,instant graitification.I hope we dont rush into anything we will regret.I dont have a solution,I hope the powers that be find the wisdom to find an answer.

AH.....what a wonderful thing to wake up to....a little levity on the board LOL...never has a truer word been spoken..

LOL LOL LOL LOL Good one Ian!!! And how true!!!! :)

This is a little something that i found at Dailygammon.:)

Discussion

Let's lighten the mood! UN Inspectors!

Posted By: Summer Rain
Date: Saturday, 15 March 2003, at 8:55 p.m.

Have you noticed anything fishy about the inspection teams who have arrived in Iraq? They're all men!* How in the name of the United Nations does anyone expect men to find Saddam's stash? We all know that men have a blind spot when it comes to finding things. For cryin' out loud! Men can't find the dirty clothes hamper. Men can't find the jar of jelly until it falls out of the cupboard and splatters on the floor.... and these are the people we have sent into Iraq to search for hidden weapons of mass destruction?
* I keep wondering why groups of mothers weren't sent in. Mothers can sniff out secrets quicker than a drug dog can find a gram of dope. Mothers can find gin bottles that dads have stashed in the attic beneath the rafters.* They can sniff out a diary two rooms and one floor away. They can tell when the lid of a cookie jar has been disturbed and notice when a quarter inch slice has been shaved off a chocolate cake.* A mother*can smell alcohol on your breath before you get your key in the front door and can smell cigarette smoke from a block away. By examining laundry, a mother knows more about their kids than Sherlock Holmes.** And if a mother wants an answer to question, she can read an offenders eyes quicker than a homicide detective.
* So... considering the value a mother could bring to an inspection team, why are we sending a bunch of old men who will rely on electronic equipment to scout out hidden threats?* My mother would walk in with a wooden soup spoon in one hand, grab Saddam by the ear, give it a good twist and snap, "Young man, do you* have any weapons of mass destruction?" And God help him if he tried to lie to her. She'd march him down the street to some secret bunker and shove his nose into a nuclear bomb and say, "Uh, huh, and what do you call this, mister?" Whap!* Thump! Whap! Whap! Whap! And she'd lay some stripes across his bare bottom with that soup spoon, then march him home in front of the whole of Baghdad.* He'd not only come clean and apologize for lying about it, he'd cut every lawn in Baghdad for free for the whole summer.
* Inspectors my eye... You want the job done? Call my mother.

After giving it some thought, my mother would probably say he is just going thru a faze, he will get over it....lolol

Thanks Summer Rain.:)

Many thanks to Fencer, & everyone else here for the birthday greetings. What a nice surprise it was to recieve them all today. (((( big bear hug ))) for you all. LOL.

Thanks Kevin!

Tournament sections will NEVER have more than 8 players, so if 12 players sign up, it will be broken into 2 sections of 6, meaning you will play 5 games. You will not be able to play one tourney of each game at once because of your 50 games at a time limit. That restriction only really applies if you want to enter another chess tournament, for example, if you're already playing in one.

If you don't like that restriction, upgrade to rook :-)

Could someone clarify this please: for a knight, it says that you can enter 1 tournament for each game. It also says to leave at least 5 open spaces for each tournament. So, if I'm playing 35 regular games I could only sign up for 3 tourneys, right? And if one of them has 12 players, I would not be able to participate? In other words, I can not enter one of each tourney unless I have an empty game board?

E.g. Honey Checkers are played on a hexagonal board. Will be implemented later :-)

Cleverhunk: Yep ... me. For an excellent example look at my last Atomic Chess game against grenv ... very sad :(

I do not know what IYT has done, but there site is in a real mess....you cant even get to your games, and it take forever to load...bad luck....more better here :)

whisperz,there is a bunny here¿

There also the game called hex ;-) lol
The only turn based site like this that i have seen it at is http://www.littlegolem.net

there is a game on I Y T called sabotage that would be a good thing to build on !!

there is a game on I Y T called sabotage that would be a good thing to build on !!

Ultimate Stratego!!! Let's get that game here!

I know it is not a hexagon, although i expect a hexagonal version probably exists, but what about something like Stratego ... tank battles with more ranks. Mind you, I still haven't played all the games here yet ... once I lose a few Tank Battles I will move onto Tablut so watch out for the bunny coming your way soon.

..of any good strategy board games based on a hexagon shape instead of a square?anyone else know any?

...its inconsiderate & dumb,as it holds up the game & adds to your opponents BTK without a fight.maybe we should invent a name for those who do this..mmm..lets see,this is brain king..so something beginning with B...mmmm...
how about"botards"?
lol.just kidding..name calling is rude & adolescent.

Sam,
Are you on the digital service which has had the CR3 update.?
I signed up just over a month ago while i was still using NTL. Maybe the problem is an incompatability between the CR2 browser & Swreg sites.!!!-

Fencer: Thank you for the reply. I'll send an email via the info link for your postal address.

CleverHunk, thats very true!! I've had quite a few people time out on me, and hardly any with good reasons or apology! If you can't finish the game.. dont start it!!
If theres a genuine reason, no problem. But for those who can't be bothered.. shame on you!! LOL!

...here truly,as the expression goes,"if you snooze,you loose".ya think Christine,harley?

Sam: There is always a possibility to find a friend with normal computer and use it for the payment. I am afraid that direct international money transfer would cost you too much (bank fees). You can also send cash money to my postal address.

Hello Fencer. I can get to the swreg page that asks 'which currency' but when I press the select button it starts to load but after about 4 seconds an NTL fault page appears. This says 'we are unable to display your request'. This page is very well known to NTL users!

If I can't join this way can I transfer the money from my bank account to yours? I also have a visa card but do not have a pay pal account.

I've already heard about this problem from another NTL user. The page you cannot access belongs to Swreg.org site, not to BrainKing.com, so I can do nothing with it. What error does it show to you?

I want to become a member but I can't get past the 'currency' page to join.
I use NTL. Is anyone else having this problem and any suggestions?

Christine, yes, if someone times out its counted as a win for you, even in a 4 games match :o)
Congrats!! LOL!

Plurds? Who's the one drinking here?? LOL!

HMMMMMM....dint realize my friend ANGUS was a drunk hehehehe...good way on plurds my friend :)

Hmm, as for me, I would rather have a bottle in front-a-me than a frontal lobotamy..... ;+))))

very good, he was only referred to as "His trusty steed", or "HORSE"

...it restores my faith in mankind that some are actually wanting brains...too few have any cleverness ,class or character....brains!brains!..I want to eat your brains!!!..justa foolin' around guys...relax people,you don't labotamy,I don't labota you.
seriously,good luck to all.this has become my fav site.smart games,& most important..descent people.not to many abusive,dysfunctionals.

When someone pays for a membership, you can put another users name (for example: BIG BAD WOLF) and I will get brains when you pay.

And when you go get friends to pay, they can put your name down and you will get brains!