Bernice: 

Artful Dodger: ROFL..............that is very appropriate LOL

Bernice:  I got this error message:  "And you thought molasses was slow!" 

MadMonkey: it was down early this morning for me and all I got was white pages......with a message that Brainking "server was not responding"

pauloaguia: I left home for work just before midnight, and could not get on then. Then when i got here, and for a while i had no joy, and neither did the couple of people i spoke to on Facebook
I guess it was not an hour then, just lucky i was going to work and not bed

pauloaguia: Thank your lucky stars!  It was pretty rough sledding for a while there...

MadMonkey: it either didn't last an hour or didn't affect that many people. I've been online for a few hours now (coming here every now and then) and didn't notice anything unusual...

How come brainking did not detect the site being down a while ago ?

Can anyone explain how the points system in the frog games work?I've read the rules and understand you loose points if you miss your target in the beginning but why do you loose points after that i just don't understand.Or am i missing something here?Pls help!

pauloaguia: Thank you!

Binabik: Goto Settings. At the bottom of the General tab set Sort next game by "Time of Last Move" (ascending order)

I have my choice set to "move and go to next online player" - but of course what happens is that while it does do that, it goes to the player whose game has the shortest time left, which means that other players who are also online get "ignored". Is there a setting I can use so that no matter what the time left on the game, all online players get the pleasure of playing with me in turn? I guess what I mean is that I want to just go down the list .... I looked at all the options in the settings and there doesn't seem to be one for that...

Fencer: Tournament list a lot more useable now. Thank you.

Snoopy: It was about time.

Totonno: Nothing is impossible.

Fencer: OK, no problem. But i think this isn't impossible to do. Or not?
Regards
Antonio

Totonno: Actually, I wanted to add it some years ago but I still don't have a good graphics for this game.

Hello everybody!
I'm interested to korean chess. In this portal will be this chess variant?

Thank you to both, I have not sorted it.
Cheers

Dundonian: ah yes i forgot .. the site itself provides the same options as well as the browser .. so when you select the option 'user name and password' then you only have to click on the login button the next time you go to the main page

Dundonian:
Into the main page (http://brainking.com)


User name: ________
Password:   ________
o nothing
o user name only
o user name and password
Login

Thanks Hrqls. Its just that I read in the help section the following and wondered where it was :

2.4) Logging in

In order to access your games and other features related to your BrainKing account, you must be logged in. The login form, containing two mandatory fields - user name and password - is located on the main entry page in the "Registered Users" section.
When you write your user name and password, after clicking on the Login button you will enter BrainKing as a registered user and your Main page containing started games and other private things will appear. If the login process fails (you write a wrong user name or password), you will be returned back to the login page and an error message would be displayed.
There is also one extra parameter Remember on this computer which can make this process easier to use. It can be set to one of the following values:

None - a default value, stores no information about the user to your computer.
User name only - if you select this option and successfully log in, your user ID will be stored in a cookie on your computer. When you open the BrainKing entry page next time, your user name will be automatically filled in the user name field.
User name and password - after logging in, your user ID will be stored in a cookie on your computer, along with a password flag. When you open the BrainKing entry page next time, your user ID and encrypted password will be automatically filled in the form, which allows you to click on the Login button without typing anything else.

Dundonian: you have to use your browser settings for that
most browsers (like firefox) can store your username and password

you will still have to click on the login button though

Can anyone tell me how to auto log in to the site ? ie, not have to type in name and password.
Cheers.

rabbitoid: you might get that every day....hundreds?? I doubt it, but if you are running a business through the internet those are all key words arent they? especially a game site, but not to worry I bought her m'ship at IYT.

keywords: euro, birthday present, membership... I get hundreds of those per day. Any decent spamguard would throw that out :)

Bernice: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8huXkSaL7o&NR=1

I sent Fencer an email to fencer@brainking.com asking for his address so as to be able to send Euro to pay for a membership for someone for a birthday present....it came back to me telling me it was spam and had been rejected by the recipient...it is nice to know that the money wasn't needed

Bernice: I second that

white pages from 6am until now which is 3.20pm.....

Bernice: well

blackviper55: why dont you leave the message as it is and stop changing it....you might get an answer...

need help get photos from a cell phone to the game site

coan.net: Considering that one can create a tournament up to two years in advance, why bicker about a 23 day difference?

In fact, why ask for tournament creation restrictions? Why not ask for more filter options? Restrictions on tournament creation options is limiting someone else, while better filter options allows everyone to get what he/she wants.

You know, kind of like the difference between the autopass we have , and autopass we want.

I may be a bit slow, but what has the fact that the tournament spammer is a pawn got to do with anything? rooks can be pests too, if they choose, and we can all come up with several names who spring to mind (the names will be different for each mind, so don't bother...)

And if the gentleman in question is now a pawn, it just means that he left us the tourneys as a going away present before reverting from rook. Nice of him, come to think of it...

Artful Dodger: I think those tournaments were made before they went down to pawn status maybe?

There are way too many tournaments sitting out there right now... one of the reasons I haven't created any myself lately.

To solve the current issue - deleting a lot of them would be helpful.

Long term solutions.

1. Limit on the number of open (public) tournaments a person can make - something like 20. (20 is a lot, but usually it's the extreme 100+ of the same tournament which is really the issue - so 20 still allows a lot, but not extreme)

2. Having tournament stay up to 30 days after the due date is WAY too long. 7 days should be the limit. If some some reason you want it to last longer, the tournament creator can change the tournament date to a later date to get around it. 7 days would give plenty of extra time past the start time for the tournament creator to change it if needed.

nodnarbo: I was thinking the same thing.. why are pawns allowed to do so.. She also just resigned not one or two.. but, I think 17 games I had going with her? And she did that with several others that I have recently learned.. why can't there be a restriction put on that player as to creating any multi game from here on out..

Artful Dodger: I was just going to say, I didn't think pawns could create tournaments

Fencer:  Maybe pawns should have a strict limit per month on how many tourneys they can create (like 1 - hehe)  ;)  and the rest of us have a limit too.  There's always fellowship tourneys to create and those can remain unlimited.  I keep my tourney creation down because there are so many already it seems pointless to add to the already huge numbers.

Just a thought but perhaps creating a tourney should only be a privilege of membership.  :) 

And maybe if tourneys don't fill up by the deadline they should just automatically be zapped. 

Fencer:
I submitted the below message on the tournament board, but no one came up with a response, so thought it was only me! Clearly not.

Also, I can't see how to delete these tournaments from my view.
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Subject: Tournament Filter
Excuse me if this has been asked before.
Is there a way to apply a filter to the tournaments which will not show certain creators.
e.g. show all tournaments not created by angelstar.

This should cut the current list of 1230 tournies by at least 75% and make the list more manageable)

(nothing against angelstar, just that I don't want to see these tournaments)

Note I already have game filters on.
Thanks.

rabbitoid: It might be easier to delete all tournaments created by that user.

kleineme: or maybe, simply, add some sort of 'don't show tournaments created by this user.' Fencer?

kleineme:

rabbitoid: Yes, it is really no fun anymore to look for new tournaments when all the interesting ones are buried under dozens of duplicates with the very same parameters and the very same starting date. If there is no admin or moderator available who could approach her and make her stop this nonsense, then in my opinion there should be at least an automated task which deletes those duplicates, probably already at creation.

rabbitoid: And this person userally deletes all their games after creating and making one or two moves. Not only that why is a pawn creating these games when they have no brains to enter themselves?
On second thoughts! Dont answer that!

Looks like someone has been turning tournament creation into a full time job.

rabbitoid:

Doesn't anyone else feel that 1259 defined tournament is a bit excessive?

Roberto Silva: Ah, that makes sense, now.