In the FAQ's it says;

What does "S-B" column at tournament tables mean?

S-B is an abbreviation for Sonneborn-Berger system. It is used to specify an order of players with the same number of points and is based on a theory that points earned with a stronger opponent are more valuable than with a weaker one. The S-B value is a total sum of points of opponents who lost the tournament game with the player and half points of opponents who drawn the tournament game with the player. Only if two or more players have the same number of "normal" and S-B points, they share the same final order.

http://brainking.com/en/FAQ?ht=19

Hope that helps?

Summertop: Oh, wait...it has nothing to do with losses. He beat a higher ranked player. Whereas, I beat a lower ranked player. But then again, playing each other...didn't offset the other games. I would still like to know what "points" are added up, though.

Can someone explain the Sonneborn-Berger system as implemented in Tournaments? It basically says it is the sum of points of the players that I beat (1/2 points if drawn). And, points earned with stronger players are more valuable than those from weaker players. What "points" are actually used to calculate it?

In the link provided for a tournament I am in, I and Uil tied in points. We played each other twice and split the games. Since he is ranked higher (better player), shouldn't I have I higher S-B score? Also, we each lost one more game. The opponent I lost too had a higher rating (better player) than the one Uil lost to. So again, shouldn't I have a higher S-B score? After that we each beat the same opponents... Uil, is a great player and I don't really care about the outcome. I would just like to know how it is calculated.

Maybe simplify...if we both beat every other player, but split the two games (we each won one). Who would have the higher S-B score? and why?

Bry: Only new memberships count. It means, your own renewal does not.

Fencer: Can we receive Brains for our own membership renewals? - like a loyalty bonus?

I see that if a member who you referred initially renews, that doesn't count, but what about our own renewal?

Fencer: That, I always knew!

Bry: No. What you buy, you get. It's up to you how you use it. You can spend Brains to extend your membership or purchase a membership for another user. You can save them for a later use. Or you can pay a tournament entry fee with them and hope you will be one of the winners and win a thousand or two. But, as I always say, it's just an option and everyone can use all advantages and features of BrainKing without any Brains.

Fencer: So, in theory, if I buy 150 Brains at 5 Euro, I am only actually buying 105 Brains for 5 Euro, because 30% of them will "disappear" if I use them?

playBunny: Yes.

Fencer: That' a bit unclear but it sounds as if you're saying the 30% becomes yours.

Bry: The 30% goes nowhere. In other words, it remains on the BrainKing account.

In a tournament where you use Brains to enter..... why is the maximum prize fund of Brains only 70% of the amount used to enter?

Why are 100% of Brains used to enter used in the prize fund?

Where does the other 30% go?, bearing in mind people may have paid money to purchase them to be used in a tournament.

Czuch Chuckers: Heh heh. Very funny.

Czuch Chuckers:

Fencer: So can we pass these on to our children as well, in our will?

i didn't read it properly and thought the bonus was 3 days and not 3 hours lol

Thank you playBunny, Vikings, Pedro Martinez, Pythagoras, and fubster! I have had trouble understanding this but with all your versions of explaning it, I think I finally get it! :) I appreciate your help! I have to do some reevaluating of those tournaments I sign up for when I'm needing to do silly things like SLEEP! lol

Mary Jo: In that kind of game the 1 day is the total amount of time in which you can play moves. Let's ignore the bonuses for now and just imagine a couple of those sand-filled timers. There's one for each player. If the sand runs out then that player lose the match. Unlike the ordinary sand timers, though, these ones don't get turned over. Rather they get switched on and off. Yours is losing sand all the time that it's your turn. When you move yours stops and your opponent's starts losing sand. So, there's not a heap of sand per move but for the whole game.

Now let's consider the bonuses. This has the efect of topping up your sand each time you move, by 3 hours-worth in this case.

Looking at your game it says that you played 9 moves. Your timer will have lost the sand between each move - the period from when your opponent moved to when you did. If you add all that time up then that's more sand than there was available.

So how much sand did you have? 24 hours (the initial 1 day) plus 9 bonuses of 3 hours, giving 51 hours in total. At the point that your opponent made his last move you must have had only 4.5 hours of sand left .. and hence the timeout.

Mary Jo: it is using a fisher clock which means that you have 1 day total to play the whole game with a 3 hour bonus, to make it simple for example if you wait 8 hours to make your move you would have 16 hours left plus 3 hours for your bonus for a total of 19 hours to make your next move, if you wait 5 hours when it is your next turn to move you ould have 14 hours left plus 3 for a total of 17 hours to make your next turn,. these games can catch up with you when you have to work or sleep so its a good idea to play these games first when you are on-line to add up the bonus time

Mary Jo: If you moved 1.5 hours before the "deadline" on your last move, you had only 4.5 hours left after your opponent moved. If you moved in the last second before you'd time out, you'd have only 3 hours for your next move. I think it's quite simple.

Mary Jo:
When a game has:
Time for game : Time: 1 day, Bonus: 3 hours, Limit: 10 days, no days off

Then it means that:
You have 1 day = 24hours to play the whole game and not the move.
That means: if your opponent plays a move and then 2 hours later you play your response, you will then have 24-2 = 22 hours to play the game.
If your opponent makes another move later and you play after 8 hours(from his response), then you will have 22-8 = 14 hours left to play the whole game.

But that with bonus = 0. With bonus = 3 hours like here, after your move you will have 3 hours added to your time left for the whole game....

Limit = 10 days, just declares that if you play many moves quickly and the bonus is not 0, so your time for the whole game increases, this value can't go above 10 days....

The same exists for your opponent of course.

Mary Jo: I'm finding it difficult to keep up in this set of tournements too. You have one day to start with and 3 hours gets added on if you move within a certain time. but its not necessarily one day a move as i found out lol.

Hi, I can't seem to understand the whole time out thing on games.... in this game....

http://brainking.com/en/ArchivedGame?g=1363114

it's a game that has a 1 day time limit. I last played on 2/3 @ 1748 and my opponent played 2/4 @ 0237....then I got a message that I lost my game and timed out on 2/4 @ 0709. That was only about 13.5 hours since my last move and only 4.5 hours since my opponents last move. What am I not understanding here? lol Help!

... have been added to the Paid Membership page.

Stevie: ROFL!!!!

I was thinking that as I posted it.

Eriisa: Sorry Globlady, I cant say,, harley will tell me off for being off topic hehe

Eriisa: I understood "bottoms"

Stevie: You wish

botties......... hmmmmmm


somebody care to translate that into American English...

bottles or booty

Pythagoras: I think we had our wrists slapped hehe we better dissapear afore we get our botties smacked next

Stevie:

harley: I didn't start it but i continue it.....
Sorry Harley

harley: hands up... "sorry miss" i stopped

Pythagoras & Stevie:

Stevie: It was just the Reversi games! If you have another case or even sign or even any other small evidence then just give it or stop throwing things in the air....! But i don't care anyway if you accuse me or not because i know the truth and i only care about non-weakies statements....

Pythagoras: its ok, was just checking who you were.... wasnt just the reversi games was it LOL

Anyways,, back to the subject in question now please

Stevie: No, i used my program at Reversi 8x8 because i was beta testing it.....You can't just understand/believe it right?

After the game you said: Do you use Zebra?
I replied: No i use my own written program that is trying to solve the game with 28, bla,bla,bla....
Do you think that, i would tell you that if i wanted to cheat? Also i proposed you and Fencer to delete my game against you and actually against all my other opponents.....
Once again my honesty(by telling you the truth) had the opposite result as i expected.....

Pedro Martínez: Oh well.. now you are just like us lowly's of the site..

We can all talk to you again.. haha

ScarletRose: Nah, just 4.5 months...:)

Pythagoras: for sure, and Im sure Filip would get more people willing to fork out 280euro for that black/gold topped rook than would fork out for a maharajah..... especially as neither gives you anything extra other than a diferent iconic status..

BTW, aint you the guy who used programmes cos you didnt like to lose?

Pedro Martínez: Wow.. you went back to just a rook.. I thought you had a full year??

Stevie: Yes it would be interesting if the dark people tell us how did they come up with being dark..... Did Fencer proposed that or it was them....? And how they knew it.....?
Too many questions.....

surely something should have been announced to everyone?
that was a tad selective and sneaky if you ask me :o(

furbster: I'm sure there are more people than 4 who know about it.

pauloaguia: You apparently haven't had a chance to taste the glory of Brain Maharajah.

Pedro Martínez: So... it means that for 28% of the value of a Maharajah membership for one year, you get a lifetime Rook membership? Which has exactly the same benefits... So who'd want to pay for a Maharajah then?

Pedro Martínez: How come only 4 people know about this then?

BIG BAD WOLF:

BIG BAD WOLF: Exactly! What a deal, huh?

Pythagoras: I saw a post on the Czech general chat board where Venuše said you'd have to pay a least a 10-year rook membership in order to get a life-long one.

Pedro Martínez: If you do that now, and get the February bonus - does that make it lifetime+ 1/2 of your next life?