Comments by carlos

reminder for people playing avalanche chess:

White has a large advantage. White's advantage is reduced in BALANCED AVALANCHE CHESS in which White had no pawn push on the first move.

ok, i think i have assigned everyone two games except:

todor tchervenkov
calvin pomerantz
bogot bogot
nasmichael farris

you four have one game each.  if you move, i'll assign you another game. 

there's a bunch of anti-king and avalanche chess games, and then a mix to try and get everyone playing two games at once.

please double-check that i assigned white to the correct player in your games.

note: having no idea what fergus used when tagging the rounds (when defining a new round) i just called them 1,2,3... in order from top to bottom as they appear on the chart on this page.

oops.

just ignore that game as far as the tournament goes?

i'll get some more games assigned soon.

i plan to assign more games this week when some people have timed out of their second-round games.  i'll get it up to four active games each.  at the end of each month, i'll do the same thing (assign enough games so that people have four active games).

does anyone object to this?  if you only want 2 or 3 games going, please say so.

antoine, you know how to delete logs, right?

can you please delete these:

jejujeju-adrian-2007-245-672
adrian-sam_trenholme-2007-232-275
antoinefourriere-rodriguez-2007-245-678

thanks!

i can re-assign that last game properly after it's deleted (or you can if you want).  i can't do it while that one still exists.  the first two don't need to exist at all.

thanks.  and one more:

carlos-jeju-2007-225-244

new games assigned, please check... that will probably be it for a good six weeks.

antoine, if you could update the grid again sometime, please do. thanks.

antoine/anyone else who knows how,

please delete these logs:
bruck-judgmentality-20070316-504 (wrong time limits)
rodriguez-sibahi-2007-316-497 (never opens)

sorry for the long delay, out of the country with unpredictable internet access for the last six weeks.  more games up... again, check your opponents/colors.

also, on games which hadn't been played before, i manually set and slightly altered the time controls to try and avoid the time display error that's been happening.

everyone should have 2-4 active games.

there are only really 13 players taking part in the tournament.  results after all games completed so far:

(points/games completed)

adrian de la campa 5/7
antoine fourriere 6/7
abdul-raman sibahi 1/4
carloscarlos 3/5
david paulowich 5/6
gary gifford 2/2
greg strong 3/5
je ju 1/5
jeremy good 2/6
joe joyce 1/1 
juan rodriguez 1/7
michael schmahl 2/5
todor tchervenkov 3/4
uri bruck 0/5


i guess you could add an extra six wins for everybody if you wanted for all the people who pulled out.

thanks, antoine.  i also messed up these modern shatranj games which need to be deleted.  
tchervenkov-jeju-2007-316-504
penswift-carlos-2007-316-527

i'll assign replacement games later today or tomorrow.

yeah, i meant shatranj of troy.

gary, i messed up the time settings.  when i saw that game this morning, i had about 18 hours on the clock!

abdul, i guess it's the same either way.  either everybody gets a win against bogot, or nobody does.

sorry, antoine.  the shatranj of troy games are wrong again.  i'm pretty sure i entered correct time settings this time, maybe not.  i'll just use the default ones i guess.  

can you delete them again?

i just read joe's comment about the email notifications.  how long has this been happening? (i didn't notice because the email address i use is different from the one chessvariants sends out to, i've always just checked the site.)

is it the reason a few tournament games have been lost on time recently?

if so, what should we do about it?  it seems fair to replay any games lost on time for this reason...

new games assigned...

do me a favor and check colors, opponents, time controls of your games... 

antoine, there is one weird game i just saw which hasn't seen a move in 44 days, yet nobody has timed out?  any ideas about that one?

gary, 

this is what i was thinking: if the lost players don't confirm an interest within two weeks, they forfeit all their remaining games.

joe, 

i'm sick of you holding up the tournament with your slow-play!

only kidding.  if you both make your first move, that should give antoine enough time to see this and change the time settings on the game...