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Game Courier Tournament #4: An Introductory Semi-Potluck. A tournament to feature games good for introducing people to Chess variants.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
Jose Carrillo wrote on Sat, Apr 3, 2010 02:27 PM UTC:
Tournament standings so far (1 point per win, 0.5 for draws, only active players)

RankPlayerWinsTiesLossesIn ProgressPoints
1Vitya Makov60066
2Carlos Cetina51065.5
3Armin Liebhart41254.5
4Fergus Duniho40354
4Thomas McElmurry32164
6Jose Carrillo31263.5
7Nicholas Wolff10741
8Je Ju00660

Last game included: Carlos Cetina & Jose Carrillo draw in Circular Chess.

🕸📝Fergus Duniho wrote on Sat, Apr 3, 2010 02:25 AM UTC:
The games for the 4th round are all now assigned.

🕸📝Fergus Duniho wrote on Fri, Apr 2, 2010 02:35 AM UTC:
For the 4th round, these players will be paired together:

CIRCULAR CHESS
Nicholas Wolff (W) vs. Vitya Makov (B)
Carlos Cetina (W) vs. Thomas McElmurry (B)
Fergus Duniho (W) vs. Jose Carrillo (B)
Armin Liebhart (W) vs. Je Ju (B)

HYPERMODERN SHATRANJ
Armin Liebhart (W) vs. Thomas McElmurry (B)
Vitya Makov (W) vs. Carlos Cetina (B)
Fergus Duniho (W) vs. Nicholas Wolff (B)
Je Ju (W) vs. Jose Carillo (B)

MODERN CARRERA'S CHESS
Carlos Cetina (W) vs. Armin Liebhart (B)
Vitya Makov (W) vs. Fergus Duniho (B)
Thomas McElmurry (W) vs. Je Ju (B)
Jose Carillo (W) vs. Nicholas Wolff (B)

Since I'm tired, I will make the actual assignments tomorrow.

Jose Carrillo wrote on Mon, Mar 22, 2010 05:07 PM UTC:
No problem Thomas.

Everything is back in track.

You may want to update the email address on your profile though.

Thomas McElmurry wrote on Mon, Mar 22, 2010 03:22 PM UTC:
Yes, that's what happened.  I had gone back one move to look at the previous position, and then I think I just went back in my browser history, so that I was looking at the current position on screen, but the server was working with the previous position.  Usually I'm careful to avoid such things, but this time I forgot (I must have been distracted by my increasingly uncomfortable position).

I hadn't meant to take back a move, and I've replayed my previous move so that we can restore the correct game history.

🕸📝Fergus Duniho wrote on Mon, Mar 22, 2010 03:21 AM UTC:
It was probably an innocent mistake on his part, for in an earlier game, he told Sam that he should not be able to take back a move in a tournament game, and it is an easy mistake to make if you look at a previous move then aren't careful to select the last move in the game before entering your move. Just redo your last move before he took back a move, and leave a comment that he took back his last move and you're now restoring the game to its original state before he took it back. Select his 21st move in the Move List, click Preview, and you will see the position before you made your 21st move. Then repeat your original 21st move and leave a comment asking him to repeat his original 22nd move

Jose Carrillo wrote on Mon, Mar 22, 2010 12:55 AM UTC:
Fergus,

My opponent Thomas has made an illegal take back of moves in our 3rd round Euchess game.

How do we return the game to the position after my last legal move, which he also took back.

I sent my opponent an email to try to sort this out, but his email address is no longer valid, and the email bounced.

Can you please stop the clock in this game until the issue gets resolved?

Thanks.

Jose

http://play.chessvariants.org/pbm/play.php?game=Euchess&log=crazytom-j_carrillo_vii-2010-59-178

🕸📝Fergus Duniho wrote on Tue, Mar 2, 2010 03:29 AM UTC:
I have now assigned all the games for the third round, as I described in my previous message.

🕸📝Fergus Duniho wrote on Tue, Mar 2, 2010 03:06 AM UTC:
I'm getting ready to assign games for the third round. So that I'm clear on what I'm doing, I'll write out everything here first.

AJAX ORTHODOX CHESS

With Joe and Sam gone, we have five winners and three losers from the first round. So one pairing is of a winner vs. a loser (myself). For the next round:

Jose Carrillo (White) vs. Carlos Cetina (Black)
Thomas McElmurry (White) vs. Vitya Makov (Black)
Fergus Duniho (White) vs. Armin Liebhart (Black)
Je Ju (White) vs. Nicholas Wolff (Black)

EUCHESS

With Joe and Sam gone, we have three winners and five losers from the first round. So one pairing is a winner vs. a loser. For the next round:

Vitya Makov (White) vs. Carlos Cetina (Black)
Thomas McElmurry (White) vs. Jose Carillo (Black)
Armin Liebhart (White) vs. Je Ju (Black)
Nicholas Wolff (White) vs. Fergus Duniho (Black)

EURASIAN CHESS

One game was drawn, and with Joe and Sam gone, we have four winners and two losers from the first round. So all the winners get paired with winners, and those who lost get paired with those who drew.

Carlos Cetina (White) vs. Fergus Duniho (Black)
Jose Carillo (White) vs. Vitya Makov (Black)
Je Ju (White) vs. Thomas McElmurry (Black)
Nicholas Wolff (White) vs. Armin Liebhart (Black)

These are arranged so that no one plays the same color in all three games, but they are not arranged so that between this and the first round, each players has each side three times. Where a loser plays a winner or a drawer, the loser gets the advantage of playing White this round.

🕸📝Fergus Duniho wrote on Thu, Feb 25, 2010 04:21 PM UTC:
With Joe Joyce leaving the tournament, we have an even number of players again, allowing everyone remaining to be assigned all three games for each round. Hopefully, everyone else will remain, and we won't encounter this problem again. I will accept Nicholas' offer to make Modern Carrera's Chess his choice for the tournament.

Nicholas, let me know when you will be away, and I can either put off assigning your games or adjust your time controls.

Joe Joyce wrote on Wed, Feb 24, 2010 01:31 PM UTC:
Reluctantly, I will withdraw from the tournament. The combination of family obligations and health issues and the tournament's rather quick pace is proving extremely difficult for me. Hopefully everything will resolve over the next several months, and I will then be able to participate more than I have over the past year. But right now, events have more control over me than vice-versa. I'll finish my current games, and ask that no new ones be assigned me.

My apologies to the participants in the tournament. I have enjoyed playing each of you, and would enjoy continuing. These tournaments are an excellent way to play new games and meet old and new friends, and I'll miss not continuing. But at this point, I seem to be unable to play even somewhat competitively with any grace period of less than 3 weeks. Heh, should anyone wish to play a slow game with me, I'm available. I just don't seem to be able to juggle everything both quickly and successfully now. 

Joe

Nicholas Wolff wrote on Wed, Feb 24, 2010 10:58 AM UTC:
Fergus,

If it would be for the better, I can either resign from the tournament, as well, or take his choice of variant as my own.  Whatever would work best for you, I would do.  I am soon to depart for 3 weeks for work and I might not be able to play much, so I will not be upset whatever you choose.  Thanks!

-Nick

🕸📝Fergus Duniho wrote on Wed, Feb 24, 2010 01:51 AM UTC:
Since Sam Trenholme has quit, the math will not work out for assigning
everyone to all games in each round unless something changes. Here are some
possibilities:

1) Someone else replaces Sam in the tournament, playing what would have
been his games.

2) Someone else quits the tournament.

3) Players already in the tournament play extra games, so that everyone
remaining in the tournament gets to play at least three games each round.

4) Sam rejoins the tournament.

If none of these happen, then three players will play only two games in
each subsequent round. This would be shared among the players as much as
possible, but with a loss of twelve games, and only nine players to
distribute the loss among, some would lose out on playing two games.

I am also considering dropping Modern Carrera's Chess from the tournament,
because this was Sam's choice for the tournament, and he has reneged on
the terms for including his choice in the tournament. This opens up a few
possibilities:

1) Allow a new player to join the tournament and pick a replacement for the
remainder of the tournament.

2) Let someone in the tournament who has not already chosen one of the
games in the tournament take on Modern Carrera's Chess as his official
choice.

3) Let someone in the tournament who has not already chosen one of the
games pick a new one.

4) Just drop Modern Carrera's Chess from the tournament.

Assuming Sam doesn't rejoin, which would remove all problems here, I favor
replacing him with a new player, and I would consider offering the
incentive of letting the new player pick a replacement for the remainder of
the tournament. But I would prefer to keep the games the same. So if
someone who hasn't picked a game would like to make Modern Carrera's
Chess his official choice, and if a new player joined without picking a
replacement game, that would probably work best.

Assuming we don't get a new player, then having each player play one or
two extra games during the course of the tournament would be the next best
option. But this would require the willing participation of everyone.

Short of getting everyone's participation in this, we could do it like
this. Those who are willing to play in place of Sam in a game someone would
have played against him will get priority in getting an alternate opponent
for the game he would have played against Sam. Those who are not willing to
play extra games may miss out on playing all their games.

Or we could do it like this. Anyone who replaces Sam in a game gets the opportunity to raise his score in the tournament, but to keep things fair, this opportunity would be given only to someone who has already lost the game in question. That way, no one could win any game more than three times.

Thomas McElmurry wrote on Sat, Feb 20, 2010 08:09 PM UTC:
I was thinking of requesting the same thing before the next round of Circular Chess games. The JPEG compression artifacts can be rather distracting. In some cases one can get rid of them, e.g. by specifying quality=100 in the URL, but I couldn't find a way to make this work with my userid specified (e.g. when entering a move).

Vitya Makov wrote on Sat, Feb 20, 2010 05:45 PM UTC:
Fergus, I changed Circular Chess board JPG Quality from 50 to 100 and it looks pretty nice now. 
Can you change it as default? I cannot do this in the game I'm playing.

Sam Trenholme wrote on Sat, Feb 6, 2010 08:27 PM UTC:
I, sadly, have too much stress in my life right now to continue playing in this serious tournament. While it has been a pleasure playing everyone here, I am withdrawing from this tournament.

I will finish all games I am currently playing. After that, I will not start any new games.

- Sam


🕸📝Fergus Duniho wrote on Tue, Feb 2, 2010 03:20 AM UTC:
The games for the second round have now been assigned. I made it so that you moved second in as many games as you moved first in the first round. So, between the first two rounds, everyone moves first in three games and second in three games.

je ju wrote on Sun, Jan 24, 2010 04:26 AM UTC:
Thank you.

Carlos Cetina wrote on Fri, Jan 22, 2010 08:51 PM UTC:
Its name is gamecourier4.

je ju wrote on Fri, Jan 22, 2010 05:01 PM UTC:
What's the tournament filter name for this tournament?

Thanks

Jose Carrillo wrote on Mon, Jan 18, 2010 02:47 AM UTC:
Thanks Fergus.

Everything is back to normal.

🕸📝Fergus Duniho wrote on Mon, Jan 18, 2010 12:58 AM UTC:
It should be fixed now.

Carlos Cetina wrote on Sun, Jan 17, 2010 07:48 PM UTC:
The error is also affecting your new two Ajax Bigamous Chess presets.

Jose Carrillo wrote on Sun, Jan 17, 2010 01:34 PM UTC:
Everyone should be receiving the error below in their Ajax Orthodox Chess games:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ':' in /home1/chessvar/public_html/play/pbm/sets/alfaerie-ajax.php on line 2

Actually the error is affecting all my Ajax variants presets.

I asked Fergus last night to update the Ajax Piece set for Game Courier with a few more pieces for my Ajax Wars game coming up, but unfortunately there must have been a typo or something that messed up the Alfaerie for Ajax piece set I use in my Ajax variants.

I asked Fergus to take a look at it, and hope that the problem will be resolved soon.

Joe Joyce wrote on Thu, Jan 7, 2010 12:59 AM UTC:
Vitya, no, there is no 'bare king' rule in HyperModern Shatranj. The operative rule is: 

'Victory is by checkmating the opponent's king. Any other result is a draw.'

It is true that every other shatranj variant I designed has a bare king rule. However, by this point, the game is close enough to modern chess that such a rule was not considered. I don't recall Roberto, Christine, or I even mentioning it during our various discussions.

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