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Game Courier Tournament #3. Vote for which games should be in the third Game Courier tournament.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]I will try to get things started within the week. I am currently working 40 hour weeks and trying to find time to exercise when I'm not working. This doesn't leave me with a lot of time to focus on this.
I´m afraid I can´t play the Tournament, I can´t be a regular player in the next months. Sorry.
Assuming that no one else quits, these are the games for the next tournament: Alice Chess Anti-King Chess II Avalanche Chess Berolina Chess Cannons of Chesstonia Catapults of Troy Crazyhouse Moderate Progressive Chess Janus Chess Korean Chess Omega Chess Pocket Mutation Chess Shako Mir Chess 32 Modern Shatranj Templar Chess Fusion Chess Capablanca Random Chess Glinkski's Hexagonal Chess Time Travel Chess Voidrider Chess Dimension X Falcon Chess Neutral King Chess Shatranj of Troy If anyone else wants to drop out before we begin, let me know. Anyone with a ballot in the preference poll is considered registered for this tournament. The registrants are as follows: Todor Tchervenkov Greg Strong Joe Joyce Antoine Fourrière Fergus Duniho carlos carlos Abdul-Rahman Sibahi John Lewis Adrian Alvarez de la Campa Gary Gifford je ju Sam Trenholme Uri Bruck Calvin Pomerantz Michael Schmahl Nasmichael Farris David Paulowich juan rodriguez Bogot Bogot Jeremy Good With 20 participants, each player will play 19 games. So each participant will be able to choose six of the 25 games he doesn't want to play. But first things first, and that is to make sure everyone listed here is intending to participate in the tournament. If you want to drop out, let me know now.
The six games I do not wish to play are: [Anti-King Chess II] [Berolina Chess] [Crazyhouse] [Dimension X] [Glinkski's Hexagonal Chess] [Voidrider Chess].
I should note that I never use email for my games on Game Courier (which is why my personid page does not give an email address). Also, my email address will probably be changing again in January.
Edit: I see that inventors are allowed to play their own games in Game Courier Tournaments. I would be happy to play [Modern Shatranj] against Joe Joyce, as he has kindly playtested my Mir Chess variants on several occasions.
for me: glinskis hexagonal chess omega chess templar chess time travel chess capablanca random chess modern shatranj
The games I don't want to play are : *Berolina Chess *Dimesion X *Shako *Mir Chess *Korean Chess *Shatranj of Troy and thank you.
I'll choose not to play shantraj of troy glinski's hexagonal c voidrider c time travel c dimension x berolina c
I'd rather not play these: Shatranj of Troy Templar Chess Berolina Chess Dimension X Mir Chess 32
I'd rather not play... Shatranj of Troy Templar Chess Berolina Chess Mir Chess 32 Glinskis hexagonal In addition, I will be traveling from Sept 23 to Oct 7. My internet access will be limited, though I should have occassional access. Before and after those dates I anticipate the likelihood of multiple moves daily.
Remember you get to list six, not just five, games you don't want to play. There aren't any I don't want to play. I hope that's okay.
Yes, that's okay. Everyone will play the same number of games, but the fewer you choose to not play, the easier it will be for me to accomodate everyone's wishes. In the event that I cannot accomodate everyone's wishes, since it will be a tough logistical problem to do so, it will help for everyone to rank the games they prefer not to play from most to least undesirable.
I can't make any promises about who will get to play whom at what. The logistics of accomodating everyone's preferences will force many choices.
I don't want to play at least these four: Avalanche Chess, Berolina Chess, Time Travel Chess, and Falcon Chess. I'll think more on this when I come up with the pairings. If not everyone has given their preferences by Sunday or whenever I get around to pairing people up, I will assume the rest are willing to play any games. So if you have preferences, get them in soon.
1 time travel c 2 dimension x 3 shantraj of troy 4 berolina c 5 glinski's hexagonal c 6 pocket mutation c
Joe Joyce wrote on Tue, Sep 12, 2006 10:59 PM UTC:Games I'd prefer not to play: 1 - Neutral King 2 - Crazyhouse 3 - Berolina 4 - Moderate Progressive 5 - Avalanche 6 - Anti-King II rated from 1 [maybe I could play this reluctantly] to 6 [rather eat glass]. Hey, David, Modern Shatranj is the only game I've played to any extent I've never lost; you trying to ding me in the tourney? ;-)
yeah you havn't lost any at MS, but have you won any? :)
Joe Joyce wrote on Wed, Sep 13, 2006 12:30 PM UTC:Actually, yes, amazingly enough! And while my opponent was only 8, it was a good win! The rumors of a bribe to take a dive cannot be substantiated. The large bowl of chocolate icecream given immediately after the game was strictly for good sportsmanship. The $20 was for cab fare. Now, who have you beaten, huh? I heard you trained a wallaby to jump onto the board at a secret hand signal. And you've certainly never adequately refuted *that* charge in print.
It looks like Berolina is on everyone's list; how did this game do so well in the poll?
Are we suppose to list the games here in public that we'd rather not play in the tournament? Or, should we send an e-mail to Fergus or another designated CV person? I don't recall publically displaying non-preference choices last year. Also, when do we need to send in the choices? Thanks.
Fergus, For the purposes of making your work easier, I really don't mind what I'm sceduled not to play. That being said, I would like to play Shako, Alice and Dimension X. Not because I'm particularly skilled in any of them (check my ranking for verification of that), but because I have played them. Ignore my prior list of games I'd rather not play. Plug me in any place that makes your efforts easier. Thanks
I would like to play Alice Chess Anti-King Chess II Avalanche Chess Berolina Chess Cannons of Chesstonia Catapults of Troy Pocket Mutation Chess Shako Glinkski's Hexagonal Chess Falcon Chess I would prefer to avoid Janus Chess Modern Shatranj Shatranj of Troy
As I mentioned in a comment a week or two ago, I'll have unpredictable internet access from Sept 22 to Oct 8. I had hoped that I'd have made enough moves in my first round of games (or even finished them) to bank enough 'extra' time to not have any time expiration issues. As the games haven't started yet, I'm a little concerned that I might get dealt games the day I leave and not even know about them until they are finished due to time expiration. If there is any way to sort this out (like a bye in round one or unlimited time in round one games) it'd be greatly appreciated. If not, I understand and will accept my fate. Thanks. J
Thank you very much. I will repost when I return. Good luck, all.
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