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carlos carlos wrote on Tue, Mar 25, 2008 10:14 AM UTC:
i can help assigning the games.  i'll also play.

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carlos carlos wrote on Thu, Mar 27, 2008 02:25 AM UTC:
i've made a table with all the updated results and excluding FD,ST,CP,JL,BB and NF as they didn't complete any games. that leaves 14 players and 13 possible points for each player.

the table won't paste properly into a comment. any ideas? it's just a regular spreadsheet table.

here's the leaderboard though. possible score is in brackets.

GG 11.5 (12.5) AF 11 (12) CC 9 (9) DP 8.5 (9.5) JJ 7.5 (10.5) MS 7 (9) TT 6.5 (8.5) AA 6 (6) GS 5 (5) Je 4 (7) JG 3 (3) UB 2 (3) AR 2 (2) JR 1 (1)

so gary needs at least a half-point from his last game to win the tournament (i think he would win on the countback rules fergus used). antoine could win the tournament if he beats todor and gary loses to michael.

3rd-7th all depend on results from the final round of games too. joe has the third highest possible score at this stage.


Maces and Horse-apults. Chess with mace pieces and specialized catapults (horse-apults). (10x10, Cells: 100) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
carlos carlos wrote on Thu, Mar 27, 2008 04:35 PM UTC:
gary, can pawns promote to anything?

can a horse-apult fire the other horse-apult?

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carlos carlos wrote on Mon, Mar 31, 2008 01:49 PM UTC:
ok, i'll play if enough people sign up.  a couple of things - several
important GC3 games are still in progress and could go on for a while. 
that could affect registration...  i also think the 48-hour window for
vetoes is too short - a week might be better.

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carlos carlos wrote on Tue, Apr 1, 2008 04:15 PM UTC:
updated scores (sorry for the ugly format):

GG 12.5 (12.5) AF 11 (12) CC 9 (9) JJ 8.5 (10.5) DP 8.5 (9.5) MS 7 (8) TT 6.5 (8.5) AA 6 (6) GS 5 (5) Je 4 (6) JG 3 (3) UB 2 (3) AR 2 (2) JR 1 (1)

gary goes unbeaten and defends his GC2 title.  there are still a few games going on but congratulations gary and antoine, who are guaranteed first and second.  way too good again...

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carlos carlos wrote on Tue, Apr 8, 2008 03:52 PM UTC:
wormhole chess
hole chess
falcon chess

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carlos carlos wrote on Thu, Apr 10, 2008 03:31 PM UTC:
updated scores (sorry for the ugly format, got anything better david?):

GG 12.5 (12.5) AF 12 (12) CC 9 (9) JJ 8.5 (10.5) DP 8.5 (9.5) MS 7 (8) TT 6.5 (7.5) AA 6 (6) GS 5 (5) Je 5 (6) JG 3 (3) AR 2 (2) UB 2 (2)  JR 1 (1)

dead-heats:
AR beats UB
GS beats Je (although Je still has a possible point)

third and fourth place still up for grabs.

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carlos carlos wrote on Tue, Apr 15, 2008 01:07 PM UTC:
about the rules of wormhole chess: the trapped pawns on d3 and d8 are
allowed a single diagonal move to begin.  i don't think this is written
in the rules.

carlos carlos wrote on Tue, Apr 15, 2008 01:14 PM UTC:
seeing as we are allowed to veto for any reason at all, i'll go for...

circular chess with crooked bishops and queen 
eight stone 
hammer chess 
hostage chess
racing kings
rococo
save the standard 13x13
titan chess

carlos carlos wrote on Wed, Apr 23, 2008 01:25 PM UTC:
most games are up.  

charles, which preset do you want to use: 
Charles Birds (vs Donut)


you can check on the games by entering PL1 in the games field.  counting
them, the joe-juan game of atlantean doesn't show up tho, not sure why.

for some reason something is wrong with the games involving graeme.  maybe
i used the wrong username.  graeme, if you can't access those games let me
know.  however, i don't have the power to delete/alter games so i guess i
will just reassign them.

carlos carlos wrote on Thu, Apr 24, 2008 02:29 PM UTC:
i wondered about that.  i entered grayhawke without the 2, but i noticed
that the game logs all say grayhawke2.  i'm not sure why that happened,
or what to do.  maybe you could create a new username if it's no big
deal?

carlos carlos wrote on Fri, Apr 25, 2008 01:52 AM UTC:
graeme,

i did enter grayhawke... every time. i don't know why it changed it to
grayhawke2.

carlos carlos wrote on Fri, Apr 25, 2008 01:36 PM UTC:
done!

joe, jeju, juan - please move in the new games.

carlos carlos wrote on Sat, Apr 26, 2008 03:26 AM UTC:
i think all the first round games are up now, let me know if anything is
missing/wrong.

carlos carlos wrote on Sun, Apr 27, 2008 02:09 PM UTC:
yeah, i think i must have forgotten to enter the tournament field for that
one...

Hole Chess. Variant on a board of 44 squares with two holes that pieces can be dragged into. (7x10, Cells: 44) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
carlos carlos wrote on Sun, May 18, 2008 04:20 AM UTC:
gary:

is it correct that there is no obligation to move out of check (if you can instead capture the opponent's king)?

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carlos carlos wrote on Fri, May 23, 2008 02:08 PM UTC:
cool, but see my earlier comment - some of the games you are counting don't count because people lost on time and then didn't really play any games at all...  

how do you get yours to stay in nice lines?

carlos carlos wrote on Sun, Jun 8, 2008 01:08 AM UTC:
here are the official results. Name Userid Gary Gifford penswift 12.5 Antoine Fourri?e antoinefourriere 12 Joe Joyce joejoyce 10.5 carlos carlos carlos 9 David Paulowich david_64 8.5 Michael Schmahl mschmahl 7 Todor Tchervenkov tchervenkov 6.5 Adrian Alvarez de la Campa adrian 6 je ju jejujeju 6 Greg Strong mageofmaple 5 Jeremy Good judgmentality 3 Abdul Raman Sibahi sibahi 2 Uri Bruck bruck 2 juan rodriguez rodriguez 1 congratulations again gary! about the figures: i have double-checked these numbers. there are several differences between my numbers and david's numbers. i have included all players who properly completed at least one game. this is irrelevant to the final order though because if i included the other three or four as well it would just mean everybody got the same number of extra wins. at a certain stage in the tournament adrian, greg, jeremy and abdul became inactive players. from that point on, any games between an active player and an inactive player were given as wins to the active player. any games between two inactive players were given as wins to the black player (because white would have timed out first).

Altair. Altair is a modern game with an oriental flavor. (9x9, Cells: 81) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
carlos carlos wrote on Sat, Jun 28, 2008 07:52 AM UTC:
'It takes by jumping (like piece of draughts but in all directions), jumping an enemy piece diagonally.'

so can it or can't it take orthogonally?

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carlos carlos wrote on Thu, Oct 16, 2008 01:47 AM UTC:
No objection from me, Charles.

I will try and get onto assigning these games over the weekend.

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carlos carlos wrote on Thu, Oct 16, 2008 01:49 AM UTC:
I don't have the time at the moment to organize GC4 either.

Good to see you again, Fergus!

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