Comments/Ratings for a Single Item

This is the list, updated:                      Out
    * Todor Tchervenkov  ?                   * Fergus Duniho
    * Greg Strong  IN                        * Sam Trenholme
    * Joe Joyce  IN                            
    * Antoine Fourrière   ?             
    * carlos carlos   IN
    * Abdul-Rahman Sibahi   IN                CURRENT COUNT:
    * John Lewis   ?                            10 IN
    * Adrian Alvarez de la Campa   IN            8  ?
    * Gary Gifford   ?                           2 OUT
    * je ju   IN                              [Sorry you're out, Sam.]
    * Uri Bruck   IN
    * Calvin Pomerantz   ?
    * Michael Schmahl   ?
    * Nasmichael Farris   ?
    * David Paulowich   IN
    * juan rodriguez   IN
    * Bogot Bogot   ?
    * Jeremy Good   IN

I have asked someone (Je Ju) to confer with Juan Rodriguez about whether he intends to continue playing. I suspect he will.

I have tried to write to 'Bogot Bogot', but the email had bounced. He did successfully complete a short game against Abdul-Rahman Sibahi in his first tournament game. I don't think we can count him out of this tournament necessarily yet though. Bogot Bogot's presence here has been highly sporadic lately and I worry about him and miss his playing presence here. He is a good sport and so willing to try many different games. Hopefully he is just taking a hiatus, but maybe his internet access is spotty and hopefully nothing worse. [I would send Bogot Bogot an invite for his next game and just hope he shows up at some point. Since he actually completed his first game, it's only fair to assume that he's still participating.]

Nobody has heard anything from Fergus Duniho to my knowledge. Fergus, a great chess variant inventor and creator of the PBM Game Courier system, was running this tournament but he delayed the start quite a bit and then lost on time in his first tournament game.

This is the current list:                         Out
    * Todor Tchervenkov  ?                   * Fergus Duniho
    * Greg Strong  IN                        * Sam Trenholme
    * Joe Joyce  IN                            
    * Antoine Fourrière   IN            
    * carlos carlos   IN
    * Abdul-Rahman Sibahi   IN                CURRENT COUNT:
    * John Lewis   IN                           13 IN
    * Adrian Alvarez de la Campa   IN            5  ?
    * Gary Gifford   IN                          2 OUT
    * je ju   IN                              
    * Uri Bruck   IN
    * Calvin Pomerantz   ?
    * Michael Schmahl   ?
    * Nasmichael Farris   ?
    * David Paulowich   IN
    * juan rodriguez   IN
    * Bogot Bogot   ?
    * Jeremy Good   IN

At this point, it looks like we'll have about 15 players, and I think it'd be morally wrong to jerk people around this way and then not have the tournament... Carlos, would you do the honors?

Joe Joyce wrote:

'At this point, it looks like we'll have about 15 players, and I think it'd be morally wrong to jerk people around this way and then not have the tournament...

Carlos, would you do the honors?'

If these games are being assigned one-at-a-time by Carlos, then he can continue this tournament by assigning games between the 'IN' players and simply ignoring the 'OUT' players. One way to check out the '?' players would be to assign each of them a game and drop anyone who forfeits on time from the remainder of the tournament. Speaking of forfeits, no tournament here has ever been 'officially' rated (check the ratings page for Alice Chess).

Reminder: Game Filter * and Tournament Filter *III on the Game Courier Ratings page will list the players by 'rating', which (mostly) places them in order of points scored. Reminder: clicking the [Ratings] button on any game you are looking at will take you to the GCR page.

how about this?

i'll get two games going for everyone (except sam and fergus) after work today.  i'll use the same time controls we used for round 1, and the games will be rated.

is that cool?

i just assigned the game between adrian and sam as a test to see if it would come up under the right filters when you search on the logs page and the ratings page.  this seemed to work.  i know that sam is not playing anymore.  if adrian moves, sam will presumably time out and it will be logged as a victory for adrian.  sorry, sam, for the automatic loss.  i'm sure you don't mind too much.

joe/david/whoever,

the ratings page is a good way to keep track of results.  however... joe has a victory over fergus.  everyone else gains a victory over fergus by default (right?).  but these victories won't show up on the logs page (they will never be played/won).  there might be more examples of this if any of the question marks don't compete from round 2 on.  

assigning a bunch of dead games (like the one i just assigned between adrian and sam) doesn't seem like a good answer because those players would lose all the games for the (unofficial) ratings page if they ever return.  also a waste of time, although it's doable.

does anyone know how to get into this 'game courier tournament #3' page and color in the squares in the chart from time to time to keep it updated?

other solutions?  just wait till the end?

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.