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Thanks Fergus.

Everything is back to normal.

What's the tournament filter name for this tournament?

Thanks

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

- Sam

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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,

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

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.

No problem Thomas.

Everything is back in track.

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

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.