Gameroom Chess Tourney?

Idea would be to get 32 or 64 and then do a tourney. Each pair does a best of three and winner advances. Play by PM, EM, or chat with both players reporting results. Semi's and Finals played in the thread with others allowed to comment -- but not coach.

Thoughts?

Interest?

Tournament Pairings.

Unable to establish single elimination bracketing without a ridiculous number of byes. Therefore, we will proceed in pseudo World Cup format. All assignments were made using random number sequences generated by random.org.

4 Groups will be established and players will play two games against each member of their group. Players will decide the format of their match (web, pbem, pbchat, ftf) between themselves. Both players will report the results of their games to the thread. Players earn 2 points for a win, and 1 point for a draw. The highest two point scorers from each group will then play a "1st to achieve 2 wins" to determine the group winner. The high score takes white in the first game, then players alternate until a conclusion is reached.

The Group A winner will face the Group C winner in a semi-final "1st to achieve 2 wins" match. Initial color determined by coin flip or other mutually acceptable manner. Again both players report results.

The Group B winner will face the Group D winner in a semi-final "1st to achieve 2 wins" match. Rest as for A v C.

The Final will be a "1st to achieve 2 wins" match between the winners of the semi-final round. Finals games will be played in the thread with players submitting moves alternately. The losers of the semi-final rounds can play a "Bronze" match or just skip it and head to the pub at their discretion.


Group Play:

You will have one week to conclude your 2 games with your 1st group opponent (one as each color). Subsequent pairings must complete in 4 days (we'll have our systems down by then and can speed up).

Within each group, the order of play will be as follows:

1st pairing: N1 v N4, N2 v N5, N3 v N6.
2nd pairing: N1 v N5, N2 v N6, N3 v N4.
3rd pairing: N1 v N6, N2 v N3, N4 v N5.
4th pairing: N1 v N2, N3 v N5, N4 v N6.
5th pairing: N1 v N3, N2 v N4, N5 v N6.

Group A: Results

A1 = Cambovenzi 2-1-0
A2 = Andres 0-1-0
A3 = w&f 1-1-0 0-2-0
A4 = Horus
A5 = Xiahou
A6 = Pannonian 3-1-0

Group B:

B1 = Martok 0-6-1
B2 = Caius 0-4-1
B3 = Beefy 0-2-0
B4 = Rhy' 2-0-0
B5 = Wasp 4-0-0
B6 = Asen 6-0-0

Group C:

C1 = Arach 5-3-0
C2 = Factionheir 5-1-0
C3 = shlin 0-4-0
C4 = Ichigo 6-0-0
C5 = Makaikhan 0-6-0
C6 = Winter 2-4-0

Group D:

D1 = QJC 2-0-0
D2 = Glyphz 2-0-0
D3 = Seamus 2-0-0
D4 = Aries 0-2-0
D5 = GH 0-2-0
D6 = pevergreen 0-2-0

Play begins by 0001 GMT 22 October 2008; 1st pairings to be completed no later than 7 days after that time. Good Luck!

I would give it a shot. Prolly wouldn't win, not by a long shot, but i'd try.

Sure.

I'd definitely take part in this.

I'd be in.

Sounds fun, count me in.

Must be in.

Ill represent my country- Kingdom of Beefness

In!

sure

Sure thing.

Sure. I'll probably lose quickly too, but why not?

I'll join so no one would feel bad about themselves.

I'll join so Quintus doesn't feel bad about himself :wink:

Are you planning on posting this anywhere else Seamus? I'm sure there are a bunch of people who play chess that don't visit the Gameroom.

Do you have to be very good? I've not played for ages but I know the rules and I played a bit in the past, I'd be interested in joining.

This is about a boardgame, right? You might want to work things out with the Arena staff, because that is also the place for boardgame discussion.

The Entrance Hall also probably isn't a bad place - it might give some newer members a way to feel as if they are more of the community.

How will be doing this? We should use the Arcade for this, you know, use the Tournament system. Its buggy I know.

EDit.Wont work. It could for other games.

We could play off-site; I used to frequent www.instantchess.com a few years ago. Just pick a nickname that's not taken and go in. I think if we set up a time we could challenge each other.

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Originally Posted by Caledonian Rhyfelwyr

Do you have to be very good? I've not played for ages but I know the rules and I played a bit in the past, I'd be interested in joining.

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I second this question. I love chess, but I've only done so *very* sparsely in the last few years -- and even when I was playing regularly, I was still never more than an average player. :sweatdrop:


That being said, I'm definitely interested. :yes:

Hello everyone. There's a Hurricane heading this way, as a lot of you probably already know, and depending on how much damage is sustained here I could be without internet access from a week or two to up to or beyond a month. When the last one hit around here in 05 or 06 (Rita) I believe power to this area wasn't fully restored until almost a month later. If that is the case and you guys decide to start before I return then leave me out or whatever you decide is fine Seamus.

Thanks,
Ichigo

I would join...

But I better warn you, I am very very very very very very...

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bad at chess...

im a bit confused about how this works, but i can play chess....quite roughly....

i'll play,i like chess but i havent played fora while and i just no im going out first...:yes:

I will most definitely have to defend my honour here!

Hopefully it'll work out with time zones and such.

I'd probably be interested, but I won't be too good at it.....Yeah the hard part would be to find a suitable online chess thing that would allow for this. Also, would we be playing with the timer?

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Originally Posted by TevashSzat

I'd probably be interested, but I won't be too good at it.....Yeah the hard part would be to find a suitable online chess thing that would allow for this. Also, would we be playing with the timer?

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We could always just do the old style PBM to if everything falls through.

Definitely in, I use www.gameknot.com for my current games, IIRC you have to play at least 5 games before you could setup a tournament so maybe a different site will be better to set up the comp.

usually with correspondence chess you can set the limit for x amount of days, with gameknot each player plays 2 games against everyone else (1 white 1 black obvs) and the scores are totalled so it's more like a league than a cup style game.

If you wanted to use gameknot then I don't mind playing all comers and resigning after 4 moves or so to give people the 5 game minimum.

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Originally Posted by Lord Winter

We could always just do the old style PBM to if everything falls through.

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The problem with that is that it would take ages to finish the tournament. Think about it: I would say 3 or 4 days is probably the fastest you can finish a reasonably long game so it would take over a week for 3 games to be played out and if 32 players played, it would take probably at least 2 months at a conservative estimate

I would be more than happy to show you all how rusty I have gotten.

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Originally Posted by TevashSzat

I'd probably be interested, but I won't be too good at it.....Yeah the hard part would be to find a suitable online chess thing that would allow for this. Also, would we be playing with the timer?

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uhhhhhhhhhh! no timer, i cant stand time limits OCD coming on, OCD!

So... is this gonna start?

I second Caius: Any word?

seamus seems quite active, but isnt checking this at the moment, he hasnt updated the mafia list either, if you see this seamus please do...on the waiting queue assuming the 3 you havent put down yet can go ahead in due time...

blump

I suppose we can discuss how to play each other, rules and time etc while we wait for Seamus. Maybe a practice round or two.

Any ideas?

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Originally Posted by GeneralHankerchief

We could play off-site; I used to frequent www.instantchess.com a few years ago. Just pick a nickname that's not taken and go in. I think if we set up a time we could challenge each other.

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Just have anyone play anyone, keep records and post games here, and eventually there would be something of a consensus over who's the best. Over at TWC, I and Harry Lime beat everyone until we played each other, and he beat me in both legs.

Instantchess, 25 mins each. Copy into a blank textfile, change the extension to .pgn, then open it with something like Winboard.

[White "Arthur Sandmeier"]
[Black "pannonian"]
[Event "InstantChess"]
[WhiteElo "1186"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ICCause "2"]
[ICEcause "3"]

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.Bb5+ Nc6 4.Nc3 a6 5.Bc4 e6 6.Qe2 Nf6 7.O-O Be7 8.d3 b5 9.Bb3 Bb7 10.d4 c4 11.Rd1 cxb3 12.cxb3 Qc7 13.a4 O-O 14.Ng5 Rfe8 15.Qd3 g6 16.Qg3 Rac8 17.Qh3 Bf8 18.Bf4 e5 19.dxe5 Nxe5 20.Nd5 Bxd5 21.Rxd5 Qd7 22.Rad1 Qxh3 23.Nxh3 Nxd5 24.exd5 Rc2 25.Ng5 Rec8 26.b4 Rxb2 27.g3 Rcc2 28.Be3 Ra2 29.axb5 axb5 30.Bd4 Ng4 31.h3 Nxf2 32.Bxf2 Rxf2 33.Ne4 Rfc2 34.Nf6+ Kh8 35.h4 Re2 36.Rf1 Rg2+ 37.Kh1 Rh2+ 38.Kg1 Rag2# 0-1

Pan' may have the best answer thus far. My original concept was a PBeM -- but it would seem that others lack patience and perhaps trust in such an approach (which I admit would take some time to resolve).

What say you?

Interested still?

Pan' on track?

I'll put together a list of players soon and we can decide pairings, no pairings or whatever.

I'm still interested.

ummm....im still partially interested :beam:


(dont kill me!)

Still here,

still interested

I think you organise the pairings, and then the two agree on a method to play it.

I'm up for anything.

I like to play chess, so still interested ~:)

I'm still interested, but no less rusty either!

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Makaikhaan 1
FactionHeir 2
GeneralHankerchief 3
woad&fangs 4
Lord Winter 5
Caius 6
Beefy187 7
Ichigo 8
CountArach 9
Warmaster Horus 10
Quintus.JC 11
Elite Ferret 12
Rhyfelwyr 13
Martok 14
shlin28 15
Aries777777 16
Wasp 17
TevashSzat 18
Ethelred Unread 19
Motep 20
Seamus Fermanagh 21
Xiahou 22

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Made a list of players

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Originally Posted by pevergreen

I think you organise the pairings, and then the two agree on a method to play it.

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I second Pever. Living in school, I dont think most of the chess servers will work for me. So if we can start it and sort those out with the opponent, that will be nice

i hope shlins bad :sweatdrop:

Okay. All those listed by Ichigo will be considered to be in and playing.

We'll give it to Saturday at Midnight EDT for signups, then I'll work out pairings using random.org.

Tournament bracketing will be set up and then the players will be responsible for choosing the means of their play (PBem; PBchat; online game). Each pair will be given a set amount of time to complete their best of three match (what amount do you think will do?)

Both opponents must communicate the results to the thread (so that we may see that both concur).

Round 2 may not start until Round 1 is completed, so faster pairs will have some downtime between rounds.

Seem good?

yes

Yes

Can you take me out from the list? I posted just to let you know how a tourney can be set up, not to join.

uhh...yeh, kinda

Roger that

Standard affirmative response not previously used by those posters in this thread.

SHANT BE NOT IN.

:charge:

Alrighty.

Roger that.

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Originally Posted by GeneralHankerchief

Roger that.

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Roger, over.

I haven't played in years. Sign me up.

It seems interested but how are you going to proceed with the time difference and Real Life? Once per week or... :question:

Rook to A5

Here!

Tournament Pairings.

Unable to establish single elimination bracketing without a ridiculous number of byes. Therefore, we will proceed in pseudo World Cup format. All assignments were made using random number sequences generated by random.org.

4 Groups will be established and players will play two games against each member of their group. Players will decide the format of their match (web, pbem, pbchat, ftf) between themselves. Both players will report the results of their games to the thread. Players earn 2 points for a win, and 1 point for a draw. The highest two point scorers from each group will then play a "1st to achieve 2 wins" to determine the group winner. The high score takes white in the first game, then players alternate until a conclusion is reached.

The Group A winner will face the Group C winner in a semi-final "1st to achieve 2 wins" match. Initial color determined by coin flip or other mutually acceptable manner. Again both players report results.

The Group B winner will face the Group D winner in a semi-final "1st to achieve 2 wins" match. Rest as for A v C.

The Final will be a "1st to achieve 2 wins" match between the winners of the semi-final round. Finals games will be played in the thread with players submitting moves alternately. The losers of the semi-final rounds can play a "Bronze" match or just skip it and head to the pub at their discretion.


Group Play:

You will have one week to conclude your 2 games with your 1st group opponent (one as each color). Subsequent pairings must complete in 4 days (we'll have our systems down by then and can speed up).

Within each group, the order of play will be as follows:

1st pairing: N1 v N4, N2 v N5, N3 v N6.
2nd pairing: N1 v N5, N2 v N6, N3 v N4.
3rd pairing: N1 v N6, N2 v N3, N4 v N5.
4th pairing: N1 v N2, N3 v N5, N4 v N6.
5th pairing: N1 v N3, N2 v N4, N5 v N6.

Group A:

A1 = Tevashszat
A2 = Motep
A3 = w&f
A4 = Horus
A5 = Xiahou
A6 = Ethelred

Group B:

B1 = Martok
B2 = Caius
B3 = Beefy
B4 = Rhy'
B5 = Wasp
B6 = Asen

Group C:

C1 = Arach
C2 = Factionheir
C3 = shlin
C4 = Ichigo
C5 = Makaikhan
C6 = Winter

Group D:

D1 = QJC
D2 = Ferrett
D3 = Seamus
D4 = Aries
D5 = GH
D6 = pevergreen

Play begins by 0001 GMT 22 October 2008; 1st pairings to be completed no later than 7 days after that time. Good Luck!

Ok, I got it.

im a little confused...so am i facing Quintus J.C first? or have i got the wrong idea :dizzy2:

edit: some people need special group, caius manages with out :laugh4:

Just a minor objection... we have only one week for 10 games. That's slightly insuffcient time(RLife and time difference ).

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Originally Posted by Stephen Asen

Just a minor objection... we have only one week for 10 games. That's slightly insuffcient time(RLife and time difference ).

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Didn't he say 1 week for the first game?

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Originally Posted by Aries777777

im a little confused...so am i facing Quintus J.C first? or have i got the wrong idea :dizzy2:
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Correct first opponent.

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Just a minor objection... we have only one week for 10 games. That's slightly insuffcient time(RLife and time difference ).

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1 week for two games.

then 4 days for each two game pair.

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Originally Posted by Seamus Fermanagh

1 week for two games.

then 4 days for each two game pair.

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I think 2 games in 4 days is rushing it a bit- it would pretty much rule out PBM and meeting up for live online chess may not always be possible. :shrug:

So...I'm play against Horus right? If thats so, do you have any preferences for any style, Horus?

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Originally Posted by Xiahou

I think 2 games in 4 days is rushing it a bit- it would pretty much rule out PBM and meeting up for live online chess may not always be possible. :shrug:

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I'd like to keep the pace relatively crisp, but if it's too tight, we'll adjust. It's not as though chess tournies are renowned for their speed.

Play has begun!

Sir Pemberton Cheesewagon, the Knight of White has moved forward! CHAAARGE!

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Originally Posted by TevashSzat

So...I'm play against Horus right? If thats so, do you have any preferences for any style, Horus?

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WH hasn't been online since the 3rd, Motep the 16th and Ethelred the 17th.

Also, chess.com works fairly well.

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Originally Posted by Seamus Fermanagh

I'd like to keep the pace relatively crisp, but if it's too tight, we'll adjust. It's not as though chess tournies are renowned for their speed.

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:yes:

This seems like a good site- it supports both offline (taking turns) and online (live) play.
http://www.chess.com/

Ichi and I are in the middle of a real bloodbath for our first game. I think he probably has it won though.

EDIT: I resigned, Ichi wins.

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Originally Posted by CountArach

Ichi and I are in the middle of a real bloodbath for our first game. I think he probably has it won though.

EDIT: I resigned, Ichi wins.

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Ichi goes 2-0 against me.

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Ichi goes 2-0 against me.

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