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    I would join...

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

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    bad at chess...


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    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...

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    I will most definitely have to defend my honour here!

    Hopefully it'll work out with time zones and such.
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    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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    Quote Originally Posted by TevashSzat View Post
    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?
    We could always just do the old style PBM to if everything falls through.
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    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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    Quote Originally Posted by Lord Winter View Post
    We could always just do the old style PBM to if everything falls through.
    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
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    I would be more than happy to show you all how rusty I have gotten.
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    Quote Originally Posted by TevashSzat View Post
    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?
    uhhhhhhhhhh! no timer, i cant stand time limits OCD coming on, OCD!

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    So... is this gonna start?




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    I second Caius: Any word?
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    I cant seem to get in touch with horus, who was supposed to be my 1st matchup.
    he hasnt been on in a month, thought id let whomever know.

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    Update on my games:

    2 defeats against Glyphz (both checkmates), completely out-classed by him.
    1 win against Pevergreen (resignation), he says he concedes the next game as well.
    1 win against Seamus (time), awaiting next game.

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