Rpgamers Chess Tournament 2006

[SeymourGuado]

OK CHESS SIGN UP:

NAMES SO FAR IN THE DRAW:

GeosGaeno
Seifer Almasy (Me)
Locke
MangaChaos
Cyrano de Hero
Galthol
Epology
Evil Baz
SilverDistortion

We have minimum but would be good if we had more :)

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The games will consist of best of 3 (first to 2), the final will be best of 5. All entries closed on 20/05/06 and the games to begin 22/05/06. The draw diagram would have been added here by 20-21st May and then will be updated after matches.

I will add to the draw the person who was randomly selected to go first (i.e. be white), after that it alternates (obviously person going white first can potentially go white 2 out of 3 possible times in a best-of-3 match)

Obviously I wont be able to proove who beat who but I am guessing noone is going to cheat to lose :) On another note I hope we are all going to play fair, no using external help like programs, other people etc That would be pointless.

The games will take place on yahoo, I hope you all have yahoo accounts, if not we find some other way. The reason yahoo is better is that game history can be saved and I want to post the game move history here

Some people are telling me that they cannot join because they do not have solid internet access. Surely this isnt too much of an obstacle? Its not as if theres a very fast deadline of when a match has to finish? ;) In any case...

also geosgaeno has made a nice table for us and I have edited a mediocre quality chess trophy :) Whose name will be added to it though?

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THE DRAW

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[SeymourGuado]

I have just sent a load of invitations via private message to practicly all regulars (including non regular like our elusive "slacker" admin)

Hopefully we will get some responses and 25%+ of them will join :)

[SeymourGuado]

Post 1 will be the main update page and wheer the draw will be shown :)

[Cyrano de Hero]

Just a note about Yahoo!: You may not be able to play it on public computers. It uses a java program that needs to be downloaded, and I've never seen it on a public computer before. I don't know the exact details, just take a look at the games page.

Looks good so far. Even though we have enough people, we need more, though!

[SeymourGuado]

yeah java does need to be installed :) how many of us are using public comps>?

[Geosgaeno]

well im certainley not, i cant stand them, they never work at all and they need throwing off a high balcony

[silverDistortioN]

I'm game (but I must admit, I am a bit rusty)

[SeymourGuado]

I'm game (but I must admit, I am a bit rusty)Well I think you are 3-1 up on me (i could be wrong could be 3-0 haha) and I havent played proper in yonks either so we are in same boat.

Good play never truly leaves a person though and i sincerely hope I dont get you in round 1:)

[Geosgaeno]

thats 9 people, looks like im gonna have to create a new tournement table

[Locke]

Yeah, I'm on a public computer at work. If I'm going to be able to play it's gonna need to be on something that runs with Flash (though we do have Java. If anybody has any idea of what we're going to be running then I should be able to test the program at work and find a computer that it'll run off of)

[SeymourGuado]

Well as long as the two people can find soemthing that works and isnt gonna die on them I guess its ok:)

We work it all out when the time arriveshttp://www.rpgamers.info/images/smilies/biggrin.gif

On another note, I will randomly choose the draw, I dont know hopw i will proove to you that its been fair but i guess you may just have to trust me?

[Epology]

We will...there is no apparent reason for you to cheat.

[SeymourGuado]

Well perhaps I will assign us all numbers in privare messages then get some non player like kilu to do a random draw...obviously this would be fairer than just taking my word for it but we'll see:)

[Locke]

Meh, I'm not that concerned about fairness, especially off the bat. Nobody know's how good anybody is, so how could it be unfair?

[SeymourGuado]

Well I dont wanna face silver I know how good he is in comparison, he can beat me 2 in 3 times atleast..well I fear him hahaha :)

nah I will do the damn draw, I am one of the fairest people on earth and i wont cheat:) still time to go til draw anyway:)

[Kilu]

In other news, I played a game of chess with Silver yesterday, and lost.

[SeymourGuado]

yeah he is pretty good....;) I am praying I meet him in the final to save ego:)

You sure you don't want to be added Kilu? More the merrier?

ALL ENTRIES CLOSED AT 18:00 BST (17 hours 20 minutes from latest edit time)

[SeymourGuado]

The draw has been made, obviously if someone else joins now I will have to redo the entire thing.

Because I couldn't be bothered creating a small app that could draw us randomely I decided to set winamp (geosgaeno's idea) to best random then put our names in. Winamp then chose who plays who. Unfortunately becasue we have 9 people and not 8 or 16, the last 2 drawn have to play each other in order to go through to the last 8. Therefore 7 of us were drawn to be in the last 8 automatically. Luckily I was one:):):)

Details at 18:00 BST if noone else has joined by then, the draw is set.

[SeymourGuado]

Draw added to post 1. REMEMBER TO READ POST 1 AND THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION

A few things to note:

1. I have added W and B to show who goes first in QF, this was decided by the first person randomly selected of the two players. The players must alternate after this point. (if you were white, next game you are black etc).
The person going first in new rounds will be revised each time.

2. A stalemate (draw) gives you 0.5 each like real chess. If a player is 1.5-1 say, the one who is on 1.5 only needs a draw to win a best of 3. In the event that a match becomes tied points will keep being added until 1 player has the highest score. This could potentially mean a score of infinity, somehow I doubt it but a score of say 5-4 ina best of 3 game is not beyond the realms of possibility. (In real chess if a draw occurs the match is simply drawn (and replayed?).
In any case we will just carry on into sudden death :)

3. Remember your match score and if you can save and post the game history. This is not a requirement but the match score is;)

4. Locke was the unluckiest person drawn followed shortly by Mangachaos. There was no way to decide upon who should occupy the two last playoff positions except to say the last 2 randomly drawn were put there:(

5. I suggest you PM your opponent and arrange details of when your match is played. There is no time limit for it finishing.

6. If you play individual games because of time restrictions PM me with the updated score:)

Any other questions feel free to ask.

DLPB

[Cyrano de Hero]

Well, silverDistortioN and I had our match-up today. It was a fierce battle, but I managed to claim victory. Score was 2-0. Sorry, but I forgot to save the results for the first game, and the second results never got sent to my inbox for some reason.

Silver played very well and it was fun. I enjoyed the match.

Well, next match I'll make it a point to save the results. I promise! http://www.rpgamers.info/images/smilies/biggrin.gif

Also, silver and I were wondering: Who gets which color in the event of a tie breaker? Since both players have been each color, doesn't that pose a bit of a problem? White has the advantage over black usually, so that might tip the scales a bit in one player's favor...

[SeymourGuado]

If that happens then both players have to come here and hopefully I will have figured out a nice way to decide it. It will probably be a random draw:( unless anyones got a better suggestion?

Congrats on your win Cyrano, now I am scared to death of you :( lol ;) To beat silver is no easy task

DLPB

[Geosgaeno]

Well Done Cyrano....

still no word from Epology, ive sent PM's an all, hopefully we can get our game underway ASAP.

has anyone else started their match???

[eViL bAz]

Im still waiting for Locke/MC to see who will be my opponent

[Epology]

I really did reply to your second PM. To repeat it, I am currently working on getting my new Linux system to work. If there is a site we could play on, it'll be fine with me. :) Anything IM based won't really work since Gaim does not support any games from any IM, be it ICQ, Yahoo or others.

[Geosgaeno]

Epology, go to this link

http://www.uploading.com/?get=7QPQPQFY (http://www.uploading.com/?get=7QPQPQFY)

and enter the 3 digit code and begin download, it will give a program called Max99 chess i believe, then we should be rockin and rolling!!!

[SeymourGuado]

I have to sort all your problems out but I guess that is my job hehehe. I overslept last night so me and galthol missed our game. So at 6 AM tomorrow we should have my match completed :)

Edit: confession. I was the one who sent you the last PM from geosgaeno's account whilst he was snoozing in my flat. I was sure he would check his PM afterwards. sorry about that epology or should I say my appology epology? (ok bad joke :( ).

[Locke]

Im still waiting for Locke/MC to see who will be my opponentI'm waiting on word from MC....

[SeymourGuado]

Well Galthol hadn't played in 1 year so it was a little unfair him playing me and all. Anyway game finished 2-0 to me. I will wait for all other games to finish before i play Cyrano.

[Galthol]

Not to worry I should have brushed up anyway knowing I had entered. Next time though

[Geosgaeno]

well done, hopefully me and my companion Epology will be well under way very soon, we been in contact and getting the match sorted!!!

EDIT:

just sent PM Epology, im online now, open up the chess program and lets see if we can get it going!!!

IP = 172.142.39.243

Port Number = 27842

use them settings etc

[Epology]

First round was a clear victory for Geosgaeno. Let's see how the second one will go. :)

[Geosgaeno]

games complete.

was a very good game and one mistake by Epology in the second game settled things really.

on the whole a very good game and hope you the best of luck when we hold our next tournement. (Also keep Max99 Chess for next time)

Geosgaeno 2-0 Epology

EDIT:

Couldnt get no move list because we wasnt using yahoo ;)

[eViL bAz]

damn so much good players, and im not good at chess WHAT IM A DOING IN HERE!! :p

[SeymourGuado]

Congrats on your win geosgaeno. Never mind about saving match history, doesn't really matter :)

[Locke]

damn so much good players, and im not good at chess WHAT IM A DOING IN HERE!! :pIt's been a while since I've played chess. If me and Manga ever get around to having our match then I might get to face you. Send me a PM if you're still alive MC....

[SeymourGuado]

I will move you forward if he isnt here by the time I wake up:)

Edit: Draw amended

[Locke]

Me and EB will get ours done tomorrow or saturday I think, I won't be able to go today but meh, we'll figure it out :)

[Geosgaeno]

your game not over yet i take it ;)

[eViL bAz]

im waiting to locke to tell me when XD

[Locke]

If we can find a flash one I can do it tonight, I'm at work till midnight and the only one on from 11-12, so I can do whatever then. Anybody know of a good chess thinger that works with flash that you don't download anything for?

[eViL bAz]

If we can find a flash one I can do it tonight, I'm at work till midnight and the only one on from 11-12, so I can do whatever then. Anybody know of a good chess thinger that works with flash that you don't download anything for?http://gameknot.com/

try this I have 30 min now

[Locke]

done, I've created the game and sent you a challange :)

[SeymourGuado]

ahh good, it is game on!;) yes it is 3 AM here but what the hey

[Locke]

Well, I made my move, now I'm waiting on Baz. We should finish it up tomorrow, as it appears that he's not around at the moment.

[eViL bAz]

sorry I had arrive justnow, if you are still in there just say Hell yeah!!! :p, I will be here for another 20 minutes and then until tomorrow.

[Locke]

Well, we're started and working on our games. Baz had to go home, but we'll continue tomorrow or later on tonight if he comes back online.

[SeymourGuado]

keep me posted on the scoreshttp://www.rpgamers.info/images/smilies/evilgrin.gif

[Locke]

Nothing nothing right now :p, but we'll keep you updated.

[SeymourGuado]

Your game is progressing about as fast as your avatar chocobo walks http://www.rpgamers.info/images/smilies/biggrin.gif hehe but theer is no rushhttp://www.rpgamers.info/images/smilies/dance.gif

[eViL bAz]

lol, indeed iam waiting for Locke

[Lance Alvein]

looks like about another 4 hours at least... thats when he works at least :p

[eViL bAz]

lol then i have time to do some strategies to loose :p

[Locke]

And I'm here and going. Your move Baz :p

[eViL bAz]

I Will Looooooose!!!

[Locke]

Losing your queen doesn't help ya much ;)

Bear with us, we'll eventually finish our 2 match's :p

[SeymourGuado]

Oh I am here, let me know if you finish one but not the others;)

baz sent me your moves up to about move 10-15, white had clearly a major advantage, however Baz was supposed to be white first so, if he manages to win the next game , he is white again:)

[Locke]

Ah, I never noticed which color we were supposed to be. I started out white...

[eViL bAz]

Im loooosing :'(

[Locke]

And first win to me. I forgot to get the stats of the game, so hopefully Baz has them... anyways, we'll play again tomorrow for the second game.

[SeymourGuado]

Table updated, as always

[Locke Cole]

The champion of the tournament will be awarded a little something for their victory. ;) Good luck to all, and do keep me posted on the winner.

[Locke]

Cool, now there's incentive past the knowledge you won :D

[eViL bAz]

damn I lost again :(

[SeymourGuado]

Well first rounds were 2-0 whitewashes. I expect this to change, and will now PM Cyrano:) congrats on your win locke, more practice for the master of evil;)

[eViL bAz]

I will practice and I will crush him the next time MUAHAHAHAHAHA..... OH LOOK THAT DOG HAS A FLUFFY TAIL!!

*Baz run chase the dog*

[Geosgaeno]

Looks like i have you Locke in next round, gimme a PM when your ready etc, also i take it you cant use Yahoo chess :(

so we shall use the one that you and Baz were using, also our times are different which could cause a problem, but, what the hell ;)

[SeymourGuado]

I made a small program to decide who will be playing white first from now on but it didn't matter for locke and geosgaeno. Since Locke was black first and geosgano white, it is only fair locke goes white first against geo.

As for me and Cyrano I was the 1/2 lucky one this time:)

program was pretty easy, pascal :

randomize;
if (random(2)=1)then
begin
label1.caption:='Cyrano';
end
else
begin
label1.caption:='dlpb';
end;

The best I can come up with is, if you were white before, you are black this time. if both players were white or black before, the person who has won the most and conceeded the least games thus far is the one who will be white. If both of these are the same then it is a completely random draw:) In the final, regardless the colour will be chosen pending on the previous scores, the number of times that person has been white, then just randomly.

Which means if I get to the final, I am black first regardless.

[Locke Cole]

I made a small program to decide who will be playing white first from now on but it didn't matter for locke and geosgaeno. Since Locke was black first and geosgano white, it is only fair locke goes white first against geo.

As for me and Cyrano I was the 1/2 lucky one this time:)

program was pretty easy, pascal :

randomize;
if (random(2)=1)then
begin
label1.caption:='Cyrano';
end
else
begin
label1.caption:='dlpb';
end;

The best I can come up with is, if you were white before, you are black this time. if both players were white or black before, the person who has won the most and conceeded the least games thus far is the one who will be white. If both of these are the same then it is a completely random draw:) In the final, regardless the colour will be chosen pending on the previous scores, the number of times that person has been white, then just randomly.

Which means if I get to the final, I am black first regardless.The person in charge of the chart could always just roll some dice and decide that way. I'm sure the participants trust you ;)

[SeymourGuado]

The person in charge of the chart could always just roll some dice and decide that way. I'm sure the participants trust you ;)ahh it is true but I have to be sure they know I am not just saying "wee give me the white suckers" haha ;)

In any case, I am black next anway regardless due to the fairness of my over thought about system:)http://www.rpgamers.info/images/smilies/evilgrin.gif

In the end, being white when you are an amateur isn't really an advantage. To kasparov yes to DLPB....no.

[Geosgaeno]

me and locke have got our game underway, its not going fast tho hehehehehe

[Locke]

Yeah, the perils of playing a game while working.... we'll get through it though ;)

[Geosgaeno]

well i was having a good time but ive messed up, think i may lose this first match

[Mangachaos]

Sorry... have been busy with onlinegames and so... which page is the chess tourney..? I didn´t see anything where I were...
hm... it looked as if there was a lot of challangers also... this may be a problem... I´m game in the next tourney it seems.. this one... well... had lots to do in rl and stuff... sorry...

[SeymourGuado]

no prob
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[Geosgaeno]

our first game has finished with me being victorious...it looked all doom and gloom for me at first....

unlucky Locke you possibly deserved to win, will start our next game soon :)

[Locke]

Nah, I screwed up a couple places I really shouldn't have let slide, and so that was the end of me. You got me on the defensive at the end and there really wasn't much I could do :(. Meh, theres always the next game for another match :thumbup:

[SeymourGuado]

I thoroughly enjoyed my 2 games with Cyrano, not because I won though...because they were nice games. Second game could have gone either way but for 1 trick I did that forced a mistake.

Cyrano played well, it is always good to play new people, sick of same old tactics day in day out.

I found Silver very hard 1 year ago...guess practice pays off afterall?

Bad luck Cyrano, but next time?

I await my opponent!

Seifer Almasy

[Geosgaeno]

wow, ive heard that Silver was pretty good then you beat him Cyrano, i thought you be in the final, but well done Seymour didnt see that one coming :)

hopefully me and Locke be finished this week....."IF" i win we can do our game in York if ya want Seymour, or just wait till we come back?

[SeymourGuado]

If we can get it done by the end of this week that would be better. We shall see....

[Locke]

We're down to my final death twitches, give it another day to 2

[SeymourGuado]

cool, remember 0.5 each if it is a stalemate:)

[Locke]

That'd be what I gotta aim for ;)

[Geosgaeno]

and thats what i gotta avoid ;)

[Locke]

Could still go either way :p

[SeymourGuado]

send me the link to the board I wanna see:)

[SeymourGuado]

Good news is that I have found a nice tool to change Yahoo chess saves to PGN file language:) That way in the future we can save our games and rerun them using free chess programs. I can also add all games to 1 large file (not in the sense of file size) and then you can view every game that took place.

When we have a nother competition, maybe this year?> I will make this so;)

As long as you can save to PGN files its cool. I will put my final game with cyrano up here soon as an example, and also give links to the best pgn supported free chess program:)

[SeymourGuado]

Just been looking at your game with Geo. From the position it looks like a certain pawn promotion and 99% chance of checkmate very soonhttp://forums.rpgamers.net/images/smilies/bigeyes.gif

[Geosgaeno]

i hope your right, i just need to keep my head and not mess anything up

EDIT: a long second game has just finished with me being victorious, well played Locke you made me work for it ;)

[SeymourGuado]

Congrats on your win Geosgaeno. We have a game today?

Unlucky locke:)

Seifer Almasy

[Locke]

Meh, was a good match. I make no claims at being good at chess ;)

[SeymourGuado]

nor do I, I have just played against a computer application more than 15 times, and lost each and every time. I just don't understand fully how to end the game againsta computer....its the tactic that has to be changed when playing one.

Kasparov would tear this nasty bastard to pieces.

[SeymourGuado]

well, so far 1-0 to me against Geo.

Should have gone to Geo. I made 1 huge mistake and lost a bishop for nothing, luckily I could recover and take his a few moves later. Then with the advantage at the end of the game to Geo he made 1 mistake and handed me back the advantage by losing a rook.

It goes to show you how fast a game can change with 1 mistake in chess at an amateur level.

[SeymourGuado]

Well I am hoping to have this match done by Friday. Will contact Geo in PM

[SeymourGuado]

I sent PM to geosgaeno but no reply. Geo stop hiding and play mehttp://forums.rpgamers.net/images/smilies/nana.gif

[SeymourGuado]

Just lost so it is 1-1. I played perhaps one of the worst games I ever have and saw my defence killed off. The bad opening I did cost me the entire match.

[Geosgaeno]

this is true, unlucky hehehe

we finish later probably, now its food time

[SeymourGuado]

Hey geo anytime this yearhttp://forums.rpgamers.net/images/smilies/biggrin.gif you never on IM! Lets get this thing finished one way or the other ;)

[SeymourGuado]

Geo is off the net for now, funding problems so I will have to play him in person! for gods sake I want this finished! I will go up tomorrow with a damn chess set

[Locke]

Cool, I wanna know how it ends up :D :p

[SeymourGuado]

It should end with me kicking his ass, the score is about 33-12 to me overall, and I am not happy he won that last one, and could easily now be 2-0 up. It is not acceptable and I will do my best to bury him

It is a game, but I take it more than seriouslyhttp://forums.rpgamers.net/images/smilies/wink.gif I am worried because of how bad I have played in this final but there is gonna be a change and he is going to get flattened

[Geosgaeno]

It should end with me kicking his ass, the score is about 33-12 to me overall, and I am not happy he won that last one, and could easily now be 2-0 up. It is not acceptable and I will do my best to bury him

It is a game, but I take it more than seriously;) I am worried because of how bad I have played in this final but there is gonna be a change and he is going to get flattenedthreatening talkhttp://www.forums.rpgamers.net/images/smilies/evilgrin.gif, this final is long over due, now i am back online, this Chess Tourny needs sorting, its been nearly a year.......and that is also the last time i have played Chess i think too.

1~1 GAME ON

[SeymourGuado]

ok geo! game on! tomorrow after tennis (which you generally win me 60-40 at but i am getting better atleast. I remember when it was 89-11). glad u saw that post, did it deliberately to fire ya up:) thing is was ages ago haha ;)

[Geosgaeno]

it 1-2 to Seymour :(:(:(

[SeymourGuado]

That was a good game but we both played rubbish....we made about 2 easy mistakes each, I almost lost queen. Could have gone either way with a little swing in luck.

Not really that happy cause I know I played silly. Good game though:)

Updated chess sheet

[SeymourGuado]

3-1 to me. Geo was rusty after not playing for ages, I was ok. Could have swung had I made 1 disaster move at the end but overall pleased how I played.

Only problem was I gave geo black by accident.

Anyway, we got that out of the way finally!Well done and thanks to all who participated!

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updated draw sheet on post 1

If we ever play again, we will play it with a time limit, 5 days to complete match and if not completed then disqualification or something. This has been a farce really considering the times it has taken lol 1 year 5 months

Good games!