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Five of the fifteen tournament games have finished. Standings are: Peter Aronson 2.0/3 Michael Howe 1.0/1 John Lawson 1.0/3 Michael Nelson 1.0/3 Tony Quintanilla 0.0/0 All players are playing six games. Aronson defeated Nelson at ximeracak. and Lawson at Rococo. Howe defeated Nelson at Cavalier Chess. Lawson defeated Aronson at Grand Chess. Nelson defeated Lawson at Chess on a Longer Board. Glenn
The deadline has passed. Unless David has a last-minute entry that has not been forwarded (the entries route to him because of the fee), my pairings are complete and will be emailed this weekend. Good luck, gentlemen.
Just over 24 hours to go, in my time zone. Let your spirit of adventure thrive! Some of these games are really both quite good and not well known.
I didn't bother to write a no computers rule because I dislike setting rules that are by nature unenforceable. (Would that lawmakers felt this way!) Peter also makes a good point...the availability of competent engines for several of these games is limited to non-existent. That's one advantage of a multivariant event with widely different stuff.
Not to mention ego. And for that matter, the only engine available for most of these games, Zillions of Games, plays several of the games on this list fairly weakly (Rococo and Chess on a Longer Board with a few Pieces Added come to mind).
Other than conscience, not much...
What prevents people from using an engine to make their moves?
Interested players, register by January 15th!!
I'd like to put in a pitch for this excellent tournament! Interested players, please register!
Great! The tournament should be very interesting. Thanks!
Both. I will update the list of entrants every so often, <b>and</b> the ultimate pairings will be a surprise. :)
Will you occasionally post the entrants as registration proceeds, or will the pairings come as an utter surprise?
Registration is open at last, a few hours early, and the first entrant is already signed up...
The Zillions file is now available with all the tournament games (except Extinction, which comes with Zillions) in a single ZIP file.
The results are in. The voting was very, very close. Registration for the tournament opens in not quite two weeks.
So, which games are going to be in the tournament? Which ones? Which ones? Which ones? :-D Please don't prolong the suspense! I can't take it much longer!! :-D
Eric: I'll be happy to put Renniassance Chess on the poll the next time we do a tournament of this style. The polling process is too far advanced to tamper with it for this tournament. I have only recently become familiar with RennChess, after Ben Good did the updated page a short time ago. It certainly falls into a style of variant that seems to resonate with the voters. In fact, a large-variants theme is under active consideration for a future PBEM tourney.
I have a comment/plea: please add Renniassance Chess to the available choices. I know the category *few extra pieces* includes it; however, i am doing some serious recruiting to the cause, and I hope i can get enough people to vote. Actually, i had no idea this was here-i just was fortunate enough to stumble onto it! Eric
I wondered how long it would take someone to say that. :( Seriously, I apologize to anyone in Ben Good's position. It was simply the feeling after extended discussion that reducing the size of the list would encourage more refined consideration of the remaining listed games, and that sufficient voter input had been received to make a preliminary adjustment. The ultimate responsibility was mine. I regret any bad feelings it may have caused. (It's hard to start something like this from scratch, and know how it will best proceed.) Thank you for your comment; I urge you to make your opinion count in round two between now and 1 November.
i never got to vote in the first round because it said votes were being taken til november first.
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