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Chess/Xianqi/Shogi Tournament #1. Enter the First Chess/Xiangqi/Shogi Game Courier Tournament![All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
📝Antoine Fourrière wrote on Wed, Feb 1, 2006 04:18 AM UTC:
Registrations are now open.

Thomas McElmurry wrote on Wed, Feb 1, 2006 05:59 AM UTC:
Some semantic nitpicking:

  1. When the tournament rules mention 'White' and 'Black', presumably 'White' means the first player (White in Chess, Red in Xiangqi, Black in Shogi) and 'Black' means the second player (Black in Chess and Xiangqi, White in Shogi)?
  2. The first round will be a true round robin (meaning everyone plays everyone) only if exactly seven players participate.
  3. If my understanding of the Buchholz-Solkoff and Sonneborn-Berger tiebreaks (as explained here) is correct, then this page's description of Buchholz-Solkoff is incorrect, and that of Sonneborn-Berger is incomplete and potentially misleading.

Oh, and sign me up, please.


📝Antoine Fourrière wrote on Wed, Feb 1, 2006 06:51 AM UTC:
1. Yes, I meant the first player and the second player.
2. Indeed, each player will meet all the other participants in the first
phase only if there are exactly seven participants. I didn't think of a
better term than round-robin, but there should be one.
3. The worst mistake. I copied and pasted Fergus' page for GCT#2 and
applied it to a different situation. (GCT#1 and GCT#2 are true
round-robins.) I think I'll follow your link.

Nasmichael Farris wrote on Thu, Feb 2, 2006 04:48 PM UTC:Excellent ★★★★★
Awesome idea. 

I have to go and clear my schedule--I have always wanted to see something
like this.  Give me a chance to determine my availability.

Thanks for creating this tourney.

Anonymous wrote on Fri, Feb 3, 2006 01:45 AM UTC:
I'm in.

🕸Fergus Duniho wrote on Fri, Feb 3, 2006 02:07 AM UTC:
Not until you get a userid, which you will need to play the games on Game Courier, and actually tell us who you are.

Christine Bagley-Jones wrote on Fri, Feb 3, 2006 02:14 AM UTC:
he he :)

Jeremy Good wrote on Fri, Feb 3, 2006 02:08 PM UTC:Excellent ★★★★★
I'm in.

Nicola Caridi wrote on Fri, Feb 3, 2006 07:46 PM UTC:Excellent ★★★★★
Very good idea. I'm in.

Paolo Porsia wrote on Sat, Feb 4, 2006 09:33 PM UTC:Excellent ★★★★★
OK. Let's begin...

darren paull wrote on Mon, Feb 6, 2006 01:26 AM UTC:
Hi ,
I'm new to this site,I would like to play in the chess shogi Xinang qui
tournament. How do I register for it?

🕸Fergus Duniho wrote on Mon, Feb 6, 2006 01:59 AM UTC:
You post here with your userid, saying you would like to register, as you've already done.

Sean Humby wrote on Mon, Feb 6, 2006 05:09 PM UTC:Excellent ★★★★★
woohoo! I'm in!

🕸Fergus Duniho wrote on Tue, Feb 14, 2006 12:06 AM UTC:
Antoine, you're overlooked darren paull and Paolo Porsia. So you have seven signed up, not just five.

📝Antoine Fourrière wrote on Tue, Feb 14, 2006 01:00 AM UTC:
But neither is playing regularly, like Jeremy Good or Nicola Caridi, nor has provided an email address. How can I contact them?

🕸Fergus Duniho wrote on Tue, Feb 14, 2006 02:31 AM UTC:
Each one has given an email address, but neither has made it publicly viewable. As an editor of this site, you can access their email addresses by clicking on the Edit option that is available only to editors.

📝Antoine Fourrière wrote on Tue, Feb 14, 2006 03:57 AM UTC:
Thanks a lot Fergus, I have added them. 
So the Chess-Xiangqi-Shogi Tournament will start in a few days.
Are there other contestants?

Gary Gifford wrote on Tue, Feb 14, 2006 10:41 AM UTC:
I'll give the Chess/Xianqi/Shogi Tournament #1 a go.
Please sign me up, thank you. Gary

🕸Fergus Duniho wrote on Wed, Feb 15, 2006 03:17 AM UTC:
I'll play in this tournament. So count me in.

Tommy Trouble wrote on Thu, Feb 16, 2006 07:32 PM UTC:
I'd be interested in making it a round '10', or if I'm too late for that then a squiggly '11'.

📝Antoine Fourrière wrote on Fri, Feb 17, 2006 01:03 AM UTC:
It would be eleven, since Nasmichael Farris has also registered by e-mail. But please finalize your registration as a member or user, so that we get your e-mail address, otherwise you won't be able to play.

📝Antoine Fourrière wrote on Fri, Feb 17, 2006 12:15 PM UTC:
True, I have your e-mail address through the editor command, so I'm adding you to the list. But I guess you still have to finalize your registration to be able to play.

Tommy Trouble wrote on Fri, Feb 17, 2006 01:32 PM UTC:
I think I have done it now.

🕸Fergus Duniho wrote on Fri, Feb 17, 2006 05:09 PM UTC:
Antoine, the first step in beginning this tournament will be to define a
round. You can do this from any preset. In the preset menu, there is a
button labled 'Define'. Click on this to define a round. You can
automatically set the time controls with the dropdown menu at the top of
the 'Time Controls' section. Selecting 'Email -- Tournament' will set
the time controls to the values this page says they will be. For the
'Tournament' field, you should use a unique label that you will
subsequently use to identify all games and rounds in this tournament. For
the 'Round' field, you should enter the round number, which is simply
'1' for the first round. Check the 'Rated' checkbox so that games in
the round will be rated.

After you've defined a round, you can assign individual games. For this,
go to the preset that will be used for a game, then click on the
'Assign' button, which is right below the 'Define' button. Fill in the
'Tournament' and 'Round' fields with the same values you used to define
a round. Put the first player's userid in the 'Player' field and the
second player's userid in the 'Opponent' field.

📝Antoine Fourrière wrote on Sat, Feb 18, 2006 02:11 AM UTC:
Registration will be definitely closed at midnight (Eastern time). Soon
afterwards, I'll add a section indicating who plays whom at what and in
which order.

Tomorrow evening, I'lI assign the games.

The Chess Preset should be HTML table for board.
The Xiangqi Preset should be CSS.
The Shogi Preset should be Uncheckered Board, Displays as small PNG file.

If a player is dissatisfied with one of these presets (anyway, you are
able to choose your set of pieces regardless of the preset), I'll ask his
opponent about preferences and try to choose another preset for their game.

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