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[2005-11-14: I've edited this table after the recent and long-dreaded demise of the Black army in Gifford-McElmurry. Just a few minutes later I'm already feeling withdrawal and hoping the last few games will be assigned soon. Has anyone heard from Fergus lately?]
I've been keeping track of the results, and I think the following is correct, although it's possible that I've made mistakes. The last column is the Buchholz-Solkoff tiebreaker, which is guaranteed not to break ties when the tournament is complete.
1 | Gary Gifford | +10 =1 -0 | 10.5/11 | +10 | |
2 | Antoine Fourrière | +7 =1 -1 | 7.5/9 | +6 | |
3 | Andreas Kaufmann | +8 =0 -3 | 8/11 | +5 | |
4 | Roberto Lavieri | +5 =4 -1 | 7/10 | +4 | |
5 | Fergus Duniho | +6 =0 -3 | 6/9 | +3 | |
6 | Carlos Carlos | +6 =1 -4 | 6.5/11 | +2 | +1 |
7 | Michael Madsen | +6 =0 -4 | 6/10 | +2 | -1 |
8 | Joe Joyce | +2 =2 -5 | 3/9 | -3 | +11 |
9 | Thomas McElmurry | +3 =0 -6 | 3/9 | -3 | +10 |
10 | Greg Strong | +3 =0 -8 | 3/11 | -5 | +12 |
11 | Michael Nelson | +2 =1 -7 | 2.5/10 | -5 | +8 |
12 | George Duke | +0 =0 -7 | 0/7 | -7 | |
13 | Hans Henriksson | +1 =0 -10 | 1/11 | -9 |
64 games have been completed, and 14 (listed below) remain.
Alice Chess
- McElmurry-Duniho
Chess with Different Armies
- Duke-Joyce
Extinction Chess
- Madsen-Duke
Hostage Chess
- Duke-McElmurry
- Duniho-Fourrière
Marseillais Chess
- Fourrière-Nelson
Maxima
- Joyce-McElmurry
Rococo
- Duke-Lavieri
Switching Chess
- Carlos-Joyce
- Duke-Strong
- Fourrière-Madsen
- Henriksson-Nelson
- Kaufmann-Gifford
- Lavieri-Duniho
I prefer Greg's variant, but I'll leave it to a vote. BTW, the switching of pieces may be done with the swap command.
It takes coordinates for arguments. For example, swap e1 d1 would switch the White King and Queen from their initial positions.
carlos carlos, where are you? You own me a move in the tournament, and you're running out of time. Our game of Switching Chess is in week 2, and you haven't made a move yet. I'd like a win, but shouldn't get it by default. If anyone has Carlos' address, please email him or send me the address - thanks. Joe Joyce
Actually, Joe, by my count you can have eighth place all to yourself, due to the Sonneborn-Berger tiebreaker. I'll just sit back here in ninth and wish our game of Maxima had gone differently. Further congratulations to Gary Gifford for an impressive 11/12 performance.
Congratulations for a much-deserved win, Gary. The victory went first and foremost to the better player, but also to the inventor of the excellent Catapults of Troy. And thanks also to Fergus for the continual improvement of Game Courier.
congratulations, gary! great performance. well done to the others at the top of the table too. thanks fergus, i'll definitely be in for the next tournament whenever it is? had fun in all of my games, even my customary victory on time over thomas hehe... hard to remember all the games now, but i think i got outplayed in most of the games i lost this time around which is usually better than blundering them away. looking forward to the next one!
Thanks, Carlos, Jeremy, and Antoine Fourrière for the congratulations. Antoine wrote, 'The victory went first and foremost to the better player, but also to the inventor of the excellent Catapults of Troy.' Actually, Antoine, I feel that you are the toughest of players (who typically cuts through board positions as though they are made of butter)and that I simply had a lucky break in our Shogi game. In fact, Joe Joyce had a better Grand Chess position into the middle game, in Marseillais Chess Michael Madsen was clobbering me with his Bishop and Queen manuevers and had me on the verge of checkmate for many moves (... but I got a reprieve); Shatranj with Tom was quite an uphill battle for me, and a long one at that. Switching Chess was a real gray-matter buster with Andreas, as was Caissa Britannia with Roberto. My point is, any one struggle could have easily ended differently. You also mentioned Catapults of Troy, my child of sorrow. Truth be known, after not doing so well in Tournament 1, I decided to sit Tourn # 2 out. But then I thought Catapults of Troy was on the list, so I signed up. When it later was dropped from the list, then voted in, then vetoed back out I actually indicated that I was withdrawing from the tournament but that my entry fee could be kept as a contribution. Fergus and I exchanged a few e-mails and he convinced me to stay in the event. So, I did. But I would have liked Catapults of Troy to have been a part of it. Anyway, in my mind I was playing my first several games with the romantic notion of 'fighting for the honor of Catapults of Troy.' Silly perhaps, but it helped me get started. Again, thanks to all who participated and thanks for many excellent battles. And thank you again Fergus, for an excellent event.
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