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[Mate on] CF Chess Tournament, third round
elkatas
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Penny-Arcade Chess Tournament
It's time for Penny-Arcade's first (unofficial) CF chess tournament, which will be held as a Swiss. We will go through four swiss round, and after that those players with four top-records will go for standard elimination. In addition of glory and prestige, there will be some minor prizes too for best three players. These are gifts from our fabulous sponsor elkatas. Participation for the tournament has been surprisingly active, and in the end, 14 players have registered. And without further ado, here are the players:
PLAYERS
ash-housewares
burnage
chen
cj iwakura
crimsoncoyote
delroland
mightyspacepope
nosaji
papillon
pollodiablo
rend
thanatos
Players that have quit
elkatas
Moridin889
ROUND 1
Pairs of first round have been randomly selected. Please contact your opponent, and negotiate what client you will use. After that, inform organizer about your decision and when you are going to start playing.
nosaji vs. mightyspacepope (nosaji won)
rend vs. Moridin889 (moridin won)
chen vs. ash-housewares (ash-housewares won)
delrorand vs. crimsoncoyote (delrorand won)
pollodiablo vs. elkatas (pollodiablo won)
papillon vs. burnage (papillion won)
cj iwakura vs. thanatos (thanatos won)
ROUND 2
New pairs have been randomized. Please contact your opponent, and negotiate what client you will use. After that, inform organizer about your decision and when you are going to start playing.
chen vs. papillon (papillon won)
moridin889 vs. Thanatos (thanatos won)
elkatas vs. burnage (burnage won)
nosaji vs. delroland (nosaji won)
cj iwakura vs. mightyspacepope (cj won)
Crimsoncoyote vs. rend (rend won)
ash-housewares vs. pollodiablo (ash-housewares won)
ROUND 3
New pairs have been randomized. Please contact your opponent, and negotiate what client you will use. After that, inform organizer about your decision and when you are going to start playing.
ash-housewares vs. papillon (papillon won)
nosaji vs. thanatos (nosaji won)
chen vs. elkatas (chen won)
crimonsoncoyote vs. mightyspacepope (crimson won)
burnage vs. moridin889 (moridin quit)
rend vs. cj iwakura (cj won)
delroland vs. pollodiablo
ROUND 4
New pairs have been randomized. Please contact your opponent, and negotiate what client you will use. After that, inform organizer about your decision and when you are going to start playing.
nosaji vs. papillon
ash-housewares vs. cj iwakura
thanatos vs. burnage
chen vs. rend
delroland vs. crimsoncoyote
pollodiablo vs. mightyspacepope
Current rankings
nosaji, 3 points
papillon, 3 points
ash-housewares, 2 points
burnage, 2 points
cj iwakura, 2 points
Thanatos, 2 points
chen, 1 points
Crimsoncoyote, 1 points
delroland, 1 points
pollodiablo, 1 points
rend, 1 points
mightyspacepope, 0 points
Rules
It's time for Penny-Arcade's first (unofficial) CF chess tournament, which will be held as a Swiss. We will go through four swiss round, and after that those players with four top-records will go for standard elimination. In addition of glory and prestige, there will be some minor prizes too for best three players. These are gifts from our fabulous sponsor elkatas. Participation for the tournament has been surprisingly active, and in the end, 14 players have registered. And without further ado, here are the players:
PLAYERS
ash-housewares
burnage
chen
cj iwakura
crimsoncoyote
delroland
mightyspacepope
nosaji
papillon
pollodiablo
rend
thanatos
Players that have quit
elkatas
Moridin889
ROUND 1
Pairs of first round have been randomly selected. Please contact your opponent, and negotiate what client you will use. After that, inform organizer about your decision and when you are going to start playing.
nosaji vs. mightyspacepope (nosaji won)
rend vs. Moridin889 (moridin won)
chen vs. ash-housewares (ash-housewares won)
delrorand vs. crimsoncoyote (delrorand won)
pollodiablo vs. elkatas (pollodiablo won)
papillon vs. burnage (papillion won)
cj iwakura vs. thanatos (thanatos won)
ROUND 2
New pairs have been randomized. Please contact your opponent, and negotiate what client you will use. After that, inform organizer about your decision and when you are going to start playing.
chen vs. papillon (papillon won)
moridin889 vs. Thanatos (thanatos won)
elkatas vs. burnage (burnage won)
nosaji vs. delroland (nosaji won)
cj iwakura vs. mightyspacepope (cj won)
Crimsoncoyote vs. rend (rend won)
ash-housewares vs. pollodiablo (ash-housewares won)
ROUND 3
New pairs have been randomized. Please contact your opponent, and negotiate what client you will use. After that, inform organizer about your decision and when you are going to start playing.
ash-housewares vs. papillon (papillon won)
nosaji vs. thanatos (nosaji won)
chen vs. elkatas (chen won)
crimonsoncoyote vs. mightyspacepope (crimson won)
burnage vs. moridin889 (moridin quit)
rend vs. cj iwakura (cj won)
delroland vs. pollodiablo
ROUND 4
New pairs have been randomized. Please contact your opponent, and negotiate what client you will use. After that, inform organizer about your decision and when you are going to start playing.
nosaji vs. papillon
ash-housewares vs. cj iwakura
thanatos vs. burnage
chen vs. rend
delroland vs. crimsoncoyote
pollodiablo vs. mightyspacepope
Current rankings
nosaji, 3 points
papillon, 3 points
ash-housewares, 2 points
burnage, 2 points
cj iwakura, 2 points
Thanatos, 2 points
chen, 1 points
Crimsoncoyote, 1 points
delroland, 1 points
pollodiablo, 1 points
rend, 1 points
mightyspacepope, 0 points
Rules
BASICS
- Swiss tournament
- 14 players
- Four swiss rounds
- Scoring (L/D/W): 0/½/1
- After that, standard elimination for those players with top four records
- If player can't anymore advance to standard elimination, he can drop from the tournament.
- Players can use more than 18 days per match. Permission for longer matches need to be asked from the organizers.
CLIENTS
- Players can play their matches using one of the following online clients:
http://games.yahoo.com/board-games
http://www.itsyourturn.com/
http://gameknot.com/
- Players negotiate together what client they will use, then tell organizer used client.
- You can switch client between the matches.
SCORE LIST
Will be hosted on big e's own domain, when it is ready.
PRIZES
- I (elkatas) will be sponsor for this tournament.
- I haven't decided what winners will get.
- Just don't except too much.
- Although I have books that I could give away, I'm not so sure about them anymore, as shipping them to USA is surprisingly expensive. But we will see.
- Swiss tournament
- 14 players
- Four swiss rounds
- Scoring (L/D/W): 0/½/1
- After that, standard elimination for those players with top four records
- If player can't anymore advance to standard elimination, he can drop from the tournament.
- Players can use more than 18 days per match. Permission for longer matches need to be asked from the organizers.
CLIENTS
- Players can play their matches using one of the following online clients:
http://games.yahoo.com/board-games
http://www.itsyourturn.com/
http://gameknot.com/
- Players negotiate together what client they will use, then tell organizer used client.
- You can switch client between the matches.
SCORE LIST
Will be hosted on big e's own domain, when it is ready.
PRIZES
- I (elkatas) will be sponsor for this tournament.
- I haven't decided what winners will get.
- Just don't except too much.
- Although I have books that I could give away, I'm not so sure about them anymore, as shipping them to USA is surprisingly expensive. But we will see.
Hypnotically inclined.
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Rematch time.
Not at all. I pretty much suck. On which timezone do you live?
I guess this should be can't? 18 days per match probably isn't long enough to play a game of correspondence chess on itsyourturn.com (for example).
"Go up, thou bald head." -2 Kings 2:23
Yeah, it should be. And yes, you are right that 18 days isn't enough. Dunno about what should be good number of days.
I'm Eastern. I'm up for any of the services. Do you have a time/service preference?
East Coast? Well, I live in Finland (GMT + 2), so it is time for correspondent chess. I gotta go to sleep now, so PM me which client you want.
elkatas
burnage
delroland
rend
polloDiablo
cj iwakura
papillon
crimson coyote
mightyspacepope
nosaji
EDIT: Updated the list
If you need another player to round out the tourny let me know. I wish I saw the sign up thread before you guys got started.
;White: thanatos7777777
;Black: cj_iwakura
;Date: Mon Mar 02 03:35:27 GMT 2009
1. d2-d4 f7-f6
2. c2-c4 e7-e5
3. g1-f3 b8-c6
4. b1-c3 e5-e4
5. f3-h4 c6xd4
6. d1xd4 g7-g5
7. h4-f5 d7-d6
8. d4xe4+ g8-e7
9. f5xe7 f8xe7
10. e2-e3 c7-c6
11. b2-b3 h8-f8
12. e4xh7 d8-a5
13. c1-d2 b7-b5
14. c3-d5 f8-f7
15. d2xa5 f7xh7
16. d5-c7+ e8-d8
17. c7xa8+ d8-e8
18. c4xb5 e7-d8
19. b5xc6 d8xa5+
20. e1-d1 e8-d8
21. a1-c1 d6-d5
22. c1-c5
And then CJ ran out of time.
I think I probably had it anyway, though.
Ran out of time? I didn't think we were running timed games.
"Go up, thou bald head." -2 Kings 2:23
Stupid mistake on my part. I went with default settings, which was a timed game.
"Go up, thou bald head." -2 Kings 2:23
Purely in the interest of finding out how outclassed I am, how many of you are able to parse that just by looking at it? It's like looking at the Matrix.
Playing chess without a board is a bitch and a fucking half. I've tried it a couple of times, and gotten owned.
I don't really need you to finish the game, but having snapshot of the final board would be nice.
Here's the game in algebraic notation + final board. I kind of rushed, so hopefully I didn't make a mistake.
Queen's Pawn Game
1. d4 f6
2. c4 e5
3. Nf3 Nc6
4. Nc3 e4
5. Nh4 Nxd4
6. Qxd4 g5
7. Nf5 d6
8. Qxe4+ Ne7
9. Nxe7 Bxe7
10. e3 c6
11. b3 Rf8
12. Qxh7 Qa5
13. Bd2 b5
14. Nd5 Rf7
15. Bxa5 Rxh7
16. Nc7+ Kd8
17. Nxa8+ Ke8
18. cxb5 Bd8
19. bxc6 Bxa5+
20. Kd1 Kd8
21. Rc1 d5
22. Rc5 1-0
Board courtesy of http://www.apronus.com/chess/wbeditor.php
1. e4 d6
2. d4 Bg4
3. Qxg4 Nf6
4. Qe2 Nc6
5. Nf3 e5
6. d5 Be7
7. dxc6 bxc6
8. Nc3 Rb8
9. b3 Rb4
10. Ba3 Rb6
11. O-O-O c5
12. Na4 Ra6
13. Qxa6 Qd7
14. Nxc5 dxc5
15. Rxd7 Kxd7
16. Bb5+ Kd8
17. Rd1+ Nd7
18. Rxd7+ Ke8
19. Qc8+ Bd8
20. Qxd8#
Board courtesy of http://www.apronus.com/chess/wbeditor.php
Man I made some really, really dumb moves. Still, first game in a long time, so wasn't that bad. Thanks for the match!
Move list:
2) g1-f3 d7-d6
3) d2-d4 e5xd4
4) f3xd4 c7-c5
5) d4-b5 a7-a6
6) b5-c3 b8-c6
7) c1-f4 f7-f6
8) b1-d2 c6-d4
9) f1-c4 d6-d5
10) c3xd5 g7-g5
11) d5-c7+ e8-e7
12) c7xa8 g5xf4
13) d2-f3 c8-g4
14) h2-h3 g4xf3
15) g2xf3 d8xa8
16) c2-c3 d4xf3+
17) d1xf3 h7-h5
18) c4xg8 b7-b5
19) b2-b4 a8-b8
20) b4xc5 h8xg8
21) f3xh5 a6-a5
22) h5-h7+ e7-e8
23) h7xg8 f4-f3
24) g8-e6+ e8-d8
25) o-o-o+ d8-c7
26) d1-d7+ c7-c8
27) e6-e8++
Final board:
Good game, crimsoncoyote. You had me sweating a couple of times.
"Go up, thou bald head." -2 Kings 2:23
One. Hence the Swiss rules.