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the problem with this tournament for pgt is that he is a pawn (free) member which only allows 1 ongoing tournament
so while this tournament is not finished, he cannot join any other tournament, unless he purchases a membership
i understand his reasons not to buy a membership (read his profile), but there always 2 sides to something.
to solve the issue i think you can ask fencer to be removed from the tournament, but i am not sure if that solves it
a better solution would be to allow new tournaments for pawn players who cannot win the current running tournament anymore, and who have played all their games, as technically they arent in the tournament anymore
computeropponen: if you want anything to be done with your post, please post it on the chess board
there are many experienced chess players who read the chess board, and they might be able to analyze your game to determine if its likely to be a computer or not
btw 50% of my moves are careless and quick as well, but sometimes lucky enough to be not too bad :)
computeropponen: could you please reply to a message using the "box" link next to the "reply: link underneath a message? that way anyone reading your posts can click on "show thread" to follow the topic itself and we dont have to dig other posts which belong to another thread ...
computeropponen: sorry, i dont understand your question? i am just a mod on the brainking.com board (and the dutch board), nowhere else .. if you want to discuss the way a board is being moderated please discuss it with the moderator of that specific board
i am just an ordinary player on this board
the discussion i saw from you on this board though wasnt about moderating but about possible cheating and ratings and chess, not about the moderating :)
fyi: the picture is my son who was seriously ill, but is ok now (6 monthly medical checkup the following years), but that talk doesnt belong on this board :)
(forgot about 2 other boards, i am also a mod on the books and the jarmo boards)
computeropponen: there is some other factors which might be of some influence: on a game site you can chose your opponents and you might win more by timeout than otb and you might stall or speed up certain games to get the ultimate profit or bkr changes
BlueJ: unfortunately either of those 2 players can win their section (section 21)
from their bkr they seem unperienced in the game on here, and even with experienced players that game (espionage) can take quite long i think
as soon as whisperq wins at least 1 of those game we have a certain winner and something could be done (maybe), when both games are still open i think there cant be done much about it
Mr. Shumway: but i guess it wont be possible to use that loophole when the pawn is retired on the stairs ? as the stairs then isnt active for that pawn
i see very little difference between retirement and leaving a stairs .. only that when you retire you wont lose your position on the stairs (hmm as a pawn it might be needed to leave a stairs to be able to join another one)
gringo: you cant leave a stairs when you are still playing a game
you can retire on a stairs though (even when you have some games going), you wont lose your position that way and the outcome of your ongoing games will still count (you will drop or raise acording to your win or loss, although you cant see it as you are not shown while being retired)
Walter Montego: random seeds would give random byes
i like the idea of giving each player in a round the same type of game .. it takes away some factor which is in the random tournaments now though and less different game types would be played in the total tournament (by all players combined) (i think its nice when a lot of different games are player because it gives more established ratings, in the end ;))
another option would be to average the rating over all possible game types and use that average .. it can be wrong though when there are some unrated types in the average .. i dont know whats done with the seeding of unrated players in normal tournaments now?
Walter Montego: there is a problem though with rating people in random tournaments .. how do you rate the players in a tournament which choses the games randomly from all possible game types ?
(or from just the line types, or the gammon types)
i dont know how the seeding is done nowadays with the random tournaments
yoyudax: you can resign your games in the tournament, but the tournament wont be finished before all games of all players in the tournament are finished
so you can resign your games, but will still have to wait for the others to finish
but: when your games in a tournament are finished, and you have no chance to continue to the next round, then you can ask fencer, nicely, if he can remove you from the tournament so you can join a new one. he is the only one who can do it .. so be gentle :)
fismoluni: you can go to all the public stairs in the left menu, in which you can click on a specific stairs in which you can click on a specific game to see all the participants in the game in that stairs
but there are also stairs inside the fellowships, there is no global list for all those stairs combined i think
when you want to see all the participants in a specific stairs you are in, you can click on the stairs and see their names though