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I noticed it when first I read it.. just took me that long to get here. :) *edit* Except that I first read it as MadMnokey and was thinking a mad monkey on Keryokee<sp?> drugs. ;)
Reminder: The AntiSocials MidMay Open is due to start in a couple days and we are still sadly lacking in players. :'( C'mon peeps.. There surely are more Atomic Anti players out there. ;)
AntiSocialites, to the clubhouse, please. The next Anticheckers tournament is about to start. We have 13 members now (more welcome!), surely we can get more than 4 in the tournament! (I think some of you need to add the board to your favs. ;)
Just ooc, does anyone play dark chess 'seriously'.. as in chess-serious, that is? I mean, don't get me wrong, I like the game. I think it's great fun, but to me it's rather more on par with battleboats than chess. ;) I was just curious to other views.
I think he may have been addressing LJ and his listing further down, which kinda sparked the convo again. ;) I can't see anything in your or my post which should be considered 'complaining'... just suggesting so that others can have less to complain about. ;)
Sujet: Re: Big Bad Wolf's DailyGammon time system. mrloupcity's sadness
<Walter: "It'd be nice if there was a speed rating or moves per day average for each player. Then a player or tournament director could also set a range if they desired,..."
This isn't a bad idea, but I'd rather see it formed from an average percent of time-limit perspective. Yes, I know that sounds confusing, I'll be taking individual questions later in my tent. Meanwhile let me see if I can somewhat explain.
If a person is playing in many different games and tournaments with many different time limits (and doesn't always have time to live on the computer), it's only natural they will play the shorter times quicker, and more often. So if a player plays his five-day tournaments within three days, his 15-day games within 10 days, etc, he's using roughly 60% of his time limits. So if you set up a tournament with a seven-day limit, and you want people to move within 2 or 3 days, you only allow people who take an average of 20% (or less) of their time limit. That way you have that 'buffer' of time that folks go on about so that 'if anything happens' people will still have 7 days to make the move, but most will be taking it earlier.
The only problem is, all this is a lot of coding and data-storage that I don't know if Fencer can or wants to deal with. ;>
The delete option isn't all bad. Sometimes we say things in the heat of anger and immediately regret them (right -after- hitting send). An immediate delete in such cases can be a lifesaver. But, once a post has replies, deleting single posts and leaving replies to the thread is just ill-mannered, IMHO.
If the boards were somehow threaded, it might be easier for Fencer to implement something like that: Allow deletion by creator only up until a reply is made. Hrm...
Just because you can? Didn't say you couldn't, but that doesn't mean everyone can. The computer could have been donated, or could have been purchased in a time when finacial condition was sunnier. Or even.. *gasp* that pawn might play from a library!
Linda: Sorry. I thought I'd seen it in the description. Must have been from one of your early posts somewhere. The point, of course, was that the membership going to pawns was pretty well advertised. :/
The "(applies only to pawns)" must have been erased then. :/ It was stated from the beginning of the section winners concept that only pawns were eligible, but others could donate theirs to their favourite pawn.
Are not tournaments supposed to go on until there is only one winner of each game type?
I wanted to congratulate alesh and gasper for winning (a tie) round 2 of Backgammon in the Brotherly Love (Beginners) tournament, whom I assumed would be going to round three, but I see no 'start next round' button??
Clean up BK?? Is that what you call it? Sounds suspiciously like those good people who show natives the error of their ways elsewhere mentioned. Am I, too, on the 'clean out' list?
Actually I think tournaments are an excellent place to 'learn' games. My first game of both Maharaja and Janus chess was played (or is being played) in a tournament. ;)
Sujet: I've been trying to avoid this, I really have...
but... My take is this. MadMonkey hit it on the head with 'no intentions of offering prize', and when the roar came to drop out, it was started before the snowball hit. (I knew it was no longer up for signup before his post, as I had just gone to remove myself. A wasted effort, it appears, as I seem to have been among those spared the need -- probably because I'm 'just too slow') Now those pawns and knights previously mentioned are henceforth stuck, with the only means of removal being Fencer. Whether or not in the end he decides to do so, Fencer really doesn't have time for all that, so the utlimate goal of harm to the site has been reached, regardless.
I gotta agree with whispers, I think he's nailed it. I don't come here to finish as many games as I can. If I did, I wouldn't play so many anti-back games. :P I don't 'purposely' try to take as long as I can, but sometimes I -do- take a while to get to certain games, especially when I have a lot of other games with shorter time limits. -I'll- decide if I have 'more than I can handle' or too little or just enough. I come here for fun, not blood. For that I'll go to RavenBlack.
Some games take longer - that's cool. Some people have other things to do, other priorities, and that's cool, too. It's not up to you, Upchucking, to decide what's best for everyone. You -are- trying to change the nature of the site. Peer pressure is NOT a good thing. Neither is public humiliation. Both say a whole lot more about the pressurers and humiliators than they do about the targets of your animosities.
I don't feel a -need- to 'wipe my slate each and every day'. If I did, I'd only choose games/tournaments with a one-day limit. If you want a 'cushion' of time 'just in case', then be prepared to play slower games. It's that simple.
Oye vey. "and being the behind the back ridicule of other players" .. seems to me that says more about you than it does me.
Get a grip folks. If you've nothing to do with your time other than play games, then get a life. You don't like to wait, play more games so you won't notice. Or, as was suggested, try a real-time game site.
Don't whine for the removal of limits that don't suit -you-, just don't join those games/tournaments. Control your own games, don't try to control everyone else's.
Brotherly Love has started (thanks to someone reminding me *blush* -- I'd spent brother's birthday with him and totally forgot to start the things. ;) Unfortunately many games had one short of players and didn't start, so if you don't see your games up, that's why.
<I used to play this with a friend of mine on iyt when I first got there. I don't think I won a single game, but I signed up for your tournament anyway. :>
Have several signups, but still need some more to get the games to start. Both advanced, for BKRs of 2000 or above, and Beginners, for unrated up to BKR 1999.