That is right Harley. The KM would love to play other teams but in the tournaments we wind up playing ourselves which most of us would like to avoid. A series of one on one games with members of other fellowships can be arranged but you cant really call that a tournament. So we are waiting for Fencer to implement some official Fellowship challenges.

I don't want to be a wet blanket, Zucan, but I don't see how you can make sure players from opposite teams end up against each other? What if players from the same team end up as opponents!

A couple things... first, I want this first one to be Atomic Chess related... It should be labeled "First Atomic Team Fellowship Tournament!".

Secondly, Fencer does not yet have support for playing team fellowship games on here, so I am doing it by hand, which means making the tournaments invite only and manually populating the sections, if I can manage to do it.

If you have any questions, just ask!

Zucan

I am going to run the first ever Fellowship Team Tournament. So, a couple things need to be considered... I found 14 teams that support Atomic Chess. Out of those 14, only 8 teams have people in them. Out of those 8, only 5 teams have more than 2 people in them.

The question is how can we run a tournament with such a wide variance on the number of players currently signed up for Fellowship teams. Maybe we should just say that only 4 player teams are allowed to play. The tourney would then have 4 sections, one for each board. The highest rated player of each team would be in the first section, the second highest rated player of each team would be in the second section, etc.

Do we want this to be the only round? Or should we then take the winners of each section and run the tournament again with just them? We could keep doing this until only one team stands and we have a team champion.

Anyways, I need suggestions on what you all would like to see... I think I would like to start it by the end of September. That way, we can get the word out to all the atomic team players and maybe we can get more people to sign up on the teams. It will also give a chance for players to move around to the teams they want to be on before the tournament starts.

Zucan

Last day to sign up!!!! We have 51 entered which makes this a grand tournament indeed. Hope to see a few stragglers come in before the door closes. Any & all welcome. :o)

Just 4 days left to sign up..

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Everyone is welcome ;)

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aizkorri 2082
Dredger 1938
Fencer 1838
GothicChessPro 2192
HerculesBeast 1984
nstre 1914
rabbitoid 1827
tonyh 1833
Whisperz 1806

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I'm starting all these later today, but i'm still a few players short for some of the games.
Everyone welcome. Good Luck

How could I have left out Fencer from this list! He had me in not one, but TWO losses in our contests!

So, Fencer is now on the list of invitees, as my Nemesis :)

Actually nstre always gives me a battle, and JuanGrande has given me a tough time too. So the invite is extended to these guys who seems to have me figured out.

I did read his previous post. It is irrelevant.

You are right Stardust. While I did not think it was an attack, if you read his previous post, you would agree with me.

So, I'll edit my previous message.

If this board is not for personal attacks perhaps your personal analysis of Danoschek should also be removed. :-)

If anyone saw the latest post of his, which I removed, I think you will understand.

I will reiterate, this board is not for personal attacks. This board is used to discuss tournaments.

Since Danoschek thought he was being removed from the World Championship for reasons relating to his playing strength, I set up a special tournament involving all of the top players and those who are known adversaries.

Danoschek was invited to this event. If he wishes to play in it,he may.

The following people were invited to this tournament:

GothicChessPro
Descenter
AndreasKaufmann
aizkorri
strydor
danoschek
CaissasDream
HerculesBeast
WhiteKnight
DainBread
chesscarpenter
Dredger    
juangrande
nstre
Whisperz
rabbitoid
the65thsquare

So, if you do not see their name on the tournament sign-up list, it is because they are refusing to play.

This tournament was created because some of the people here are rivals, and because some people accused others of avoiding playing them.

Well, here is your chance. If you do not elect to play in this tournament, kindly shut your mouth about not having a chance to play against your rivals.

Within the valley of mist 9 have tread. Those of faint heart stayed behind, those fearing no evil walked into the mist finding the path back closed off, they must proceed. The smell of water is heavy, the air of gloom strong and those that have arrived now wonder if their lives is worth the treasure that may be found.

With the magic in the air The valley that will close on the twenty second day of September in the two thousand and third year of our Lord may experience a time factor of less time. Those that travel the path to destruction will find them sub divided and sent on separate paths, yet the paths will lead the to final resting place.

At the final resting place where only the strongest will survive, the law of the jungle in effect will write upon their hearts the toil, troubles and tribulations that will be their in search of the treasure.

If you wish to enter the valley of gloom, send a message by the wind to unacanta, keeper of the valley. He will issue a pass into the valley.

Ride the winds by the one eyed devil to this place to see what will befall you
http://www.brainking.com/game/Tournaments?trg=1256&u=1&trnst=0

Una

Ok...thanks BBW...ill show it for The Big Boss too LOL

He lost to a guy who has 3 wins 3 losses
I lost to a guy who has 5 wins 1 loss

OK, here is how it works:

Each person gets 1 point for a win, 1/2 point for a tie, and 0 points for a lose. Both you and dexter got 5 wins, so you each got 5 points. That is where the S-B comes into play.

First lets take dexter: He won against player 2, 4, 5, 6, & 7. Now you add how many points each of those players have. Player 2 had 5 points. Player 4 had 4 pointst, #5 had 3, #6 had 1, and #7 had 0. Add those up and you get the S-B (which is 13)

For you, you won against player #3, #4, #5, #6, #7. So you add those points up. (3+4+3+1+0 = 11)

I hope I explained that well enough! :-)

Its to do with how many games your opponents have won and lost, Gubbe.

If the person you lost to has lost to 3 other people, then your points will be less than a person who has also lost to one other person.... but the person they lost to only lost to 1 other person.

Sorry, its complicate dand difficult to explain! Hopefully BBW will have better luck!!

BBW...The Sunshine Club/Five in line

http://www.brainking.com/game/Tournaments?trg=734&tri=3122

I asked "The Big Boss" but she couldnt give an answer LOL

Gubbe: Which tournament? A persons rating does not really have anything to do with the points or the S/B in a tournament. (If I know the tournament, I can try to explain it a little better if you want.)

I had 1 loss in a tourney to a guy with 2043 in BKR..the winner of the section had 1 loss to, to a guy with 1720 in rating.
Strange that the winner had more points than me..my loss came against a higher rated player.
Not that i care...but would be fun to know the reason.

Bwildman's 1st Gothic Chess Tourny!!
still 6 days to sign up,and ALL are welcome ;)

sponsored by nobody but me without any merchandising ... :D

maybe I was a bit blonde-squared to set the minimum players to 15 for
kinda exclusive variants - it was to avoid the impression it's just for a few ... :/

I shall wait some days yet - else I'd sadly have to close them
and re-orgagnize it as lucky game prize tourney gammon and bb,
to safely attract a higher amount of pawns ... hope to see you :") ... ~*~

There was a great deal of cleanup that was performed on the DB recently. Any comments that were personal attacks, or items not particular to the spirit of this DB were removed.

To answer some of the speculation that certain players are avoiding others in the Gothic Chess arena, I created an invitational tournament where ALL top 10 players can participate. All players who are undefeated have been invited as well.

So, if you want to fight it out, come to the tournament you were all invited to. Fighting will take place over the board, and not in the discussion board.

For example, the creator can decide that each chess game must start with accepted king's gambit or the tourmament is open for hungarian residents only :-) Of course, it should be specified at the tournament description section.

I am curious as to what #1 means??? What are some possible additional rules that could be added? I only ask, because this sounds like it could add some interesting aspects to some tourneys..

Though, it seems in all fairness, these additional rules should be known right up front, from the beginning. It doesn't seem like it would be fair to add additional rules in the middle of a tourney..
Just curious..

1) The tournament creator is the tournament ruler. He/she can apply any additional rules on the particular tournament. Whoever does not like it, can easily sign up for another tournament.
2) The site owner [myself] will never solve any problems or arguments among tournament creators and their players.

SAD Monkey? OMG whats that all about then?!

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3 days left until the KM Backgammon Open deadline. 46 so far will be participating in this Backgammon super splash and all comers are welcome so I urge you to join the fun. :o)

Before the Gothic Chess Prize Tournament (the $250 one) it was completely random. Now, i think it does someting like this:

The highest rated player is put into section 1.
The next highest rated player into section 2.
etc, etc (as many sections as there are)

I'm not sure if it keeps going like that to fill all the spots, or if it's random at some point, but if you look at some recent tournaments, you'll notice the highest rated players are generally at the top of the section, and the lower rated players are at the bottom.

There is about a week left to sign up for the second "All games for dummies" - which is for players rated under 1500, and unrated players.... as long as the unrated players are not "too good".

This is the perfect tournament to try new & different games. You can play without too much worry about being "killed" right away by an expert player.

Tournament: SIGN UP HERE

BBW (BIG BAD WOLF)

I have a tourney for all that are interested :)

all games listed for all that want to play. minimum of 4 players....the tourney name is We're Off And Running.

Hope to see a big turn out for lots of fun!!

have a great day!! :)

Thanks, I wasn't sure how it would set the sections up. I guess you didn't know how the players would be assigned per section?

Any pawns wanting the chance of a membership, then enter my backgammon prize tourney.
It starts on 20th September, so please come and join up :)

unacanta: Minimum numbers of players is how many you need to start the tournament, which you have 6.
You have not got a maximum for the tounament only for each section.
The way is stands as the moment it should create 2 sections of 3 players :)

I have the following limits in a invite only tournament.
Minimum number of players: 4
Maximum number of players: unlimited
Maximum number of players per section: 5

Currently there are 6 people signed.
What happens to the odd number if the minimum of 4 is not met for two sections?
Also how does the tourney-bot sort who plays in what section? Is it by rating or some other form of black magic??? LOL

Here is the tourney addy:
http://www.brainking.com/game/Tournaments?trg=1256&tri=4683

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I'll be starting these after the weekend. Good luck to everyone ;O)

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While waiting for the first to chug along a second Halma Tournament is about to begin. We have 19 players ready and we start in 2 days. We will close at 24 players so if you are interested send a message for an invite. Thanks.

Understood. :o)

Perhaps your next piece will be posted on General Chat board. This one is not for poems.

There's a joke there somewhere....

ROFL sorry bumble left a little thing out lol

I'm getting an 'error' page, MM.

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on winning the ArtfulDodger Backgammon tourney!

I reported that the KM Backgammon Open would be closed on the 17th (that was yesterday), then went to close it and discovered what I've always suspected: I'd lose my nose if it wasn't attached!!! The tournament is STILL open for seating and closes on Aug 27. So far we have 40 signed up which means it's gonna be exciting. Please join us if Backgammon is your game or if you are impulsive. lol. TNP