I look forward to a new big tournament!
My preference is for open fast.

SL-Mark:
I prefer 3 days, no vacation or 2d/1d/5d on Fischer clock. Other opinions?

Styleone:
What about:
2 days, standard vacation
3 days, no vacation
2d/1d/7d on Fischer clock

Espionage would be nice. For that game we need a good time control.

Styleone: Sounds great, may be an Espionage Masters II?
Many players have let their membership lapse, so doubtful of a strong field.

What about a new tournament?

SL-Bosse: "Playing to Win" See a few posts down.

SL-Mark: Which book?

Sandoz: These continental championships are just side shows to the world championships

Bosse must have received the book. He has beaten me twice in as many weeks.

Even without reading the book, I managed to win my latest Championship game against Mark.
Is Mark on the downgrade?
And more importantly: who received the book?

Let me know where i can send the book..whomever wants it can have it...if 2nd gets it its up to them to decide who grts it...ill send it to whoever...great job everyone!

Congratulations to Mark!

SL-Mark: Indeed a big thanks to Nothingness!

Nothingness: Just a note to thank you for your prize tourny which has recently finished
Open Espionage League Brain prize Tourney

You mentioned in your post of the 2 Jan 2012 a second prize of a book by David Sirlin, which would go to dAGGER.

However, I think Sandoz is much more in need of this book "Playing to Win", unless he is just going through a generous streak of gifting games

Usually a good tournament:
Championship world BK 2014

Styleone: Thank you for the post, though it is a shame you can't join it!. These are usually good tournaments.

Championship world BK 2013

greetings

I have a few games to finish up before im totally out of here!

Nothingness: Good Luck in all the things you do and a lot of happiness with your family! Not the same here without you, but your real life comes first!

not be the best moment to post that, but today starting a new tournament. Sorry...

small fast spionage and eile mit weile

@Nothingness
you are right, there are a lot more important things than gaming. All the best from me too.

Nothingness: This sounds serious. I will anxiously wait your return.

Nothingness: Looking at your current games, I guess you will still be playing in 2014.

A Black Rook account too! You could gift it / lend it out for your period of absence. On your return you would the be able to admire the improved stats of your account :)

Joking aside, all the best for 2013 and your New Years resolution!

As of 2013 I will have to announce that I will be giving up gaming for the foreseeable future. I need to focus more on my marriage and family than I do gaming. Gaming had been a huge part of my life for the last 20 years and its about time to set it aside to work on other more important things. My gaming focus the past few years has been very poor, i do not like doing things half way, its 100% or nothing. once I finish up my current games I will be leaving here till further notice. I will not be starting any new games. thanks for the fun times.

I think you can save some time, perhaps a lot of time, by not setting it up as a single tournament.

If you set each section (and round) separately than you can start, for example, round 2 once the round 1 sections are decided instead of having to wait for every game to complete.

Chaos: No vacation. Fischer clock is defined by three parameters:

Time - specifies a time for all game moves in days and hours which is set for each player when the game starts. When a player makes a move, the elapsed time from the last move of the opponent is subtracted from this value. If the time drops to a zero, the player loses by a timeout.

Bonus - the number of days and hours which is added to the player's time left value each time he makes a move.

Limit - the maximum time left value for this game which cannot be exceeded using the Bonus feature.

so 36hr / 24hr/ 3days means
- you have 36 hours to move.
- every time you move, 24 hours is added to your current clock time
- a maximum of 3 days can be built up on you clock, which gives you 3 days to move.

Just today the (hopefully) final round of Open Espionage League Brain prize Tourney (start april 2010) has started. I don't know if I feel like starting a new tournament, I don't believe in 'fast' anymore. Fisher's clock stil allows for vacations, right?

sounds good, I prefer a fast moving tournament too.

Styleone: Yes, but only with Fischer clock. Getting fed up of the persistently slow players.
What about Fisher clock: 36 hours/ 24 hours/ 3 days

hey,what about a new league tournament?

i currently have a faulty saved position where im missing bomb...i kept it b/c it was a glitch i could use as a distraction... but i never used it. probably never will

Aganju: Yes, I am a fan of random placement, and just keep clicking it until I get one that makes me happy, then make a few "tweaks" to it. I'm almost positive there are no problems with modifications when using that method.

rod03801: understood. I might actually go for the solution proposed below by 'cookie monster' (I thought it is 'vegetable monster' now??), because I'm afraid someone is willing to put the effort in to find my starting position from last game and track my moves and gain a significant advantage.
(not that it would be needed at my current level of play - you can still win easily against me if you know a bit what you do)

Aganju: Yes, it SHOULD. (I would think so anyway). But I haven't used the editors in several years. I was just proposing a possible "work around", that would be easier than starting from scratch.

Aganju: I had similair problem in one or two games recently.

I have no idea on the technical issues encountered here, but I will put in a plug for random start positions. I play by setting my base and bombs and, usually one or two spies in the front row and one or two sappers in the back row and then 'randomly place remaining pieces'. It takes less than 10 seconds to get going.

I doubt it's visible any more a IYT, but there was a game played there between pcron and Ruth that highlighted the dangers of saved positions. pcron apparently used a saved start position and Ruth apparently knew which one. :)

rod03801: yes that works, but I would have to overwrite or save the changed position every time. It should work without that, right? And the really strange thing isthat it seems to work, but the game comes back to me blank after several hours only.

Chaos: I mean that I move two or three pieces around, for example take two out and place them switched. I typically do that, so opponents cannot check earlier games to see whee my headquarters is.

Chaos: I imagine it means he moved one of his preplaced pieces.

Aganju, how about if you handle it slightly differently. Go into the Editor, and change it (your "slight modification", and save THAT, and then try to use THAT as your placement? A little of a pain, but it MIGHT work.

Aganju: What do you do in step 2 'I modify it slightly'. I do not understand what you mean with that.

Anyone aware of this problem?
1. I load an existing saved position
2. I modify it slightly
3. I submit my move
Everything looks good, the game is shown as it is my opponents turn.
But - some hours later - the game is back in my list, with no position, and I have to do it all over again! I have tried five times for one game, I cannot get it to work. It always comes back to me after some hours with no position.

It was more the club set up I thought would be good but as I found out, you have to pay as a silver to be in one

I'm pretty sure that you can only make 20 moves a day

just seen you have to be silver to join a club

Tian-Xian: you can still only play bin one tourney as a guest on goldtoken! Exactly the same as here!

Does anyone play at Goldtoken?
You can make your own club there and it looks easier to have more tournies going at the same time

Chaos: will let you know when I know

Celticjim: what tournament are you talking about?

I'm going to put up some cash and meteorites once we get to a certain number of players.Each group winner will get a prize and the further you progress the bigger the prize.Come on come all-not necessary to join the FB group I should think but you know the old saying about curiousity and the cat

Celticjim: i played my very first game of sabotage vs Saboteur... i lost to him then never lost to him again.