morphy4ever: I've never heard of you. You don't have any games going and you've only played 17 since joining this site in the spring of 2004? Just how many problems could you have in 17 finished games if you're not even using the site? You're not making any sense at all. Why are you here giving me a hard time and carrying on like that? Thanking me for the conversation. That's a good one. I think I'll get in the line that's forming to have you removed for being disruptive.

You say danoschek is banned? I'm not sure how you got this information, but if it's true I wholeheartily agree with the decision and the action of having him banned. In my opinion, he purposely posts to confuse or to belittle people on every board that he types on that I've read. His tactic of putting you on hide in every discussion board without so much as a reason and yet he'll still unhide you and then post in response makes little sense. He also has me on his blocked user list and yet he had continues to send me annoying messages. To do this he must unblock me, send the message, and then block me. I finally had to make him my only blocked user on this site. That Dark Chess tournament that he entered awhile back really showed his true character. A four person tournament that he joined as the fourth person just before the tournament started against two people he has on blocked user! Why would he go out of his way to play a game he'd never played before against people he doesn't like?

This is why I posted my request earlier about having a tournament accept alternates to sign up. One benefit is in the case with someone dropping out or not being elgible to play in the tournament is that another person will automatically take his place. Another is that the tournament creator can remove a disruptive player from his tournament and still have people ready to fill the space made by such a removal. I know when I check out a tournament and I see that the maximum number of people have filled the slots, I'd still like to sign up in the chance that a space might open up for me. The way it is set up now, I won't normally go back to check the tournament as I have no ready way to know a space might be available. I'd also have it so the tournament creator could change the maximum number of people allowed in the tournament. This would be helpful if a lot of people signed up as alternates and the tournament creator decided he just might want to expand the size of the tournament because of popular demand. It might already be set up this way, it's been a long time since I created my own tournament as far as being able to change the number of contestants allowed to enter. It'd certainly help the tournament creator to know if there were more people wanting to play in his tournament just by having a list of alternates handy.