Topic awaiting preservation: Ozone chess tourney returns ...

http://www.haughtbk.com/ozonetourney.html <--- Page for previous tournament.

First of all, my sincere apologies for not providing closure to our previous chess tournament. Just a case of bad timing. Sorry!

The top three place results from the last go around were:
First place: Sash - 4 points
Second place: (3-way tie) Webshaman, Doc Ozone, Suho1004 - 3 points
Third place: (2-way tie) Mobrul, Massacre - 2 points

Congratulations to Sash for an undefeated tournament!

Sooooooo ... anyone want to get another tournament going? Just take a look at the page linked to at the top of this post for a general idea of how this deal runs. Post here if you are interested in joining in.

Game pace is expected to be at least 5 or 6 moves per week, however, I know that many folks were able to make moves several times a day. Just so long as the game is kept active throughout the week, everything will be fine.

Sash, care to defend your crown? WS, want to exact revenge? Doc, are you ready to operate? Suho, got the shock therapy machine warmed up?

Let's rumble!!!!

<little rant> The only thing that disappointed me the first time around was the number of people who just disappeared. If you are interested in participating in this new tournament, then please make sure you will be able to follow through to the end. Some participants "got the shaft" cause opponents dropped out of the tournament without any notice. I understand that real life can easily preclude folks from finishing the tournament, but a quick note informing everyone that you are bowing out is the least you can do. </little rant>

Cell Number: 494 / Inkstick

booow! massacre is dead man!!!! :-p

3rd place...oh yeah

-THE SPACE-

I'm in...

Count me in. I've never been all that great at chess, but I can usually avoid the most capital of blunders.

I'm in...

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"There are 10 kinds of people; those who know binary, those who don't and those who start counting at zero"

All right, Perfect Thunder, head on over to Stan's Netchess and get yourself set up with a player page. Then provide a link to it from here, please.

Everyone else so far should still have their previous player page at Stan's. Let me know if any changes have been made.

Four people so far (including me). Mas, are you interested in playing?

Cell Number: 494 / Inkstick

Woohoo!
license to humilite myself in public.
I'm always up for that

Dufty's Player Page

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Money is the game other people play, that I try to avoid by having just enough not to play it.
-Norman Mailer
[Dufty][Cell 698]

errrr.... techinically I had 2.5 because maninacan forfeited the 4th round before our game started

That could have been seen here on the final chess topic, if the thread had not been deleted

Anyway count me in again... Synthetic's Player Page

what is the average skill level around these games?

                                   

The skill level is definitely in a wide range. It would be hard to pin down. Sash was definitely on the "fear the mighty hand of Zeus" level. WebShaman unnerved everyone he played cause of that strange habit he had of sharpening his tomahawk during the game. And there were a few of us who had a hard time scraping together any wins despite some close games. The nice thing about this style of tournament, though, is that by the 3rd and 4th rounds, everyone is playing against folks of comparable strength.

Sorry I missed that, Synthetic. I'll update everything to reflect that here soon.

I'll let this signup thread stew for about a week before I set up the tournament just so that everyone has a chance to see it and join in.

Cell Number: 494 / Inkstick

Hey, I resent that! I gotta sharpen the thing sometime...never know when it'll come in handy...



And ditto on Sash...he's really good...though I would love to play him again...

Let's get it on!

Heyyyy, I finally found my way back to this place... Was starting to go into withdrawal...

Count me in. I used to have a page at Stan's, but it's been forever since I was there. When/If I find the old one, I'll post it (or it's replacement) here.
edit: Lord Fuktuoku's player page


Just a little advance warning though, I'm still kinda tied up at work and school, catching up from vacation and all, but my schedule should be a bit closer to something vaguely resembling normal within a couple weeks... ::crosses fingers::

[This message has been edited by Lord_Fukutoku (edited 01-28-2003).]

anyone here ever play MS Outlook Chess?

I'm in again. The least I can do is provide a little comic relief around the place.

Guess I'm ready.

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anyone here ever play MS Outlook Chess?

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@Boudga, lol nope never knew about it, how would you play?

@BeeKay, thanks man would be appreciated

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Heh... actually, I had an undefeated tournament too--I joined one round late

Not that I think I could have beaten Sash, of course, but it just makes me feel better to know that. I also happened to beat one of my co-runners-up in a private match, which also doesn't count toward the tournament, but also makes me feel better. Why do I have the feeling I'm setting myself up for a fall this time?

Eh, yeah, I'm in. I won't be able to start until about the 3 February, though (lunar new year this weekend).

All right so we have:
BeeKay
WS
Perfect Thunder
Veneficuz
Dufty
Synthetic
Lord Fukutoku
Mobrul
Suho

Can we scrounge up one more player to make it all evened up? If not, no big deal.
I'll try to get this thing rolling NLT Wednesday ... but probably sooner.
Everybody got a player page ready?

Cell Number: 494 / Inkstick

Hey, guys, I would like to join, and I love playing chess...

It's been a long time since I've been here, but I would like to become a regular here soon....

EDIT: you guys need my link, don't you...

well, here it is: http://stansco.com/cgi-bin/nc_ppp.cgi

[This message has been edited by unLevel (edited 02-08-2003).]

also, could someone please explain to me how this works exactly? Does soneone challenge me, then we can play one game, move by move, over several days?

AMAZING>>>

oooo shucks, i was gonna give this a shoot.. but anywho.. ummm if u need a guy, like somebody gets a higher charge in shock therapy and is temporarily paralyzed, give me a ring, im set with the page..

I am in!

*Gulp!*

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Money is the game other people play, that I try to avoid by having just enough not to play it.
-Norman Mailer
[Dufty][Cell 698]

I'm in this time around!


.::. cEll .::. 513

Yippee, plenty of people here to make me look bad


-- Unoriginal Cell 693 --

OOhh, Count me In

Guyo, was that count you in to help make Lord_Fukutoku look bad?
Isn't that a bit mean?

[just me stirring the pot]
grammar - damn it
[back to your regularly scheduled thread]

*edit - I come here to poke fun and end up misspelling something myself. I feel like an idiot.



[This message has been edited by mobrul (edited 02-10-2003).]

Hmm grammer - One who Grams?

Oh, I think the link I gave you don't work anymore, so here's another one that probably doesn't work: http://stansco.com/cgi-bin/nc_ppp.cgi?13057

Also, could someone email me kinda explaining how this thing works? Is there a schedules time that I have to show up or something? PS, my email is htsmith_7@hotmail.com

Hmm, this turned into a decent sized gathering of loonies... The more the merrier

unLevel: If I had to take a guess, BeeKay (at least I believe he's the one running this show) will start a new thread with all the information we need, and when each of our games starts, we'll post the link to the game page in that thread...

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Game pace is expected to be at least 5 or 6 moves per week, however, I know that many folks were able to make moves several times a day. Just so long as the game is kept active throughout the week, everything will be fine.

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So, no, not any 'scheduled' times to be on to play, even though you could talk to your opponent and set up a time to play every now and then so you could possibly get several moves at one sitting, rather than just a few moves a week...
When pairings are announced, one challenges the other and it goes about like a typical online chess game...

At least, that's what I picked up from the last one ::shrugs::

<practicing my psychic powers>
Within a couple hours of this post, someone from the last tourney will add to what I just said...
</psychic powers>

[edit: Realized I didn't even answer unLevel's question in my orig post : :

[edit2: OK, so my psychic abilitites are a bit rusty ::shrugs::

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[This message has been edited by Lord_Fukutoku (edited 02-12-2003).]

*bump*

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I'll try to get this thing rolling NLT Wednesday ... but probably sooner.

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Wednesday of which year?

Actually, Wednesday of next week will be the first chance I get to play anyways, so it's all good...


-- Unoriginal Cell 693 --

Wednesday came and gone already, maybe we can start this when it comes by again?

Synthetic's Chess Player Page

And if not, there's still plenty of Wednesdays left... It's not really like we're gonna run out of Wednesdays anytime soon... I hope... ::gets a slightly worried look on face::


Yea, so, I'm just gonna go try and find what I came here for before I start rambling

Yes, er, um, my apologies. I'll get this kicked off as soon as possible. I've been engaged in interviews for a new job that popped up out of nowhere. Could be a good step forward for me as far as responsibilty and pay goes, so this matter has taken a high priority for me this past week. As such this chess tourney and the Ripper Report content projects have taken a back burner.

However, interviews are over and now I'm waiting for word back. I've been told it's between me and another person. Exciting! So, I'll try to get the chess games going soon.

Once again, my apologies.

Cell Number: 494 / Inkstick