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Re: Chess tournament?

by miminena » Mon Apr 07, 2025 2:48 pm

DougJoe wrote: ↑
Mon Apr 07, 2025 2:45 pm
miminena wrote: ↑
Sun Apr 06, 2025 6:17 pm
 i should say that the matches will be determined tomorrow, scheduling will happen on the same day or on the days following
Will notifications for the matches go out here or on lichess?
The match list is in a new thread, put your lichess username there and challenge your opponent to a 2 day match as soon as you are ready

Re: Chess tournament?

by DougJoe » Mon Apr 07, 2025 2:45 pm

miminena wrote: ↑
Sun Apr 06, 2025 6:17 pm
 i should say that the matches will be determined tomorrow, scheduling will happen on the same day or on the days following
Will notifications for the matches go out here or on lichess?

Re: Chess tournament?

by gimix » Mon Apr 07, 2025 10:06 am

Important note, my nickname on Lichess is different because "ginix" already existed: it's "gimixvdA"

Re: Chess tournament?

by miminena » Sun Apr 06, 2025 6:17 pm

i should say that the matches will be determined tomorrow, scheduling will happen on the same day or on the days following

Re: Chess tournament?

by miminena » Sun Apr 06, 2025 5:57 pm

DougJoe wrote: ↑
Sun Apr 06, 2025 5:50 pm
 Made my lichess account - are we starting tomorrow?
tomorrow sounds good

i'll fill in for Awhailnah to even the numbers since they haven't confirmed

Re: Chess tournament?

by DougJoe » Sun Apr 06, 2025 5:50 pm

Made my lichess account - are we starting tomorrow?

Re: Chess tournament?

by kingofthepirates » Sat Apr 05, 2025 2:50 am

slight preference if we could start at least after this weekend? So monday april 7th at the earliest if possible :>

Re: Chess tournament?

by gimix » Fri Apr 04, 2025 4:03 pm

I'm in, and I can start anytime

Re: Chess tournament?

by miminena » Fri Apr 04, 2025 1:12 pm

bumping this; Awhailnah and gimix still need to confirm

reminder of sign ups:

1. Awhailnah
2. Ernst_Brenner
3. kingofthepirates
4. DougJoe
5. Hominidae
6. AsymmetricSystem
7. damo666
8. gimix

Re: Chess tournament?

by DougJoe » Wed Apr 02, 2025 6:16 pm

Can start whenever, although I'll need to create a lichess account (that's mostly a reminder for me.)

Re: Chess tournament?

by Ernst_Brenner » Wed Apr 02, 2025 4:12 pm

confirm

Re: Chess tournament?

by AsymmetricSystem » Wed Apr 02, 2025 2:00 pm

confirming I can play

Re: Chess tournament?

by damo666 » Wed Apr 02, 2025 11:40 am

Yes

Re: Chess tournament?

by kingofthepirates » Wed Apr 02, 2025 10:51 am

Confirm :3

Re: Chess tournament?

by Hominidae » Wed Apr 02, 2025 10:42 am

Yes, confirming I can play.

Re: Chess tournament?

by miminena » Wed Apr 02, 2025 12:52 am

Spartaculous wrote: ↑
Tue Apr 01, 2025 4:06 pm
miminena wrote: ↑
Thu Mar 27, 2025 4:31 pm
Spartaculous wrote: ↑
Thu Mar 27, 2025 1:35 pm
 I could play if you really wanted/needed me to... but alternatively, I could offer some kind of commentary on the games? Would that be useful/fun?
it would be great to have commentary!

would it be done during or after the games? if during we would have to work something off-site so as to not interfere with the games but if after it should be fine to just put it in a thread here
I would probably offer very light kibitzing of current games in this thread (pointing out which games look interesting, etc. - nothing that would recommend moves to players), and then I might write up analysis of a few games after they are over in a Lichess study (like I did for the team chess game).
probably there will be another thread for game information itself, but this should be fine

anyways, now that it is the beginning of the month, anybody who has signed up please confirm that you are still available to play and have the ability to play over lichess. once everybody has confirmed the round robin will start in a new thread, and matches will be determined for round 1

reminder of sign ups:

1. Awhailnah
2. Ernst_Brenner
3. kingofthepirates
4. DougJoe
5. Hominidae
6. AsymmetricSystem
7. damo666
8. gimix

Re: Chess tournament?

by Spartaculous » Tue Apr 01, 2025 4:06 pm

miminena wrote: ↑
Thu Mar 27, 2025 4:31 pm
Spartaculous wrote: ↑
Thu Mar 27, 2025 1:35 pm
 I could play if you really wanted/needed me to... but alternatively, I could offer some kind of commentary on the games? Would that be useful/fun?
it would be great to have commentary!

would it be done during or after the games? if during we would have to work something off-site so as to not interfere with the games but if after it should be fine to just put it in a thread here
I would probably offer very light kibitzing of current games in this thread (pointing out which games look interesting, etc. - nothing that would recommend moves to players), and then I might write up analysis of a few games after they are over in a Lichess study (like I did for the team chess game).

Re: Chess tournament?

by miminena » Thu Mar 27, 2025 8:22 pm

1. Awhailnah
2. Ernst_Brenner
3. kingofthepirates
4. DougJoe
5. Hominidae
6. AsymmetricSystem
7. damo666
8. gimix
9.
10.
11.
12.

extending this to twelve people

Re: Chess tournament?

by miminena » Thu Mar 27, 2025 8:22 pm

gimix wrote: ↑
Thu Mar 27, 2025 6:20 pm
 One day per move, say 50 moves in a game, it's going to run for ages
Assuming it's a round-robin, so the calendar is known in advance, I would suggest that we start a new round every month, even if the previous round(s) are not completed still. That would mean each participant would be playing around three matches (six games) at the same time.

Anyhow, count me in!
this sounds good. in this case, i'll probably close off signups when we get to twelve so it doesn't take much more than a year

anyways, now that the tentative sign-ups are filled, what time works for people as a start date? April 1st would be the start of a new month but might be too soon, and if we wait until may people might lose interest by then, so would the start of april work or will it have to be later?

Re: Chess tournament?

by gimix » Thu Mar 27, 2025 6:20 pm

1. Awhailnah
2. Ernst_Brenner
3. kingofthepirates
4. DougJoe
5. Hominidae
6. AsymmetricSystem
7. damo666
8. gimix

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