Chess Spiderchess Tournament

[keira]

Okay, so as elaborated in the earlier thread, I'm organizing a chess tournament. If you're interested, say so below. I'm going to limit this to ten persons, or whoever signs up in the next couple days.

 

We'll be doing all the matches at chess.calref.net. If you don't have an account you'll need to make one (It's pretty straightforward and doesn't require clicking links in email or any of that crap). In addition, it's handy to have a real-time aspect as well, so entrants are encouraged to hang out in the calref chat while playing (registration not required there, but recommended).

 

Note: Upon registering, the webchess will ask for your first and last name, and won't let you leave it blank. If you are uncomfortable doing this, just put your username twice or something. It's not really needed and is a chess etiquette thing, I guess.

 

Anywho, the tournament is going to be a double round-robin. Each player will play every other player twice, once as white and once as black. We'll shoot for getting two rounds a week done, but this can go slower or faster as time allows.

 

The grand prize is, uh, being the best or something. Also I'll draw you a pony or something (this isn't really a prize, i have no artistic skills).

 

So yeah and stuff.

[Tyranicus]

I'm in.

[BMA]

I'm jpmon.

 

My chess account works fine, but my CalRef account doesn't seem to be working anymore.

[Goldengirl]

I'm in, same username. Sylae, will you be matching people up to play, or...?

[keira]

Yes, once we get enough people I'll set up the matches for each round.

 

I'm also playing, but as I am also setting it all up it would be assy to play For The Glory or whatever, so...yeah.

[Aran]

As I said in the other thread, I'd love to participate but am working for the rest of the month. Have to hand in my bachelor thesis soon. (In fact, I'm about to go offline entirely).

 

I don't know the time schedule of this tournament, but if it goes on for a while, then it might be possible to match up some late entrants and have them make up the pace with more frequent games later.

[keira]

That'd certainly be a possibility, yeah. If anyone wants to do that, I'd be down with it.

[Mosquito---Slayer]

Yes, yes please do that, I could manage december 10.

[Aeschere42]

Hiyas! I'm a friend of Sy's from another site and look forward to getting my butt kicked by all of you in chess!

[keira]

Okie-day. I currently have the following people signed up:

 

- Sylae

- Tyra

- BMA

- Goldenking

- Aeschere

- Aran

- Mosquito

 

I also noted that Nalyd, Trenton, and The Reverend expressed interest in the other thread. If they want in for sure they should say so here, otherwise those slots are free for the taking.

 

With regards to the busyfolk (Currently Aran and Mosquito), I'll just list them in the rounds as normal, but if all the other games in a round are done we'll just move on, and they can make those games up once their schedule is freeer (freer? free-er? more free?).

[Mosquito---Slayer]

So, I'll be facing Aran?

also, @Aeschere welcome to spiderweb forums, please leave you sanity at the door, we look forward to doing whatever you want us to do .

[keira]

The tournament is set up so you'll play everyone twice. We'll just delay the games you're in until you can get around to playing them.

[BMA]

I'm a friend of Sy's from another site

 

Oh lemme guess, you're from the My Little Pony forums aren't you

[The Loquacious Lord Grimm]

I'm game.

[Callie]

I am interested, even though I probably suck at it.

[Trenton.]

I'm game.

 

Glad to see you made it over here, Aeschere! You're going to love it!

 

Welcome to Spiderweb Software. Please leave your sanity at the door.

 

Oh lemme guess, you're from the My Little Pony forums aren't you

Is that such a bad thing?

[Sudanna]

Yes.

[Nioca]

I'm interested, if I'm not too late.

[keira]

A'ight. We'll do 12 people. I'll have the first round up shortly

 

- Sylae

- Tyra

- BMA

- Goldenking

- Aeschere

- Aran

- Mosquito

- Lenar

- Trenton

- Excalibur

- Nalyd

- Nioca

Edited November 8, 2012 by Sylae

[keira]

Round one:

Nalyd - Excalibur

Nioca - Lenar

Mosquito* - Aeschere

Aran* - Tyra

GoldKing - BMA

Trenton - Sylae

 

First player is white, second is black. Once you've played, post who won and the webchess gameID (so I can extract PGNs for the listener's convenience). Best of luck!

 

(trenton, I'm down to play whenever you have time, I'll be in calref or mtbrony)

[Callie]

I should be available Friday afternoon and all of Saturday and Monday.

[Sudanna]

Same here.

[Nioca]

I'm available whenever, so long as it's in the evening.

[Trenton.]

{LE TRENTON AND SYLAES GAME}

 

I lost, Sylae won, Hurrah D:

 

[Event "WebChess Board #59"]

[site "WebChess"]

[Date "2012-11-08 18:33:27"]

[Round "-"]

[White "Copeland, Trenton"]

[black "Corell, Sylae"]

[Result "1-0"]

 

1. d4 Nf6 2. e3 d5 3. c3 e6 4. Na3 c5 5. dxc5 Bxc5 6. Be2 O-O 7. Kf1 Nc6 8. Nb5

e5 9. Nd6 Qxd6 10. h4 a5 11. f3 d4 12. f4 Ne4 13. Nf3 Ng3+ 14. Kf2 Nxh1+ 15. Kf1

Ng3+ 16. Ke1 Nxe2 17. Kxe2 e4 18. Kd2 exf3 19. exd4 fxg2 20. Kc2 Bf5+ 21. Kb3

Qd5+ 22. c4 a4+ 23. Kc3 Bb4# 1-0

 

 

[Aran]

You lasted two moves longer than I did in my last match against Sylae.

[Mosquito---Slayer]

I tried registering at Cal Ref and it says my account hasn't been activated, how much time does that take?, It's been about 18 hours or so since I tried.

[keira]

I tried registering at Cal Ref and it says my account hasn't been activated, how much time does that take?, It's been about 18 hours or so since I tried.

It now is. Thanks for saying something, I was literally about to purge the registrations of the eight billion spambot accounts that are getting through.

[The Reverend]

I won't be able to play in the tournament - too much on my plate - but thanks for putting this together. I'll enjoy spectating.

[Mosquito---Slayer]

Well, In recent news Sylae has another win and I am the loser , she should be posting the game shortly.

[keira]

You have a typo in your post.

 

1. e4 e6 2. e5 d6 3. f4 dxe5 4. fxe5 Qh4+ 5. g3 Qe4+ 6. Qe2 Qxh1 7. Nf3 Bd7 8. Nc3 Bc6 9. Ne4 Nd7 10. d4 f5 11. Ned2 Be7 12. c3 Nh6 13. h3 f4 14. g4 Nf7 15. c4 Ng5 16. Nxg5 Bxg5 17. b4 Bh4+ 18. Kd1 f3 19. Qe3 Ba4+ 20. Nb3 Qxf1+ 21. Kc2 f2 22. Kc3 Bxb3 23. axb3 Qe1+ 24. Kb2 f1=Q 25. Qg5 Bxg5 0-1

 

Anywho, that was a good game, mosquito. (But yeah, if anyone wants to "get ahead" if they'll not be able to make it later, feel free)

[Goldengirl]

BMA, I sent you a challenge. I won't actually be able to play until Saturday, at the earliest, when I should be free for most of the time. Good luck to us both.

[Little Fyora]

Well, In recent news Sylae has another win and I am the loser , he should be posting the game shortly.

 

Sylae always wins, she is a good player.

 

it's okay really even Alorael Lilith can make typos

[Aran]

Is there stuff missing or did MosquitoSlayer resign? (I'm not so familiar with PGN.)

[Mosquito---Slayer]

Sylae always wins, she is a good player.

Sylae is a she? I thought he(she?) was a he.

Is there stuff missing or did MosquitoSlayer resign? (I'm not so familiar with PGN.)

Sort of both.

[Sudanna]

Sylae is indeed a she-person.

[Aran]

Sort of both.

 

Well, I can see why; I see no way to avoid mate in 2-3 moves...

[keira]

Mosquito accidentally moved his queen to a, um, strategically not supreme spot and hit the "request undo" button. It turns out the request undo button is less stable than expected, and it ended up not undoing the move and just giving me another move. So...yeah. We just called it.

[Mosquito---Slayer]

strategically not supreme spot

That's a very polite way to describe it, I actually ended up moving it to a spot diagonally adjacent to her bishop .

[Lilith]

ah, a trap so subtle that even the one who set it didn't understand its purpose

[Callie]

I'm not sure exactly how results should be posted so I'll just follow Trenton's example.

 

[Event "WebChess Board #63"]

[site "WebChess"]

[Date "2012-11-10 17:55:01"]

[Result "1-0"]

 

1. h4 e5 2. d3 Nc6 3. Rh3 a5 4. c4 Bb4+ 5. Bd2 Nf6 6. a3 Bc5 7. b4 Bd4 8. Bc3

Ng4 9. f4 Bf2+ 10. Kd2 exf4 11. Bxg7 Nd4 12. Ra2 f3 13. exf3 Ne3 14. Qc1 Nb3+

15. Ke2 Nxc1+ 16. Kxf2 Nd1+ 17. Ke1 Ne3 18. Ne2 Nxa2 19. Kd2 Nxf1+ 20. Kc2 Qe7

21. Rh1 Qxe2+ 22. Kb3 a4# 1-0

 

 

 

[Aran]

I'd like to point out a possible bug in the web-chess client:

 

1. d4 Nf6 2. e3 d5 3. c3 e6 4. Na3 c5 5. dxc5 Bxc5 6. Be2 O-O 7. Kf1 Nc6 8. Nb5

e5 9. Nd6 Qxd6 10. h4 a5 11. f3 d4 12. f4 Ne4 13. Nf3 Ng3+ 14. Kf2 Nxh1+ 15. Kf1

Ng3+ 16. Ke1 Nxe2 17. Kxe2 e4 18. Kd2 exf3 19. exd4 fxg2 20. Kc2 Bf5+ 21. Kb3

Qd5+ 22. c4 a4+ 23. Kc3 Bb4# 1-0

 

1. h4 e5 2. d3 Nc6 3. Rh3 a5 4. c4 Bb4+ 5. Bd2 Nf6 6. a3 Bc5 7. b4 Bd4 8. Bc3

Ng4 9. f4 Bf2+ 10. Kd2 exf4 11. Bxg7 Nd4 12. Ra2 f3 13. exf3 Ne3 14. Qc1 Nb3+

15. Ke2 Nxc1+ 16. Kxf2 Nd1+ 17. Ke1 Ne3 18. Ne2 Nxa2 19. Kd2 Nxf1+ 20. Kc2 Qe7

21. Rh1 Qxe2+ 22. Kb3 a4# 1-0

 

When Black wins, as in both these cases, the game closes with 0-1.

 

The notation was correct when Sylae posted her game against Mosquito Slayer, so it might not happen consistently. But it's more likely that she just put that in manually instead of pasting the PGN output.

 

(Speaking of bugs, the PGN export URLs still show only empty games, as far as I can tell.)

http://chess.calref.net/pgn.php?gameID=59

[Mosquito---Slayer]

Good, 3 matches and all 3 black wins.

(Now I have something to blame for my loss )

[The Reincarnated Baron von Steuben]

I am definitely out of this one. Sylae, can you organize another tourney some other time?

[Aran]

At the pace this one is going, it'll last a while yet. I think we're at three out of 132 games, if we're really going to follow a double round robin format.

[Mosquito---Slayer]

OK, I think I have got a few free hours, If any of the 11 guys wants a game post below and I will send the challenge (mention your name and the color you want as well).

[The Reincarnated Baron von Steuben]

We already went over that Sy was of the Female Species when she was added to the mods.

[A less presumptuous name.]

The term "guy" is often used to refer to a person, or in the plural to a group, regardless of sex or gender.

[nikki.]

The term "guy" is often used to refer to a person, or in the plural to a group, regardless of sex or gender.

 

This. Sure it's important to get pronouns right, but I don't think we need to be over-sensitive about it, and some people might not have read the thread mentioned. Anyway. Woo, chess!

[Mosquito---Slayer]

The term "guy" is often used to refer to a person, or in the plural to a group, regardless of sex or gender.

This.

As for Sylae being a female we went over that in this thread itself.

[nikki.]

Okay, um. Let's just not have this thread turn into a thread about a particular member's gender (or anybody's gender, for that matter, since it's really not important or relevant to the topic at hand)? I really don't think we need to carry on discussing this.

 

(And, I'd like to note that I'm not speaking as a moderator here, but as a regular member.)