[Cheiron]

Chess Tournament at Mount Pelion
starting Sunday 14th Oct. 2PM EST

Participants have to sign up for tournament no later than friday 12th Oct.

You can sign up by replying here or contact staff at MP.

The tournament will use the Swiss system for first round. That means that everybody will play once against everybody else, that will be broken up in simultainious plays for 2-3-4 rooms at same time depending on number of participants. Here are two examples:

6 players (3 rooms):

1. play: A-B, C-D, E-F
2. play: A-C, B-F, D-E
3. play: A-D, B-E, C-F
4. play: A-E, B-C, D-F
5. play: A-F, B-D, C-E

7 players (3 rooms):

1. play: A-B, C-D, E-F (G waits)
2. play: A-C, B-D, E-G (F waits)
3. play: A-D, B-C, F-G (E waits)
4. play: A-E, B-F, C-G (D waits)
5. play: A-F, B-E, D-G (C waits)
6. play: A-G, C-E, D-F (B waits)
7. play: B-G, C-F, D-E (A waits)

For next round we will use an elimination system, but not decided yet fully, to find the Manor chess champion.

Depending on number of participants we will break the tournament up in several events.

Details:

Standard chess rules apply. You are urged to use standard notation for your moves, e.g. Qxe5.
En passant by pawns are allowed.
You may not castle if in check or any field between king and rook is threatened or king/rook has been moved previously.
Clocks will not be used, we urge participants to not take toooooo long time for a move, and we of course trust you not to use a chess computer for making your moves.
If a participant vanish in a game and doesn't show up within 10 minutes, the opponent is noted as winner.
Spectators are welcome, but please keep a low profile and do not mess with the pieces on board.

So get your little grey cells in gear and sign up for a hopefully cozy event where the action will get fierce on the board, but all for the fun.
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Cheiron
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"Any scientist with respect for himself should start
the day by rejecting his own pet hypotheses".
(Konrad Lorenz)

"Wir müssen wissen
Wir werden wissen"
(David Hilbert)

[mimee]

Che pls sign me up for the Chess tournament..

Thnx
Mimee ~FDF~

[kang]

Cool , sin me up Cheiron , im in

[Cheiron]

to help players not familiar with notation, here is a wiki link:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algebraic_chess_notation
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Cheiron
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"Any scientist with respect for himself should start
the day by rejecting his own pet hypotheses".
(Konrad Lorenz)

"Wir müssen wissen
Wir werden wissen"
(David Hilbert)

[Michael]

Please sign me up .... cracking my knuckles and doing my stretching in preparation (also practicing my intimidating stare)

[Cheiron]

I sign up.

George will handle event and be coordinator.

Mimee, kang, Michael, Cheiron so far... place your bids berfore friday ends folks.

PS: be ON TIME for event, no diddle daddle and coming in late, once it is on it is on.
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Cheiron
______________________________
"Any scientist with respect for himself should start
the day by rejecting his own pet hypotheses".
(Konrad Lorenz)

"Wir müssen wissen
Wir werden wissen"
(David Hilbert)

[Rawhide]

Che please sign me up

[Jade]

ooooh go on, i'm hopeless but will give it a go....sign me up
Jade

[Cheiron]

Just a status for chess tournament:

Due to time problems (as expected) the tournament is only half through first round and will commence on a later date.

Results so far (in alphabetical order):

Cheiron : 1 1 1
Jade : 0 0
Kang : 0 0 0
Michael : 1 0
Mimee : 1 1 0
Rawhide: 0 1 1

Also... I hope this could start a little chess club on manor where people can meet for a game now and then.. and little tournaments can be made. So if you missed signing up for this one, please drop by anyway and join the fun.

PS: and we sure had some good games I must say.
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Cheiron
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"Any scientist with respect for himself should start
the day by rejecting his own pet hypotheses".
(Konrad Lorenz)

"Wir müssen wissen
Wir werden wissen"
(David Hilbert)

[Jade]

eemm lets see, i'm psychic and predict that b4 the end of this first round michael, kang and mimee will have one more win under their belts.
Jade
p.s. noooooo i'm not psychic just a terrible chess player and the results are a foregone conclusion but.... i might surprise even myself

[mimee]

Well done Che ...... for me , the tournament has been fun....... been fun interacting with the players ......... hopefully more will participate ...

Thnx for all you've put into this ......

Mimee

p.s. Jade, from what i hear you do well playing , looking forward to our match

[Cheiron]

tournament will recommence tomorrow Saturday Oct. 20th, 7 pm EST for those that can make it.
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Cheiron
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"Any scientist with respect for himself should start
the day by rejecting his own pet hypotheses".
(Konrad Lorenz)

"Wir müssen wissen
Wir werden wissen"
(David Hilbert)

[Michael]

Rumour has it I meet the tournament leader at 7:00pm EST. Will this see the fulfillment of Jades prediction??

Who knows .... but I've had my high energy drink, run 5 miles, off to bed early ..... so who knows (rumour also has it you can get 100 to 1 on me ...)

Looking forward to the game .....

[Cheiron]

Here are latest results:

Cheiron: 1 1 1 1 1
Jade: 0 0
kang: 0 0 0
Michael: 1 0 0 1
Mimee: 1 1 0
Rawhide: 0 1 1 0 0

tournament is coming to an end, we are going for who comes in second, third etc.

and as a little teaser... here is a transcript of a game (participants said ok to publish it):

Michael - Rawhide

1. e3, e5
2. Qf3, f6
3. Nh3, Bh4
4. c3, Bc5
5. b4, Bd6
6. Na3, Nh6
7. Qg3, 0-0
8. Bc4+, Rf7
9. Nb5, c6
10. Nxd6, b5
11. Bb3, Kf8
12. f4, Qc7
13. Ne4, Nf5
14. Qg4, g6
15. Qe2, d5
16. Ne5, Qd6
17. fxe5, fxe5
18. e4, a6
19. Rf1, Nh4
20. g3, Bxh3
21. d4, Qf6
22. Rxf6, Rxf6
23. exd5, Ng2+
24. Kd1, Bg4
25. Bh6+, Ke7
26. Kd2, Bf5
27. Qxe5+, Re6
28. Qg7+, Kd6
29. Qf8+, Re7
30. Qd8+, Rd7
31. Nxd7, Nxd7
32. Qxa8, cxd5
33. Qxd5+, Kc7
34. Rg1, Nf6
35. Qe5+, Kb6
36. Qxf6+, Kc7
37. Rxg2, black resigns
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Cheiron
______________________________
"Any scientist with respect for himself should start
the day by rejecting his own pet hypotheses".
(Konrad Lorenz)

"Wir müssen wissen
Wir werden wissen"
(David Hilbert)