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clauchau
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Re: 2004 Arimaa World Championship
« Reply #15 on: Nov 24th, 2003, 6:10am » |
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If your opponent is available on Saturday or Sunday as well, you'll most probably play during those days, since the scheduler first picks up the latest common available time.
Hence you may input some early times in Wednesday Morning as available and they'll only be picked up if there was no other way to make you play - assuming the scheduler is smart enough to start scheduling the most constrained pairs.
If that happens however and your partner shows up on Wednesday, you'll lose by forfeit  . It cannot be fair, especially now that you've told everybody which times you are really available. Your partner may have the strategy to input those times as unavailable to him and force you to forfeit.
Perhaps the players who can't find a common available time might both play against the same bot at different times. The result and length of their game would determine who is the winner?
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Re: 2004 Arimaa World Championship
« Reply #16 on: Nov 24th, 2003, 6:43am » |
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I hope you have 2 computers at your house Messrs Siddiqui !
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Re: 2004 Arimaa World Championship
« Reply #17 on: Nov 26th, 2003, 4:07am » |
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when can we make the next round's predictions? 
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Re: 2004 Arimaa World Championship
« Reply #18 on: Nov 26th, 2003, 9:42am » |
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now i notice!
should be interesting to see who is aggressive and who is slow but steady.
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Re: 2004 Arimaa World Championship
« Reply #19 on: Nov 26th, 2003, 6:09pm » |
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Anyone who's done their round 2 predictions already...
the ones on the fotland game seem to have disappeared, you may want to redo yours.
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MrBrain
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Re: 2004 Arimaa World Championship
« Reply #20 on: Nov 27th, 2003, 11:43am » |
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I noticed that. Luckily I remembered my pick for that game.
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Re: 2004 Arimaa World Championship
« Reply #21 on: Nov 28th, 2003, 4:11pm » |
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Another forfeiture, bah. Really makes me wonder if the people really are available for all those slots they sign up for, or if the three-minute window to get to the game is too small. Well, let's wait one more day for a match. 
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Re: 2004 Arimaa World Championship
« Reply #22 on: Nov 28th, 2003, 7:55pm » |
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Has anyone else had the problem that the times offered on the availability list are not the same as the times allocated for games?
All my availability list times are odd hour numbers, but all the games are on even hours (in my timezone). I think the server may have an inconsistency by one hour when it tries to calculate my timezone (UK).
Nevertheless, I am happy with this week's game time...
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Re: 2004 Arimaa World Championship
« Reply #23 on: Nov 29th, 2003, 7:46am » |
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Ok now the game times have changed to odd hour numbers... so i guess everything is in synch?
I hope everyone can make their new game times!
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MrBrain
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Re: 2004 Arimaa World Championship
« Reply #24 on: Nov 29th, 2003, 10:06pm » |
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Another forfeit. As many forfeits as actual games. And tomorrow I am busy so I will not be able to watch many games.  Well at least I advance to the next round. I hope I get to play a game soon.
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Re: 2004 Arimaa World Championship
« Reply #25 on: Nov 30th, 2003, 10:28am » |
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A pity... we *almost* got the game between Belbo and junaid
Belbo was here on time and junaid turned up about 10 min after.
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Re: 2004 Arimaa World Championship
« Reply #26 on: Nov 30th, 2003, 10:39am » |
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There needs to be a bigger window to get the games started. Not everyone keeps their clocks set to within 5 minutes accuracy. I think 5 or 10 minutes should be allowed before the start of a game before the forfeit.
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cam43031
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Re: 2004 Arimaa World Championship
« Reply #27 on: Nov 30th, 2003, 12:06pm » |
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What time is it GMT right now? I live in eastern time and haven't been able to figure out when these games are.
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MrBrain
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Re: 2004 Arimaa World Championship
« Reply #28 on: Nov 30th, 2003, 12:46pm » |
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on Nov 30th, 2003, 12:06pm, cam43031 wrote:| What time is it GMT right now? I live in eastern time and haven't been able to figure out when these games are. |
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I believe that would be 6:06:48 p.m. GMT. It is 5 hours ahead of ET.
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Re: 2004 Arimaa World Championship
« Reply #29 on: Nov 30th, 2003, 6:14pm » |
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on Nov 30th, 2003, 12:06pm, cam43031 wrote:| What time is it GMT right now? I live in eastern time and haven't been able to figure out when these games are. |
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If you login to the gameroom and then view the game times they should be listed in you local time. If you are not logged in, they are shown in GMT.
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