Author |
Topic: 2006 Postal Tournament (Read 6979 times) |
|
Fritzlein
Forum Guru
Arimaa player #706
Gender: 
Posts: 5928
|
 |
Re: 2006 Postal Tournament
« Reply #15 on: Mar 5th, 2006, 7:45am » |
 Quote  Modify
|
on Mar 4th, 2006, 7:48pm, RonWeasley wrote:| I considered sending the following message, regardless of the position, to all my opponents at move 10: I see what you are trying to do and it won't work. |
|
Heh. By move 10 in our game it will be too late. I can see that you will already have a lost position. 
(My problem is that I worry about offending people only after I've already sent the trash talk.  )
|
|
 IP Logged |
|
|
|
IdahoEv
Forum Guru
Arimaa player #1753
Gender:
Posts: 405
|
|
Re: 2006 Postal Tournament
« Reply #16 on: Mar 9th, 2006, 11:36pm » |
Quote Modify
|
A quick note to everyone who is waiting on me - apologies, I became buried under demands by a client literally two days after the tournament began. Oh, and four people opened against me with identical moves so I wanted time to study responses.
Anyhow, I'm nearly unburied now, so I should be back at it shortly.
|
|
IP Logged |
|
|
|
Fritzlein
Forum Guru
Arimaa player #706
Gender:
Posts: 5928
|
|
Re: 2006 Postal Tournament
« Reply #17 on: Mar 12th, 2006, 1:11am » |
Quote Modify
|
Two weeks into the tournament there seem to be as many games blazing forward as are lagging behind. The top four leaders in move count are the same as last week, but Ron Weasley made a big jump from ninth to fifth, while Ryan Cable dropped from fifth to twelfth.
107 robinson
100 blue22
97 Belbo
81 dtj
77 RonWeasley
76 omar
70 OLTI
69 Adanac
68 fritzlforpresident
63 99of9
57 thorin
55 Ryan_Cable
54 frostlad
53 Fritzlein
53 megamau
40 jdb
32 naveed
16 IdahoEv
10 purplebaron
The single game furthest along is Robinson vs. RonWeasley at move 22. Robinson is materially ahead by a rabbit, but Ron appears to have more than enough compensation in the form of a horse frame plus a horse hostage.
By the way, thanks, Omar, for fixing the move number to show the move number Gold is about to make, so that it is the same for Gold and Silver. That added almost fifty moves to the totals from last week but the numbers are much more intuitive now, e.g. purplebaron is on move one in every game rather than being on move zero in some.
|
|
IP Logged |
|
|
|
Fritzlein
Forum Guru
Arimaa player #706
Gender:
Posts: 5928
|
|
Re: 2006 Postal Tournament
« Reply #18 on: Mar 13th, 2006, 2:04pm » |
Quote Modify
|
on Feb 26th, 2006, 12:12pm, jdb wrote:Some advice:
When analyzing games in the planning window, *close* the game window, to prevent sending a move by accident! When you have decided on your move, reopen the game window.
|
|
Aaaaaugh! I just sent an accidental move by not following this advice. There goes my good position against RonWeasley.  I'm sure he hit me with a Confusticate Curse. Oh, well, at least I didn't hang my camel. Go ahead and run away your horse, Ron, and we'll start over from scratch. 
|
|
IP Logged |
|
|
|
PMertens
Forum Guru
Arimaa player #692
Gender:
Posts: 437
|
|
Re: 2006 Postal Tournament
« Reply #19 on: Mar 13th, 2006, 3:24pm » |
Quote Modify
|
looks like he survived move 10 after all 
|
|
IP Logged |
|
|
|
RonWeasley
Forum Guru
Harry's friend (Arimaa player #441)
Gender:
Posts: 882
|
|
Re: 2006 Postal Tournament
« Reply #20 on: Mar 14th, 2006, 7:49am » |
Quote Modify
|
Fritzlein, your bad moves are still better than my good moves. Still, be careful of the dog. It might be Sirius Black.
|
|
IP Logged |
|
|
|
Fritzlein
Forum Guru
Arimaa player #706
Gender:
Posts: 5928
|
|
Re: 2006 Postal Tournament
« Reply #21 on: Mar 14th, 2006, 10:37am » |
Quote Modify
|
Omar, I had visited http://arimaa.com/arimaa/tourn/postal/2006/showGames.cgi earlier, before you finished developing it, so I didn't expect it to be so cool when I visited just now. Thanks for doing this along with all the other great server features you do.
IMHO, one small improvement would be to list the score in the order of (wins-losses) instead of order of (wins). Someone who is 1-0 with nine games to go should be ahead of someone who is 2-3 with five games to go. This is just a teeny suggestion for a great page.
|
|
IP Logged |
|
|
|
omar
Forum Guru
Arimaa player #2
Gender:
Posts: 1003
|
|
Re: 2006 Postal Tournament
« Reply #22 on: Mar 15th, 2006, 5:59pm » |
Quote Modify
|
Good idea Karl. I've changed the page. Now it also show the points earned.
|
|
IP Logged |
|
|
|
Fritzlein
Forum Guru
Arimaa player #706
Gender:
Posts: 5928
|
|
Re: 2006 Postal Tournament
« Reply #23 on: Mar 16th, 2006, 4:37pm » |
Quote Modify
|
on Mar 15th, 2006, 5:59pm, omar wrote:| Now it also show the points earned. |
|
Thanks, another excellent idea.
By the way, I forgot to note that the first game finished while nine games hadn't even started! We are down to two and a half days for PurpleBaron to make his opening move in five games, and Naveed in three.
|
|
IP Logged |
|
|
|
IdahoEv
Forum Guru
Arimaa player #1753
Gender:
Posts: 405
|
|
Re: 2006 Postal Tournament
« Reply #24 on: Mar 17th, 2006, 5:41pm » |
Quote Modify
|
I called 'baron at work yesterday to poke him a bit. Apparenlty I caught him at the end of 36-hour-straight work shift, but it seems I managed to prod him into choosing opening positions, anyway.
|
|
IP Logged |
|
|
|
Fritzlein
Forum Guru
Arimaa player #706
Gender:
Posts: 5928
|
|
Re: 2006 Postal Tournament
« Reply #25 on: Mar 17th, 2006, 7:33pm » |
Quote Modify
|
Excellent. Now only Naveed is in danger of timing out, which is a little weird. Why would one play in seven games but not in the other three?
|
|
IP Logged |
|
|
|
IdahoEv
Forum Guru
Arimaa player #1753
Gender:
Posts: 405
|
|
Re: 2006 Postal Tournament
« Reply #26 on: Mar 17th, 2006, 10:49pm » |
Quote Modify
|
Perhaps his numbers haven't updated in the gameroom, and so he believes he is waiting for the other players?
|
|
IP Logged |
|
|
|
Fritzlein
Forum Guru
Arimaa player #706
Gender:
Posts: 5928
|
|
Re: 2006 Postal Tournament
« Reply #27 on: Mar 19th, 2006, 5:09pm » |
Quote Modify
|
I commented on a game of Naveed's just as an additional reminder 16 hours before the deadline, but it looks like he has timed out anyway against Thorin. That makes a rocky start for Naveed. Meanwhile Thorin is already leading in six of his other games! We could be witnessing the emergence of a new star, folks.
|
|
IP Logged |
|
|
|
Fritzlein
Forum Guru
Arimaa player #706
Gender:
Posts: 5928
|
|
Re: 2006 Postal Tournament
« Reply #28 on: Mar 22nd, 2006, 1:54pm » |
Quote Modify
|
Omar, I see that the page http://arimaa.com/arimaa/tourn/postal/2006/showGames.cgi is updating the standings automatically as the games end, but it apparently couldn't handle Naveed's time loss to Thorin. Can you do something manually to correct the standings? Maybe the unstarted game wasn't saved, so you need to insert a placemarker game into the database for the cgi script to find? Thanks in advance.
[EDIT] I notice that also no rating points changed hands, even though all postal games are rated according to the tournament rules.
|
| « Last Edit: Mar 23rd, 2006, 6:05pm by Fritzlein » |
IP Logged |
|
|
|
omar
Forum Guru
Arimaa player #2
Gender:
Posts: 1003
|
|
Re: 2006 Postal Tournament
« Reply #29 on: Mar 24th, 2006, 3:34pm » |
Quote Modify
|
No moves were made in the game and so it did not get recorded in the games database.
I wonder why Naveed never moved in this game. I will check with the players to see if they want me to restore the game and try again.
|
|
IP Logged |
|
|
|
|
Home
Help
Search
Members
Login
Register
Reply
Notify of replies
Send Topic
Print