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Re: 2008 World Championship Discussion
« Reply #60 on: Feb 18th, 2008, 3:23pm » |
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Good idea : )
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Re: 2008 World Championship Discussion
« Reply #61 on: Feb 19th, 2008, 11:29pm » |
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on Feb 18th, 2008, 1:57pm, PMertens wrote:I really love to read your event coverage Karl, since unfortunately I do not have the time for watching the games.
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Thanks, Paul, although Adanac did more than half the commentary for me in the later rounds. I finally completed my share of the Round 6 commentary, then shunted it off the front page. To read about the last few games of the preliminary you will have to click on the sidebar. The front commentary page is now dedicated to the finals. Hopefully I can keep up with commenting on four games per week.
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Re: 2008 World Championship Discussion
« Reply #62 on: Feb 19th, 2008, 11:40pm » |
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on Feb 18th, 2008, 2:45pm, mistre wrote:| I really enjoyed the experience, but of my 6 games - I played 3 people that are clearly better than me (all made Top 8 ) and 3 people that I was clearly better than. I wish I could have played some of the others that finished with 3 wins. |
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Hmm, that sounds a lot like the idea of a "level" tournament we discussed in another thread. The World Championship is very constrained by trying to determine the best player(s) in a short number of games, so mismatches are inevitable, but a friendly tournament could be designed completely differently. If the ladder idea doesn't fly, I would definitely like to see a six-round tournament in the fall where there are no mismatches, i.e. where everyone is paired only against players close to their own seed.
Quote:| What about a consolation bracket for all the participants with 3 wins (9-16)? Could something like that be arranged? That would be fun. |
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I see you already got in a few consolation games. One of the fantastic things about the past two weeks has been the surge in HvH games outside of the tournament. I certainly hope the trend continues beyond tournament season.
As for an extra tournament, Omar might be overloaded at the moment, but I hope to persuade him some day to write an interface for his tournament tool so that anyone else can run a tournament with weekly rounds, scheduled games, e-mail notifications, automatic (or manual) pairing, etc.
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Re: 2008 World Championship Discussion
« Reply #63 on: Feb 24th, 2008, 5:53pm » |
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I saw 21 people logged in to the game room at one point in my game versus Omar in the first round of the finals. That's a record for simultaneous logins, right? But there probably were more at some point. I wasn't monitoring it closely, for obvious reasons. Did anyone get a higher count?
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Re: 2008 World Championship Discussion
« Reply #64 on: Feb 24th, 2008, 7:44pm » |
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Woot, yes that should be a record. I'm pretty sure the previous record was 18. Unfortunately I didn't think to look at that today so no idea if it got higher.
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Re: 2008 World Championship Discussion
« Reply #65 on: Feb 28th, 2008, 6:18pm » |
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I finally put up commentary on Round 1 of the finals, just in time for the games of Round 2 to start. Thank you, Adanac, for writing up the marathon game between 99of9 and arimaa_master.
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Re: 2008 World Championship Discussion
« Reply #66 on: Mar 2nd, 2008, 2:27pm » |
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Commentary for round two of the finals is up. Thanks, Adanac, for splitting it with me again.
The field has been reduced to six, with next round featuring two more do-or-die games as well as a showdown of the undefeateds.
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Re: 2008 World Championship Discussion
« Reply #67 on: Mar 13th, 2008, 11:13pm » |
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Yes, I know round 4 is halfway over, but round 3 commentary is now up.
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Re: 2008 World Championship Discussion
« Reply #68 on: Mar 23rd, 2008, 7:23pm » |
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Congratulations to Fritzlein, our new World Champion!
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Re: 2008 World Championship Discussion
« Reply #69 on: Mar 23rd, 2008, 8:29pm » |
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Congratulations Fritzlein. Not only winning the championship for a second time, but also going undefeated for the whole tournament.
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Re: 2008 World Championship Discussion
« Reply #70 on: Mar 24th, 2008, 2:42am » |
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Congratulations!
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Re: 2008 World Championship Discussion
« Reply #71 on: Mar 24th, 2008, 4:54am » |
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Congratulations Fritzlein!
Quite a performance going undefeated both in the preliminaries and the finals including 3 wins over chessandgo.
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Re: 2008 World Championship Discussion
« Reply #72 on: Mar 24th, 2008, 5:08am » |
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Cheers ! Hurrah for Karl
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Re: 2008 World Championship Discussion
« Reply #73 on: Mar 24th, 2008, 8:30am » |
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I noticed that Fritzlein had Gold in both matches against chessandgo. I believe that for the purpose of determining colors, past pairings between two specific opponents should have priority over their overall color past.
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Re: 2008 World Championship Discussion
« Reply #74 on: Mar 24th, 2008, 8:35am » |
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I couldn't watch the Big Game live yesterday, but have just replayed it now.
Congratulations to Fritzlein, whose exploring new game plays seems to work well.
Chessandgo and everybody now have to keep exploring as well.
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