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Fritzlein
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Re: 2010 Postal Mixer
« Reply #120 on: Oct 8th, 2010, 1:22am » |
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I count six unfinished games:
ocmiente vs. ChrisB
amalgam vs. ocmiente
Nombril vs. Harren
Weirdo87 vs. starjots
Eltripas vs. woh
ChrisB vs. RonWeasley
As usual, I was worried that the time control would lead to an unnatural conclusion of some game, and as usual I appear to have worried needlessly.
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Hippo
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Re: 2010 Postal Mixer
« Reply #121 on: Nov 1st, 2010, 7:07pm » |
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Next undefeated player finished ... CONGRATULATIONS.
Nombril's arimaa abilities are amazing for being 13-14 months in the comunity. Next year I suppose he would be paired with Fritzlein (not to have 2 undefeated players with the number of wins consisting of 2 digits).
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Nombril
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Re: 2010 Postal Mixer
« Reply #123 on: Nov 2nd, 2010, 7:30am » |
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Thanks! I definitely benefited in the postal mixer by being in the middle of my learning curve at the start, so part way through the game period many of my pairings had become favorable to me. I owe the continued ratings climb to all of the great analysis and discussions that have been available from the community. (Fritz's book and commentary, Adanac's write ups about the WC games, and everyone that is willing to do post-mortum analysis with me after a game.)
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Fritzlein
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Re: 2010 Postal Mixer
« Reply #124 on: Nov 29th, 2010, 1:59pm » |
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Well done, Nombril. When ocmiente vs. ChrisB finishes, we should do a post-mortem on the tournament, including everyone's performance vs. expectation, the number of abandoned games, and so on.
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ocmiente
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Re: 2010 Postal Mixer
« Reply #125 on: Dec 24th, 2010, 5:09pm » |
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The longest duration game of the 2010 postal mixer is finally over.
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Re: 2010 Postal Mixer
« Reply #126 on: Dec 25th, 2010, 10:56pm » |
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Wow, ChrisB really put up a long fight after having lost the horse on 47g. I'm guessing that horse lose was a slight miscalculation. Good game guys.
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ChrisB
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Re: 2010 Postal Mixer
« Reply #127 on: Dec 26th, 2010, 3:47am » |
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on Dec 25th, 2010, 10:56pm, omar wrote:| Wow, ChrisB really put up a long fight after having lost the horse on 47g. I'm guessing that horse lose was a slight miscalculation. Good game guys. |
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Yes, a slight, but costly miscalculation! ..... largely brought about by ocmiente's strong, solid play and my disastrous attempt to try to generate some kind of counterplay.
Now, that the postal mixer is over, I'm planning to post in the next week or so a couple of performance vs. expectation rankings, similar to what Fritzlein did after the 2009 postal mixer. If others have been working on this also, I would be curious to see how our results compare.
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Fritzlein
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Re: 2010 Postal Mixer
« Reply #128 on: Jan 7th, 2011, 2:29pm » |
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Final tally on games mismatched and unfinished:
Year . . 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010
Players . . 16 19 20 15 14 42
Games . . 80 95 85 84 70 147
Mismatches . 9 5 3 21 19 23
Not Finished . 20 31 18 8 4 31
% Mismatches . 11 5 4 25 27 16
% Not Finished 25 33 21 10 6 21
I thought that because we charged no entry fee for the tournament, we would have a record year for abandoned games. As it turned out, however, we only equaled the median from earlier years. Given that we got a record turnout without horribly diluting the quality of the tournament, I'd say the strategy was a big success. Maybe once again in 2012 we can try the signup method of waiting until a week before the tournament starts and then declaring a free-for-all. 
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