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leo
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Re: 1st Arimaa Online Festival
« Reply #120 on: Oct 26th, 2010, 12:27am » |
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The poster is *great*, Joel!
I'm sorry for letting you down, I managed my time poorly, plus I've been having the worst internet connection lately, I couldn't view the forum nor my postal games. I hope this post goes through. I should have tried to reach you by email, I'm sorry.
Anyway the Festival is going to be a big big thing!!!
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Re: 1st Arimaa Online Festival
« Reply #121 on: Oct 26th, 2010, 12:42am » |
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Please don't worry leo, as I said, you'd already done the lion's share of the job. You are hands down the most talented artist around here. It's not your fault your connection went down.
I say it's like an extension of Murphy's Law: Always have a Plan B.
I look forward to seeing you on the day!
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Re: 1st Arimaa Online Festival
« Reply #122 on: Oct 26th, 2010, 9:10am » |
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on Oct 24th, 2010, 6:42pm, clojure wrote:Have you planned on posting the announcement of festival on forums where chess players reside in? Or general board game forums. Of course, it would be good if it was done by someone with active account so that it wouldn't be considered too spam-like.
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I've setup this page so small announcements can be posted in fourms with a link to this page:
http://arimaa.com/arimaa/aof/
Here is a suggestion for the small announcement, feel free to reword:
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The Arimaa community is planning an online festival on Saturday Oct. 30, 2010. Please join us for a special day of events and activities. If you are not familiar with Arimaa this is a good time to drop in learn more about it.
http://arimaa.com/arimaa/aof/
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Also computer-AI newsgroups might be interested to hear the discussion on the state of AI. Will there be podcasts or videos of separate events that can be heard after the day?
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I'll try to record it, but it would be good if others try to record it also and upload it to http://arimaa.com/arimaa/ftp/
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Re: 1st Arimaa Online Festival
« Reply #124 on: Oct 27th, 2010, 3:08pm » |
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Only a few days to go now!
There have been some cancellations, so if any of the events take your fancy and you think you'll be available, please do send us an email at arimaaonlinefestival@gmail.com.
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Re: 1st Arimaa Online Festival
« Reply #125 on: Oct 28th, 2010, 12:30am » |
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on Oct 26th, 2010, 10:12am, clojure wrote:
Thanks Henrik. Part of Joel's plan for this event was to try to generate some publicity via this event.
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Also, we should be able to generate some publicity. Arimaa.com is available 24/7, but telling people we have a special event planned should get us some more attention.
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We would not normally go and post about Arimaa on other sites, but this event provides a good opportunity to do so in a proper way.
Here are some more places the event could be posted. I guess it would be best if someone who already has an account at the site would do it.
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/4616/arimaa#forums
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/forum/31/boardgamegeek/press-releases
http://www.chess.com/forum/category/chess960-chess-variants
http://www.redhotpawn.com/board/threadlist.php?subject=General&forum id=1
http://www.chessforums.org/off-topic-discussion/
http://www.littlegolem.net/jsp/forum/forum2.jsp?forum=1
http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/140/chess-other-board-games/
I do have accounts on some of these sites, but with me being interviewed in the event, it would feel like I'm blowing my own horn 
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Re: 1st Arimaa Online Festival
« Reply #126 on: Oct 28th, 2010, 11:51am » |
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on Oct 28th, 2010, 12:30am, omar wrote:
OK I've done them all except for chess.com, which seemed to be having problems with its server, and Little Golem, which told me I wasn't "enough trustworthy".
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Re: 1st Arimaa Online Festival
« Reply #127 on: Oct 28th, 2010, 4:04pm » |
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Please could somebody, anybody, post
http://arimaa.com/arimaa/aof/
into Stumbleupon? It's not working for me for some reason. 
More people hear about Arimaa through Stumbleupon than any other website (except for perhaps Wikipedia), so this could make a big difference.
Thanks.
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Re: 1st Arimaa Online Festival
« Reply #128 on: Oct 28th, 2010, 4:22pm » |
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I posted it: http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/1RBGPD/arimaa.com/arimaa/aof/
Is it now correctly shared? This was my first time to share in Stumbleupon. I have only once used it before for browsing, I think. It was weird that sharing a new url isn't possible with "one action".
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Re: 1st Arimaa Online Festival
« Reply #129 on: Oct 28th, 2010, 4:28pm » |
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on Oct 28th, 2010, 4:22pm, clojure wrote:
Excellent thanks very much!
What tags did you put on it?
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Re: 1st Arimaa Online Festival
« Reply #130 on: Oct 28th, 2010, 4:32pm » |
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on Oct 28th, 2010, 4:28pm, megajester wrote:| What tags did you put on it? |
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I'm not sure how I can see that but if I remember correctly: arimaa, chess, board games, abstract
It suggested automatically "video games" but I don't know whether it added because I didn't do anything about it or was it just a suggestion.
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Re: 1st Arimaa Online Festival
« Reply #131 on: Oct 28th, 2010, 4:34pm » |
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Hmm. If I went to edit it, the form had tag field as empty :/
Now it should have aforementioned tags.
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Re: 1st Arimaa Online Festival
« Reply #132 on: Oct 28th, 2010, 4:43pm » |
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Brilliant.
Just a reminder everybody, there's still time to post in forums, send emails etc. about the Festival, and it's not hard.
All you need to do is copy and paste this message:
The Arimaa community is planning an online festival on Saturday Oct. 30, 2010. Please join us for a special day of events and activities. If you are not familiar with Arimaa this is a good time to drop in learn more about it.
http://arimaa.com/arimaa/aof/
And if you can, use this image:
http://arimaa.com/arimaa/aof/images/bannermedres.png
Thanks a lot!
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Re: 1st Arimaa Online Festival
« Reply #133 on: Oct 28th, 2010, 9:21pm » |
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Deciding on the time controls for the AOF games is still pending and we need to finalize this quickly. I would like to schedule these games tomorrow and have them setup in the gameroom. That way people can easily see the times of the games in their local time. I'll get the ball rolling with the following proposal and we can adjust it as needed.
* Simul Match with Jean Daligault; 1h45m time for the event. Unrated games with time control of 0/0/0/0/1h40m; Jean will cycle through the games and when he comes to your game you must have already submitted you move; watch the game before your to get a cue of when to submit your move.
* European Collaborative Match; 2h time for the event. Unrated game with time control of 90s/3m/100/0/1h55m/4m
* Open 5-Round Blitz Tourn; 4h30m for the event; about 54m per round. Rated games with time control of 15s/90s/100/0/45m/2m
* Think Out Loud Match; 1h30m for the event. Rated game with time control of 60s/60s/100/0/1h25m/3m
* American Collaborative Match; 1h45m for the event. Unrated game with time control of 90s/2m/100/0/1h40m/4m
* Simul Match with Karl Juhnke; 2h time for the event. Unrated games with time control of 0/0/0/0/2h; Karl will cycle through the games and when he comes to your game you must have already submitted you move; watch the game before your to get a cue of when to submit your move.
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Re: 1st Arimaa Online Festival
« Reply #134 on: Oct 28th, 2010, 9:56pm » |
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on Oct 28th, 2010, 9:21pm, omar wrote:when he comes to your game you must have already submitted you move; watch the game before your to get a cue of when to submit your move.
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When there is only one game left, this might not work very well. Can you add some lower bound on the time to move? When it's just down to Jean or Fritz and one other player, what should the time controls be?
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