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Hippo
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Re: 2011 Postal Mixer
« Reply #30 on: Apr 8th, 2011, 1:36pm » |
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Omar, I am almost sure I was registered for the postal mixer already on January. Now I have checked the list and ... I am not there ... I wanted to update number of games registered from (10 to 12). I hoped to play it  .
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Re: 2011 Postal Mixer
« Reply #31 on: Apr 8th, 2011, 2:41pm » |
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on Apr 8th, 2011, 1:36pm, Hippo wrote:| Omar, I am almost sure I was registered for the postal mixer already on January. Now I have checked the list and ... I am not there ... I wanted to update number of games registered from (10 to 12). I hoped to play it . |
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I was wondering why you weren't in there - figured you would want to play - oh great I am going to get swarmed again.... LOL.
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omar
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Re: 2011 Postal Mixer
« Reply #32 on: Apr 8th, 2011, 6:42pm » |
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on Apr 8th, 2011, 1:36pm, Hippo wrote:| Omar, I am almost sure I was registered for the postal mixer already on January. Now I have checked the list and ... I am not there ... I wanted to update number of games registered from (10 to 12). I hoped to play it . |
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I have you registered for 10 games; which is what was entered. I didn't see this before setting up the games. It's hard to change it now since I've setup all the games in the gameroom. Hope you can live with 10
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Fritzlein
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Re: 2011 Postal Mixer
« Reply #33 on: Apr 8th, 2011, 6:55pm » |
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on Apr 2nd, 2011, 3:29pm, rbarreira wrote:| I don't mind setting up additional postal games for anyone who doesn't get paired against it and wants to play it. |
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It seems I didn't get my hoped-for pairing against briareus. Is your offer still open? Can you accept a match on briareus' behalf if I issue a challenge?
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Hippo
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Re: 2011 Postal Mixer
« Reply #34 on: Apr 9th, 2011, 1:32am » |
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on Apr 8th, 2011, 6:42pm, omar wrote:
I have you registered for 10 games; which is what was entered. I didn't see this before setting up the games. It's hard to change it now since I've setup all the games in the gameroom. Hope you can live with 10
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Yes it's absolutely OK
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rbarreira
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Re: 2011 Postal Mixer
« Reply #35 on: Apr 9th, 2011, 3:15am » |
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on Apr 8th, 2011, 6:55pm, Fritzlein wrote:
It seems I didn't get my hoped-for pairing against briareus. Is your offer still open? Can you accept a match on briareus' behalf if I issue a challenge? |
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I'm not sure if a challenge would work. I guess the surest way would be for you to create an open game while I'm online and then briareus joins it (or vice-versa).
Maybe tomorrow before the marwin vs rabbits game? I will probably be watching that one, if you're going to watch it too we can set it up then.
As a side-note it will be thinking 4 hours per move instead.
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Fritzlein
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Re: 2011 Postal Mixer
« Reply #36 on: Apr 11th, 2011, 12:32am » |
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Year . . 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011
Players . . 16 19 20 15 14 42 29
Games . . 80 95 85 84 70 147 141
Mismatches . 9 5 3 21 19 23 16
Not Finished . 20 31 18 8 4 31
% Mismatches . 11 5 4 25 27 16 11
% Not Finished 25 33 21 10 6 21
This year we have fewer players than last year, but more of them are game hungry, so the total number of games barely dropped from last year's record.
Presumably the participants are more committed this year, due to the reinstatement of the registration fee, this time without refunds, so it is truly pay to play. (Maybe now that we have a point system so not everything has to run through PayPal, next year it wouldn't be too much trouble to award points for committed play?) Anyway, if the number of unfinished games drops as I expect, this year could easily set a record for completed games.
The number of mismatches is down this year, so I expect a lot of exciting games and not too many runaway victories. It is great that this can be true even with the range in rating of participants spanning 1423 Elo. Apparently the pairing algorithm works!
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Re: 2011 Postal Mixer
« Reply #37 on: Apr 11th, 2011, 12:46am » |
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on Apr 9th, 2011, 3:15am, rbarreira wrote:| I guess the surest way would be for you to create an open game while I'm online and then briareus joins it. |
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Thanks for setting me up. Of course it won't count in the official tournament stats, performance ratings, etc., but I will definitely treat this game on a par with the rest of my Postal Mixer games.
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Nineteen games at four hours per move should be entirely doable. Of course you will dip into reserve at first, but I doubt you will even get close to timing out in any of them. Last year clueless had sixteen games, was thinking for four hours per move, and still had plenty of reserve left when it turned the corner and started gaining reserve. It took almost three months before jdb's server had any idle time, though. Thanks for this big donation of CPU time!
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Re: 2011 Postal Mixer
« Reply #38 on: Apr 14th, 2011, 1:14pm » |
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Is there a page where we can view the current status/standings of all of the postal matches in the mixer?
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Re: 2011 Postal Mixer
« Reply #39 on: Apr 14th, 2011, 2:20pm » |
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look under the 'Events" tab
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Hippo
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Re: 2011 Postal Mixer
« Reply #41 on: Apr 16th, 2011, 2:25am » |
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Seems the refresh rate of the page is too slow. Actual games are several more turns advanced.
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Re: 2011 Postal Mixer
« Reply #42 on: Apr 16th, 2011, 9:55am » |
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on Apr 16th, 2011, 2:25am, Hippo wrote:| Seems the refresh rate of the page is too slow. Actual games are several more turns advanced. |
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In the past that page has been up to an hour behind. That is not a bug but rather a choice not to waste resources refreshing it constantly. The topic of the thread is a bug, i.e. cases of the person to move not refreshing in the "My Games" display, where they should refresh in minutes at most.
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Re: 2011 Postal Mixer
« Reply #43 on: Apr 17th, 2011, 12:35pm » |
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on Apr 16th, 2011, 9:55am, Fritzlein wrote:
In the past that page has been up to an hour behind. That is not a bug but rather a choice not to waste resources refreshing it constantly. The topic of the thread is a bug, i.e. cases of the person to move not refreshing in the "My Games" display, where they should refresh in minutes at most. |
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That page is not an hour behind, it is DAYS behind. It seems like it is not updating at all. It could be another bug... Case in point (Tuks vs Arimaa_Master is on move 18! and the page only shows it on move 3).
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Re: 2011 Postal Mixer
« Reply #44 on: Apr 20th, 2011, 9:03am » |
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Page is now updating! Thanks Omar!
mistre vs Tuks on move 50!
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