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(Message started by: thomastanck on Jan 17th, 2012, 8:36am)

Title: What's your Daligault number?
Post by thomastanck on Jan 17th, 2012, 8:36am
Same idea as Erdos number, replacing Erdos with chessandgo

My number is 2. chessandgo --> some people including Swynndla --> me

EDIT: Counting only event games? Sconibulus
Count only wins? Adanac
Only HvH games? thomastanck

If you count only event games, because I never participated in one I'm an infinity.

If you count the 2nd and 3rd conditions, I'm still a 2!

Title: Re: What's your Daligault number?
Post by Adanac on Jan 17th, 2012, 9:28am

on 01/17/12 at 08:36:46, thomastanck wrote:
Same idea as Erdos number, replacing Erdos with chessandgo

My number is 2. chessandgo --> some people including Swynndla --> me


I assume you have to beat Jean to be a 1, or beat someone who beat him to be a 2, etc.?  If so, congrats to Swynndla :)

Title: Re: What's your Daligault number?
Post by thomastanck on Jan 17th, 2012, 9:49am

on 01/17/12 at 09:28:05, Adanac wrote:
I assume you have to beat Jean to be a 1, or beat someone who beat him to be a 2, etc.?  If so, congrats to Swynndla :)


Hm I don't know, I'm thinking as long as you played it counts... Sconibulus says maybe only count event games, because everyone would be at most a 4...

In that case, my number would be infinity.

Edit: counting only event games may make it too restricting... on a side note, swynndla won c&go when he first joined, and I beat swynndla once, but the play was so bad you can't really call it a game...

Title: Re: What's your Daligault number?
Post by Hippo on Jan 17th, 2012, 10:13am

on 01/17/12 at 09:28:05, Adanac wrote:
I assume you have to beat Jean to be a 1, or beat someone who beat him to be a 2, etc.?  If so, congrats to Swynndla :)


Oh in that case I will be in 2 thanks to beating Fritzlein ;).

Title: Re: What's your Daligault number?
Post by chessandgo on Jan 17th, 2012, 11:37am
Hehe.
I thought this was the scientific number, in which case Hippo should have a decent score as well :p

Title: Re: What's your Daligault number?
Post by SpeedRazor on Jan 17th, 2012, 1:04pm
Wow, what a cool idea, thomastanck!  BTW, I read a book about Erdös, and if anybody is interested, his name is pronounced like [air•dish].

Maybe there should be an Junke (fritzlein) Number too - [young•key].  I mean, you couldn't have a Kasparov Number without an Karpov Number, right?

But both of those may be soon over-ridden by a Canadian upstart.  How do you pronounce Adanac's last name?... lol

Title: Re: What's your Daligault number?
Post by chessandgo on Jan 17th, 2012, 2:23pm

on 01/17/12 at 13:04:26, SpeedRazor wrote:
Wow, what a cool idea, thomastanck!  BTW, I read a book about Erdös, and if anybody is interested, his name is pronounced like [air•dish]How do you pronounce Adanac's last name?


Magne

PS: you're welcome :p

Title: Re: What's your Daligault number?
Post by Fritzlein on Jan 17th, 2012, 7:52pm

on 01/17/12 at 13:04:26, SpeedRazor wrote:
How do you pronounce Adanac's last name?... lol

I pronounce it to rhyme with "dang" as in, "Dang, he beat me again!".

That reminds me of the confusion over how to pronounce the name of Max Euwe, one-time World Champion of chess.  I believe that one grandmaster he frequently beat said it was pronounced "Oy vey!".

Title: Re: What's your Daligault number?
Post by Hippo on Jan 18th, 2012, 11:37am

on 01/17/12 at 13:04:26, SpeedRazor wrote:
I read a book about Erdös, and if anybody is interested, his name is pronounced like [air•dish].

I thing the second syllabe is long. I am not good in fonetics. ... after d the sound is created in deap neck but with it almost closed ... I woud try to say it on teamspeak sometimes.. I asked him question about density of primes ... he answered, but imagine someone lookinng surprised when is asked what is the next natural number after 1 ... He was very good friend of Jaroslav Nesetril, and this is why he 'granddad' was so often in Prague. I have good chances to gain low Erdos number.:) ... Oh I am currently 3 ... Erdos->Rodl->Sgall->Majerech (thanks to my the only paper).

Title: Re: What's your Daligault number?
Post by omar on Jan 19th, 2012, 11:59am
If you really want to know I would suggest writing a program that could find this number by looking through the games archive.



Title: Re: What's your Daligault number?
Post by SpeedRazor on Jan 19th, 2012, 1:59pm
Hippo, that is just so cool that you have a real Erdös number, and have actually talked to the maestro himself!  :)  I'm really not all that surprised, though, as the people who tend to coalesce to this game/web-site, tend to have a greater-than-average skill-set/world experience, then the average person, IMHO.

Thnx for clarifying how his name is pronounced, and I hope to hear you say it on teamspeak.  Although, using my childish mnemonic device of simple one-syllable English words, I doubt I'll be able to find anything much closer.  Heck, after hearing you say it, I probably won't even be able to pronounce it!

It would be cool to hear that you reached an Erdös 2, someday(!), but that window-of-opportunity is ever decreasing  :'(  Sadly, you can't reach a 1 anymore, of course, but you are still our greatest hope (so far) to reach a 2!  

Peace, Speedy...


Title: Re: What's your Daligault number?
Post by Hippo on Jan 19th, 2012, 2:52pm

on 01/19/12 at 13:59:40, SpeedRazor wrote:
Hippo, that is just so cool that you have a real Erdös number, and have actually talked to the maestro himself!  :)  I'm really not all that surprised, though, as the people who tend to coalesce to this game/web-site, tend to have a greater-than-average skill-set/world experience, then the average person, IMHO.

Beleive me, I am not that special. I am just lucky to live much closer to where he lived and there was cold war ... :)

Title: Re: What's your Daligault number?
Post by chessandgo on Jan 19th, 2012, 4:00pm

on 01/19/12 at 13:59:40, SpeedRazor wrote:
Hippo, that is just so cool that you have actually talked to the maestro himself!  :)

It is!


on 01/19/12 at 13:59:40, SpeedRazor wrote:
It would be cool to hear that you reached an Erdös 2, someday(!)

I hope not actually, for the moment I'm tied with Hippo, but if he improves I'm unlikely to catch up :-p



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