[blind-chess] More on Vacations and the Ladder was ...Re: Re: Changes to Ladder Notice
- From: "Paul Benson" <paul.benson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <blind-chess@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2011 04:28:35 +0100
Hello Richard and all,
It might well be simplest if someone on vacation is regarded as being
temporarily suspended from the Ladder.
However, my thoughts, and probable misinterpretation,, when commenting on a
challenge being issued to someone on vacation, were as follows.
It is all about issuing a challenge, before a challenge is issued to oneself
from elsewhere.
When a Ladder game finishes, imagine The winner/loser, wishes to start another
game against a player who was available before going on vacation. If that
player on vacation is unchallengable, then the potential challenger must sit
and wait until the vacation is over. This means a challenge could be issued to
the waiting potential challenger. So, my thinking was, that the challenge could
be issued to someone on vacation, and the game start upon end of the vacation.
In this way, the challenger, then becomes immune from a challenge, while
waiting for the vacation to end.
This is not a proposal as such, but just my thoughts.
Paul Benson.
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From: R Dinger - Email Address: rrdinger@xxxxxxxxxx
Sent On: 20/09/2011 03:21
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Subject: [blind-chess] More on Vacations and the Ladder was ...Re: Re: Changes
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Hello again Paul and all,
Hold on, I think I made a mistake. I thought the understanding was that
when you are in vacation mode, the other players can skip over you regarding
challenges. That is sort of the penalty for going off on vacation, you
drift down as others move over you.
second, when you go on a scheduled vacation during a game, time in that game
is suspended until your stated return date.
Is this the general consensus?
Richard
----- Original Message -----
From: "R Dinger" <rrdinger@xxxxxxxxxx
To: <blind-chess@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Sunday, September 18, 2011 7:19 PM
Subject: [blind-chess] Re: Changes to Ladder Notice
Hello Paul and all,
I will most likely handle any special cases like challenging a player on
vacation manually at first, but I hope to automate as much as possible over
the next few months. As my free time permits, of course.
While we are discussing the Ladder and the format of the standings, if
anyone has requests for changes to other reports, now would be a good time
to speak up.
Richard
----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Benson" <paul.benson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
To: <blind-chess@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Saturday, September 17, 2011 1:51 PM
Subject: [blind-chess] Re: Changes to Ladder Notice
Hello Richard and all,
I think your proposal, of abbreviated month name, followed by the day number
should work fine. No need for the year at all.
You are talking of automating the challenge process at your end. Have you
taken into consideration, the possibility of a challenge being issued to an
individual who is on vacation? Such challenges are allowable, but the start
date of the game and the 3 days for the first move to be made, will be the
day after the announced vacation dates. Will your automated process pick
this up?
I have no feelings on full names or initials, though a screen reader should
cope quickly with the first name. Perhaps a braille user will be slowed a
little, but could skim along the first name quickly.
Paul Benson.
-----Original Message-----
From: R Dinger - Email Address: rrdinger@xxxxxxxxxx
Sent On: 17/09/2011 19:17
Sent To: chess - Email Address: blind-chess@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [blind-chess] Changes to Ladder Notice
Hello All,
I am working on automating the routine administration tasks of the Ladder
and I am ready to start testing my new system on the real thing. As a
result please let me know if anything looks wrong or out-of-place regarding
the Revised Ladder Standings sent out by email.
Also, this is your chance to let me know what changes you would like to see
in that Revised Ladder Standings notice. I plan on including the date a
challenge was made for example.
Dates can be shown many ways, but I do not really like the form I am
currently using (a carry over from a previous group). Almost any form can
be used (the computer does all the work) so let us decide on something
better. Some possibilities are:
1 numbers: 09/17/2011 or 09/17/11
2 short month names: Sep 17, 2011 or 17Sep2011
3 long names: September 17, 2011
Keep in mind members use screen readers, text magnifiers and Braille
devices. I suspect in all cases that short is good since it reduces reading
time, so I am tentatively proposing just a simple Sep 17 for a challenge
date and we should be able to figure out the year.
Along that same line we currently show each Ladder player's first name as
well as their last name. Do you want me to not show first names in order to
speed up reading? Are there any further suggestions to make reading the
standings easier?
Eventually, I will be sending out the challenge confirmations through
automatic emails. As a result I may be sending some test messages to the
list. Please do not respond as they are only tests.
Richard
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