[blind-chess] Stephen Hilton Wins the July-August World Chess Parlor Tournament! Final Standings
- From: Jim Slagle <jamesrslagle@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: jamesrslagle@xxxxxxxxx, ftp-chess@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2013 20:52:32 -0700 (PDT)
Hi Chess Players,
Congratulations to Stephen.
He won 4 games out of 4!
For the first time, everybody won at least one game.
The final standings are:
In first place with 40 points is Stephen Hilton.
In second with 36 is Jim.
In third with 26 is Mark.
In fourth with 23 is Lea.
In fifth with 21 is Curtis.
In sixth with 20 is Johannes.
In seventh with 18 is Dan.
Tied for eighth with 17 are Mike Lowery and Ginny.
In tenth with 14 is Leonardo.
In eleventh with 12 is Mike Gieschen
Best wishes,
Jim Slagle
Skype ID jamesrslagle
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On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 5:56 PM EDT Jim Slagle wrote:
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>Hi Chess Players,
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>After Round 3, the standings are:
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>In first place with 30 points is Stephen.
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>Tied for second with 26 are Mark and Jim.
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>In fourth with 20 is Johannes.
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>In fifth with 17 is Curtis.
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>Tied for sixth with 14 are Leonardo and Dan.
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>In eighth with 13 is Lea.
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>In ninth with 12 is Mike Gieschen.
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>In tenth with 10 is Ginny.
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>In eleventh with 7 is Mike Lowery.
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>The Round 4 pairings are:
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>1. Mark, Stephen.
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>2. Jim Johannes. Flip for color.
>Johannes, can you play Thursday or Friday at 10:30 PM EDT, 14:30 UTC?
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>3. Curtis Dan.
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>4. Leonardo Lea.
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>5. Mike Lowery, Mike Gieschen.
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>6. Ginny gets a 7 point bye.
>Ginny, do you want to play Paul Benson a spoken thought game?
>If so, what color do you want?
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>Best wishes,
>Jim Slagle
>Skype ID jamesrslagle
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>Jim Slagle wrote:
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>>Hi,
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>>After Round 2, the standings are:
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>>Tied for first place with 20 points are Stephen and Johannes.
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>>Tied for third with 16 are Jim and Mark.
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>>Tied for fifth with 14 are Dan and Leonardo.
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>>In seventh with 10 is Mike Gieschen.
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>>Tied for eighth with 7 are Curtis and Mike Lowery.
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>>In tenth with 6 is Lea.
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>>In eleventh is Ginny.
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>>The Round 3 pairings are:
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>>1. Stephen Johannes.
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>>2. Dan Jim.
>>Dan, can you play me Monday or Tuesday at 10:30 EDT, 14:30 UTC?
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>>3. Mark Leonardo.
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>>4. Mike Gieschen, Curtis.
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>>5. Mike Lowery, Ginny.
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>>6. Lea gets a 7 point bye.
>>Lea, do you want to play Paul Benson a spoken thought game?
>>If so, what color do you want?
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>>On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 9:35 PM EDT Jim Slagle wrote:
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>>Hi Tournament Players,
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>>After Round 1, the standings are:
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>>In first place with 16 points is Jim.
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>>Tied for second with 10 are Stephen, Mark, and Johannes.
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>>In fifth with 7 is Mike Lowery.
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>>Tied for sixth with 4 are Dan and Leonardo.
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>>In eighth with 3 is Lea.
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>>Tied for ninth are Mike Gieschen, Curtis, and Ginny.
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>>The Round 2 pairings are:
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>>1. Jim Stephen. Stephen, can you play me on Thursday or Friday at 10:30 AM
>>EDT, 14:30 GMT?
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>>2. Johannes Mark.
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>>3. Leonardo, Mike Lowery.
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>>4. Lea Dan.
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>>5. Mike Gieschen, Ginny.
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>>6. Curtis gets a 7 point bye.
>>Curtis, do you want to play Paul Benson a spoken thought game?
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>>On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 1:43 PM EDT Jim Slagle wrote:
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>>Hi Tournament Players,
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>>The Round 1 pairings are:
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>>1. Stephen, Mike Gieschen.
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>>2. Curtis, Jim.
>>Curtis, can you play me on Friday or Monday at 10 AM EDT, 14:00 UTC?
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>>3. Mark, Lea.
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>>4. Ginny, Johannes.
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>>5. Dan Rugman, Leonardo.
>>Welcome to our newcomer, Dan Rugman!
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>>6. Mike Lowery gets a 7 point bye.
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>>Be sure to read and observe carefully the below rules.
>>That way, everyone will have more fun.
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>>Be sure to e-mail your opponent within 48 hours!
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>>There will be 4 rounds.
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>>Rules for a Swiss Chess Parlor Tournament
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>>1. These rules apply, unless the TD modifies them.
>>It is expected that each future TD may make a few changes to the rules.
>>The TD should email the changes with the Round 1 pairings.
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>>The TD shall give the standings after each round,
>>especially the final standings.
>>
>>2. From time to time, currently about every month or two,
>>an email on our list, ftp-chess@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
>>will ask for a volunteer TD for our next swiss tournament.
>>
>>The main requirement is that the volunteer must have
>>completed play in our most recent swiss tournament without
>>forfeiting a game.
>>If more than one person volunteers, priority will be given
>>to those who have never been a TD in our swiss tournaments.
>>
>>If all volunteers have been the TD for our swiss
>>tournaments, priority will be given to the person who has
>>been TD least recently.
>>
>>3. Have fun.
>>
>>4. A player who violates a rule will forfeit that game and
>>may be removed from the tournament.
>>A removed player comes in last in the tournament.
>>The Td may also ban that player from the next tournament.
>>In particular, this applies to failing to communicate with
>>the opponent within 48 hours.
>>
>>If you believe that your opponent has forfeited, it is
>>primarily your responsibility to report your win to our list.
>>You must not forgive the forfeit, because the forfeit
>>affects other players in the tournament.
>>It is secondarily the responsibility of the TD to report
>>the win to our list.
>>
>>Of course a claim of forfeit, like any other claim, can be challenged.
>>
>>5. Whether playing white or black, contact, within 48
>>hours, your opponent for prompt scheduling of your game.
>>Reply within 48 hours to e-mail from your opponent.
>>Do not be vague.
>>Propose at least two specific times and dates to play.
>>Two of your proposed times must be at least 12 hours apart.
>>
>>These times must be at least 24 hours in the future and at
>>most 144 hours in the future.
>>Use our mailing list, ftp-chess@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx to do so.
>>Always give the time in UTC or GMt.
>>Also give the time In Eastern Time, if you know it.
>>Schedule your game early, because it should be finished
>>and reported to the list by nine days from now.
>>
>>Do not propose to start your game on Saturday between 7:00
>>A.M. Eastern Time and 1:00 P.M. Eastern Time.
>>Such a game might conflict with our regular Saturday
>>meeting at 11:30 A.M. Eastern Time.
>>
>>In the subject of any scheduling email, put the player
>>names in color order.
>>For example, write: Sccheduling Mary Snow vs John Coal:
>>Round 3: Chess Parlor.
>>
>>When replying to a scheduling email, you must accept one
>>of the proposed times, or you must propose at least two
>>times of your own.
>>Two of your proposed times must be at least 12 hours apart.
>>
>>Your proposed times must be at least 24 hours in the future
>>and at most 144 hours in the future.
>>
>>When the game is finally scheduled, write in the subject:
>>Final Schedule: Mary Snow vs John Coal, Sunday December 31
>>11:00 UTC: Round 3: Chess Parlor.
>>
>>If, for example, Big Ben is the timekeeper, write Final
>>Schedule: Mary Snow, John Coal, Big Ben, Sunday December 31
>>11:00 UTC: round 3: Chess Parlor.
>>
>>6. A player forfeits if he or she declines the opponent's
>>proposed times and does not propose two suitable times in the future.
>>
>>7. In the whole tournament, the player mentioned first has
>>white, and the player mentioned second has black.
>>
>>8. This is a swiss-style tournament.
>>If only 4 players enter, there will be 2 rounds.
>>If 5 through 8 players enter, there will be 3 rounds.
>>If 9 through 16 players enter, there will be 4 rounds, et cetera.
>>
>>9. Play your game in the Chess Parlor.
>>Each player should be prepared to play right away or, at
>>least, to schedule his or her game to be played soon.
>>
>>10. Try to play at least two hours before adjourning a game.
>>Either player may adjourn the game.
>>The player who wants to adjourn should make the last move.
>>
>>At adjournment, both players should agree on the exact
>>time for resuming play.
>>Within 24 hours, the player who wanted the adjournment
>>should put the moves so far and the adjournment resumption
>>time on ftp-chess@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.
>>If he or she fails to do this, he or she incurs a 1 point penalty.
>>If he or she fails to do this within 48 hours, the total
>>penalty is 2 points.
>>If he or she fails to do this within 72 hours, he or she forfeits.
>>
>>Sometimes there is a need for a short adjournment, for
>>example, for a rest room break.
>>Tyypically such an adjournment should be five minutes.
>>If a chess clock is being used, the clock will run for a
>>rest room break, a telephone break, et cetera.
>>
>>If you are going to be away from your microphone for a
>>while, tell your opponent.
>>
>>You should adjourn your game if you believe that your
>>opponent is not behaving properly.
>>Report this behavior to the Tournament Director so that he
>>or she can observe the rest of the game.
>>
>>11. You should enter the Chess Parlor at least ten minutes
>>before your game is scheduled to start.
>>Be ready to play, with your board set up, et cetera.
>>The game should start at exactly the scheduled time.
>>If one player is ready to play at the scheduled time and if
>>the other is twenty minutes late, the late player loses by forfeit.
>>If both players are twenty minutes late, they both lose by forfeit.
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>>If both players are late and if a player is twenty minutes
>>later than his opponent, he loses by forfeit.
>>Suppose that both players are late, but at least one player
>>is less than twenty minutes late.
>>When the less late player is ready to move and if a chess
>>clock is being used, the opponent's clock will be started.
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>>12. There are four ways for keeping time for the game.
>>The best case is that there is another player who has
>>volunteered to keep time with a chess clock.
>>The first person who volunteers by email is the timekeeper.
>>He or she need not and should not ask if he or she is acceptable.
>>The players should not thank the timekeeper by our email list.
>>Some players have complained about the high traffic on our list.
>>The players should thank their timekeeper in the Chess Parlor.
>>
>>If the scheduled timekeeper is late and if someone else is
>>willing to be timekeeper, the latter person becomes the timekeeper.
>>If then the first timekeeper shows up, the latter
>>timekeeper may but need not give the timekeeping task back
>>to the first timekeeper.
>>
>>The timekeeper is considered to be the Assistant Tournament Director.
>>
>>When a chess clock is being used, you must make at least
>>30 moves in the first hour of your time.
>>You must make at least 60 moves in your first 2 hours.
>>You must make at least 90 moves in your first 3 hours, et cetera.
>>
>>When a player announces his or her move clearly and
>>releases the key, the timekeeper should start the clock of
>>the other player.
>>The timekeeper should not wait for the repeat of the move.
>>
>>As a courtesy, the timekeeper will try to announce the
>>times remaining when the slower player has left about 40
>>minutes, 20 minutes, 10 minutes, and 5 minutes.
>>The timekeeper will announce when time control is reached.
>>
>>He or she will stop the clock during these announcements.
>>
>>If a player asks the timekeeper for the times remaining,
>>the timekeeper should make sure that the asking player's
>>clock is running while the timekeeper is getting and telling
>>the times remaining.
>>
>>The second best way to keep time is the following.
>>Each player should keep the time for making a move at less
>>than 2.5 minutes.
>>The timekeeper warns the player when he or she has thirty
>>seconds left.
>>The timekeeper says when the 2.5 minutes is up, and the
>>player must move immediately.
>>If the timekeeper believes that a player is taking too
>>long, he or she may warn and/or penalize that player.
>>
>>The third and fourth best ways to keep time should be used
>>when no third person timekeeper is available.
>>The third best way is for one of the players to use a chess clock.
>>The fourth best way is for each player to inform the
>>opponent by using the 2.5 minute rule.
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>>13. Each player must keep score.
>>This means writing down the moves for both sides.
>>Second best is to make an audio recording of the moves.
>>This is useful in some disputes, in reviewing your game to
>>learn, and in reporting the result and moves to the the
>>ftp-chess list.
>>
>>14. Within 24 hours, the winner of the game is responsible
>>for reporting the result and the moves to the ftp-chess list.
>>If the game is drawn, the responsibility goes to the player playing black.
>>If the responsible player fails to report within 24 hours,
>>he or she incurs a penalty of 1 point.
>>If he or she fails to report within 48 hours, he or she
>>incurs a total penalty of 2 points.
>>If he or she fails to report within 72 hours, he or she gets a forfeit.
>>
>>If the responsible player fails to report the game in 24
>>hours, the opponent should report the result, but not
>>necessarily the moves.
>>If the opponent fails to do this within 48 hours, he or she
>>gets a 1 point penalty.
>>
>>The game should be finished and the result with moves
>>reported by the deadline.
>>
>>If a player is physically unable to keep score, he or she
>>should arrange before the game for someone to keep score.
>>This might be someone who keeps score in
>>machine-readable form.
>>This could be the opponent, the timekeeper, or someone else.
>>If the player who cannot keep score wins, for example,
>>someone else would be responsible for reporting the result.
>>
>>If a third person kept time, the report should include his
>>or her name.
>>If a chess clock was used, the report should include the
>>times remaining for each player.
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>>15. The TD may give a warning or assess a penalty to a player.
>>The penalty may range from one point to a forfeit.
>>A win is worth ten points.
>>A draw is worth four points for each player.
>>A loss is given 0.
>>A forfeit gets minus one.
>>
>>A forfeit will be given, for example, for not showing up
>>for an appointed game without notice.
>>
>>If you cannot show up for a game, send e-mail to the
>>ftp-chess list.
>>You will be penalized only one point.
>>You will be penalized one point, no matter how goodyour excuse is.
>>
>>If your computer is down so you cannot send e-mail, phone
>>me at 609 945 5415, and I shall send the notice for you.
>>Also you can phone me on Skype.
>>My skype ID is jamesrslagle.
>>I understand that it might not be reasonable to phone me
>>from outside of the United States.
>>Please obey the rules promptly.
>>That way, you will incur no penalties, and the tournament
>>should proceed smoothly.
>>
>>16. Generally, the rules of chess and blind chess will apply.
>>
>>Players should communicate in English.
>>Say "castle kingside" or "castle queenside."
>>Use the International Radiotelephony Spelling Alphabet,
>>that is, for A through H, say alpha, bravo, charlie, delta, echo, foxtrot,
>>golf, and hotel.
>>For the letter f, you must use foxtrot, not fox, which can
>>sound like golf.
>>
>>For example, a game may start:
>>1. echo 4, echo 5.
>>2. knight to foxtrot 3, knight to foxtrot 6.
>>3. knight takes echo 5, et cetera.
>>
>>Of course the opponent repeats each move after it is announced.
>>The opponent should always use the word, copy.
>>For example, the opponent should say copy alpha takes bravo 4, copy Queen
>>hotel 6 check, copy Rook takes golf 7 checkmate, copy draw offer, copy draw
>>accepted, copy claim
>>draw by threefold repetition of position, and even copy resign.
>>
>>17. If a player announces a legal move, but the opponent
>>has not repeated it, the player may change his or her move.
>>If the opponent has repeated it, the move stands.
>>
>>18. The decision of the TD is final.
>>He or she will try to be fair.
>>If the TD as player is involved in a dispute (which has
>>never happened yet), a fair mechanism for resolution will be set up.
>>
>>19. Your moves should be the product of your own brain.
>>Help from a computer or other person is cheating and is prohibited.
>>Such help during an adjournment is also prohibited.
>>Make your relatively obvious moves quickly.
>>That way, time is saved, and you will not be suspected of
>>getting help from a computer.
>>
>>20. If the tournament results in a tie for first place,
>>there will be a playoff round for those tied players.
>>The players involved in the tie will have the opposite
>>colors to those in their tournament game.
>>If there is still a tie, another round will be held with
>>colors reversed again, et cetera.
>>
>>21. If there is an odd number of players in some round, the
>>TD will designate one of the players as the player with a "bye."
>>That player will not play a game that round and will be
>>awarded seven points.
>>
>>When entering the tournament, a player may request a 5 point
>>bye in Round 1.
>>This request will generally be granted.
>>
>>22. During the tournament, you may earn up to six good
>>citizenship points.
>>Thus, the maximum score, after four rounds, is 46.
>>The TD gets 6 GC points.
>>You get 3 GC points for being a third person timekeeper
>>for a swiss tournament game.
>>
>>If you do not know how to be a timekeeper with our
>>software chess clock, you can ask to be taught.
>>This could earn you and your teacher 3 GC points.
>>
>>You could earn your GC points by helping in some other way.
>>For example, you could give a small written or audio chess
>>lesson, perhaps based on one of your tournament games.
>>
>>Copyright 2009-2013
>>Jim Slagle
>>USA Phone 609 945 5415.
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