ScumChamps 2022 is over!

[Umlaut]

Given his inability to participate as a player, Menalque has kindly agreed to take over the hosting of the tournament from me this year, allowing me to

/in

[Umlaut]

I need to get back into thinky chess instead of just playing stupid gambits in online blitz. This seems like a good way.

What's your favorite stupid gambit? Mine is when other people play the Stafford and then are completely unprepared to actually play a game of chess after I dodge all the cheese they throw at me.

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I think he's asking about the chess tags. You just use the word "chess" as a bbcode tag and enter the move list inside. E.g.

Code: Select all

[chess]1. e4 e5 2. f4 exf4 3. Nf3[/chess]

would render as

1. e4 e5 2. f4 exf4 3. Nf3

[Umlaut]

Datisi vs. Umlaut ended 0-1 by timeout.

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and in case of a typo, that's not allowed either? (granted i'd assume peoples check their moves, but you never know)

While I am not in charge here, I would guess that if the typo is a legal move it has to stand, and if not then it doesn't count at all (meaning you haven't made a move yet)

[Umlaut]

I'm going to check in with Datisi and bugspray before I start any new games for them to check that they both intend to continue playing, given that they both lost all their games so far on timeouts. If either is dropping out, their remaining games will be cancelled and no points awarded for those matchups.

I'd suggest either awarding the point to whoever is on the other side of those matchups (provided they don't also drop out), or else not awarding points to the players against whom Datisi and bugspray timed out. I personally would feel kind of awkward about "winning" just because I had more opportunities to gain points than someone who got fewer games to play.

[Umlaut]

The rules as currently written, somewhat paraphrased, say:

• If your opponent has already made a move, but did so after their time had run out, you may claim a win/draw on time
  or
  you may make a move yourself. Once you've accepted the move by answering it, you can't later say "Actually I won on time ten moves ago." In this case, the director (Menalque) should not claim on your behalf, but should instead let you decide to accept the move or not.
  
• If your opponent has
  not
  yet made a move (and their time is up), you may at any point claim a win/draw on time. In addition, if the director notices, he may make the claim on your behalf. (Presumably he may use some discretion in doing this, if he has reason to think you'd like to wait a bit longer; but he will definitely end it eventually.)

Menalque can amend these rules if he likes; I don't want to suggest I have any special say in how this is run, I just know the current rules-as-written pretty well since I'm the writer, so thought I might clarify.

I suppose these rules don't cover the edge case where someone might deliver checkmate/stalemate after their time has expired, ending the game before their opponent can decide whether to claim. That seems... pretty wildly unlikely to ever happen in this format, and if it does then that's why we have a human arbiter to decide how to handle it. I think typical OTB tournament rules would have it that the mate stands, but I don't think that's any better or worse in principle than allowing the claim.

[Umlaut]

Something_Smart vs Umlaut ended 1–0 by resignation.

I don't believe I have any more games to queue for.

[Umlaut]

Umlaut vs. Gypyx ended 1–0 by resignation.

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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonnebo ... rger_score

Just gonna leave this here in case you need it

[Umlaut]

Umlaut vs. VashtaNeurotic ended 1-0

[Umlaut]

VashtaNeurotic vs. Datisi is listed twice, in "Completed games" and then again in "Cancelled games". Looks like the point was double-counted for that game, so he should actually have been at 3 points and not 4, as both Vashta and S_S said above.

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Since it's been over a week now, I'll go ahead and point out that S_S has beaten Vashta in their game, which ends the tournament. Something_Smart is of course the winner, having swept 6-0! Congratulations, S_S!

I'm in second place with a score of 5-1, having lost only to S_S. It was a great game! All the games I got to play to the end were pretty great. Thanks, everyone.

And third place is a three-way tie between everyone who played out their games. VashtaNeurotic, Gypyx, and Mist7676 all scored 3-3. Normally this would mean we go to tiebreak criteria... but in this case the situation is completely symmetrical!

• All three won by forfeit against bugspray and Datisi.
  
• All three lost against me and S_S.
  
• Gypyx beat Vashta, Vashta beat Mist, and Mist beat Gypyx.

There is no gameplay-relevant criterion to distinguish these, so the tie stands! Our three third-place winners will have to be content with 1/3 of nothing as their prize, whereas our first- and second-place winners each get the whole nothing to themselves.

Final Scores

Place	Player	Wins	Draws	Losses	Score	Tiebreak
1	Something_Smart	6	0	0	6	15
2	Umlaut	5	0	1	5	10
3	Gypyx	3	0	3	3	4
3	Mist7676	3	0	3	3	4
3	VashtaNeurotic	3	0	3	3	4
6	Datisi	1	0	5	1	0
7	bugspray	0	0	6	0	0

Thanks, everyone, for playing with me, and thanks again to Menalque for running this so I could participate!