Mini 686 - Chess Mafia (Done)
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Mr. Black Townie
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Thok Disgrace to SKs everywhere
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Indigo Heron Goon
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Thok Disgrace to SKs everywhere
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EmpTyger It's a JOKE!
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There are a lot of interesting moves here. I'm not ready to vote yet.
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What do you mean by "small game"?-
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veerus Mafia Scum
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veerus Mafia Scum
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Mr. Flay Metatron
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We probably have less than two weeks before the forum changeover. Mr. Black said that you probably have (at least) 6-12 weeks of gameplay left. I've been looking for offsite options to keep the game going, and http://www.chess.com/analysis-board-editor.html looks pretty solid. It allows me to paste in the PGN notation from the first post and doesn't try to let a computer play or anything stupid. It doesn't save the game state between loadings, but we can work around that with PGN.
So long as you don't need the board for anything but looking at, we can certainly keep this game going after the forum upgrade. I'm open to other ideas for sites to 'host' your game if you know of any that meet the neutral criteria listed above (feel free to PM me rather than clutter your game thread).Last edited by Mr. Flay on Sun Mar 28, 2010 9:29 am, edited 1 time in total.Retired as of October 2014.-
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Thok Disgrace to SKs everywhere
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I will say that 6-12 weeks of gameplay strikes me as an underestimate. Unless a horrible blunder happens soon, 20 weeks sounds like a more reasonable lower bound (assuming 20 moves and a week per move, both of which seem like reasonable assumptions.)Mr. Flay wrote:Mr. Black said that you probably have 6-12 weeks of gameplay left.I replaced into Chess Mafia for 6 months, and all I got was a win and this lousy sig.-
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Haylen Life of the Third Party
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Whatever happens, I want the game to continue. It' been going on for too long for it to be stopped by an outside influence .__.Seriously. Read your role PM before playing.
I am sorry if you have to prod me, I have absolutely no concept of time.
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Sudo_Nym Pseudo Newbie
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At this point, I say, screw the 6-12 weeks. Let's keep this going forever. We can stretch this out for the lifetime of MS, if we wanted to, so let's go for it.Haylen wrote:Whatever happens, I want the game to continue. It' been going on for too long for it to be stopped by an outside influence .__.One time, back in 'nam, Sudo was set upon by an entire squadron of charlies. He challenged them all to a game of Pictionary, which he won resoundingly. The charlies were forced to not only surrender the skirmish, but also their world-famous chili recipe, which Sudo sold to Texas for a hefty profit. Sudo is a master of diplomacy.-
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I am in no way trying to stop or abort the game. I can not state with confidence, however, that the current chess.php engine will be available under the new forum, so I want to make sure you all have options available.Haylen wrote:Whatever happens, I want the game to continue. It' been going on for too long for it to be stopped by an outside influence .__.
I'm aware that "6-12 weeks" was probably an underestimate; the important partfor mewas the "definitely more than 2 weeks" part.Retired as of October 2014.-
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EmpTyger It's a JOKE!
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What about Qd7? Not ready to vote, but so far I'm liking it better than Qe4 or Qe5.
Thok:
Can you try to not give Black move advice? Obviously you should point out problems if there's need of persuading us to vote differently, but don't just gratuitously suggest the best response for Black. I'm not sure how much long-term analytic capability they have.-
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Thok Disgrace to SKs everywhere
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I think Qd7 is better than Qe5, for what it's worth.EmpTyger wrote:What about Qd7? Not ready to vote, but so far I'm liking it better than Qe4 or Qe5.
I agree with you, but I had already pointed out the strength of that move yesterday. That was the time to yell at me. (Actually the time to yell was a few moves earlier, as there's one move I truly regret mentioning.) But your concern is the reason I haven't really said that much about the responses to Qe4.Thok:
Can you try to not give Black move advice? Obviously you should point out problems if there's need of persuading us to vote differently, but don't just gratuitously suggest the best response for Black. I'm not sure how much long-term analytic capability they have.I replaced into Chess Mafia for 6 months, and all I got was a win and this lousy sig.-
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veerus Mafia Scum
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Qh5+Thok wrote:
Qe5 Kf7, then what?Abstract Actuary wrote:Anyhow, I much prefer Qe5.
Also, Qd7 Kf7, then a big fat nothing. So let's not do that.
As far as "not helping black".. we've gone through this earlier in the game (so I guess most current players have probably missed the argument) but the gist is that since this is a game of complete information, if we make the best move, it doesn't matter what black does. And we can't make the best move if people try to silence the discussion under the pretense of helping black.On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.
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EmpTyger It's a JOKE!
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I think I'm ready tomove: Qd7
Thok:
(Yeah, I figured. I wasn't being passive-aggressive; it was intended as genuinely constructive.)
I'm not seeing any advantages to Qe4 and one big disadvantage- we wouldn't be playing Ke4 any time soon. Is there something clever I'm missing with Qe4? (y/n)
veerus:
Uh, there's something after Qd7 Kf7. Moreover, there's certainly more there than after Qe5 Kf7 Qh5+. Which is either a 3-move repetition draw, or else there's something that the white queen can do something on h5 that it can't do on d7. Which I don't see at all.
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