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26. August 2003, 20:17:48

Zucan

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Subject: Oops...

A couple things... first, I want this first one to be Atomic Chess related... It should be labeled "First Atomic Team Fellowship Tournament!".

Secondly, Fencer does not yet have support for playing team fellowship games on here, so I am doing it by hand, which means making the tournaments invite only and manually populating the sections, if I can manage to do it.

If you have any questions, just ask!

Zucan

26. August 2003, 19:38:49

Zucan

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Subject: First Fellowship Team Tournament!

I am going to run the first ever Fellowship Team Tournament. So, a couple things need to be considered... I found 14 teams that support Atomic Chess. Out of those 14, only 8 teams have people in them. Out of those 8, only 5 teams have more than 2 people in them.

The question is how can we run a tournament with such a wide variance on the number of players currently signed up for Fellowship teams. Maybe we should just say that only 4 player teams are allowed to play. The tourney would then have 4 sections, one for each board. The highest rated player of each team would be in the first section, the second highest rated player of each team would be in the second section, etc.

Do we want this to be the only round? Or should we then take the winners of each section and run the tournament again with just them? We could keep doing this until only one team stands and we have a team champion.

Anyways, I need suggestions on what you all would like to see... I think I would like to start it by the end of September. That way, we can get the word out to all the atomic team players and maybe we can get more people to sign up on the teams. It will also give a chance for players to move around to the teams they want to be on before the tournament starts.

Zucan

13. August 2003, 21:06:06

Zucan

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Subject: A good game!

If anyone is interested, check out the following game:

http://brainking.com/game/ArchivedGame?g=165709

Basically, we ended up in a situation where the kings were next to each other. The only way to win the game in situations like this is to force the opponent king into a situation where you can blow a piece up that blows their king up without blowing yours up...

Thanks to slmoore25 for a great game and the permission to post the game for others to learn from!

Zucan