SL-Mark:

I would consider it a bug and think it should be changed. I wouldn't expect it to be a difficult change (I suspect they need to update certain properties for individual piece moves and then again at the completion of all piece moves and the 'identified' flag is getting set in the first check instead of the second), but it should at least be documented somewhere obvious in the mean time.

I never knew the issue existed at IYT or here until now.

SL-Mark:

Nice find.

This is news to me, but I will keep it in mind.

dAGGER: I think the clues are there for anyone to figure it out, but the short version is that happy hermit = quiet man = argyle socks = Eric Hanson etc.. I change my account every time I change computers. And I am no relation to jonaron . :)

SL-Mark:

Stand and fight? It seems I have little choice. :)

SL-Mark:

Learning when to put to on the disguise and hide is the first step. Learning when to take it off and fight is the next step. :)

Chaos:

jonaron and I have played a few times.

In League events, we played Open in Season 6 (I won) and Season 8 (a draw). We also played Mini in a Speed Rush event. I forget the event, but he won our individual game.

And, we have played in some random IYT tournies over the years with pretty even results.

Of course, as you so accurately put it, "careful when it matters" starts at Move 1 with jonaron so he gets a different version of my game that almost anyone else. :)

SL-Mark:

I don't know about 'worth studying', but to tie it back to another recent thread . . .if someone plays slow enough we are both a risk to time-out. In the past that was only an effective strategy against me (and sometimes against Jozsef). If it now works against jonaron it may catch on with more people. :)

SL-Mark:

I was just testing how seriously Chaos was taking her new job here.

Chaos:

I'm not jonaron, I was just making a small joke about jonaron's increasing proclivity for timing-out. :)

SL-Mark:

At least it was something I could reply to . . . how can I reply to a comment about language skill from someone that's been so wronged by the language that he abuses it so? :)

SL-Mark: I think both are pretty good . . .it's just that the game gives one of them a headache. :)

jonaron and quiet man have extremely similar playing styles and both seem to time out a lot.

Has anyone considered that they might be the same person?

Nothingness: Do you use saved set-ups?

I remember seeing a game once between pcron and Ruth. pcron used a saved set-up and Ruth apparently determined which one and blew him right off the board attacking pieces she had never revealed. There seems to be more risk than reward in that approach.

On my end, I almost always start my games by setting the bombs/base on the back row, putting two Saboteurs on the back row, three Recons in the front row and then hitting 'randomly place remaining pieces'.

Celticjim:

Jim-

The loss to nickchanger was interesting. I played the game with no notes and little thought, which is pretty much how I play anyone that hasn't won a game against me (or that I otherwise have reason to think might be a challenge), but that game had an extra twist.

I had given up a couple of pieces just to get to that position, but my intent was to clear around that back corner, bring in the Recon and determine the pieces even though I was 98% sure the base was in the corner. On the preceding move he sent the message 'good game' which I took as a concession that the base was in the corner, so I simply moved to capture it and save a few moves. That worked out poorly for me. :)

I'll go on record here as saying nickchanger will not win another game against me. :)

-Eric

Celticjim:

I haven't timed-out yet . . . . that's a mild surprise.

Chaos:

Perhaps someone can make a Sabotage League group on one of the social networking sites if anyone is interested in pictures.

I remember the ranking discussions. :) I remember trying to figure out to explain to moonhippie that he really had no way of determining who was a stronger player between Jozsef and Limbaugh . . . all he knew was they could both beat him. I eventually gave up.

SL-Bosse:

Looks like a reasonable section breakdown and 25 players means, I assume, only two rounds.

SL-GentleKiller:

Now Nothingness can call it a competitive tournament. :)

Looks like a good field.

I will be playing as well.

Someone should drop jonaron an email. :)

SL-Mark:
Mark-

Thanks for picking up the game.

If you don't rush your moves I'll try and have my rating over 2000 before our game finishes . . . I can probably do that by challenging Nothingness to a bunch of games. :)

BTW - I see you are playing tenuki . . . I am curious how those turn out. He and I used to play a lot of Dark Chess at IYT years ago and I am curious how his skill set translates to Sabotage.

-Eric

I just posted two Open Fast games to the waiting list . . . feel free to come grab some of my rating points. :)

The system is reasonable. It simply requires a large number of game against random opponents to be optimally accurate.

Chaos:
I have a game going with Prince of Darkness over at IYT . . .I shall pass along the info.

dAGGER:

Good to hear from you. Let me know when you have time and I promise not to time-out. :)

Have fun,

Eric

Someone please send me a game invite before I forget about this site again. :)