Assorted N.P. Team News

[Sashie VII]

We will start a team match tournament in less than a week now.

http://www.chess.com/news/team-match-leage-2-starts-may-15th-1897 (thanks Dave!)

I can't guarantee internet access from Friday for roughly a week I'll have to recheck on that, if I can then I'll join. Only have 3 games at the moment

 

[Narz]

I can't guarantee internet access from Friday for roughly a week I'll have to recheck on that, if I can then I'll join.

You could take a vacation & have a friend sign you up for the team games. Should be ok as long as they don't actually make any moves for you.

Only have 3 games at the moment

Yeah I noticed that.

Hope you can get in.

 

[WhiteEagle22]

The next podcast of Chess Talk will be about the future of the podcast. Watch out for it on Thursday!

 

[Narz]

I also posted this in the CFC Chess Players Social Group (founded by WhiteEagle), here it is again :

The CFC* chess.com team is participating in a Team tournament (thanks to DaveShack for setting it up! ).

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What's a team game, Narz?

Good question. A team game is basically a one on one throwdown where our team goes head to head vs. another team, our #1 guy faces their #1, our #2 vs. their #2, all the way down the line (ratings will inevitably shift during the course of a match). The winner of the team match is the team that scores the most points during the match (a win=1, draw=.5, loss=0).

Here is an example of a completed team match.

For more details on the team tournament click the first link is this thread (and see the 5th post by DaveShack).

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Three team matches are now open & ready for people who want to play to join in. The stronger a player you are the better but as long as there is a person on the other team for you to play you will get to play if you want to (assuming you don't have a timeout ratio of 100% like this guy ).

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Here are the three matches open right now (as of May 15th, myself or Dave will lock them within 2-5 days) :

Narz's People vs. Chess Shingami (we don't need any more players on this one - if you sign up you may not get to play due to limited # of opponents)

Narz's People vs. 666 (we probably don't need more players on this one but we may)

Narz's People vs. Checkmate! (we definitely need more players for this one, the team we're facing is double our size and already has 26 players signed up vs. 8 for us)

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Thanks for being part of the team & please do your damnedest to help your comrades win! Narz's People is nothing without you, the people!

FTW!

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*Narz's People is open to everyone interested but around 50% of active participants in team chess & about 80% of the vote chess players are from CivFanatics.

 

[Narz]

In summery we need all the talent we can get vs. these guys. If you'd like to join the other two team matches also that'd be great.

 

[Sashie VII]

Can I sign up and then go on vacation? I'm leaving in about 7 hours.

 

[Narz]

Yeah, you can do that!

Have fun, BTW!

 

[Panzar75]

What nice people we seem to be facing in this game. (Comment #6)

 

[bathsheba666]

What nice people we seem to be facing in this game. (Comment #6)

I'm sure he meant it entirely ironically

Well I simply have to play my numbersakes.

 

[WhiteEagle22]

I'm still not ready for any team games Narz.

 

[peter grimes]

Hopefully he's not representative of the majority of players there...

 

[Narz]

What nice people we seem to be facing in this game. (Comment #6)

Oh no, we've been called "homos" by a 43 year old man with a Darth Vader avatar.

At least he's the end of the line...

I am divorced a couple years with no kids; thank god.

 

[DaveShack]

The saying goes:
Those who can, play. Those who can't, talk trash.

We'll see if it ends up ringing true or not.

 

[Narz]

The old team match with Checkmate! was cancelled & a new one reissued, if you joined before please join again!

Cheers,
Narz

 

[Narz]

Also, vote Bxe7 in the next six hours, I think it's best.

Scratch that, I think Bxe7 may actually be a blunder. I think the original idea of Qe4 was correct.

Also, dragon experts check here.

I think we're doing fairly well in most of our vote games though I'm a bit nervous about our Fight the Power match.

 

[Narz]

Could use a few more heavy hitters in this match.

Our match with Checkmate! has begun.

 

[WhiteEagle22]

I'm clearly not a heavy hitter, so I won't join. It looks like my opponent has out-smarted me in a game where I thought I could win in a few moves. Boy was I wrong!

 

[Panzar75]

Come the end of June I will take a two week vaccation from chess(.com) to play chess(live). This year the Swedish Championships are held just 45 minutes by car from here so I will play both weeks. Starting on June 27, the event will end July 12 by me failing miserably as usual but what can you do, at least I'll get to play a few OTB games.

 

[Narz]

I'm clearly not a heavy hitter, so I won't join. It looks like my opponent has out-smarted me in a game where I thought I could win in a few moves. Boy was I wrong!

Happen to me here! I thought 36. ... Qc1+ was forcing mate for me (missing the simple & obvious 37.Kh2).

Come the end of June I will take a two week vaccation from chess(.com) to play chess(live). This year the Swedish Championships are held just 45 minutes by car from here so I will play both weeks. Starting on June 27, the event will end July 12 by me failing miserably as usual but what can you do, at least I'll get to play a few OTB games.

Very cool Panz , looking forward to hearing about your exploits & I hope you do better than last year!

 

[DaveShack]

It looks like my opponent has out-smarted me in a game where I thought I could win in a few moves. Boy was I wrong!

That game looks like a good one to analyze after it's over.