LCI Chess Tournament

About

Why an LCI chess tourney?

• To meet people--even the ones in your lab you've been ignoring
• Show off your chess skills
• Because we can

Sign up, we'll set up the tournament brackets on this wiki, you play your matches and post the results here. Matches will be posted on the TWiki page; and played on your own time, within the week.

A chess set will be made available in the LCI board room (ICICS/CS 143)

• It's a glass set in a dark box. Thanks to Emt for allow us to use it. -- LucasRizoli - 20 Oct 2008

Still have questions? Email lrizoli@csDELETEthisTEXT.ubc.ca

How To

1. Sign up by adding your name and email in the Players section below.
   • Sign up period ended on September 19
2. Check matches on this TWiki page to see who you've not yet played
3. Contact an opponent and find a time to play each other within the week
4. Post match results on the TWiki

Rules

• We'll trust opponents to play by the rules outlined here (good ol' honour system)
• Play at least one match per week.
• Mark your wins and losses in the match matrix
• The tournament will be over once the matrix is full
  • Latest possible date for a match is Nov. 15th, since players should play at least one match per week.
  • Players will be ranked by the number of matches they've won.

Players

Matches

How does this matrix work?

A player's score will be summed along a row: the W/L in row x, column y is attributed to the player in row x.

For example, for players A, B, C, where A has won over B...

Now, C has won over B, and A over C...

Random comments

I (Guillaume) bought a chess clock this summer and it's in my office (CICSR 191) with my chess set. I'd be happy to lend it to fellow chess enthousiasts who want to use it, but I just don't want to lose track of the clock, to have it borrowed by some anonymous player who then forgets where to put it back. These things are a total rip off, considering that you can get toy watches in cereal boxes whose mechanism/computer are rougly equivalent.

• Thanks, Guillaume. Don't worry about the clock: I think we'll try it without time. -- LucasRizoli - 15 Sep 2008

Also, if we're a small number of players, we can basically play everybody else and record the results in a square matrix. The winner is the person with the most points, or something like that.

• Sounds like a good suggestion to me -- LucasRizoli - 15 Sep 2008