Iac Marscheir
Citizen of Talossa
yak marsh air
Posts: 782
Talossan Since: 12-3-2016
Baron Since: Qet Miestra tent zirada.
|
Post by Iac Marscheir on Apr 11, 2017 7:52:25 GMT -6
The call ends tomorrow! Does anybody else want to join?
|
|
Iac Marscheir
Citizen of Talossa
yak marsh air
Posts: 782
Talossan Since: 12-3-2016
Baron Since: Qet Miestra tent zirada.
|
Post by Iac Marscheir on Apr 10, 2017 16:24:09 GMT -6
Who else wants to play?
|
|
Iac Marscheir
Citizen of Talossa
yak marsh air
Posts: 782
Talossan Since: 12-3-2016
Baron Since: Qet Miestra tent zirada.
|
Post by Iac Marscheir on Apr 8, 2017 19:28:47 GMT -6
The exact procedure for the Round Robin(s) would depend on the number of people who sign up. For example: 5: 1 group of 5 (primes are tricky) 6: 2 groups of 3, top 2 from each group advance to 4-bracket 7: 8-bracket with one bye (Mersenne primes are OK) 9: 3 groups of 3, winner of each group advances to 3-person Round Robin Etc Haha, Mersenne primes. XD (2^n)-1 Those are interesting ideas. However, I think I'll stick with the current procedure, and then, the next time we do a tournament, we can implement one of those plans if they are required. This is because Round Robins are kinda complex and a little more difficult to keep track of, and I feel it would be unfair to award byes to members of a group of people that, as far as I know, are equally good at chess.
|
|
Iac Marscheir
Citizen of Talossa
yak marsh air
Posts: 782
Talossan Since: 12-3-2016
Baron Since: Qet Miestra tent zirada.
|
Post by Iac Marscheir on Apr 8, 2017 11:36:20 GMT -6
It stands for "Association of People Who Like Messing Around Moving Little Wooden Pieces About".
How would that work?
|
|
Iac Marscheir
Citizen of Talossa
yak marsh air
Posts: 782
Talossan Since: 12-3-2016
Baron Since: Qet Miestra tent zirada.
|
Post by Iac Marscheir on Apr 8, 2017 8:50:49 GMT -6
Welcome to the 2017 APWLMAMLWPA Pan-Talossan Chess Championship!!!!Sign-up is free and open to all citizens, from Atatürk to Vuode and everywhere alphabetically in between.
Simply post below that you'd like to join. I'll make a list, and then a bracket of the players (predictions encouraged).
Procedure: I have no idea how skilled anybody is, so participants will be matched up completely and utterly randomly using the random number generator here. Play will take place on the website chess.com (no shit, Sherlock). I have no way of monitoring games, and no way of making a tournament on this site, but I trust you all. To start a game, just search the other person, add them to your friends list, and challenge them. The winner, and only the winner, of each game will message their results to me upon completion. Participants must make time to play. If a participant does not play, he/she will be disqualified from the tournament. Non-disqualified players should report a forfeit by their opponent. Draws will be settled by picking a random number.
Each round will take place over the course of a week to give people time to play.
In the event that the number of players who sign up does not equal a power of two, the call for players will be extended until 2 more days have passed, or until membership reaches a power of 2. If this doesn't work, there will be a call for volunteers to be placed into a separate "consolation" bracket. In this case, the winners of each bracket will not be required to play each other. If this still doesn't work, it will be my sad duty to eject the players from the tournament who joined last down to a power of two.
The call ends on Wednesday, April 12, 2017 unless the aforementioned edge case applies, and the tournament itself will begin on Saturday, April 15.
May this tournament showcase the talent of all our citizens!
List of participants: 1. Marcel Eðo Pairescu Tafial 2. Ian Plätschisch 3. Ián Tamorán S.H. 4. Munditenens Tresplet
|
|
Iac Marscheir
Citizen of Talossa
yak marsh air
Posts: 782
Talossan Since: 12-3-2016
Baron Since: Qet Miestra tent zirada.
|
Post by Iac Marscheir on Apr 7, 2017 18:31:12 GMT -6
Usually, I use 'n at the beginning of sentences that aren't titles, and after the following sounds: vowels (as a proper contraction), the semivowels l (pronounced ll) and r and certain consonants, usually alveolar obstruents (s, t, z, d, xh, tx, sch, tsch, but not n), and sometimes v, f, c(h), and g. All other cases I use ün(a). Notice that I said "sounds". I use this becaise it sounds good.
|
|
Iac Marscheir
Citizen of Talossa
yak marsh air
Posts: 782
Talossan Since: 12-3-2016
Baron Since: Qet Miestra tent zirada.
|
Post by Iac Marscheir on Apr 7, 2017 16:44:47 GMT -6
You could also say "El Toreu sè Cäps," right? Yes indeed. I tend not to use sè very much, and when I do it seems to be mostly with people (especially proper nouns). I wonder whether that's a general tendency or just a personal quirk of mine. I'm inclined to believe that sè is used more often in informal circles like right now than on formal occasions, in the same way that informal texts in English use "[thing]'s [thing]" more often than "[thing] of [thing]" than formal ones.
|
|
Iac Marscheir
Citizen of Talossa
yak marsh air
Posts: 782
Talossan Since: 12-3-2016
Baron Since: Qet Miestra tent zirada.
|
Post by Iac Marscheir on Apr 7, 2017 11:32:37 GMT -6
I second this petition.
|
|
Iac Marscheir
Citizen of Talossa
yak marsh air
Posts: 782
Talossan Since: 12-3-2016
Baron Since: Qet Miestra tent zirada.
|
Post by Iac Marscheir on Apr 7, 2017 7:58:36 GMT -6
You could also say "El Toreu sè Cäps," right?
|
|
Iac Marscheir
Citizen of Talossa
yak marsh air
Posts: 782
Talossan Since: 12-3-2016
Baron Since: Qet Miestra tent zirada.
|
Post by Iac Marscheir on Apr 4, 2017 18:49:31 GMT -6
4) The Ministry of Culture has been batting other ideas around within the Cabinet, but none of the ideas raised so far have excited the broad masses yet. I am personally partial to the good old idea of an interprovincial online sports competition (chess, video-gaming, whatever). If anyone was keen to help organise that the Ministry of Culture would give full support. I'd love to help with/organize such a competition, just as long as I don't have to code the entire game myself, and as long as it can be done on a Mac and isn't on Steam, and is free (e.g. a War Thunder one-on-one dogfighting tournament, or a timed Cookie Clicker race-to-a-trillion challenge {video evidence required}, or a just a plain ol' chess tournament). Just message me or whatever if it sounds like a good idea.
|
|
Iac Marscheir
Citizen of Talossa
yak marsh air
Posts: 782
Talossan Since: 12-3-2016
Baron Since: Qet Miestra tent zirada.
|
Post by Iac Marscheir on Mar 31, 2017 23:14:06 GMT -6
Doesn't mean it has to STAY that way, though.
|
|
Iac Marscheir
Citizen of Talossa
yak marsh air
Posts: 782
Talossan Since: 12-3-2016
Baron Since: Qet Miestra tent zirada.
|
Post by Iac Marscheir on Mar 31, 2017 23:07:17 GMT -6
Seriously, I'm a little disappointed. This pretty much was the one thing I did for Talossa. I'm not surprised it didn't last. Seems to be the way things go around here. Well, at least I tried. Yeah, but Talossa, at least from what I've seen, has always seemed to be more geared toward the government, with a side focus on the language. Doesn't mean I like it. Besides, there's a chat room: www.chatzy.com/25090730781782
|
|
Iac Marscheir
Citizen of Talossa
yak marsh air
Posts: 782
Talossan Since: 12-3-2016
Baron Since: Qet Miestra tent zirada.
|
Post by Iac Marscheir on Mar 29, 2017 11:40:10 GMT -6
OH. MY. GOD! You are so right. How could these MONSTERS have trashed the greatest of your doings!? *Scoots away from everyone else*
|
|
Iac Marscheir
Citizen of Talossa
yak marsh air
Posts: 782
Talossan Since: 12-3-2016
Baron Since: Qet Miestra tent zirada.
|
Post by Iac Marscheir on Mar 25, 2017 9:21:47 GMT -6
Actually, I've been meaning to ask a question relating to that: is the GC still up-to-date on stress-marking diaereses (i.e. by replacing them with circumflexes), or has it actually become "Ǘǘ"?
|
|
Iac Marscheir
Citizen of Talossa
yak marsh air
Posts: 782
Talossan Since: 12-3-2016
Baron Since: Qet Miestra tent zirada.
|
Post by Iac Marscheir on Mar 24, 2017 5:41:36 GMT -6
Daduve trovetz acestilor mocts noveux? Ça non sint in eda l'Översteir eda'l Treisour, es non säpéu lors urixhis.
|
|