Tournament of Lepers, Week 5
Week 4 Results
| White | Black | Result |
| Tacticus | Wahrheit | 0-1 |
| drunknknite | Rocky Rook | 1-0 |
| Polly | LEP | 1-0 |
| gorckat | Tom | delayed |
| chessloser | l3rucewayne | 1-0 |
Week 5 Matchups
| White | Black |
| Tom | drunknknite |
| l3rucewayne | gorckat |
| Wahrheit | chessloser |
| LEP | Tacticus |
| Rocky Rook | Polly |
Standings
dnk Pol Whr Tac cl l3r Tom LEP RR gor 1 drunknknite xxx --- --- --- 1.0 --- --- 1.0 1.0 1.0 4.0 2 Polly --- xxx 1.0 --- --- 0.0 1.0 1.0 --- --- 3.0 3 Wahrheit --- 0.0 xxx 1.0 --- --- --- 1.0 1.0 --- 3.0 4 Tacticus --- --- 0.0 xxx --- 1.0 1.0 --- --- 1.0 3.0 5 chessloser 0.0 --- --- --- xxx 1.0 0.0 --- --- 1.0 2.0 6 l3rucewayne --- 1.0 --- 0.0 0.0 xxx --- --- 1.0 --- 2.0 7 Tom --- 0.0 --- 0.0 1.0 --- xxx --- --- --- 1.0 8 Liquid Egg 0.0 0.0 0.0 --- --- --- --- xxx 1.0 --- 1.0 9 Rocky Rook 0.0 --- 0.0 --- --- 0.0 --- 0.0 xxx --- 0.0 10 gorckat 0.0 --- --- 0.0 0.0 --- --- --- --- xxx 0.0
Week 4 was upset week: chessloser Jokered l3rucewayne, and Wahrheit out-tacticked (sp?) Tacticus.
Just to complete the cheesy synonym for “defeat” thing, Polly scrambled Liquid Egg Product and drunknknite drunk Rocky Rook.
Has anyone heard from gorckat? I suspect he has some stuff going on in life that’s preventing him from chessing, noting his blog hasn’t been updated in a few weeks. Wherever he is, I wish him the best.
And, oh joy, I’ll get to play a furious* Tacticus this week. At least I’ll be White. And the tough half of my schedule will be overwith.
Note on the crosstable: I haven’t calculated any systematic tiebreakers, so the placement’s based on head-to-head matchups first, then randomness.
*In sports, whenever a good team loses unexpectedly, the talking heads say that team will be “angry” the next game. Which somehow means it will magically play better.
The clients probably need...
“Hey Eggman! How about Tuesday night at 7pm Houston time?” Tacticus asked furiously. *
Reply to Tacticus Maximus
Comment by Tacticus Maximus | 10 March 2008
Um… drunknknite drunk Rocky Rook?!? Really?
Off the top of my head maybe even something as lame as drunknknite showed he likes his rooks on the rocks.
You’re better than that Donnie.
Reply to drunknknite
Comment by drunknknite | 10 March 2008
drunknknite,
When is good for you? I am in the eastern time zone and am available most nihgts.
Reply to Tom
Comment by Tom | 10 March 2008
drunknknite,
I forgot to include my email address is you prefer to contact me directly. It is rhuiden at gmail dot com.
Reply to Tom
Comment by Tom | 10 March 2008
lol… drunknknite drunk Rocky Rook…. somehow that just doesn’t sound right
Reply to Chessaholic
Comment by Chessaholic | 10 March 2008
Does Furiosity affect Chess players so that they’d win?
I’d think the extra anger would cause people to behave more irrationally, wouldn’t that mean thinking that is less clear and therefore more likely to lose? Or is the argument for chess that it’d make people take greater risks?
Reply to Allen
Comment by Allen | 10 March 2008
@Tacticus: “The time would work well,” LEP responded, er, scrambledly?
@drunknknite: Unfortunately, I’m incapable of much better. It was either that or “drunknknite rocked Rocky Rook”, which sounds way too close to something you could hear on ESPN.
@Tom: No witticism or insight comes to mind as a response. Sorry.
@Chessaholic: If it did sound right, that may be the worse possibility.
@Allen: Do you remember Mr. Furious from Mystery Men? It’s kinda like that.
Reply to Donnie
Comment by Donnie | 10 March 2008
A preview of our game, eggman: link
Reply to Tacticus Maximus
Comment by Tacticus Maximus | 10 March 2008
Now that I’ve lost a game against a player who isn’t one of the top two, I feel more relaxed about the tournament. (Was hoping till then to win all of the other games.) Sadly this will probably lead to more losses. But at least they should be more relaxed ones:-).
Reply to l3rucewayne
Comment by l3rucewayne | 10 March 2008
You quoted Mystery Men. I die happy now. Very funny movie. William Macy brilliant.
Reply to Derek Slater
Comment by Derek Slater | 11 March 2008
Rocky Rook how is Wednesday evening around 9:30 pm EDT work for you?
Reply to Polly
Comment by Polly | 11 March 2008
LiquidEggProduct-NoTB round 5 games is online at my web site.
Reply to Tacticus Maximus
Comment by Tacticus Maximus | 12 March 2008
Hmm. I want in on a tourney! =D
Reply to Sir Nemo
Comment by Sir Nemo | 12 March 2008
LEP - BIG WIN! Thanks for the cushion.
Reply to drunknknite
Comment by drunknknite | 12 March 2008
@l3rucewayne: No way, man! A bunch of us are too close in strength to expect any of the “mortals” to run the table (although Tacticus has proven mortal the past two weeks).
At least you’re not pretending to have a coma to avoid the games…
@Derek: You have great taste. Remember the scene where they had the superhero tryouts? I envision you approaching the table as “The Reassembler” and bragging your superpower is putting together jigsaw puzzles very quickly.
@Tacticus: As we mentioned last night, it’ll be a fascinating game to analyze…but gotta finish Polly’s first.
@Sir Nemo: Unfortunately, this is round-robin, so I can’t stick anyone in, but the next tournament will start in April. I’ll start a sign-up in the next couple weeks.
@drunknknite: The burning desire to have you win the tournament propelled me to victory.
Reply to Donnie
Comment by Donnie | 12 March 2008
Did you just call me immortal?
Reply to drunknknite
Comment by drunknknite | 12 March 2008
Wahrheit-chessloser last night, 1-0.
Reply to Wahrheit
Comment by Wahrheit | 13 March 2008
@drunknknite: You wear Alex Chiu’s immortality rings every night, right?
I tried to leave a comment on your blog twice, but it keeps saying Blogger is down although I can see everyone’s site…weird.
@Wahrheit: See, now that’s how you lay down the law.
Reply to Donnie
Comment by Donnie | 13 March 2008
3 people vie for perfection…
Reply to Allen
Comment by Allen | 13 March 2008
5/5.
Reply to drunknknite
Comment by drunknknite | 16 March 2008