Qhimm.com

Aaron · Posted: Mon, Aug 25 2003 10:57 PM Post subject: Chess?

This may be a little off topic for these forums but...
Nori and I were talking and decided it'd be cool to have a Qhimm.com chess tournament :-p
I'm sure there are other people on Qhimm's that would like to play chess.

Would anyone be interested?

Nori · Lv.37 Grand Master Joined: 22 Feb 2002 Posts: 535

Mofokubik · Lv.34 Insane Poster Joined: 24 Feb 2003 Posts: 436

How would this happen, would we register somewhere like pogo where they have online chess stuff?

Aaron · Posted: Mon, Aug 25 2003 11:59 PM Post subject:

If there's enough interest, then I'll come up with some way for people to register... e-mail me or something I guess?

We could play online Yahoo or something. Any place with online chess.

Nori · Lv.37 Grand Master Joined: 22 Feb 2002 Posts: 535

vvalentine · Posted: Tue, Aug 26 2003 01:43 AM Post subject:

I would be interested to play, but I haven't played in years and I'm afraid I would suck.

Guest · Posted: Tue, Aug 26 2003 06:12 AM Post subject:

I'm in

mirex · Lv.44 Freak Joined: 22 May 2001 Posts: 778 Location: svk

I cannot, because one game of chess takes approx. 30 minutes in real time, and through the internet it would take 2x longer ... i dont have so much time ... maybe on some weekend night ( 00:00 GMT )

Qhimm · Posted: Tue, Aug 26 2003 07:40 AM Post subject:

Heh, a game of Go would be more interesting... although certainly not very time-effective

Aaron · Posted: Tue, Aug 26 2003 08:21 AM Post subject:

Ok... if you wanna play, send me a PM. I'll let this go for a while and see how many entries we get.

Nori · Lv.37 Grand Master Joined: 22 Feb 2002 Posts: 535

Smurgen · Posted: Tue, Aug 26 2003 11:41 AM Post subject:

I'd play but i only understand the very basics of Chess...i'm sure any 3 year old could beat me

Nori · Lv.37 Grand Master Joined: 22 Feb 2002 Posts: 535

Chess:
Aaron, Guest 01, Mofokubik, Smurgen & I
Qhimm & vvalentine or...??

Aaron · Posted: Tue, Aug 26 2003 06:27 PM Post subject:

Rubicant is also signed up.
If you don't think you're good but you know how to play, you could always play anyway

Smurgen · Posted: Tue, Aug 26 2003 09:26 PM Post subject:

How bout battleship instead ^_^;;;

Nori creamed me everytime we played chess ^_^;;

Aaron · Posted: Tue, Aug 26 2003 10:55 PM Post subject:

I have yet to beat Nori myself

But yesterday it was close.

vvalentine · Posted: Wed, Aug 27 2003 01:11 AM Post subject:

I guess I'm in then, I'll try and practice before playing you guys. I haven't touched a chess piece in over 6 years.

Caddberry · Posted: Wed, Aug 27 2003 03:17 PM Post subject:

Count Me in.. I just got my cable internet today!!!

Nori · Lv.37 Grand Master Joined: 22 Feb 2002 Posts: 535

For Elite 8:
1. Aaron
2. Caddberry
3. Rubicant
4. Mofokubik,
5. Nori (Me)
6. Smurgen
7. vvalentine
8. *open*

For Sweet 16:
1. Aaron
2. Caddberry
3. Rubicant
4. Mofokubik,
5. Nori (Me)
6. Smurgen
7. vvalentine
8. ~ 16. *open*

Aaron · Posted: Wed, Aug 27 2003 04:49 PM Post subject:

Hmm so we need one more player. Anyway, in the meantime here is a bracket... I just kind of randomly matched people up... what do you think?

http://aaronserv.dyndns.org/chess/

Golbez · Posted: Wed, Aug 27 2003 07:11 PM Post subject: ME!

I want to play aaron. me me me

Nori · Lv.37 Grand Master Joined: 22 Feb 2002 Posts: 535

Caddberry · Posted: Wed, Aug 27 2003 09:18 PM Post subject:

Awesome!! this is gonna be fun.. but i really play better in real life..

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I dont know if i like the whole playsite thing.. I think everyone should get Chess.net.. you download it and can pay for it if you choose.. If you dont choose to pay you can log on as a guest.. so everyone would have a guest number when they were on and we could use that to ID people.. though it changes everytime so we would have to have ICQ or AIM or something to let the other people know what we were listed as.. I dunno.. but this playsite thing is STILL loading in the background.. maybe its broken.. anyone else have any ideas?

Aaron · Posted: Wed, Aug 27 2003 09:37 PM Post subject:

Nori and I have been playing on Yahoo Games, seems to work fine...
Anyway, the bracket has been updated with all 8 players (need 8 more for the 16 player tournament) and links to Qhimm.com profiles

Darkness · Posted: Wed, Aug 27 2003 09:43 PM Post subject:

<-- will play

Aaron · Posted: Wed, Aug 27 2003 09:48 PM Post subject:

Updated again

You made it into the 16-player match, maybe if we get enough people we can have another 8-player match too.

vvalentine · Posted: Wed, Aug 27 2003 10:14 PM Post subject:

Well, this seems to be coming along well. I'll be able to play on weekends only. So, Cadberry, since we are going to go against each other, we'll have to set some time to play.

Caddberry · Posted: Wed, Aug 27 2003 10:36 PM Post subject:

No problem.. but i live in the states.. Central time.. so it might be harder than we think to make a match up.. or easier than we might think.. I am really crappy at figuring out time zones and stuff..

Aaron · Posted: Wed, Aug 27 2003 11:25 PM Post subject:

Qhimm.com Chess Tournament
Official Rules

- Arrange a time with your opponent to play (find your opponent on the bracket).
- You should play on Yahoo! Games, or some other site that lets you save the move history of your game when it is finished. (If you installed Windows XP SP1a or Windows 2000 SP4, you may need Java for your web browser - - see this)
- When the game is over, one of you should e-mail the game history to me (aaron_kelley@vanguard.org) or post it here. Both participants should agree on who won, of course.
- It will go on like this until there is a winner.
- Nori and I are trying to come up with a prize for winning, but we're still thinking

You can start now! Have at it.

These are up on the chess page too.
http://aaronserv.dyndns.org/chess/

Nori · Lv.37 Grand Master Joined: 22 Feb 2002 Posts: 535

Qhimm.com Chess Tournament

Wobbitt vs. Nori
Date: 00:50 EDT, 28 Aug 2003
Opponent: archangel_solace
Result: win