Through the Years: Long Correspondence

That would be the expected behaviour, but we have an exception: a small 3-players group, two games for each player, which is messing with the overall picture.
You can spot them in the “games performance” chart, where they float at a “2” level.
These three players had the following performance indexes:

  • +2
  • 0
  • -2

Which means that a player won two games, a player lost two games and a player had a win and a loss.

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Neither of those scores can be achieved by a regular 9-games player (the possible arrangements of wins and losses with 9 games are all odd numbers), so in the final chart there will still be three pleats showing one player each.

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Wouldn’t it be something if after all this, either of these games ends by timeout? :sweat_smile:

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It seems we have a pass in one of the games :eyes:

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And now THE last ongoing game. The start of the 2nd round is at the tip of your fingers. I guess you must feel a real sense of power. :sunglasses:

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One game left. I think it’s likely both players intend to play out to the end at this point. I hope it’s also safe to assume both players will play normal endgame and not eg try pointless deep invasions this late in the game. At a quick sketched variation there might be slightly under 30 moves left. I’m sure I wasn’t accurate, but it should be something like that (game ongoing so really shouldn’t be more specific). If recent trends in move speed hold it’ll average less than a week per move even with the weekend pauses, which puts the end of the game sometime early next year, maybe mid January.

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So, this is the last game.

And this is the competition it it comes from:

Approximately one move per 10 days.
Going on in this tempo and assuming that it ends at move 200, this could very well take one year to finish the game.
Of course if there isn’t a resignation of one of the players.

So glad that I didn’t participate in this tournament.
:grinning:

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Yes, he has that power, but it seems that’s the other player who’s giving the pace. :wink:

That was also my estimation.

Well… since you’re here, holding the breath with us, you could’ve been in the tournament as well! :smile:

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As a matter of fact, this tournament is the first and only one I ever participated, and probably will ever participate in. So, sorry for the dumb question, but when this last game is over, how long will it take before the start of the second round?

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The second round should start straight after the game finishes. Because of the size of the tournament, there’s a chance there will be some delay (minutes to hours, at a guess) as the system works through everything to set up the new round with so many players

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Is this really so?

If I look at the specifics of tournament (see screen print below) it says

Start when full No.

So my guess is that the first round had to be started manually (more than 4 years ago).
Wondering why should the second round start automatically?

@Lys: is my line of thinking correct?

I think that setting only applies to the very beginning of the tournament.

Not automatically at a scheduled time?

No.

This is correct. New rounds start immediately after final game finishes, though in this case actually processing that may take a moment.

That said, many players are disqualified, so round 2 should start faster than round 1 did.

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If I were one of the two players reading this, I would gradually slow down the tempo.

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14 days later:

  • 1 game left, 2 players involved, 1 group

6 moves over 2 games
Max number of moves in a single game (since last update): 4

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Except one player is already playing as slow as possible (whether intentionally or otherwise) and the other explicitly said in here they’d try to play fast and is typically moving in ~1 day recently

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Thanks for the updates to the graph, which I have found an interesting distraction. Unless we get a whole bunch of resignations, seems like the only two parts are likely to have much visual change are the center performance graphs until next round.

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And now the slow player is in holidays :sunglasses:

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In mid August??? So incredible.

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Looks so fun.
When will there be another tournament like this?

Maybe in 100 years when this one finishes.

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