How do you start a Tournament?

How do you start a Tournament?

Well ... as a start, you have to be a pawnstar to play in the tournaments ...

GET A PAWNSTAR

Originally posted by paper
How do you start a Tournament?

We can't start any tournaments. The site owners (Russ and Chris) start them for the members to play in. You do have to be a pawn star to play in them but Schweigi(?) didn't have to be rude about it. I'm not sure when the next one will start as they are not on any kind of schedule. Just keep checking and one will pop up open sooner or later.

Bryan

Originally posted by ChessNut
We can't start any tournaments. The site owners (Russ and Chris) start them for the members to play in. You do have to be a pawn star to play in them but Schweigi(?) didn't have to be rude about it. I'm not sure when the next one will start as they are not on any kind of schedule. Just keep checking and one will pop up open sooner or later.

Bryan

Thanks. 😀

Originally posted by schweigi
Well ... as a start, you have to be a pawnstar to play in the tournaments ...

GET A PAWNSTAR

Yeesh, give me a break. I just found the site today.

Sorry ... I am not native English ... I didn't intend to be rude... so please excuse me ... I just wanted to make it clear that you have to be a pawnstar to play in the tournaments

That's ok, I just didn't want it to be his first impression of the people here. I had a feeling that you didn't mean to be rude from what I've read on some of your posts I just wasn't sure if he would know that. 😉

Originally posted by schweigi
Sorry ... I am not native English ... I didn't intend to be rude... so please excuse me ... I just wanted to make it clear that you have to be a pawnstar to play in the tournaments

Okay, sorry, no problem, I should have noticed the language difference.

I am happy you understand it ... maybe we play sometimes???

Originally posted by schweigi
I am happy you understand it ... maybe we play sometimes???

Absolutely. Please challenge me, as you are currently refusing challenges. By the way, I just paid for Pawn Star subscription. It says it can take 48 hours to process, maybe more because I have free e-mail.

Originally posted by paper
Absolutely. Please challenge me, as you are currently refusing challenges. By the way, I just paid for Pawn Star subscription. It says it can take 48 hours to process, maybe more because I have free e-mail.

I just read your profile, and see you don't use databases. Although it's common knowledge here at RHP that program use is cheating, many people here, myself included, make use of substantial game databases and chess literature. This isn't considered cheating in correspondence chess, and that is what many of us take ourselves to be playing. Just consider this a head's up about what is accepted here and what isn't. If you want to limit your opponents to those who don't use databases, I'm sure that's O.K., but it might be a good idea to mention it at the start of your games as well as posting it in your profile.

Originally posted by bbarr
I just read your profile, and see you don't use databases. Although it's common knowledge here at RHP that program use is cheating, many people here, myself included, make use of substantial game databases and chess literature. This isn't considered cheating in correspondence chess, and that is what many of us take ourselves to be playing. Just consider ...[text shortened]... be a good idea to mention it at the start of your games as well as posting it in your profile.

Bennett,

Is a database something other than a book of chess openings?

Thanks,

Bill

Originally posted by willatkins
Bennett,

Is a database something other than a book of chess openings?

Thanks,

Bill

Bill,

A database is a collection of games that can be searched by replicating a position and then searching all of the games within the DB to pull out all of the games that had that same position at some point in the game. Whew! Sort of long winded explanation there, sorry about that.

It can be very powerful when used correctly. It is different than a chess engine in that it does not tell you what the 'best' move is. You still have to do that on your own.

Bryan

Originally posted by paper
By the way, I just paid for Pawn Star subscription. It says it can take 48 hours to process, maybe more because I have free e-mail.

I signed up some weeks ago and I got my pawnstar within less then an hour (although I signed up on the weekend). That's cool 😀
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Originally posted by bbarr
Although it's common knowledge here at RHP that program use is cheating, many people here, myself included, make use of substantial game databases and chess literature. This isn't considered cheating in correspondence chess, ...

is there something like 'official' correspondence chess rules? 🙂