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    Hope everything is OK, Wouter

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      I'm sorry ad hoc. I didn't see your note

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        Originally posted by ad hoc View Post
        Hope everything is OK, Wouter
        Thank you. By and large, I'm fine. It's just a confluence of turbulent events. We are looking to buy a house, and someone near us experienced some serious health concerns and needs our support. Next to my job, this puts enough strain on my brain that I cannot focus on anything else. But that's really all it is; we are doing OK.

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          Hope things get less stressful for you soon Wouter.

          Ad hoc, I resigned because I felt guilty for screwing up my attempt to meet your perfectly reasonable request about timing of moves. Basically I had a moment of muppetry where I got confused as to the dates and thought your email was more recent by 24 hours than it actually was (and hence thought that you probably hadn't gone off-grid yet), so I made a move in order that you could make a pre-departure move, then realised too late that you would have already left. Last night I saw that you had only 7 hours left to respond and I certainly wasn't planning on getting out of bed before that deadline elapsed, so I resigned in order that you wouldn't lose on time while I slept. Given our relative abilities it would have been a travesty for you to lose, and a confimation of an a priori 99.9 per cent probability for you to win. Also, from a purely selfish perspective, if you'd lost on time it would have messed up my own "best win" record on the site's stats.

          As I mentioned on the Div 2 football thread in the context of the discussion about Leeds getting promoted when WBA lost early on Friday evening, making a badly timed chess move was sadly not the most stupid, and certainly not the most expensive, thing I did on Friday.

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            Originally posted by Evariste Euler Gauss View Post
            Also, from a purely selfish perspective, if you'd lost on time it would have messed up my own "best win" record on the site's stats.
            I'm not sure it would've. My best win, according to my profile, was against a player rated 1766. When I 'beat' ad hoc a few days ago, his rating was higher than that (1798), but my profile hasn't recorded it as a new best win.

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              Yes, I think you're right Sam. I think matches generally don't "count", either for rating adjustment or (as you point out) for "best win" records unless a certain minimum number of moves have been played (3 moves by each player perhaps, or maybe 4?). If I'd known that, and if I'd also known that 3 other players would get wins against ad hoc on time I might have let ad hoc lose on time. Anyway, it's of no consequence - I've pretty much given up being competitive.

              For what feels like perhaps the 3rd or 4th time in recent tournaments, I've managed to play on opening against Etienne so badly that he has essentially trashed my position within a small number of moves. It always seems to be Etienne, maybe he specialises in "opening lines with nasty traps for muppets" [insert smiley].

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                Confirmed.

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                  Confirmed what Wouter? That the site's rating function and best win records ignore games of fewer than 3 or 4 moves, or that Etienne specialises in openings with nasty traps for muppets? [insert smiley, again]

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                    The latter. This muppet has been snared nastily, lately.

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                      ha, you and me both then Wouter. I should mention that I had no idea (as you may not have either) when I posted yesterday about my match w Etienne, that the previous day he had announced a temporary departure, for some months, from this board (see "Missing Inaction" thread on World).

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                        Bummed I missed this one.

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                          Etienne just resigned the move after I made a blunder bringing the computer rating solidly back to 0.00. I wasn't really sure what to say to him there. I was well on top after a blunder by him and then threw the game away, to be rewarded with a win. I am very confused.

                          I've also had a moment of madness against ad hoc, which isn't something one can afford against that quality of play. Sick as a parrot.

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                            I'm completely shitting away several of my games.

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                              I have twice tried to resign my match against Levin in the last few moves, but the "resign" button on the mobile version of the site doesn't seem to work on my phone - i press it repeatedly and nothing happens. [Edit: which is clearly a new, and hopefully temporary, problem as I managed to resign my first match against ad hoc as noted upthread.]

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                                I don't think you're that much out of it. I'm not sure how to make this pressure pay. But I had the same issue earlier against Wouter on a PC browser. I had to go into the app to resign my game after I fell for a simple trap.

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                                  Hope Bored is OK. He's been silent on OTF since late evening on Weds 12th and his match against me will time out in a few hours.

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                                    Yep, he's timed out. Really hope he's OK, it always worries me when posters go silent without warning at unexpected times. I think from a quick look on FB that a dozen or so people on here (not on this thread, but OTF more widely) are FB friends with him.

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                                      Thanks for the concern. A lot of things came up which took my eye off the ball but ok. Apologies for the timed out games

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                                        No worries re the games, at least as far as mine is concerned. Glad you're back and hope whatever things came up got sorted out OK.

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                                          https://twitter.com/topntran/status/1300408103414894592

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                                            Well done ad hoc on winning OTF 23. 2nd and 3rd aren't yet decided. I think that if Bored beats Sam then Wouter gets 2nd but if Sam wins then I keep it.

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                                              Originally posted by Levin View Post
                                              if Bored beats Sam then Wouter gets 2nd
                                              Wait, what?

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                                                Bored beats Sam

                                                Wouter 8 40.5
                                                Levin 8 40


                                                Sam beats Bored

                                                Levin 8 41
                                                Wouter 8 40.5


                                                Sam & Bored draw

                                                Levin 8 40.5
                                                Wouter 8 40.5

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                                                  Seeing as I fucked up and lost out on time again in three matches, I was going to concede to Sam so that we could all pack up and go home. However, if there is something riding on it, I shan't.

                                                  In saying that, maybe it is fairer if I concede as I did lose so many on time.

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                                                    One of the ones you lost on time was the first one against me, Bored, so if our current (second) game is 'live' for the tournament, don't resign!

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