The Inaugural Regalian Chess Competition

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So you've proven yourself in strength on the battlefield. Now it's time to find the great battle thinkers and strategists amongst us.

It is reported that Caesar from 9thLegion shall bring a new game to Regalia, called Chess. To mark the occassion, a competition, The Inaugural Regalian Chess Competition, will be held this weekend.

Location:
The Chess Board, Regalia, Coordinates x = -95, z = 805.

Prizes:
[Winner] 5 stacks of diamonds, 2 stacks of gold ingots and 1 stack of iron ingots
[Runner-up] 3 stacks of diamonds and 1 stack of gold ingots

Competition Rules:
- standard game play rules apply (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rules_of_chess)
- players should try to take no longer than 2 minutes to make a move (in order to keep the games fairly short and interesting)
- the touch-move rule applies (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rules_of_chess#Touch-move_rule), i.e. if you break a piece to move it, then you should complete your move with that piece, unless your opponent is willing to let you "take the move back"
- in the event of a tied match (e.g. stalemate), players should opt for a rematch provided that it doesn't interfere with any other scheduled matches

Reserve Entrants:
- in the event of an entrant not turning up for their match, an available player from the reserve list may take that entrant's place in the competition, for the rest of the duration of the competition; in this case, the absent player is thus unfortunately out of the competition and the reserve player may continue to play in subsequent matches and compete for the prizes
- if a player finds him/herself without an opponent, and no reserve entrants are available, then he/she wins that match by default

Match Timetable and Results:
Register your intent to join the competition in this thread. The competition is "knock-out style" (i.e. loser of a match is out of the competition).

UPDATE: There is now a full quota of 16 entrants. We will commence putting together a draw based on time availability of entrants. You can still register for the reserve player list though (in case an entrant can't make it to their match on the day)!

FRIDAY: Heats (16 entrants/8 matches)
  • Heat 1 - 5pm GMT - Joshy54100 versus jquaile (win)
  • Heat 2 - 6pm GMT - Icemanap versus Damician (win)
  • Heat 3 - 7pm GMT - DezyPuppy (win) versus josephdm
  • Heat 4 - 8pm GMT - Mecharic (win) versus The Shadow King
  • Heat 5 - 9:30pm GMT - Waminer versus Imboring56 (win)
  • Heat 6 - 10:30pm GMT - ShadowShy (win) versus Alj23
  • Heat 7 - 2:30am (Saturday) GMT - Kirslo versus Film_Noir (win)
  • Heat 8 - 3:30am (Saturday) GMT - Beyar (win) versus gridiron1024
SATURDAY: Quarter-finals (8 remaining entrants/4 matches)
  • Quarter-final 1 - 3pm GMT - Imboring56 (win) versus jquaile
  • Quarter-final 2 - 5pm GMT - DezyPuppy (win) versus Film_Noir
  • Quarter-final 3 - 8pm GMT - Damician (win) versus Mecharic or ShadowShy Aleixandria
  • Quarter-final 4 - 3am (Sunday) GMT - ShadowShy or Mecharic (no players available) versus Beyar (win)
SUNDAY: Semi-finals (4 remaining entrants/2 matches)
  • Semi-final 1 - 3pm GMT - Imboring56 versus Damician (win)
  • Semi-final 2 - 1am (Monday) GMT - DezyPuppy (win) versus Beyar
FRIDAY: Grand final (2 remaining entrants/1 match)
  • Grand final - 8pm GMT - Damician versus DezyPuppy (win)
Confirmed entrants and available times for heats (Friday, GMT):
Damician (Friday, 8pm to 11:59pm GMT)
KitKatmunch (Friday, 4pm or 6pm GMT) Icemanap
Mecharic (Friday, after 9pm-ish GMT)
gridiron1024 (Friday, 10pm or 11pm GMT)
josephdm (Friday, 8pm GMT)
Beyar (Friday, 7pm to 9am GMT)
Joshy54100 (Friday, 4pm GMT)
jquaile (Friday, 9am to midday or 5pm to 8pm GMT)
Alj23 (Friday, 10:30pm to 2:30am GMT)
The Shadow King (updated to Friday, 8pm to 10pm GMT)
Imboring56 (Friday, 9pm to 1am GMT)
DezyPuppy (Friday, 6pm to 11:59pm GMT)
Waminer (Friday, after 10pm GMT)
justin5191 (Friday, after 6pm GMT) Kirslo
favoured (Friday, after 11:59pm GMT) Film_Noir
ShadowShy (Friday, 6pm GMT)

Reserve entrants:
Overlordqwerty
pwnzownz
justin5191
BearlyPanda
DanyWood

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Going to be out of town this weekend. Hopefully, there will be another competition soon.
 
I shall be there! See you there foe in chess! (GOD I LOVE Chess... Its the best board game ever...)
And what time on friday? I can only come on at 17:00 or 19:00 :/
 
I'm in! I can't play chess as well as I used to, but I'll do my best :)

It will have to be in the afternoon though, I work on Friday Morning.
 
I'd like to join, but I can probably only join in the morning of EST time zone.....:S[DOUBLEPOST=1369859436,1369859192][/DOUBLEPOST]Okay, 2:00 am GMT to 8:00 GMT, Im quite certain(......maybe?)
 
I'll join; I'm a professional chess player with a pretty good rating. I need a good player to go against, otherwise those diamonds are mine. :D

In terms of times, Friday might be a miss due to me being in America, so I'd have to say 9pm-1am GMT. Saturday and Sunday though, those are 11am-2am GMT.
 
I'm thinking that we might have to limit the comp. to 16 players this time around to get through all of the matches (there's currently 15 people signed up so there's still 1 more place yet). However, if more than 1 more person are still interested in joining, it would be good to also have a reserve player list anyway, as some people have said that they might not be able to make it on the day.
If only I knew how to play chess...
did you say that you wanted to be in my heat match?
 
I'd like to try, although I'd probably fail horribly.
 
UPDATES:
- added more to the prizes
- updated the rules
- will now begin the draw (let me know if I made any mistakes with people's preferred times)[DOUBLEPOST=1369876904,1369876416][/DOUBLEPOST]UPDATE:
- coming next week...Minecraft snooker
(jokejoke)
 
UPDATES:
- added more to the prizes
- updated the rules
- will now begin the draw (let me know if I made any mistakes with people's preferred times)[DOUBLEPOST=1369876904,1369876416][/DOUBLEPOST]UPDATE:
- coming next week...Minecraft snooker
(jokejoke)

ROUND THINGS?!?!?!?!

HERETIC!!!!
 
UPDATES:
- added more to the prizes
- updated the rules
- will now begin the draw (let me know if I made any mistakes with people's preferred times)[DOUBLEPOST=1369876904,1369876416][/DOUBLEPOST]UPDATE:
- coming next week...Minecraft snooker
(jokejoke)
Wait, i am so sorry but i can actually do 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm Friday Afternoon GMT...sorry again:(
 
UPDATE:
- have begun drawing up the match timetable for Friday based on everyone's availability (see first/original post in thread); will keep updating it throughout Thursday; keep your eye on it to see when your match timeslot for Friday is!
 
UPDATE:
- have begun drawing up the match timetable for Friday based on everyone's availability (see first/original post in thread); will keep updating it throughout Thursday; keep your eye on it to see when your match timeslot for Friday is!
I SUCK AT TIME!!!! I can do it from 8:00 pm to 10:00 gmt. Yes i know, that i suck and i am banging my head against a wall right now. I hate me and my timezone illiteracy. (headbang)(headbang)(headbang) (the previous time that i gave was when i had school)
 
I will be there on Friday from 19.00 to 24:00 GMT (note: i am in the UTC +2.00 but i converted it in GMT so here it will be afternoon)
 
What about 8pm ?
I should be able to have time until around 12pm (00:00), but I'm not sure.
 
UPDATES:
- finalised the match timetable for the heats
- added a section with information for the reserve entrants
- added info. about the chess board location (some people were asking)
 
Sorry I will not be able to make it on Friday, many apologies. Something last minute came up.
 
Hmmm. Thinking about starting a huge build project for a Chess stadium, with several Chess arenas, spectator stands, a huge chess room for Tourney finals or huge Mod battles and a party room. If I pull it off, hopefully it'll get Safezone'd and a portal will be made to it for the Minigame hub. Anyone think this is a good idea?
 


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