Newsgroup: it.hobby.scacchi
Titolo: e-PENTAMIND & e-DECAMIND

MESSAGE N.1
Date sent:      	Fri, 15 Sep 2000 08:42:29 -0400
Paolo's e-PENTAMIND
and 
Paolo's e-DECAMIND
Dear games enthusiastic, 
First of all, I'm sorry for my poor English... if there are some point
not so much clear, please ask. If possible, signale me errors and the
better way to express this proposal. 
I'd like to propose this funny idea that I elaborated with some
friends during the last mounths (pedro, marconte, janus...). 
I mean a poly-competition were it is not important to be a very strong
player in a game, but a poly-games lover. 
So I suggest a list of 15 games, so 15 tournaments, but if you are
interested you MUST play at least 10 tournaments (the best 10 results
are your score in the e-decamind, the best 5 in the e-pentamind). It
is strongly suggested to play this tournament if you can play at least
5 move a week for every match. 
I don't know how many people could be attracted to this event,
probably not so much, so it is a little bit difficult to imagine how
every single event will be organized. 
As you can imagine a tournament with 8 people is very different with a
tournament with 40... anyway the idea could be: 
every tournament has stages where about 6-8 people play a round
robin... then the first 1 or 2 player of every group play another
round  robin and so on.
Groups will be organized with the help of the Richard's ratings, when
possible. The goal is not to have Kasparov and Karpov in the same
group in the first round robin. 
The final classement will give points with the rule: 
100(p+1-n)/p WHERE p = NUMBER OF PLAYERS , AND  n=YOURCLASSEMENT 
So 100 points to the winner, the second one it depends to "how many
people"... 
Obviously it is not possible to be helped from software... This is the
reason why we choose rothello and not othello (and so on), anyway it
is obvious that it is not possible to check anything... we trust. No
prices... just fun! I hope you well understand this point. 
There is some choice about the list of the games... I suggest a vote,
and you can vote, if only you are sure to play the e-decamind (I
remember: 15 games, you must play at least 10). 
Games 15 games, 1 game per family, not the most important one (if
possible). 
Abalone (-bowl) 
Amazons  
Ataxx or Hexxagon  
Backgammon 
Twixt 
Some kind of chess 
Maxcheckers 
Wari 
Chinese-Checkers  
Neutron 
Lines-of-Action  
Go 9x9  
ROthello   
A game of the Pente family 
Gravity 
If you want to play this e-tournament... please send me
(
fa...@inwind.it
) a message with the subject:
[e-decamind]
In the body:
your Richard's userid (pfasce)
your country (Italy)
your name (Paolo Fasce)
your e.mail (
fa...@inwind.it
)
your vote (Atax, Grandchess, Pente) 
I'll manage a distribution list in the full respect of your privacy
(but probably it is also possible to organize a discussion list in the
"Richard's area").
At the end we will have a list per country (gold, silver, bronze and
iron) like the olympiads... 
--
Paolo Fasce

was a lot of construction going on.
The next G8 meeting will be in Genoa, next year, so for an year and 
more we will have very big troubles... Let me know when you'll come 
another time! 8-)
--
Paolo Fasce

MESSAGE N.3
Dear e-DECAMIND player,
First of all, some data about you, please, check it and correct if
needed.
Your userid in the Richard's PBEM server: "~1~".
                         Your country is: "~2~".
                            Your name is: "~3~".
                           Your email is: "~4~".
You can find my 2 broadcasts to the Richard's PBEM users to the bottom
of this message, if you need to remember our "discussion" about this
topic.
The tournament will start in a couple of week, players are 19 (at the
moment).
If you want to communicate with all the other players (and me) I think
the better way is a message:
message yourid yourpassword pfasce thrawn Swift ston melin dpriddy
dbanks pedro marconte janus marco lucax LukSiver elloco rolle george
dave (and other 3 I don't know the userid)
I need a vote about this possible chooses (please, re-vote if you
already voted):
Ataxx or Hexxagon
Backgammon or Nackgammon
Neutron or CoNeutron
Some kind of chess
A game of the Pente family
A game of the Trax family
A game of the hex/Y/havannah family
Please, send to me (
fa...@inwind.it
) a message with the subject:
[e-decamind vote]
In the body just include your data using this syntax (2 lines):
pfasce;Italy;Paolo 
Fasce;fa...@inwind.it
;
Hexxagon;Nackgammon;Neutron;Grandchess;Pente;Trax;Hex
So you should cut and paste (and add/correct data):
"~1~";"~2~";"~3~";"~4~";
x;x;x;x;x;x;x
If you don't vote for a game, please, leave an x (in the line 2).
Just an example: x;Nackgammon;x;Grandchess;x;Trax;Hex;
Votes are not secret, so you'll receive a file .xls with all
informations.
The new list of (17) games (you must play at least 10 tournaments) is:
Abalone (-bowl)
Amazons
Ataxx or Hexxagon
Twixt
Maxcheckers
Wari
Lines-of-Action
Go 9x9
ROthello
Gravity
Ataxx or Hexxagon
Backgammon or Nackgammon
Neutron or CoNeutron
Some kind of chess
A game of the Pente family
A game of the Trax family
A game of the hex/Y/havannah family
A tournament will start if there is at least 4 players. So we start
with 17 games, but the list can decrease.
I hope to send you, in the next message, the complete list of games.
Then you'll comunicate me the list of your tournaments.
I suggest to start with 11-12 games, so if a tournament deads, you'll
have 10 tournaments... (if I'll kill so much tournaments, that you'll
have 9 or less tournament, you must add others).
Thank you very much. Have a nice week!
Date sent:      	Fri, 15 Sep 2000 08:42:29 -0400
Subject:        	Broadcast from pfasce via PBM Server
Paolo's e-PENTAMIND
and 
Paolo's e-DECAMIND
Dear games enthusiastic, 
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Abalone (-bowl) 
Amazons  
Ataxx or Hexxagon  
Backgammon 
Twixt 
Some kind of chess 
Maxcheckers 
Wari 
Chinese-Checkers  
Neutron 
Lines-of-Action  
Go 9x9  
ROthello   
A game of the Pente family 
Gravity 
If you want to play this e-tournament... please send me
(
fa...@inwind.it
) a message with the subject: [e-decamind]
In the body:
your Richard's userid (pfasce)
your country (Italy)
your name (Paolo Fasce)
your e.mail (
fa...@inwind.it
)
your vote (Atax, Grandchess, Pente) 
I'll manage a distribution list in the full respect of your privacy
(but probably it is also possible to organize a discussion list in the
"Richard's area").
At the end we will have a list per country (gold, silver, bronze and
iron) like the olympiads... 
Date sent:      	Fri, 15 Sep 2000 16:52:09 -0400
Subject:        	Broadcast from pfasce via PBM Server
About the Paolo's e-PENTAMIND and the Paolo's e-DECAMIND, thanks to
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with the subject: multiple
in the body, one command per line, copy:
help tutorial
help commands
help nameofgame
--
Paolo Fasce

MESSAGE N.1
Date sent:      	Fri, 15 Sep 2000 08:42:29 -0400
Paolo's e-PENTAMIND
and 
Paolo's e-DECAMIND
Dear games enthusiastic, 
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[e-decamind]
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--
Paolo Fasce

so what are we voting on?
Answer: there are 15 games, but just 3 are "Please choose between
Game1 or Game2". So you should choose about:
Ataxx or Hexxagon
Some kind of chess
A game of the Pente family
So, you should send me 3 names. In my example I wrote "Ataxx, 
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Someone of you:
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Anyway...
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The new list:
Abalone (-bowl)
Amazons
Ataxx or Hexxagon
Backgammon or Nackgammon
Twixt
Some kind of chess
Maxcheckers
Wari
Chinese-Checkers
Neutron
Lines-of-Action
Go 9x9
ROthello
A game of the Pente family
Gravity
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MESSAGE N.3
Dear e-DECAMIND player,
First of all, some data about you, please, check it and correct if
needed.
Your userid in the Richard's PBEM server: "~1~".
                         Your country is: "~2~".
                            Your name is: "~3~".
                           Your email is: "~4~".
You can find my 2 broadcasts to the Richard's PBEM users to the bottom
of this message, if you need to remember our "discussion" about this
topic.
The tournament will start in a couple of week, players are 19 (at the
moment).
If you want to communicate with all the other players (and me) I think
the better way is a message:
message yourid yourpassword pfasce thrawn Swift ston melin dpriddy
dbanks pedro marconte janus marco lucax LukSiver elloco rolle george
dave (and other 3 I don't know the userid)
I need a vote about this possible chooses (please, re-vote if you
already voted):
Ataxx or Hexxagon
Backgammon or Nackgammon
Neutron or CoNeutron
Some kind of chess
A game of the Pente family
A game of the Trax family
A game of the hex/Y/havannah family
Please, send to me (
fa...@inwind.it
) a message with the subject:
[e-decamind vote]
In the body just include your data using this syntax (2 lines):
pfasce;Italy;Paolo 
Fasce;fa...@inwind.it
;
Hexxagon;Nackgammon;Neutron;Grandchess;Pente;Trax;Hex
So you should cut and paste (and add/correct data):
"~1~";"~2~";"~3~";"~4~";
x;x;x;x;x;x;x
If you don't vote for a game, please, leave an x (in the line 2).
Just an example: x;Nackgammon;x;Grandchess;x;Trax;Hex;
Votes are not secret, so you'll receive a file .xls with all
informations.
The new list of (17) games (you must play at least 10 tournaments) is:
Abalone (-bowl)
Amazons
Ataxx or Hexxagon
Twixt
Maxcheckers
Wari
Lines-of-Action
Go 9x9
ROthello
Gravity
Ataxx or Hexxagon
Backgammon or Nackgammon
Neutron or CoNeutron
Some kind of chess
A game of the Pente family
A game of the Trax family
A game of the hex/Y/havannah family
A tournament will start if there is at least 4 players. So we start
with 17 games, but the list can decrease.
I hope to send you, in the next message, the complete list of games.
Then you'll comunicate me the list of your tournaments.
I suggest to start with 11-12 games, so if a tournament deads, you'll
have 10 tournaments... (if I'll kill so much tournaments, that you'll
have 9 or less tournament, you must add others).
Thank you very much. Have a nice week!
Date sent:      	Fri, 15 Sep 2000 08:42:29 -0400
Subject:        	Broadcast from pfasce via PBM Server
Paolo's e-PENTAMIND
and 
Paolo's e-DECAMIND
Dear games enthusiastic, 











Abalone (-bowl) 
Amazons  
Ataxx or Hexxagon  
Backgammon 
Twixt 
Some kind of chess 
Maxcheckers 
Wari 
Chinese-Checkers  
Neutron 
Lines-of-Action  
Go 9x9  
ROthello   
A game of the Pente family 
Gravity 
If you want to play this e-tournament... please send me
(
fa...@inwind.it
) a message with the subject: [e-decamind]
In the body:
your Richard's userid (pfasce)
your country (Italy)
your name (Paolo Fasce)
your e.mail (
fa...@inwind.it
)
your vote (Atax, Grandchess, Pente) 
I'll manage a distribution list in the full respect of your privacy
(but probably it is also possible to organize a discussion list in the
"Richard's area").
At the end we will have a list per country (gold, silver, bronze and
iron) like the olympiads... 
Date sent:      	Fri, 15 Sep 2000 16:52:09 -0400
Subject:        	Broadcast from pfasce via PBM Server
About the Paolo's e-PENTAMIND and the Paolo's e-DECAMIND, thanks to
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First of all, I'm sorry for my poor English... 
No problems, Iou spik inglish veri uell.... ^_____________^
                           Thou art God
-- 
I am the sword in the darkness. / I am the watcher on the walls.
I am the fire that burns against the cold, 
the light that brings the dawn, / the horn that wakes the sleepers,
the shield that guards the realms of men.
I pledge my life and honor to the Night's Watch,
for this night and all the nights to come
------------------------------------------------------------------
Ataru Moroboshi (Rocco Pier Luigi) - Brigate Takahashi 
Conan (Incredible Tide) - GURPS - Axis & Allies - AD&D 3a ed.
 
http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/4748

veri uell.... ^_____________^
Oppss... it's "veri uells" obviuosly.
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Nell'oggetto del messaggio scrivete:
multiple
Nel corpo del messaggio scrivete:
help
help tutorial
help commands
help Abalone
help Amazons
help Ataxx
help Backgammon
help Darkchess
help Go 9x9
help Gravity
help Hex
help Lines-of-Action
help Maxcheckers
help Rothello
help Neutron
help Pente
help Trax
help Twixt
help Wari
Riceverete 19 e-mail con tutte le informazioni del caso.
Grazie dell'attenzione.
Dear Richard's PBEM player,
I'm happy to announce that the Paolo's e-DECAMIND and the Paolo's
e-PENTAMIND are starting thank to the Richard's PBEM server and Mind
Sport Olympiads. Games are choosen. They are:
Abalone (-bowl)
Amazons
Ataxx
Backgammon
Darkchess
Go 9x9
Gravity
Hex
Lines-of-Action
Maxcheckers
Rothello
Neutron
Pente
Trax
Twixt
Wari
dave, dbanks, dpriddy, elloco, george, janus, Jeroen, lucax, LukSiver,
marconte, melin, ottavio, pedro, rolle, ston and Swift have already
joint the e-*MIND, why not you?!
I think we will have, for every game, groups of 5-6 players, so every
tournament you join, you need to manage 4-5 matches. We request 4-6
moves a week for every match.
You must play 10 or more tournaments, so the next step is to send me
games you would like to play, in the following syntax.
Just send me these 2 lines (for example):
yourid;yourname;yourcountry;youremail;
YES;NO;NO;YES;NO;YES;YES;YES;YES;YES;YES;YES;NO;YES;YES;YES;
Let imagine I join:
pfasce;Paolo 
Fasce;Italy;fa...@inwind.it
;
YES;NO;NO;YES;NO;YES;YES;YES;YES;YES;YES;YES;NO;YES;YES;YES;
Please, copy the list of games, put a YES instahed of the name of the
game you join, a NO in the others.
You'll have a feed back before the tournament starts in the following
way:
You joined Abalone (-bowls): youranswerYESorNO.
         You joined Amazons: youranswerYESorNO.
           You joined Ataxx: youranswerYESorNO.
      You joined Backgammon: youranswerYESorNO.
                       ... : ...
So you can correct if needed.
Anyway, try to check: you must count at least 10 YES!
Finally a little surprise about prizes!
The e-*MIND event was noted by the Mind Sports Olympiads, so the
winner will have a free ticket for the 2001 event. Obviously we have a
dead line, now. You must finish the e-*MIND before the 06/2001.
This prize has an estimated value of GBP 75 or US$ 125 (or less for a
winner aged under 16).
Enjoy the e-DECAMIND!
--
Paolo Fasce