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David Short wrote on Tue, Aug 8, 2006 04:04 PM UTC:
I would like to make all enthusiasts of Omegachess aware of the fact that I am currently organizing a new Omegachess tournament by email. This tournament will be conducted on Richard's Play By Email server, and to play in this event you must have a current Richard's PBM userid. http://www.gamerz.net/pbmserv/ is the link for the front page to Richard's PBM server. http://www.gamerz.net/pbmserv/tutorial.html tells you how you can sign up for a free userid and password, if you don't have one already. http://www.gamerz.net/pbmserv/commands.html teaches you how play is conducted on the server. The key thing to remember is that all moves are sent in the subject line of an email sent to [email protected] using a precise syntax. The body of the email is used for sending comments to your opponent. Every time a player sends a move, the server sends out an email to both players with an ASCII diagram of the up-to-date position and a list of the last few moves played. The syntax is usually something like so for instance, if my userid were 'jsmith' and my password was '27train' and I were playing on Omegachess Board 227 and I wanted to play Wi5 (short-hand algebraic is used) then I would send an email to [email protected] with the following in the subject line: Omegachess Board 227 jsmith 27train Wi5 It's that simple. My tournament will be a single-round-robin event in 2 rounds. First a preliminary round and then section winners and a few wild card players advancing to a finals section. How many wild cards I make eligible for the finals and how many sections I create depend upon the number of entries received. There will also likely be some kind of total time cap on reflection time limits for the tournament but I haven't decided yet what that will be. If you are interested in playing in my new Omegachess tournament then please email me at [email protected] and don't forget to tell me what your userid on Richard's PBM Server is.

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