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Rebel
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Re: Start Your Engines

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I would have rewarded Rh3 as well.
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Re: Start Your Engines

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Rebel wrote:Week-7 up...
Hello Ed, didn't you get my answers for week 6th ?
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Re: Start Your Engines

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Vinvin wrote:
Rebel wrote:Week-7 up...
Hello Ed, didn't you get my answers for week 6th ?
Yes and processed. But you did not contribute in week-5. I assume that's why you ask?
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Re: Start Your Engines

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Rebel wrote:
Vinvin wrote:
Rebel wrote:Week-7 up...
Hello Ed, didn't you get my answers for week 6th ?
Yes and processed. But you did not contribute in week-5. I assume that's why you ask?
Oh yes, I'm about sure I responded each week.
May be I misclicked somewhere :-(
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Re: Start Your Engines

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Vinvin wrote:
Rebel wrote:
Vinvin wrote:
Rebel wrote:Week-7 up...
Hello Ed, didn't you get my answers for week 6th ?
Yes and processed. But you did not contribute in week-5. I assume that's why you ask?
Oh yes, I'm about sure I responded each week.
May be I misclicked somewhere :-(
Or it seems the form isn't always working, see the post of Al. If you still know the answers please retry or PM me.
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Re: Start Your Engines

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It's over, 2 winners, 3 runner-up's with only one point less, you guys are way too good.

http://rebel13.nl/rebel13/hard.html

It was fun nevertheless.
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Re: Start Your Engines

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Congrats to winners :-)
And thx to Ed for organize this interesting event :-)

I hope participate in next.
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Re: Start Your Engines

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Dariusz wrote:I hope participate in next.
My proposal for next one:

-Have people signing up weekly
-The people that sign up send a position themselves for others to solve
-The contest is held with the positions sent by the players.
-The contest is over whenever there's clearly a player with more point(s) than the rest

Now, it's on the interest of the players themselves to send the hardest positions that they can find, and the contest never runs out of positions.

It's also for the benefit of computer chess, and we may get in there positions specially designed for the competition that wouldn't have been created otherwise.

A problem is that it's a more exclusive competition, since SYE only required people to start their engines, here they're required to send positions, which is hard. Maybe give 1 point to those that send positions (as they solved their own position) but allow everyone to participate even if they don't send one?
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