upcoming championships current state

Please do not post anything here that distracts from the topic. Start a new topic if needed or so.

upcoming championships:

presumably scheduled for March 1st: Havannah

The next gomoku championship should start this weekend.

...and the last game in the connect6 championship finished yesterday :-)

gomoku jan 25th

connect6 jan 29th

havannah mar 1st

Dots and boxes ch16 will start 7th of Feb (assuming the timeout daemon happens to be running that day)

How can I check If I qualify for division 1? (havannah championship)

Same here ...

That's a very simply question to answer. It's very low effort - just wait...

Probably the top 9 on the rating list among those registered for the championship at the time when the championship starts.

Oops ...

Hjallti probably wants this conversation to take place in another thread. But imagine you're the webmaster---how would you possibly do it, other than in the way isometry suggests. So I bet that's the right answer.

With Twixt, he planned to take the top 10 and ended up taking the top 11, I guess because there were only two points between 10th and 11th. (It retrospectively took away some of my excitement of having scrambled to be 10th.)

any others coming?

havannah march 1st

In go9 only 7 games need to be completed

In go13 8 groups are unfinished

In go still 32 groups ;-)

rev10: 13 games in 4 groups

In Einstein only 2 games (featuring starsek...)

In dots all 15 groups :-)

The rest I didn't check since I am not interested myself

Word Game 1 game running

Reversi 1 game running

Four in a row 2 games running

Einstein 2 games running

Hex 19x19 5 games running

Chess 7 games running

Go 9x9 7 games running

Breakthrough 11 games running

Reversi 10x10 13 games running

Streetsoccer 14 games running

Go 13x13 14 games running

Hex 13x13 27 games running

DVONN 33 games running

Twixt 76 games running

Lines of Action 99 games running

Go 19x19 135 minimum games running

Amazon 142 games running

Gomoku 307 minimum games running

Connect6 415 minimum games running

Dots and Boxes 606 games running

These are the games running in maximum 15 poules. So I don't know the exact number of games running of go19x19, gomoku and connect6

thx

Word game will start on 27 Februari

Havannah will start on 1 March

bump

Any coming up soon?

reversi and 4 in a row just have 1 game running.

Einstein, breaktrough, go9x9 and hex19x19 is only 1 poule running.

I suspected that one person might be involved in both reversi and 4 in a row, and then it turned out that the same two players were involved in both!

And now it seems that both games are over!

We expect therefore, that Reversi-8 and 4-in-a-row championships will start next Tuesday, 24th of March.

Hex 13x13 is down to 2 games

Reversi8x8 and 4 in a row start on 24 March

Einstein 2 games running, 1 poule

Chess 2 games running, 2 poules

Hex 19x19 2 games running, 1 poule

Go 9x9 2 games running, 1 poule

Hex 13x13 2 games running, 2 poules

Breakthrough 4 games running, 1 poule

Twixt 5 games running, 3 poules

Reversi 10x10 6 games running, 3 poules

Streetsoccer 8 games running, 2 poules

Go 13x13 9 games running, 6 poules

DVONN 12 games running, 5 poules

Lines of Action 15 games running, 6 poules

Gomoku 52 minimum games running, 21 poules

Amazon 55 games running, 7 poules

Connect6 88 minimum games running, 17 poules

Go 19x19 90 minimum games running, 29 poules

Dots and Boxes 132 games running, 13 poules

Word Game 288 games running, 13 poules

Havannah 404 games running, 15 poules

These are the games running in maximum 15 poules. So I don't know the exact number of games running of go19x19, gomoku and connect6.

.. poules mean: how many poules there are where there are games running.

I hope this isn't off-topic, but what is a "poule" please?

poule is sometimes an alternate spelling for "pool", or, poule could also mean a prostitute. However, the word "poule" is not in the OSPD4 (scrabble dictionary). So it is an obscure word. I think he means "pool" or more specifically, how many "groups" (as little golem calls them) are still not yet finished in the entire championship. For example, there are 404 unfinished games of Havannah in 15 different, unfinished "groups"

poule is Dutch for pool; it's the word used at jijbent.nl to describe the first round of a tournament. Hoodiers is Dutch ;-)

While I'm here---hoodiers, did you do that count manually?? Someone should automate it and post here a couple of times a month with a similar summary. Rororo?

@ alain, Ray Garrison: I meant groups.

@wccanard: Yes, I did it manually.

I've heard it observed that Ir you read Dutch words and pronounce them with German (presumably Hochdeutsch) phonetics, the sounds are close enough to English cognates that you can make out what's being written. I'm sure with Frisian, it's even easier. In any case, it's hardly surprising that "poule" meant a pool of players.

@Dvd: what complete twaddle ;-)

Viper lost about 50 games by time-out overnight. Was he holding up any championships? He was holding up a dots and boxes monthly cup, that's why I noticed; I've been monitoring him recently ;-)

Hex 13x13 starting in about 3 days (approx Tue Mar 31)

'poule' is not a dutch word of origin. I would think it's french. It is even when correctly pronounced in dutch not following the rules of dutch pronouncation. (I mean like 'computer' which should be written in dutch 'kompjoeter' it would be written 'poel' or 'poelle' according to its pronouncation).

So it might be right that German and Dutch phonetics are similar (clearly not equal) but it is wrong to apply it to 'poule' which would be pronounced as 'Paul-le' if it were a purely dutch word. (In German it would be 'pulle' with the 'u' almost unhearable).

@Dvd: Don't tell neither Dutch nor Germans, that their language is the same. Espceially the spelling (of both) was invented to emphazise the differences.

For my German eyes, "poule" looks very French (and if it were, it would be 'chicken' with a broad spectrum of meanings, including Ray's explanation), but "pool" is very English.

@alain: thanks for bringing this to our attention.

@wccanard: Im very grateful as well for "twaddle".

There's more to learn here than slang nicknames of genitals. (In GoE recently, if someone interested missed that)

@Michael X: I think twaddle is British English and might not be used in the US.

Related thing: I was giving a talk in U C Berkeley once, and I was referring to something that was not straight, and I said it was "wonky" and continued on. A member of the audience stopped me and asked what "wonky" meant. I was slightly surprised because it was a standard English word as far as I am concerned (I am English). I said "erm...wonky? You don't know what wonky means? It means skewiff" and then continued on. And then someone else stopped me and asked what "skewiff" meant. I was running out of words to describe what I was trying to explain!

PS @Hjallti: the reason I asserted that poule was Dutch for "first round of a tournament" was only that this is how it is used at jijbent.nl. I am not claiming to be any sort of authority at all in Dutch and I am sure your comments are hence more accurate than mine.

@wccanard: I was once at a conference in Romania which was in English, and it happened to be that the first 12 speakers had different nationalities. In such a case you always miss the first 3 sentences of any talk, because you need to refocus on that brand of English (French, Scottish, Chinese, Australian, England-English, German, Romanian, American, Italian). Unfortunately understanding the language was not that much a problem but the math was the biggest problem.

Poule is the French word for chicken, and also for pool. And it's pronounced exactly like "pool", so I guess there where a(nother) cross-channel misunderstanding at some point. And maybe we convinced the Dutch to write it "poule" instead of "pool". We're so influential :)

I wasn't saying Dutch and German were the same. Obviously related, but not the same. In fact, if my father knoew Dutch phonetics rather than German, he might have a harder time reading Dutch than he does. It's the combination of pronouncing it like German and listening to it like English that he says makes it comprehensible.

wccanard: I understand "wonky", but not "skewiff". I also understand "twaddle". (I've lived my whole life in the US). I use "wonky" in conversation, and my wife (also from the US) uses it a lot. I don't actually say "twaddle", at least not much.

Hjallti: Your math conference story is a familiar one. A related joke, many mathematicians may know (or at least can relate to). A math talk should consist of three parts: the first part where everyone understands, the second part where only the experts understand, and the third part where only the speaker understands. However, to save time, most speakers skip right to the third part. :)

(Some people think there should also be a fourth part to the talk, where not even the speaker understands what s/he is saying.)

I'm not surprised you don't know 'skewiff', as that spelling's not even reached the dictionaries yet. You should be able to find it under 'skew-whiff', 'skew-wiff', or 'skew-wift' though. However, the dictionaries are sloppy, and behind the times - I personally would never spell it any other way than how WC spelt it.

I once was at a summer school for graduate student (PhD-students). The first 3 days we gave talks about the basic material to each other (there was some text we had to follow) and the next three days experts would give talks about the state of the art new things. So some chinese expert Xiao decided to give a talk about an article (accepted but not yet published) of my promotor and me. So while everyone turned at me in the audience with some questionmark on their face that I actually wrote that stuff, and was supposed to understand it. Xiao took such an angle on the subject that I was also fully in the dark about it. Xiao was that kind of mathematician that you are wondering if he is the third or the fourth part of the talk :-).

@Paul: "And maybe we convinced the Dutch to write it "poule" instead of "pool". Dutch has been influenced by french more than by english anyway, so it would have been surprizing to get 'pool'.

(In dutch pool (pronounced in the english way) is used as far as I know only for the American variant of snooker, pronounced in the dutch way (with straith o-sound (Like in the english word 'Poland')) it is to indicate a (magnetic) pole or in habitant of Poland. Another mathematical joke from the time that of Cold War when the European Commutity was West-Europe "What is the Circle integral around Western Europe?" The answer is really way over offensive for the Poles, I have to admit, but it dates from the time that we were told they were the enemies (and they were told we were the enemies)...)

By the way: In dutch 'poule' is only used for 'round-robins" and for pool in any other context.

I want to remind everyone on very first sentence of the this topic :-)

LoA has 1 game active only.

go 9x9 should start 2009-04-12

and Einstein start on 13 april, I think

And Streetsoccer should start on 15 april

Go9x9 = start on 12 April

Einstein = start on 13 April

Streetsoccer and Lines of Action will start on 15 April

The rest of the games:

Hex 19x19 1 game running, 1 group

Chess 1 game running, 1 group

Twixt 1 game running, 1 group

Reversi 10x10 2 games running, 1 group

Breakthrough 3 games running, 1 group

Go 13x13 5 games running, 3 groups

DVONN 8 games running, 3 groups

Gomoku 17 games running, 9 groups

Amazon 18 games running, 4 groups

Connect6 26 games running, 11 groups

Dots and Boxes 31 games running, 10 groups

Go 19x19 minimum 62 games running, 28 groups

Word Game 123 games running, 13 groups

Havannah 202 games running, 15 groups

Reversi minimum 438 games running, 19 groups

Four in a row minimum 448 games running, 24 groups

Hex 13x13 minimum 580 games running, 19 groups