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Offline Osamafune

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Re: Chess Tourney
« Reply #30 on: October 09, 2007, 03:58:01 AM »
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Offline Allama

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Re: Chess Tourney
« Reply #31 on: October 09, 2007, 02:51:38 PM »
We played around with the logistics on this one for quite a while, but couldn't come up with anything that we thought would actually work.

Move-by-move games on the forum would be veeeeery time-consuming, potentially confusing, and rather boring (to be frank - without images of a board it's no fun at all to watch what's going on).  If we used a real-time chess game from another site and posted scores here, it would be difficult to coordinate players from different countries and with different lifestyles and corresponding schedules; there are a lot of active members who may talk frequently via the forum, but who are literally never online at the same time.

A couple other concerns were raised, but I don't remember them at the moment.  Input would be appreciated; this would still be a great event if we can find a way to do it well!
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Re: Chess Tourney
« Reply #32 on: October 11, 2007, 02:26:15 PM »
That makes sense but I personally didn't have too much trouble when I did this in another game. I had guys from just about everywhere play in it (US, UK, Netherlands, Egypt, and the Philippines), and had no serious problems.





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Re: Chess Tourney
« Reply #33 on: October 11, 2007, 03:05:42 PM »
How did you guys manage it, if I may ask?  Off-site game platform, or post-by-post?
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Re: Chess Tourney
« Reply #34 on: October 11, 2007, 05:59:52 PM »
Off-site with Yahoo games. I just waited until I found 2 competitors online on msn, aim, or yim, told them what game to join on Y! games, and they came.

There's something else I had been thinking about recently that had reminded me of this chess tourney. What I've been calling it is the "NS Olympics (brought to you by Taijitu)." It's a series of competitions like best short story, best graphic, etc, etc, etc. There would be judges that decided the winner.

This is just something I thought of from a combination of that Nanowrimo thing someone posted about somewhere on our forum and something we're doing in a Gamespot union. Uh... Anyway, this would be very much feasible, wouldn't you think? Hell, maybe I just got lucky before...

BUT as for the chess tourney, I think I may have an idea but I have no time to explain it right now (class begins in like 5 secs).
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Offline Osamafune

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Re: Chess Tourney
« Reply #35 on: October 11, 2007, 09:03:15 PM »
Ummm... Does anybody know how to use the table tags on here? That's basically my idea; to create an 8x8 table and insert pics of the pieces within the cells. When someone announces their move (on the forum), a mod or whoever made the topic moves the image to the cell they requested. Then the next person will post their move.

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Offline Algerianbania

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Re: Chess Tourney
« Reply #36 on: October 12, 2007, 12:19:38 AM »
Sounds like a good idea, yet it seems high maintenance. Plus, and I'm not quite sure about this, but all the pictures would probably make loading the page rather slow, especially when the forum is on one of those spikes when it is just laggy. Ask one of the Limi or Elu (if you can find him). They definetaly know more about this stuff than I do.
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Re: Chess Tourney
« Reply #37 on: October 12, 2007, 01:21:25 AM »
If you get images that have smaller file sizes, it shouldn't be that much of a problem. Just look at how many images is on any typical page of our forum :P
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Re: Chess Tourney
« Reply #38 on: October 12, 2007, 04:51:52 AM »
# of images on a typical page of a forum + 32.  :trout:
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Re: Chess Tourney
« Reply #39 on: October 12, 2007, 12:02:03 PM »
That sounds like an idea well worth a little investigation, Osa.  Excitingly so!  I'll get back to you very soon!  ^_^
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Re: Chess Tourney
« Reply #40 on: October 14, 2007, 04:27:03 PM »
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edit: hmmm... it doesn't want to add a border...
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Re: Chess Tourney
« Reply #41 on: October 14, 2007, 05:54:14 PM »
1a
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do you need borders? There's probably a simpler way, I'm no expert at this sort of thing.
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Re: Chess Tourney
« Reply #42 on: October 14, 2007, 11:49:02 PM »
Nice. How'd you do that?   :P

And can you get images into the cells and still keep a white or black background?
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Re: Chess Tourney
« Reply #43 on: October 15, 2007, 01:08:26 AM »
The coloured cells are images in themselves, you'd have to make two separate ones for every piece, one for when on a black cell, the other for when on a white. This is where it starts to get complicated for whoever is modding this... :shrug:
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Re: Chess Tourney
« Reply #44 on: October 16, 2007, 01:36:26 AM »
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[td][img width=43 height=42]http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a205/sswebsite/chessb.jpg[/img][/td]
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[td][img width=43 height=42]http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a205/sswebsite/chessb.jpg[/img][/td]
[td][img width=43 height=42]http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a205/sswebsite/chessw.jpg[/img][/td]
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[td][img width=43 height=42]http://img507.imageshack.us/img507/9566/wbishoponwbw1.png[/img][/td]
[td][img width=43 height=42]http://img206.imageshack.us/img206/3782/wkingonbom3.png[/img][/td]
[td][img width=43 height=42]http://img187.imageshack.us/img187/4565/wqueenonwgb1.png[/img][/td]
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[/table]This is the code for the following:

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And the following is to make it easier for me to update the board.

http://img143.imageshack.us/img143/6215/bbishoponbqx9.png      Black bishop on black square

http://img148.imageshack.us/img148/4045/bkingonbno2.png   Black king on black square

http://img151.imageshack.us/img151/3303/bknightonbha2.png   Black knight on black square

http://img150.imageshack.us/img150/7561/bpawnonbwi3.png   black pawn on black square

http://img520.imageshack.us/img520/1296/bqueenonbxw3.png   black queen on black square

http://img147.imageshack.us/img147/6765/brookonbli5.png     black rook on black square


http://img142.imageshack.us/img142/7830/wbishoponbrh4.png    white bishop on black square

http://img206.imageshack.us/img206/3782/wkingonbom3.png   white king on black square

http://img156.imageshack.us/img156/6524/wknightonbfc6.png   white knight on black square

http://img155.imageshack.us/img155/2787/wpawnonbas2.png   white pawn on black square

http://img237.imageshack.us/img237/3821/wqueenonbqr1.png   white queen on black square

http://img513.imageshack.us/img513/1978/wrookonbif6.png    white rook on black square


http://img525.imageshack.us/img525/3482/bbishoponwtl2.png    black bishop on white square

http://img99.imageshack.us/img99/9803/bkingonwtp4.png   black king on white square

http://img86.imageshack.us/img86/3531/bknightonwed9.png    black knight on white square

http://img135.imageshack.us/img135/7937/bpawnonwwj8.png    black pawn on white square

http://img81.imageshack.us/img81/6883/bqueenonwxq6.png   black queen on white square

http://img144.imageshack.us/img144/3936/brookonwmf4.png    black rook on white square


http://img507.imageshack.us/img507/9566/wbishoponwbw1.png   white bishop on white square

http://img120.imageshack.us/img120/2460/wkingonwob1.png   white king on white square

http://img81.imageshack.us/img81/7003/wknightonwfw9.png   white knight on white square

http://img187.imageshack.us/img187/4797/wpawnonwge8.png   white pawn on white square

http://img187.imageshack.us/img187/4565/wqueenonwgb1.png    white queen on white square

http://img300.imageshack.us/img300/3527/wrookonwig0.png   white rook on white square



http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a205/sswebsite/chessw.jpg    white square

http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a205/sswebsite/chessb.jpg     black square
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