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Andrew Feist

Yum graphs graphs graphs. Mmm. Thanks Charlie. Anyway: does the rating graph have all three ratings in it, now? Cause I've got what looks like three different lines going on after the Great Ratings Shift. (Maybe we could do the different ratings in different colors! Ooh.) On the maximums graphs, are...

Andrew Feist

Charlie Reams wrote:This might be useful.

This, not so much. (Yes, I am the sort of person who tries this sort of thing.)

Andrew Feist

Andrew Feist

Congrats Mark, and it looks like Mr Hall is in for some congratulations too (he needs 3.0/4 against Steve Rogers to get past me). Well done all and have fun in div A Mark.

Andrew Feist

What Charlie says is true about time averaging. What I'm worried about are people near the line who tend to go back and forth a lot; I don't want them trying to throw games to get under. (Edit: Not that I believe anybody really would, but it's the principle of the thing.) I'll use peak rating instea...

Andrew Feist

Although I agree with Ben above that a semi-regular bunch of tournaments with striated flights would serve the purpose just as well, probably. (Unlike Ben, I'm willing to throw my hat in the ring to help organize such a thing.) Let's see whether people want ratings-restricted tournaments, shall we ?

Andrew Feist

As we were getting the league trials set up, there was some indication that some people would prefer one-off rating-restricted tournaments. With that in mind, I'll put myself forward to organize such an event. The Event: The 2009 apterous Summer Open, U1200, U1000, and U800 When: Starting the first ...

Andrew Feist

1. I agree that some sort of auto-generation would be nice. I did a Google search for league management, but didn't seem to find much free, but I didn't delve too deeply either. I've built a tool that currently generates some HTML tables, but: a) it's command-line based, so typing! b) it currently u...

Andrew Feist

Since I don't know the code, I can't do that lol. I think you're assuming I did that by means other than literally typing it in, which is incorrect. (I used the "code" button in the edit box to get fixed-width fonts, also known as "lying about what the data actually is so that the we...

Andrew Feist

I don't know what you've got going on over there, but would it be possible (maybe not every time, but sometimes) to get a crosstable thing sort of like this: MH JH AF JL NS ID SR 1. Mark Harrison \\ xx -+ +x +x ++ ++ 14.0 2. James Hall xx \\ -+ -= +x ++ xx 9.0 3. Andrew Feist +- +- \\ +- xx ±+ ++ 13...

Andrew Feist

Finished the goat with Ian:
http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?ke ... 7724545129

Andrew Feist

John Bosley wrote:There is, yes, a very polite way there is also a slightly sarcastic almost impolite way - and many others, but I am now as boring as the original.

And since the person you quoted chose the polite way, what is your point? Was he supposed to be sarcastic and impolite?

Andrew Feist

Anyway: games (against Steve Rogers). No longer winless on goatdown! (Sorry Steve.)
http://apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=69479
http://apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=69490

Andrew Feist

Well, football wasn't strictly necessary to my analogy -- this is true of just about any point-based game, so far as I can tell. The only real difference about this game, I suppose, is that you can't score one-point-at-a-time; but that doesn't change the real difference (I feel) of losing by a hair ...

Andrew Feist

I just got thrashed in the Goatdown game vs James Hall. In our standard game though I played well and was leading most of the way. Lost by 3 points in the end. I get 0 points for this yet against Feisty I picked up a point by drawing. The fact that it was a draw was pure chance. Surely a close defe...

Andrew Feist

A 2-2 split against Mark Harrison:
http://apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=69154 (regular)
http://apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=69158 (goat)

Andrew Feist

Currently a 1.5-1 split against Ian Dent:
http://apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=69143

Andrew Feist

Can we do HTML here? Edit: NO. Anyway, I will say I'd prefer nine over four. As for my availability, I'll probably be on later tonight, maybe sometime Sunday, and I'll try to get in Tuesday and Thursday afternoons as well. Edit: Although if we get to twelve, sixes would be cool too (double round for...

Andrew Feist

I like the idea of a league, and would gladly sign up despite my expectation that it will fizzle out before we get through two "seasons". (Even knowing you're in the fifth division of eight, winning your division is still winning your division.) Perhaps giving regular breathers -- one mont...

Andrew Feist

I'm guessing the prompt for active teasers isn't quite 100% yet: "Welcome to aptochat, Andrew. You're currently the only person here! The current teaser is EINASRM. You have -1789 seconds left. The current teaser is ESCLDEUS. You have 10 seconds left. The current teaser is LIRCEDSA. You have -5...

Andrew Feist

The numbers board has buttons that say "(" and ")" but they don't do anything.

(As far as the console goes, I see nothing happen when I push a parenthesis -- the other buttons make "TPP 10" show up.)

Andrew Feist

In my resumed game with Innis, chat was working fine his end, but at my end I had a blank in-game chat pane. He could still see my messages. Someone else seemed to have this too. I think. EDIT: I now have a blank spectator pane as well. I'm finding that happening with resumed games as well. Ditto. ...

Andrew Feist

Jon Corby wrote:
Andrew Feist wrote:Presumably 8 is meant to be "or", but I don't see that word on the page anywhere (unless you count its appearance inside short etc.)
It's in question five.

Oh so 'tis. Today's lesson: always use Ctrl-F.

Andrew Feist

Presumably 8 is meant to be "or", but I don't see that word on the page anywhere (unless you count its appearance inside short etc.)

Maybe 1 was supposed to be "slim" chance instead?

Andrew Feist

As amusing as it is to listen to Phil's jingle at triple speed when you have a 10-second round, I wonder whether the music should only appear on a normal round.

Andrew Feist

So did half the field go for definites in round 6 yesterday? (I didn't check everybody that scored 0, but there were 27 nils that round out of 55 people.)

Andrew Feist

It did; thank you very much.

Andrew Feist

At least on my system here, "100" shows as "1.." in the tiles (at least the first time -- the second time, the tiles are wider and the whole thing fits). Probably not a huge deal for normal games, although I hear that hyper has more than one 3-digit number. I haven't seemed to be...

Andrew Feist

One more thing: Also on page=8, you could note that numbers scoring changes in flat mode (10-difference, instead of 10/7/5).

Andrew Feist

I don't like moaning about certain features as I feel it depresses Charlie but I'm not a fan of this incremented timer. It was much easier to tell with a continuous timer when you had a fraction of a second left if you wanted to buzz in at the last minute with a conundrum guess. With this new, almo...

Andrew Feist

It started as a standard 15-rounder. It became so much more.

Andrew Feist

I always intended for people to puzzle over them publicly and attempt to spade out what they're actually for, so feel free. If the rainbow gets firmly unravelled then I'll just add some new ones. This could get difficult, now that we don't know what we've won until the end. I'm going to have to sta...

Andrew Feist

Don't know if this is related to other worries about resumed games, etc., but thought I'd post anyway. Log first, description later: ClientReceiveThread >> GameEvent{key=-1329788418137397794,o=apterous.game.ConundrumPuzzle@536d00} RX GameEvent{key=-1329788418137397794,o=apterous.game.ConundrumPuzzle...

Andrew Feist

Looks good, and more detailed than anything I had done. (I think I recognized a whole half-sentence of mine in the final product, so well done there.) The tricky part of the help page is getting out, as most of the sidebar links don't seem to work (in Internet Explorer anyway -- works in Firefox her...

Andrew Feist

Derek Hazell wrote:Obviously the breakability, non-transparency, and un-cutability* of the teapots may limit some of these options.

*What is the word for this?

Solidity?

Andrew Feist

I should be awake enough to type by then, so I'll give it a go.

Andrew Feist

Sure, but you're not disagreeing with any established mathematics. Am I not? Wouldn't mathematicians disagree that one of those lists is bigger than the other? OK - I suppose there isn't an established area of maths about "infinite lists". So, it comes down to how we define "bigger&q...

Andrew Feist

Would it help at all if the selection could be made from the keyboard? Such as pressing a number which corresponds with the entry or arrow keys + enter key combination. I think it would be ideal if the game could be played entirely with the keyboard anyway. Good ergonomics and such. Last time I tri...

Andrew Feist

On the main apterous menu index page, how about an option with INSTRUCTIONS? I am grateful for help I received familiarising myself with shortcuts and inputting tips (thanks esp to lesley) and spent much time trawling the forums for others, that seem fairly basic now. As a result I always share the...

Andrew Feist

A thought that may not be technically feasible: a chicken award for someone who types a valid 9 (or maybe a valid max) in the box, but chooses a lesser word instead. (You can then add a burnt chicken for such a person whose opponent then scores with the 9.)

Andrew Feist

Now that I've been playing for a week, I supposed I should register for the forums etc. Hi. Anyway, born and raised in Kansas, now teaching math and various related things in Virginia (hence the strange hours). Like crosswords (although I don't do as many British-style as I probably should) and mah...

Andrew Feist

Now that I've been playing for a week, I supposed I should register for the forums etc. Hi. Anyway, born and raised in Kansas, now teaching math and various related things in Virginia (hence the strange hours). Like crosswords (although I don't do as many British-style as I probably should) and mahj...

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