Postal Chess

We have eight players, and as said, we'll be playing all games at the same time.


How to Play

Everyone, get an account at chess.com (if you haven't already) and report your member name here.


Set up a new game

To challenge someone:
- In the top menu bar, go to "PLAY", and click on "Online Chess"
- Click on "Start New Game"
- In the "Choose Opponent" field, select "Member"
- Type in the name of your opponent (do NOT press Enter!)
- In the field "Select Game Options":
  * Set "Days Per Turn" to 1
  * Select the right color
- Click on "Create New Game"

If you receive a challenge, check that you play with the right color!


Pause your game

If you're unable to play for a while, you can take some vacation time. On your "Online Chess" page (http://www.chess.com/echess/myhome) click on "Settings" and put a tick in "Pause My Games". If you don't do this, you will lose on time (unless you have a premium account)! Note that you have a limited amount of vacation time.


Conditional moves

You can enter "conditional moves": look for the link and click on it (if it's your opponent's move), select a move for your opponent and enter your response. If your opponent makes that move, your move will be executed immediately. If you can predict your opponent's move(s) after that, you can enter even more. It can speed things up, especially in case of exchanges. Unfortunately, non-paying members can only enter one line, so if you don't get your opponent's move right, it doesn't fly.


Color

The color of each game is shown in this table:

  12345678

1 .WBWBWBW
2 B.WBWBWB
3 WB.WBWBW
4 BWB.WBWB
5 WBWB.WBW
6 BWBWB.WB
7 WBWBWB.W
8 BWBWBWB.

(Player 1 will have white against player 2, black against 3, white against 4, etc.)


Players

1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8

Fank009 TASPlasma Camster theyounggun blahpy Rhodechill Sportsguy001 TvL

fank009     PenguinWolfVI     enigmaticcam     TYGT-1000     blahpy     Rhodechill     Sportsguy001     Thomas_vL

Standings

                  |  1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8  |  Tot
------------------+---------------------------------+-------
                  |                                 |  
1  Fank009        |  X   ½   0   1   0   1   0   0  |   2½
                  |                                 |  
2  TASPlasma      |  ½   X   0   1   1   1   0   0  |   3½
                  |                                 |  
3  Camster        |  1   1   X   1   1   1   0   0  |   5
                  |                                 |  
4  theyounggun    |  0   0   0   X   0   0   0   0  |   0
                  |                                 |  
5  blahpy         |  1   0   0   1   X   1   0   0  |   3
                  |                                 |  
6  Rhodechill     |  0   0   0   1   0   X   0   0  |   1
                  |                                 |  
7  Sportsguy001   |  1   1   1   1   1   1   X   0  |   6
                  |                                 |  
8  TvL            |  1   1   1   1   1   1   1   X  |   7

---

Blitz

These are the poules:


Poule A

                   |  1   2   3   4  |  Tot
-------------------+-----------------+-------
1  Alaktorn        |  X   -   -   -  |   -
                   |                 |  
2  Aron Langerak   |  -   X          |  
                   |                 |  
3  tif             |  -       X      |  
                   |                 |  
4  TvL             |  -           X  |  


Poule B

                   |  1   2   3   4  |  Tot
-------------------+-----------------+-------
1  Fank009         |  X  00          |   0
                   |                 |  
2  Michael F       | 11   X  11  11  |   6
                   |                 |  
3  Sportsguy001    |     00   X      |   0
                   |                 |  
4  theyounggun     |     00       X  |   0



In each poule, everyone plays against everyone else twice, once with either color. The games do not have to be played in any particular order.
At the end, the number one of poule A will play the number two of poule B, and the number one of poule B plays the number of two of poule A. The winners play against each other for the crown.

In case of a tie (either in a poule or in a match), the players involved will play a single armageddon game to decide the winner. In case of a draw, the winner is Black. White will get 10+3, Black will get x+3. The two players make a secret bid for x. The player with the smallest x gets Black.


How to play

Get in contact with your opponents and find a time to play on (watch out for different time zones!). Keep in mind that each game could last half an hour.

One of the players does this:
- Go to http://en.lichess.org
- Click on "Play with a friend" (on the right)
- Keep "Variant" on "Standard"
- Put a check in the "Time control" box
- Set "Minutes per side" to 10
- Set "Increment in seconds" to 3
- Choose your color
You will get a URL. Copy it and communicate it to your opponent.
If you post the URL here in this topic, make sure to add the name of your opponent to avoid confusion.

After the game, let me know the result, by posting it in this topic for instance. If your opponent posts it, check that it's right.

Please try to finish all your games in two weeks. If time is running short, I'll start bullying people into playing. Please don't let it come to that.



Keep an eye out for updates in this post.

Blitz, North America

Edit: I'm in for postal to

Sign me up for both.  USA

Michael F wrote on 10/11/14 at 20:26:54:


I agree, we should.

Blitz, America.

Blitz/postal
Australasia

I'm in for postal to incase you didn't see my post edit

blahpy wrote on 10/13/14 at 04:15:03:

I will try to give you daily reminders.

Sign up within the next 48 hours! Be there or be f7!
(But do read the first post)

Kickoff! Check out the second post of this topic.

Chess.com user: fank009

Games played in the evening american are typically between 12pm-3pm local time, (give/take an hr)

I should be able to play during those times. I'll try be on the forum so people can page me

“In case of a tie (either in a poule or in a match), the players involved will play two games at 5+2 to decide the winner. This will repeat itself until there is a winner.”

Can’t we think of a better tie-breaker? Make it just go to sudden death with random or player-decided color maybe? I don’t like the idea of possibly having to play multiple new games to determine a winner.