Curmudgeon Posted September 23, 2023 Share Posted September 23, 2023 7 hours ago, Caro-Kann said: Hehe, I didn't know this thread existed until I saw the notification from your above post. Don't think I ever had a chess.com account, used to play quite a lot of over the board chess at the time I created the P&B account hence my username. Thanks. If you ever want to take it up again then the invitation to join will still be there. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caro-Kann Posted September 23, 2023 Share Posted September 23, 2023 15 hours ago, Curmudgeon said: Thanks. If you ever want to take it up again then the invitation to join will still be there. Ok, the username I created is redVtop. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arab_joe Posted October 4, 2023 Share Posted October 4, 2023 On 17/09/2023 at 23:37, Aim Here said: That means that there's a playoff between beef2711 / @Ziggy Sobotka and ArabJoe/ @arab_joe for the right to stay in the top flight next season (league reconstruction permitting). Beef2711 wins. I clawed myself back from a very poor start to the point where I was level on points going into the end game - but in the end was well beaten! Well played. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aim Here Posted October 8, 2023 Share Posted October 8, 2023 Season 9 Right, it's about time I got Season 9 in motion. Currently there's twenty signups so about 2 leagues of ten seems about right. If we slot the new signups into Division B, we have Division A DearyMe ancientnoise AimHere pleslie999 RBWatson stewartmathers AlbinoRov beef2711 The_kid1433 Arabjoe (The league reconstruction gives him a reprieve, but last minute signups might drop him back down!) Division B PnbMathematics KenDeans Basedgodsa1nt XCTR94 markf268 mackieboz N5_Spur redVtop @Nutz_the_Squirrel (I'll need your chess.com username if you're still signing up) Dustysghost There's still time for more signups - there are five people from last season who haven't said whether they're signing up - @Curmudgeon @Ziggy @Frank Grimes @Leicesterlichtie and IncomingExile (whose username seems to have vanished into the ether), and anyone new to the Chess League or returning from seasons prior to season 8 are absolutely welcome. Pending any new signups or other last minute changes, I'll generate the fixtures and start the league up in the next few days. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curmudgeon Posted October 9, 2023 Share Posted October 9, 2023 1 hour ago, Aim Here said: Season 9 Right, it's about time I got Season 9 in motion. Currently there's twenty signups so about 2 leagues of ten seems about right. If we slot the new signups into Division B, we have Division A DearyMe ancientnoise AimHere pleslie999 RBWatson stewartmathers AlbinoRov beef2711 The_kid1433 Arabjoe (The league reconstruction gives him a reprieve, but last minute signups might drop him back down!) Division B PnbMathematics KenDeans Basedgodsa1nt XCTR94 markf268 mackieboz N5_Spur redVtop @Nutz_the_Squirrel (I'll need your chess.com username if you're still signing up) Dustysghost There's still time for more signups - there are five people from last season who haven't said whether they're signing up - @Curmudgeon @Ziggy @Frank Grimes @Leicesterlichtie and IncomingExile (whose username seems to have vanished into the ether), and anyone new to the Chess League or returning from seasons prior to season 8 are absolutely welcome. Pending any new signups or other last minute changes, I'll generate the fixtures and start the league up in the next few days. I'm in. Thanks again. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pleslie99 Posted October 9, 2023 Share Posted October 9, 2023 6 hours ago, Aim Here said: Season 9 Right, it's about time I got Season 9 in motion. Currently there's twenty signups so about 2 leagues of ten seems about right. If we slot the new signups into Division B, we have Division A DearyMe ancientnoise AimHere pleslie999 RBWatson stewartmathers AlbinoRov beef2711 The_kid1433 Arabjoe (The league reconstruction gives him a reprieve, but last minute signups might drop him back down!) Division B PnbMathematics KenDeans Basedgodsa1nt XCTR94 markf268 mackieboz N5_Spur redVtop @Nutz_the_Squirrel (I'll need your chess.com username if you're still signing up) Dustysghost There's still time for more signups - there are five people from last season who haven't said whether they're signing up - @Curmudgeon @Ziggy @Frank Grimes @Leicesterlichtie and IncomingExile (whose username seems to have vanished into the ether), and anyone new to the Chess League or returning from seasons prior to season 8 are absolutely welcome. Pending any new signups or other last minute changes, I'll generate the fixtures and start the league up in the next few days. I’m not good enough for division A. Will get slapped about and spat back out as happened last time I wa in there! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
N5 Spur Posted October 9, 2023 Share Posted October 9, 2023 2 hours ago, pleslie99 said: I’m not good enough for division A. Will get slapped about and spat back out as happened last time I wa in there! I'm not good enough for division B... 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aim Here Posted October 9, 2023 Share Posted October 9, 2023 3 hours ago, pleslie99 said: I’m not good enough for division A. Will get slapped about and spat back out as happened last time I wa in there! Sorry, that was a typo I made in a spreadsheet field. You'll almost certainly be in Division B barring any massive developments. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EvilScotsman Posted October 9, 2023 Share Posted October 9, 2023 11 hours ago, Aim Here said: Sorry, that was a typo I made in a spreadsheet field. You'll almost certainly be in Division B barring any massive developments. I'm assuming the same goes for me (RBWatson) - at least a couple of those slated for Div. B finished above me last season. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aim Here Posted October 9, 2023 Share Posted October 9, 2023 41 minutes ago, EvilScotsman said: I'm assuming the same goes for me (RBWatson) - at least a couple of those slated for Div. B finished above me last season. This is what comes of late night spreadsheeting. Yes, you're right. Also, in my call for previous season returnees, I missed @craigkillie and @invergowrie arab. You guys up for another season of chessing? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EvilScotsman Posted October 9, 2023 Share Posted October 9, 2023 11 minutes ago, Aim Here said: This is what comes of late night spreadsheeting. Yes, you're right. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
invergowrie arab Posted October 9, 2023 Share Posted October 9, 2023 1 hour ago, Aim Here said: This is what comes of late night spreadsheeting. Yes, you're right. Also, in my call for previous season returnees, I missed @craigkillie and @invergowrie arab. You guys up for another season of chessing? Yeah I'm in 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
die hard doonhamer Posted October 11, 2023 Share Posted October 11, 2023 I’ll give this another go, look forward to propping up the bottom division again. Chess.com username is DieHardDoonhamer 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leicesterlichtie Posted October 12, 2023 Share Posted October 12, 2023 @Aim Here I thought I'd given the thumbs up for season 9 but I must've dreamt it. I'm in. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frank Grimes Posted October 12, 2023 Author Share Posted October 12, 2023 Go on then @Aim Here 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ziggy Posted October 13, 2023 Share Posted October 13, 2023 @Aim Here I’m bowing out again, I don’t have the time to give it a proper go just now. Apologies for the slow response. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aim Here Posted October 22, 2023 Share Posted October 22, 2023 The Pie and Bovril Chess League Season 9 After a bit too much delay, I'm happy to kick off season 9 of the chess league. Because of the usual turnover in players, I've had to reconstruct the league slightly with a couple of Division B players getting an unexpected promotion (It's always a dilemma whether to promote division A players or to give demoted division A players a reprieve in these circumstances; I erred on the side of shaking the leagues up slightly more between seasons, so @arab_joe and @Ken Deans find themselves with a tougher season than anticipated.) The initial league tables are, therefore: Division A P W D L Pts AH13STU 0 0 0 0 0 AimHere 0 0 0 0 0 AlbinoRov 0 0 0 0 0 ancientnoise 0 0 0 0 0 Arabjoe 0 0 0 0 0 beef2711 0 0 0 0 0 DearyMe 0 0 0 0 0 invergowrie 0 0 0 0 0 KenDeans 0 0 0 0 0 stewartmathers 0 0 0 0 0 The_Curmudgeon 0 0 0 0 0 The_kid1433 0 0 0 0 0 Division B P W D L Pts Basedgodsa1nt 0 0 0 0 0 Dandies1983 0 0 0 0 0 DieHardDoonhamer 0 0 0 0 0 Dustysghost 0 0 0 0 0 mackieboz 0 0 0 0 0 markf268 0 0 0 0 0 N5_Spur 0 0 0 0 0 pleslie999 0 0 0 0 0 PnbMathematics 0 0 0 0 0 RBWatson 0 0 0 0 0 redVtop 0 0 0 0 0 XCTR94 0 0 0 0 0 And the initial set of fixtures are: Division A Round 1 invergowrie vs Arabjoe DearyMe vs KenDeans beef2711 vs AlbinoRov ancientnoise vs stewartmathers The_Curmudgeon vs AimHere AH13STU vs The_kid1433 Round 2 KenDeans vs invergowrie Arabjoe vs beef2711 stewartmathers vs DearyMe AlbinoRov vs The_Curmudgeon The_kid1433 vs ancientnoise AimHere vs AH13STU Division B Round 1 redVtop vs DieHardDoonhamer mackieboz vs XCTR94 N5_Spur vs markf268 pleslie999 vs RBWatson PnbMathematics vs Basedgodsa1nt Dustysghost vs Dandies1983 Round 2 XCTR94 vs redVtop DieHardDoonhamer vs N5_Spur RBWatson vs mackieboz markf268 vs PnbMathematics Dandies1983 vs pleslie999 Basedgodsa1nt vs Dustysghost As usual, there are two fixtures every week. These are daily games on chess.com with the 'home' player (the first named player in any given fixture) being white, both players are responsible for firing off the challenge, and you should aim to get these fixtures played and reported back in this thread within about two weeks. I'll update the table and send out the new fixtures weekly. To keep me honest, results and calculations are found on the spreadsheet at https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1YwODlp2A0TBMf2VuyjJox4ZaiyNKmLk37TH0_HrC-jk/edit?pli=1#gid=1689487236 Let battle commence! 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trogdor Posted October 22, 2023 Share Posted October 22, 2023 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
N5 Spur Posted October 22, 2023 Share Posted October 22, 2023 44 minutes ago, Aim Here said: Division B Round 1 N5_Spur vs markf268 Round 2 DieHardDoonhamer vs N5_Spur Respective invites sent for as and when. Good luck to all. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Other Foot Posted October 22, 2023 Share Posted October 22, 2023 Dandies1983 and @BaSeDG0DSA1NT I’ve sent game requests I’m Dustysghost (‘Dusty’ being the deceased dog of my friend who I play chess against, in a morbid act of trollery ) 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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