Chess

[MJW (ya that one)]

The way to win in that situation is have your worst player play their best player (if that's possible). Those matches are tossed, but the remaining matches you get an edge.

This would be a very serious rule violation. At my school's division doing that (and getting caught of course) would cause you to lose 6-0 at least.

I know you knew that--I just wanted to tell you a story. My dad was that worst player one time. So he played at board 1 and somehow won the game.

Because this is a one off match and not in a division it's hard to set RB any objective. RB will lose because the ratings difference is too high. In a division you could play for getting as many points as possible because of tiebreaks. But here all that is at stake is your rating which is less of a motivator.

I won't play if waterbat does not show up yet again...

[uberfish]

I didn't think changing the board order was cheating, at least I seem to remember in international team tournaments that teams can field players in whatever order they like and even change it between rounds so technically you could have one player specialize in playing white and another black

[Gustaran]

UPDATE:

1) I asked specifically for every player to please check in at least once a day. It has been more than 24 hours and waterbat has failed to turn up yet again, making 15 other players wait. I am tired of waiting for the same player every match, therefore I have cancelled the match and started a new seek while removing waterbat from the roster.

2) In order to alleviate the problem of a huge rating disparity, I included a rating range limitation of 1000-1800 in our seek. Playing slightly stronger opponents can be fun, however there comes a point when it starts to become a very one-sided challenge.
Due to the limitation I will be unable to play myself, however I feel that finding opponents of at least somewhat equal strength for the rest of the team is more important here. I will lurk instead and comment on the forums.

[Gustaran]

The team "Fast Thinkers Group" accepted our new challenge (Elo 1000-1800). All team members please head over to chess.com and sign up one more time.

Team members:

Jkaen
Sian/Makholm
DavidCorperial
uberfish
regoarrarr
pindicator

[MJW (ya that one)]

I find your post humorous Gustaran. It's just so serious...

I didn't think changing the board order was cheating, at least I seem to remember in international team tournaments that teams can field players in whatever order they like and even change it between rounds so technically you could have one player specialize in playing white and another black

I know this. For example Anderson was paired against Kasparov once to get a draw.

At the Scholastic level it is cheating though... And doing it would be cheating at Chess.com because you would have to get around the interface.

[Gustaran]

I find your post humorous Gustaran. It's just so serious...

Well, you said you weren't going to play, so it was basically a question of "cancel now or cancel later".

I respect anyone who puts his real life first and can't promise to be online once a day, but in that case I don't understand why that person would sign up. Added to this it's exactly the same problem we had with the last match, which I do find a little irritating.

Other teams sign up for a quick 24 hour timer match against our team and usually don't want to wait 3-4 days until everyone from our team shows up or we have sorted out if we actually have enough players. This lead to a complaint in the last match and I can't blame them.

[darrelljs]

I know you knew that

I actually had no clue . In tennis tournaments we regularly try and arrange our matchups. Of course its a guessing game because your opponents are often trying to do the same thing...

Darrell

[Gustaran]

I am not sure why uberfish is not joining the match on chess.com given that he was online this morning and is usually super reliable.

How do you guys want to proceed? Wait or create a new challenge again?
12 players from the other team have signed up for the match against us so far.

[regoarrarr]

Can you PM him?

[Gustaran]

Ok, seems there was some problem with the chess.com interface, anyway uberfish has joined and the match has started!

Match link:
http://www.chess.com/groups/team_match?id=329032