	CXV - GK match

	"I declare it's marked out just like a large chess-board!" Alice said at last. "...It's a great huge game of chess that's being played - all over the world - if this is the world at all, you know. ... How I wish I was one of them! I wouldn't mind being a Pawn, if only I might join - though of course I should like to be a Queen, best." Lewis Carroll. Through the looking glass

CXX-GK home Boards Games status Rules History Message board Gameknot CXV homesite	Rules for CXV vs GK match This guide was made by Chris Sergel for the team match against IECC. As I’m not very used to email chess I just updated it. I think some of you already saw this guide or know how email chess works, for the others it can be very useful. Here we go: [Event: "Team Match board 03"] [Site: 'CVX vs Gameknot-3"] [Date: "15.01.2004"] [White: "Your Opponent"] [Black: "You"] [Result" "?"] Date Received: Date Sent: 15/01/04 White's Time: 00 + 000 = 000 (Your opponent) Black's Time: 00 + 000 = 000 (You) 1. e4 Notes As you can see the header is bit of a pain with all those :'s and "'s. That's why I keep it saved in a word-processor so I don't have to redoing it. However the header is standard pgn format and generally used for email events - it is not something special to this match. line 1 - Event - Self-explanatory - You would naturally replace "03" with whichever board number you play. line 2 - Site Self-explanatory – GK already played against the CCLA and against the IECC so this is our third. line 3 - Date This is the starting date of the match (not fixed yet but it should start around the 2nd week of January). When the game is completed, at the final report, the date is replaced by the ending date of the game. *IMPORTANT SPECIAL NOTE ON DATE* Europeans and US players have different date formats and this has caused great confusion. US players dates go - month, day of month, year. Europeans use day of month, month, year. 05/03/03 might mean - March 5 2003 or it might mean May 3rd 2003. This should not be a problem as long as you are aware. lines 4& 5 (self explanatory - names of players) line 6 - Result Just a question mark until the result is known. Date received - This is the date the move has been received on your server. If you don't look at the server for a few days, your time is still elapsing. All servers will tell you when an email has been received. But it's not necessarily the day that the move was sent. Sometimes there is a delay in international email transmission. Also there are different time zones. You can even received moves the day before they were sent. IF A MOVE IS RECEIVED AFTER 8:00 PM - YOU CAN CONSIDER IT AS HAVING BEEN RECEIVED THE NEXT DAY. Also, sometimes players start sending move before the tournament officially starts. In this case you fill in the date received and the date the move sent normally. However there is no time elapsed. For example, if you received a move April 5th and sent a move April 10th, with the tournament set to start May 1st, your time read lines would be Date Received 05/04/2003 Date Sent 10/04/2003 Time used Black 00+000 = 000 (Paolo) When you reply - you would say something like: [Event: "Team Match Board 3"] [Site: 'CXV vs Gameknot-3"] [Date: "15.01.2004"] [White: "Your opponent"] [Black: "You"] [Result" "?"] Date Received: 15/01/04 Date Sent: 17/01/2004 White's Time: 00 + 000 = 000 (Your Opponent) Black's Time: 02 + 000 = 002 (You) 1. e4 e5 (or c5 or e6 or whatever your move) I hope this is clear - it certainly is long-winded. P.S.: As you can see there is a lot of overhead for just sending a move. This is why I like servers and Gameknot especially. Still, this is how most international correspondence chess is played (now). It's not really so bad when you get used to it - I'm playing about 20 email games right now. PPS: If you use short notation (ie e4 - not e2-e4 - be VERY careful about clerical errors - so easy to do). Note - often with the first move in email chess, players send a bit of personal information. This is entirely optional - ' you don't have to do this if you don't want to. Other questions brought up - You would ask for a draw, accept it or decline it, resign the game, state vacation time - just by adding the message.eg - "I offer a draw" or "I am going to take vacation from March 10 - March 17". For vacation announcements usually the player copies the team captain. Email is not perfect. Sometimes opponents don't receive moves or sometimes your move is returned for no appartent reason. This is not your fault, it's not your opponent's fault either. Just be patient and send another move. If it keep happening a lot, I suggest also advising the team captain. I have been asked if it is possible to send two moves at once - one with white and one with black. It is possible but I don't really recommend it. The games will divide up at some point when either player takes longer for one game than the other. Since the headings are a pain to write I think you might as well just set up two save files from the start - it will save you having to rewrite the games later. Other remarks brought up during the IECC match: If you are going on vacation, please announce it in the e-mail to your opponent and cc me. If for any reason you expect that you will not be able to answer a move for more than a week, please send me a message, indicating this. If you did not hear from your opponent for 5 days, please send a repeat of your moves to him and cc me If you did not hear from your opponent for another 3 days after first repeat, please send second repeat and cc to match directors for notation. Please send me your current game status once per week When answering, it is better to show all the previous moves that were made in the game and not only the current one. IMPORTANT The time control is 40 days / 10 moves cumulative. The spare time you have will continue to the next 10 moves (and ect...)