That's good news!
Easter seems to be the natural period which separates
the on-line and the e-mail tournament.
Of course I'll play.
But I'm concerned about the summer season, I suppose
that players are allowed to take vacations.
Glen will you play? I hope so, I think that organizers
can play as well.

Regards.

jorge


--- Glenn Overby II <guardcaptain@...>
wrote:
> I posted the announcement below to the pbmserv-users
> list on February 24th,
> and followed it up on the Unlur group on Yahoo! a
> few days later. The
> inventor of Unlur asked that I hold up starting the
> PBEM event until after
> the online World Championship concluded. Those
> finals have just ended.
>
> Six players have expressed a definite intent to
> enter: lyman, apostolis,
> chaz, mmammel, rrognlie, and scotty. Three other
> players, jarrausi,
> bernhard, and lhh61, expressed interest without
> committment, and two whose
> gamerz.net user IDs are unknown have also written.
>
> I'd like to get the first Richard's PBEM Server
> International Unlur
> Tournament under way in the next couple of
> weeks...say by May 1st. The
> proposed time limit will be a maximum of 60 days per
> player to make all
> moves of the game, so a round will take at most four
> months and the
> tournament not over eight. Probably it will be much
> faster.
>
> It should be possible to follow all tourney games
> graphically, courtesy of
> an Unlur bot which deposits pretty pictures at:
>
>
http://www.math.lsu.edu/~wamelen/gamerz/Unlurlinks.html
>
> (...and thanks to the owner for that service to the
> Unlur community!)
>
> If you wish to play, please sign up or confirm your
> earlier registry. Come
> join the fun!
>
> Glenn
> gamerz.net ID: overby
> email: guardcaptain@...
>
> ===== updated announcement follows =====
>
> Abstract Games magazine recently held a contest for
> original game designs
> using
> unequal forces. The contest winner, Unlur, is
> beginning to attract
> worldwide
> attention.
>
> Unlur is a connection game, played on a hexagonal
> board. Black is trying
> to
> make a Y (connecting three alternating sides)
> without first making a line
> (connecting two opposite sides). White is trying to
> do the opposite.
>
> White would ordinarily have a huge edge. But the
> game begins with a unique
> contract phase, as both players alternate putting
> Black pieces on the board
> until one player or the other thinks they can win
> with Black. That player
> then
> passes, and the opponent places a first piece as
> White.
>
> Games often last 20 turns or less for each side, and
> cannot be longer than
> 46. (My longest here so far ended on the 29th turn,
> my shortest on the
> 7th.)
>
> An Unlur implementation exists on this server,
> thanks to Lyman Hurd.
>
> ==========
>
> ANNOUNCING: the first Richard's PBEM Server
> International Unlur Tournament.
>
> If you would like to play, send me an email at
> guardcaptain@....
> I
> expect to organize the tournament in two rounds,
> playing four games per
> round (possibly six in the final), requiring 50%
> score to advance. Some
> details will depend on the number of players, but
> you won't be playing more
> than four tourney games at once (again, possibly six
> in the final).
>
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