Chess Book Lottery

Bobla45

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08 Jan 15

Bobla45

Joined: 20 Oct 02
Moves: 599000

31 Jan 15

Originally posted by cashthetrash
Hey my old friend !~Tony~! is still around. That's great news. Just send me a game !~Tony~!. I want to play that Sicilian game with you. 🙂 The retail sale price of your book is the number I will pick. I think that would be 2121.

Thanks Bob for making a fun thread. You should send me an other game too. I love your pirate stories. Arrrrg.

The old vacation icon is going up Blake when I get back to the site I will throw your clan a challenge

cashthetrash

PoPeYe

This is embarrasking

Joined: 17 Nov 05
Moves: 44152

31 Jan 15

Originally posted by Bobla45
The old vacation icon is going up Blake when I get back to the site I will throw your clan a challenge

Cool, have a great vacation, will be happy to accept anytime from you my friend.

Kewpie

Felis Australis

Australia

Joined: 20 Jan 09
Moves: 389848

31 Jan 15

Originally posted by HandyAndy
Well then, since you're not retarded, kindly explain how some folks have 29 days to go while others have 30.

I can't be bothered working out times from some obscure timezone or other. I do local time and UTC time, that's it.

HandyAndy

Read a book!

Joined: 23 Sep 06
Moves: 18677

31 Jan 15

Originally posted by Kewpie
I can't be bothered working out times from some obscure timezone or other. I do local time and UTC time, that's it.

There's no need to work anything out. Everyone in any time zone anywhere has the same number of minutes,
hours and days before the deadline, assuming it's a fixed deadline set by the OP here in the U.S.

Kewpie

Felis Australis

Australia

Joined: 20 Jan 09
Moves: 389848

31 Jan 15

Originally posted by HandyAndy
There's no need to work anything out. Everyone in any time zone anywhere has the same number of minutes,
hours and days before the deadline, assuming it's a fixed deadline set by the OP here in the U.S.

How do you do one of those countdown chants then?

HandyAndy

Read a book!

Joined: 23 Sep 06
Moves: 18677

31 Jan 15

Originally posted by Kewpie
How do you do one of those countdown chants then?

One way is to join the crowd in Times Square on New Year's Eve.

The best way is to count backward to zero from 2,419,200.

Kewpie

Felis Australis

Australia

Joined: 20 Jan 09
Moves: 389848

01 Feb 15

We may have forgotten what this thread was for, but at least we're keeping it in view.

Grampy Bobby

Boston Lad

USA

Joined: 14 Jul 07
Moves: 43012

02 Feb 15

1 edit

Originally posted by !~TONY~!
Of course. 😀

Tony, unexplained laptop issues four days ago prevent me from accessing my games or sending personal messages, though I'm able reply and post in the forums. Hopefully my son will be able to resolve them soon. Apologies for the delay.

Note: Bob, would you please forward this information in a personal message to Tony. Thank you.

!~TONY~!

1...c5!

Your Kingside

Joined: 28 Sep 01
Moves: 40665

02 Feb 15

Roger that - no problem.

Grampy Bobby

Boston Lad

USA

Joined: 14 Jul 07
Moves: 43012

02 Feb 15

Originally posted by !~TONY~!
Roger that - no problem.

Thanks, Tony. Eric travels a lot on internet security business. Hopefully by tomorrow or Wednesday he'll find time.

Bobla45

Joined: 20 Oct 02
Moves: 599000

04 Feb 15

Originally posted by Kewpie
We may have forgotten what this thread was for, but at least we're keeping it in view.

Right on Kewpie! Back to page one, cmon y'all, vote!

Kewpie

Felis Australis

Australia

Joined: 20 Jan 09
Moves: 389848

05 Feb 15

Originally posted by Bobla45
Right on Kewpie! Back to page one, cmon y'all, vote!

This is page 7, and there's a lot of clutter in this thread now. How about you put up a list of numbers which have been taken, to save a lot of trawling by people who want to make a bid?

Ponderable

chemist

Linkenheim

Joined: 22 Apr 05
Moves: 667443

05 Feb 15

According to my list we have

9 caissad4
10 mikelom
42 Huntingdon
49 carystover
666 ChessPraxis
1019 Vise
1066 ale1552
1234 stephenwale
1536 bbarr
1621 lolof
1945 mwmiller
2006 wolfgang59
2008 Grampy Bobby
2015 my2sons
2121 cashthetrash
2303 Ponderable
2506 st dominic preview
2937 Shallow Blue
3241 Zumdahl
3333 trev33
4501 shane
4877 Shlecter
5000 Very Rusty
5555 HandyAndy
6206 Simon McMahon
6347 Duncan
6969 hakima
7344 jarrasch
7467 shortcircuit
8095 Kewpie
8723 ontheclock
8728 D4V
8858 older but wiser
8890 GreatBigStees
9122 FatSkier
9462 Paul Dirac II

If we assume that the win is more likely the more numbers are nearets to a tip, the smallest cahnce (as yet) has GB with 5 numbers, the best chance has shane with 772 winning numbers.

Kewpie

Felis Australis

Australia

Joined: 20 Jan 09
Moves: 389848

05 Feb 15

Interesting that we've gone as low as 9, but nobody's within 500 of the highest possible number.

Grampy Bobby

Boston Lad

USA

Joined: 14 Jul 07
Moves: 43012

05 Feb 15

Originally posted by Ponderable
According to my list we have

9 caissad4
10 mikelom
42 Huntingdon
49 carystover
666 ChessPraxis
1019 Vise
1066 ale1552
1234 stephenwale
1536 bbarr
1621 lolof
1945 mwmiller
2006 wolfgang59
2008 Grampy Bobby
2015 my2sons
2121 cashthetrash
2303 Ponderable
2506 st dominic preview
2937 Shallow Blue
3241 Zumdahl
3333 trev33
4501 shane
487 ...[text shortened]... llest cahnce (as yet) has GB with 5 numbers, the best chance has shane with 772 winning numbers.

36 to date; thanks.