@Jheps

Thanks for the question!

Every round, you must pick one Box from the total of 14 available Boxes (you cannot use Box 1 and Box 15 for the entire tournament since you blocked them, and your opponents also won’t be able to choose them to play against you).

The Box your opponent chooses to play against you does not affect the availability of your own Boxes. So, for example, in Round 2 you will have 13 Boxes to choose from, since you already used one in Round 1 and have two blocked.

Every round, once I post the pairings, I will add a graphic that shows the Boxes the opponents have used.

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The Boxes blocked so far by the players are:



1. GO: 19x19, 13x13, 9x9
2. Lines of Action: Lines of Action and Scrambled Eggs
3. Shogi: Shogi and Minishogi
4. Xiangqi: Xiangqi and Mini Xiangqi
5. Mancala: Oware, Togyzkumalak and Bestemshe
6. Othello: Othello, Grand Othello, AntiOthello and Octagon Othello
7. Amazons: Amazons
8. Chess 1 (Classic Chess): Standard Chess, Chess960, No-Castling
9. Chess 2 (Classic Chess Variants): Three-Check, Five-Check, KotH, Antichess
10. Chess 3 (Chess Variants): Crazyhouse, Horde, Racing Kings, Atomic, Monster
11. Draughts 1 (International variants): International, Antidraughts, BRKTHRU
12. Draughts 2: Brazilian, Russian, Pool
13. Draughts 3: Frisian, Frysk, American/English, Spanish
14. Backgammon: Backgammon, Nackgammon and Hyper
15. Breakthrough: Breakthrough and Mini Breakthrough
16. Abalone: Abalone

Thanks all that makes a lot more sense! :)

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Three days left until the Round 1 deadline, and no matches have been arranged yet. Please don’t leave it for the last minute.

Round 1 Pairings

@fish224 vs. @XBLAAAAA
@statmatt vs. @checkmatealot
@Jheps vs. @FangCheng
@vincent vs. @Caliman
Bye: @oruro

My match with statmatt will be at 6pm today.

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Great!

Please write here on the forum the boxes you are both blocking, either before or after the match.

Thanks

The match between myself and @Checkmatealot has finished.
Result of: statmatt 1 - 3 Checkmatealot

We both previously wrote on the forum which boxes we have blocked.

For this match:
statmatt picked Box 6 - Octagon Othello
Checkmatealot picked Box 15 - Breakthrough

Games:
playstrategy.org/83cJH7OLZ5y3
playstrategy.org/7l0xP0nXlj2e
playstrategy.org/F8PizCenqiVt
playstrategy.org/qPOw8DE4Q5uO

Close games - good fun!

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@statmatt

Sorry, I meant the Boxes you choose for the match.

Thanks.

@oruro The match between myself and @Jheps will occur in approximately 14 hours.

I have chosen Othello (Classic Othello) and Jheps has chosen Shogi (Classic Shogi).

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The match between myself and @Jheps has concluded:
playstrategy.org/0Lyzaav3GaZE 0-1 (Jheps)
playstrategy.org/S78nOf7T3Lal 1-0 (Jheps)
playstrategy.org/TDQzZ2cBKjE5 1-0 (Jheps)
playstrategy.org/bil4yF7LdhlC 0-1 (FangCheng)
Score: Jheps 3-1 FangCheng

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