There is one correction needed. I was the other tied player in the second round,not Dan. Also, another solution to consider is that the tied players would each receive half a point for the tie as in an earth chess tournament. Depending on the number of players and preliminary games played, someone who gets .5 points early on could still end up in the finals, by winning in a second game. In the situation that occured this year it would mean no one from the second game would go to the finals, because they would have .5 wins where the other players each had 1. This could end up dragging out the game, because neither of the tied players would want to end the game. With the game dragging out, and no one wanting to end, a ruling could be made that if a certain number of moves are mde without a capture then the game would end in a draw much like the fifty move rule in Earth Chess. (doesn't necessarily have to be 50 moves in this case.) In the case at Origins, we were all very closely matched, (I think we had a four way tie at one point)so determining an actual winner could have been about the same as a dice roll. And, besides, IMHO three player martian chess is more fun than 5 player martian chess. Jay --- Ryan McGuire and Kerry Breitenbach <kerry_and_ryan@xxxxxxx> wrote: > I know you all have been anxiously awaiting the > results of this year's > Martian Chess Tournament at Origins to be published. > Well here they are: > > http://www.ryanker.com/Looney/MartianChessOrigins06.html > > If you see any errors, let me know. > > Ryan > > _______________________________________________ > Rabbits mailing list > Rabbits@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.looneylabs.com/mailman/listinfo/rabbits > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com