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World Championship Tournament 2024 started Sep. 15th:
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06-15/22:05 Hagbard: ATTENTION:
The Brandubh 7x7 (Walker) tournament is finished,
and the Brandubh Master 2025 is:

* Plamen Draganov ("Draganov"), Sofia, Bulgaria *

#2 Gulo, #3 Dimetr, #4 Colophonius, #5 Fiachra

06-15/19:59 Hagbard: (the problem with the previous message was just the apostrophe. The check routine rejects a windows apostrophe)

06-15/19:57 gulo: I thought so too last time I checked. Good. It's better with a clear win ;)

06-15/13:57 Draganov: @Gulo, I am winning against Dimetr, so the additional criteria will not be needed for that tournament ;)

06-15/09:43 Hagbard: As for the game length criterium:
- gulo and Draganov won against each other with practically the same game length.
- but also, adding the game lengths for all their wins against all players, also gives practically the same result.
So it's very even.

06-15/09:22 Hagbard: True, in that case the results are very identical.
- gulo and Draganov both won as white against each other.
- both players had identical results against rest of the players.
- both players won with practically the same game length.

There is one more criterium which could be used:
gulo won with one man lost and one enemy killed.
Draganov won with one man lost and three enemies killed.
So by this last criterium Draganov would win the tournament.

06-15/09:21 gulo: In the Brandubh tournament, if Draganov and I end up with an equal amount of points, is it decided by our games against each other? In that case I think we're equal there too (except he won within fewer turns since I resigned, but if I hadn't resigned it would've been the same) ...

06-15/08:48 Hagbard: fixed

06-14/20:50 Draganov: @Hagbard, it seems there is a bug in all Magpie variants because the king is not restricted to move only one square per move. Could you fix it?

06-11/09:32 Hagbard: NB! The three Magpie games are added on the list

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