The World at War ELO Tournament

[petedalby]

Just a small pushback from me on the earlier post. One of the original principles of ELO was the following:

If your position is impossible, you are encouraged to offer to resign so both players can take on other games.

I can't see the point of continuing to the bitter end if that end is not in doubt. Perhaps if players want to do that it should be agreed at the beginning.

Some of my most enjoyable games have been in the balance until the very last turn, so I'm not one for quitting lightly.

[DmitryN]

The question is in what the player consider to be his goal. If you are playing as Axis against stronger player the goal can be be to hold at least end 1945 or 1946. If you play as allies against stronger player, the goal could be save USSR or at least UK. Something like this.

[HARRIS45]

I wish to support Dmitry's view that it depends on each player's goal. Dmitry and I currently have a game underway in which at its start we both understood that his skill and experience far exceeded mine and I had no realistic chance of victory. To make the game interesting for him I agreed to play to end of game or until he defeated China, USSR, India and UK. My goal within the game is to deny him. But my primary goal is to benefit from watching a style of play which I will never achieve but will benefit me both strategically and tactically in future games. Personally, I believe this approach of setting goals when skill levels are far different is a good approach to matches.

[HarrySmith]

HarrySmith (Axis) lost to DmitryN (Allies) Decisive Victory
Game concluded Nov 44 with total defeat of Axis forces.
A couple of good battlegrounds with an Interesting battle in Hawaii and some in Russia.
Basically outplayed in all scenarios with Italians surrendering 43 sometime and Japan around the end of that year.
Japan bogged down in China without making good headway. Germany getting to Moscow gates but couldnt go on from there and held down in Southern Russia.

[nerquits12]

New ELO game begins:

Neverquits99(Axis) vs HarrySmith (Allies)

[Pekkavilamoura]

New ELO started:
Old Shane Axis vs. Pekkavilamoura Allies

[ThunderLizard11]

[ELOs Ended]
ThunderLizard11 (axis) [WIN] v. boudi (alllies) [LOSS] - boudi resigned Jan 43. Good progress by allies in N. Africa but troubles in Russia where Stalingrad about to be surrounded and all of Caucasus captured with no Russian defense. Japan has Chungking and almost taken Australia. Boudi returned a few turns a week towards the end.

ThunderLizard11 (axis) [WIN] v. HARRIS45 (alllies) [LOSS] - Harris resigned June 44. Allies tried a Europe first stratgey and made a big landing in Southwest France which was stalled out. Meanwhile, Rusia was on the ropes with only Moscow left of the three capitals. Japan ran rampant with Chungking, Australia and NZ taken. Harris returned several turns/day and was a fun and challening player.

[ELO Started]
ThunderLizard11 (axis) v. HARRIS45 (alllies)
ThunderLizard11 (axis) v. Jan25 (alllies)

[nerquits12]

New ELO started:

firsteds Allies vs neverquits12 Axis