Just one game left in Round 3.

   Well, I doubt he will resign. Now that I know you will remove him at the end of the round I will just play the game out. It just galls me that I resigned to someone who would likely beat me 999 out of a thousand games.

The actual custom trophies are distrubetd automatically at the end of the tournament.  I started sending "fun" trophies to people who were eliminated, advanced, or completed a checkmate with a knight, but I've fallen WAY WAY behind in that aspiration.

Apparently I DO have the option of removing him AFTER all of his games are completed, and BEFORE the next round begins (and you can be sure that I will).  But apparently, as long as he has active games (even if they are invalid), my hands are tied.  I have continued to send him messages and notes every day.  He has never responded, and deleted my notes from his profile page (I just put another one on there the next day).  If we ALL keep hounding him, maybe eventually he'll give in (one can hope).

   Billium248, don't you distribute the trophies? Or do they automatically go to the order of finish?  If he ends up winning make the trophy a biggest loser or biggest cheater trophy. I'm sure he'll display it proudly.

I have also sent MANY MANY messages and notes to him in both English and Arabic, and gotten no response.  He is making a mockery of this tournament.  I have tried to remove him, but apparently I am unable to do so as long as he has active games.  I have tried contacting the Chess.com authorities who are unwilling to do anything about it. 

AMR14 - YOU ARE CHEATING!!!  YOU HAVE DISREGARDED THE RULES ON MULTIPLE OCCASIONS AND REFUSE TO ANSWER ANY OF US.  EVERYONE ELSE IS FOLLOWING THE RULES EXCEPT YOU!!  YOU NEED TO WITHDRAW FROM THE DARK KNIGHT TOURNAMENT IMMEDIATELY!!!

انك على الغش! عليك تجاهل القواعد في مناسبات متعددة ، ورفض الإجابة عن أي واحد منا. الجميع هو اتباع القواعد إلا أنت! أنت تحتاج إلى الانسحاب من البطولة فورا : فارس الظلام!

هيكل عظمي ، وأنا أيضا في تلك المجموعة ، ولقد استقال مباراتين حيث نسيت أن فتح مع زملائي فارس الظلام. لقد استقال لعبة واحدة كانت ضد انت واحد ضد AMR14 من مصر. انه (AMR14) لن تفعل الشيء الشرفاء والاستقالة لعبة أخرى لدي معه فيها سعادة (AMR14) فشلت في أن تحذو نفس القاعدة. وهو يمر من خلال الجولة الاخيرة في حين لن يستقيل المباريات هناك. ليس هناك شيء يمكننا القيام به. إذا كان لا يستقيل لا يمكننا إخراجه. الطلبات المتكررة هي ببساطة تجاهلها. حتى لقد ارسلت لهم باللغة العربية.

    هنا الشيء وإن كان مضحكا. انه (AMR14) كان عضوا في لبضعة أشهر فقط ، وبالفعل تقييما أكثر من 2400. اذا كان (AMR14) سوف الغش على قواعد البطولة ثم انه سيبحث ايضا في العاب خداع أنفسهم. اعتقد انه (AMR14) هو برغوث المتعجرفة تعاني من رعاة الإبل الذين هو ذلك الكامل من نفسه وحاجته للتغلب على الكفار انه يرى هذا بوصفه شكلا من أشكال الحرب أو الجهاد الإسلامي. انه ليس لديه شرف وكل ما لديه يفوز تماما معنى له.

    إذا أنا هنا قبالة قاعدة AMR14 تتردد في القفز في وتصويب لي.

    أنا مما يجعل من سعيي الشخصية ليكون لكم (AMR14) إزالتها من الشطرنج دوت كوم.

Skeleton, I am also in that group and have resigned two games where I forgot to open with my dark knight. One game I resigned was against You and one against AMR14 from Egypt.  He (AMR14) will not do the honorable thing and resign the other game I have with him where HE (AMR14) failed to follow that same rule. He passed through the last round while not resigning games there.  There is nothing we can do. If he does not resign we can not get him out. Repeated requests are simply ignored. I've even sent them in Arabic.

   Here's the funny thing though. He (AMR14) has been a member for only a few months and is already rated over 2400.  If he (AMR14) will cheat on the rules of a tournament then he will also cheat on the games themselves. I believe that he (AMR14) is an arrogant flea ridden camel herder who is so full of himself and his need to conquer the infidels that he sees this as a form of Jihad or Islamic war.  He has no honor and ALL of his wins are completely meaningless.

   If I'm off base here AMR14 feel free to jump in and straighten me out.

   I am making it my personal quest to have you (AMR14) removed from Chess dot com.

DEAR all

Just to let you know that in my group AMR 14 , IS NOT QUITING despite the fact that he didn't open with the dark night.He think he is smart .What a way of thinking he has...

I have a confession to make.

I've only just watched 'The dark Knight'. It was worth waiting for though! rather like the next round of this tournament! :)

wake up people.we started 18/07 & still playing 1st round

still on 1st round , we started 18/07/08.come on people...

I hear you on the 7 days thing.  This was my 1st time setting up a tournament, so... live and learn.  I will probably change the time controls for the Finals (can't do anything about it till then tho).

hell

it takes so long for just one move for some players.group 3 has 8 games remaining but nothing seems to move.maybe the timelimit of 7 days/move wasnt right

Only 69 more games left in Round One!!!  (I just like the number 69.) 

I hope you guys are all enjoying the tournament.  Why don't you check out the blog and give us more details.  So far I'm the only one that's really posting over there.  Tell us about how you made it to the second round, or how you went down fighting.  Post your most triumphant win or your most humiliating loss.  I would LOVE to hear some details.

http://blog.chess.com/Billium248/the-dark-knight-tournament-blog

In my first 2 games I didnt see the major rule of Tournament and  played Sicilian and then resigned!

Now I think I will be second in my group and I am not very sure that I will pass to next round.

Sorry for not reading rules on time.

I’ve been asked a couple times now about the number of players advancing to the finals, the number of rounds, etc.  Good questions.  Let's do the math.  There are 3 Major Groups of 100 broken into 25 Minor Groups of 4 each (75 total).  So at least 75 players will advance to round 2 (25 per Major Group) - probably more with all the ties and draws. 

Just for simplicity sake let's say 25-32 players advance to round 2 in each Major Group (75-96 total).  That would make 7-8 Minor Groups of 4 per Major Group.  So at least 7-8 players will advance to Round 3 in each Major Group (21-24 total).

7-8 players will be broken into 2 Minor Groups (possibly 3 if 9-12 players advance).  This will produce 2-4 players advancing to Round 4 from each Major Group (6-12 total).

So Round 4 will be the Final Round of The Dark Knight Opens where I guess everyone will essentially advance, they'll just be fighting over the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place Custom Trophies set up for The Dark Knight Opens.

At that time, I set up another tournament called The Dark Knight Finals (which is essentially Round 5 of the Dark Knight Tournament) and invite the top 4 players from each Major Group (12 total).  This will make 3 Minor Groups (possibly 4 in case of even 1 tie in round 4). 

Regardless, this means that 3-4 players will advance to the 6th and Final Round of the tournament to compete for the Custom Trophies set up for The Dark Knight Finals.

Unless there is at least 1 tie in round 4 which causes there to be 4 groups in round 5 instead of 3, AND there is at least 1 tie in round 5 as well which would cause at least 5 players to advance to Round 6 instead of 4 which would make 2 groups instead of 1 and force a Round 7.

Wow!  6-7 Rounds!  They may have the next Batman movie done before this tournament is complete.  ;)

Yay, 1st to advance lol

The trophies are in a photo album on my homepage.  Hope you like them.

WooHoo!!!!

Hey what about the trophies?

Is there somewhere we can see them?