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Nov-07-14
 | | WannaBe: Carlsen-Anand World Championship Match Sochi 2014: WannaBe's Pick-Three Request Special
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!! =)
Now let's get some rolling daily-doubles and pick-six super-special going! (Okay, just kidding on that...) |
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| Nov-08-14 | | MarkFinan: <<In Carlsen-Anand game, who will play a "new move" based on chessgames.com's games database? All tickets will be refunded if the game ends without the execution of a "new move>> That's the craziest wager I've ever seen. I just laid out a oner, lol. Seriously though, I don't get it! |
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Nov-08-14
| | WannaBe: <MarkFinan> If 12. Qe2 is not in the database, then Carlsen is the winner, if 12... 0-0-0 is not in the database, Anand is the winner. If the game is 1. d4 d5 1/2 then tickets are refunded. |
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Nov-08-14
 | | chessgames.com: In interest of Carlsen-Anand World Championship Match Sochi 2014 Round 2: Novelty Special we just made sure that the Opening Explorer is complete and up-to-date. |
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| Nov-09-14 | | MarkFinan: Well I had 200 on Carlsen to win today, just had a feeling. And bizarrely enough I won 200 on that new move bet too. |
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Nov-10-14
 | | martin moller: Hello - Mr. Loanshark will not loan me anymore chessbucks, what have i done wrong :-) |
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Nov-10-14
 | | moronovich: <martin moller: Hello - Mr. Loanshark will not loan me anymore chessbucks, what have i done wrong :-)> Due to the pressence of a dane in Carlsens corner,the loanshark keep an extra eye on you. |
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Nov-10-14
| | martin moller: Oh ! I just knew Heine had something to do with it :-( |
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Nov-11-14
 | | Sneaky: Even if you're really in the dumps, the fatman will shell out another $200 every day. But it does't work if you have tickets that haven't been resolved, because then you aren't really broke. |
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Nov-11-14
| | martin moller: I just don´t understand, last event i could loan 100 bucks every day, but for over a week Mr.Loanshark will not loan me anything, and i´m flat broke |
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Nov-11-14
 | | SwitchingQuylthulg: <martin moller> You have a net worth of c$1,021; you're not remotely broke. |
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Nov-11-14
| | WannaBe: Carlsen-Anand World Championship Match Sochi 2014 Round 4: Carlsen - Anand
How can it be 42 moves <AND> under? Shouldn't it be 42 moves <OR> under? Or am I just nit-pickin'? =)) |
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Nov-11-14
| | WannaBe: Carlsen-Anand World Championship Match Sochi 2014: WannaBe's Pick-Three Request Special
Somebody made $$$, alas, it wasn't moi. |
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Nov-11-14
| | WannaBe: I don't know if this have ever been asked...
Using that Pick-Three as an example, if no one picked the right result, does the bookie keep all the money? Or are they refunded? I am guessing bookie keeps all the money. |
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| Nov-11-14 | | MarkFinan: Someone got paid today judging by the above bet. Bad day for me, got carried away with Carlsens win yesterday, lost loads. |
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Nov-11-14
| | SwitchingQuylthulg: <WannaBe> In the Pick Three, all lines with two out of three games right would be considered winners. With solutions like that not applicable, all bets would be refunded; under no circumstances would the Bookie keep all the money. |
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Nov-11-14
 | | Annie K.: Hmm, I don't really see why not. When somebody bets on a result that does not happen, they lose their bet. Why should it be relevant that nobody else bet on the correct result either? The system infuses quite a bit of capital into the betting pool over the leg, via the Loanshark, I don't see why it shouldn't also reduct a sum if nobody picked a correct result that was actually offered. This is of course pretty much academic, since there are always some people putting a few bucks on the longshots, but in principle I think if this ever happened, the losers should just stay losers in the normal fashion. |
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Nov-11-14
 | | OhioChessFan: Why should 2 out of 3 be considered the winner? I'm with Annie in that I don't see the relevance of no winners. |
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Nov-11-14
| | chessgames.com: In days of misspent youth, I've been to a few racetracks and have seen situations where the winning trifecta/superfecta had no money on it. It's against state gambling regulations to retain more than a certain percentage of the bettors' money, so they resort to a 2-out-of-3 method to keep the wager intact. The odds become terrible (people cash in tickets scarcely bigger than the money they put on them) so it's kind of like a refund anyhow. I suppose the logic is that the house already takes an obscene cut off the top, so to let them take the whole 100% from time to time is overkill. It would encourage them to invent even harder bets ("double superfecta") to increase the likelihood of there being no winners. So the 2-out-of-3 rule (which has never actually cropped up in ChessBookie! play) is an idea taken from real parimutuel establishments. |
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Nov-12-14
| | Annie K.: A-ha... well, that would make some sort of sense, in a real gambling establishment. Bit hard to complain about those "obscene cuts off the top" here, though, seeing as all our starting (and midway) betting capital is provided by the system to start with. ;) |
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Nov-12-14
| | Sneaky: Carlsen loses a game and SwitchingQuylthulg loses a fortune. I think there's something that can be deduced by that. |
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Nov-12-14
| | WannaBe: <SwitchingQuylthulg> is actually Magnus Carlsen? |
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Nov-12-14
| | Annie K.: I always suspected it! =) |
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Nov-13-14
| | Sneaky: I didn't want to say it, but there you go. Now the truth can be told. |
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| Nov-13-14 | | dakgootje: But even so, he occasionally manages to comment while he plays! So he either has internet access, or he is his own doppelgänger :| |
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