10 years on Little Golem!!

Today is my 10th. Anniversary on Little Golem, I was active all over these ten years, and I doubt that I lost one game by time :)

congrats Nagy and thanks for helping to make LG so enjoyable!

Thank you Marius!

kudos! you're averaging about 2.92 games completed per day

Mehaban, Saddiqe, forsa sayeeda. (from an Arabic lesson podcast.) Many happy returns of the day, inshallah.

thank you!
@unique it is 2.976 not 2.92 :)
@MarlysGhost Don't depend on that podcast my friend, your Arabic'd be worst than my English :)

Congratulations! I am happy to have such a senior member in the same chess team :)

Congratulations Nagy!! ........and THANKS for all the exciting Chess games we played together!!!

Happy 10th Nagy!

Have you ever considered that you might be addicted? ;-)

you could consider signing up as a member :)

congrats, and BTW welcome to the monstars.

Congrats Nagy! And thanks for the games we've had. The one of your talents I admire most is the one you share with Ray: never a single time out! I've had hundreds of them and every time I promise myself "never again" but I found no cure to my undecidedness yet.

congrats!

wow, impressive ^_^

@bennok
"... but I found no cure to my undecidedness yet".

Try moving first and thinking later, works for me ;-) .

for me as well... but than I make stupid errors...

Let me just list a few LG senior celebrities:

1001 (who is he/she? Does he/she exist?)
1002 Richard Malaschitz
1053 Hjallti
1224 Nagy Fathy
1316 Ed Collins
1373 Klaashaas
1607 David Bush (wondering where he is?)
1728 ypercube
1927 Bill LeBoeuf
1935 Crelo

If your player ID number is lower than 2000, and are still kicking around at LG, write to Richard, mentioning that you deserve receiving a gold medal. :)

I have a relatively low player ID (3333, registered 2003-08-02), but I didn't start my first game on LG until nearly eight years later, 2011-07-10. Is there a prize or medal for longest join-to-play gap?

@Tim Shih: "1607 David Bush (wondering where he is?)". See here, here and here

1017 Elisa Kabiljo

and one of the lowest IDs:

15 Kim Basinger

@Ignatius J. Reilly:

1000 - 1999: gold medal
2000 - 2999: silver medal
3000 - 3999: bronze medal
3000 - 3999, but inactive for a long time: Let LG members vote. Should someone cast the first stone (Ooops, I mean "first vote"?) :)

@MRFvR: Thank you. Glad that David is still around. In 2003, he was already a giant in Hex. Herb Doughty introduced me to LG site. I wrote to invite him for a game, fully expecting him to turn me down. But the giant generously accepted my request. So I was thinking to myself: Gee, LG people are nice. Ever since, I have stayed with LG.

For a while, LG did not have Hex19 board available yet. So, David and I would occasionally play at another website (whose name I forgot). One day, he invited me to join the US team for a self-organized worldwide tournament at LG, I felt immensely honored, and joined. During that tournament, I had the opportunity to play against those unbelievably strong Polish players, such as Leoni. Had lots of fun, good old times....

Wow, Elisa, perhaps the strongest LG female Go player?

and Kim Basinger (15?). This is interesting. Who can explain this? I definitely will not mind seeing a photo of this beautiful player.

and what are you doing at this wee Greek hour, ypercube? (unless you are not physically in Greece)

Help! Why are some of my messages printed in boldface and a large font? Am I able to stop this nonsense? I prefer to draw attention by posting a nude Kim Basinger photo than this.

I don't see any boldface or large fonts in your messages (or anyone else's).

@Tim Shih: Elisa is a He :)

1577 here... [but there were time-outs, yes]

Congrats, Nagy!

@Ignatius J Reilly, thank you for letting me know. My colleague sees my postings in boldface and a large font on his screen, too. But if we change our browsers to Firfox, my postings become unified with others'.

I sit corrected. And we all know how painful that can be!

i`m the 1256th one ;) - i will be 10 on 24th this month (10 on LG , of course :D )

I copied this from the D&B EOW - UT page: 4 gold medals:

shinnosuke (1197), Robert Butler (1274), ypercube (), The Tible (1925)

If you take a tournament subscrioption page the participants are in order of plaerid (which is easy for me, because only Richard and someone else, I don't remember who, jump in front of me.) Maybe if someone browses through kpato EOW UT's you might find a lot more

Ricardo (Santos) 1622

I've cured my addiction to LG, but I may say that I saw few communities friendlier than LG members!
Congrats to Richard & all of us for keeping this site one of the best in the world!

thank you!
@unique it is 2.976 not 2.92 :)

And an impressive 143 moves per day!

...of which about half were made by you:)

1009 bachkiesel

@ Being at 1009 was pretty lonely at that time, wasn't it? Imagine that bachkiesel only had 8 players to play with in the entire LG kingdom.

@ All these messages, however, did not explain why a player's ID number stands out as 15. Perhaps because she/he is a movie star? :)

@ And who is 1001? I am dying to know.

@Eduard, Did you notice that quite a few strong Go players, including you, have stopped playing Go games at LG?

@ LG is the best boardgame website in the world, indeed. It can change to "PERFECT" from "the best" if Richard is willing to spend some time in assigning those 3 Go board sizes with their own individual ratings. Richard must understand that Go19 players, in general, are very serious players. (I am sure that some players have already raised this issue in the past)

My guess is that 1001 is a test user that Richard used in the early days. At the moment, player id (pid) 1001 is not used. Id's 1, 6 to 25 are used at the moment. At some point (pid 27), he decided to start the pids with 1000. I guess...

There have been discussions about this gap in plid a long time ago with people having all the info.

10 years? really..or does it just feel that way

@Hjaltti I could not find this discussion. And I do consider myself a clever googler...

Here some low numbers:
14 Craig Reilly
1035 Petr Trojek
17 Anatole Purdy
20 Tina Buch
1011 Magnus Öberg
8 Roman Bocka

and here some that fits on the list of senior celebrities
1161 Mojmir Hanes
1096 Tore S

Here game number 14
http://www.littlegolem.net/jsp/game/game.jsp?gid=14
Here game number 1-10
http://www.littlegolem.net/jsp/tournament/tournament.jsp?trnid=go13.mc.2002.mar.1.1

Game 14 is the lowest-numbered game in which Richard played: go9.mc.2002.mar.1.1

Game 4211 is the lowest-numbered game I found in which Nagy played. It lists
"Start time: 2002-07-17 16:30
Finish time: 2002-07-18 07:07"
but maybe it actually started earlier.

This was in the end about the gap in game numbers

http://www.littlegolem.net/jsp/forum/topic2.jsp?forum=1&topic=1432

@Hjallti - I indeed found that... just thought that was not what you were mentioning

We're wondering about the gap in players id's.

Just like Nagy, I've been active on littlegolem the full ten years. Due to the combination of poor time management and waaay too many concurrent games, I did lose a few games because of a timeout.

When I joined LG, I was an Othello player. bela nagy introduced me to Go and slowly my interest moved from Othello to Go ( Tim Shih's patience with me did help that process).

Lots of things changed in the last 10 years, but my love for board games didn't. Thanks all!

mega kudos :)

Happy anniversary Klaashaas!!