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100 sats \ 2 replies \ @kristapsk 22 Jun \ on: Stacker News Chess Tournament?! Stacker_Sports

Are there more chess players here?

Yes

everyone plays correspondence games against everyone else. A correspondence game is a game where you have a long time to make your moves, so no need to schedule a specific block of time with your opponent. We could set a time limit of 1 day per turn to not draw out the games for too long

I would prefer 15+10 rapid or something like that. People could be given some x days of time to arrange time suitable for both to play the match.

A win is +1, a draw is +0 and a loss is -1

Normally in chess tournaments win is +1, draw is +1/2, loss is 0.

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @ek OP 22 Jun freebie

Yes

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I would prefer 15+10 rapid or something like that. People could be given some x days of time to arrange time suitable for both to play the match.

I like this! For some reason, I thought it would be too much commitment to arrange times for such matches but I actually don't know why I thought so. I would prefer this because it means we're going to have a winner faster and can iterate sooner on the system.

Would you prefer everyone playing against each other in this first phase or brackets?¹

Normally in chess tournaments win is +1, draw is +1/2, loss is 0.

Oh, I didn't know that. We can also do that then :)

Btw, you finally made me look up what the +10 means, lol. This is how much of a chess noob I am. ↩

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