Hello everyone,
here is a little poll for you to vote for your desired time control for the future Chess960 Tournaments:
forms.gle/iwdeyZwLTzkVar64A
If you have other TC suggestions or any comments in general about the TCs, then feel free to comment here in the forum.
Cheers
You should send a team message linking to the poll, doubt many people will see this thread
I think what's truly missing for chess960 is 10+0
I think that a great way to help spread 960 tournaments would be to do exactly what the official Lichess Swiss Team does and just set up swiss tournaments that start every 6? hours for 1+0, 3+0, 5+0, 10+0 (30+0? lol). Based on what I've seen from those tournaments the top couple seeds will always finish the event and I've already seen a bunch of reoccurring faces in every time format.
Official Lichess Swiss Team link:
lichess.org/team/lichess-swiss
I think that those tournaments are automated by a bot but if this is the official Lichess team then it might not be a problem to set up by someone who knows how all that works.
In fact I think that every variant team on the website should do something similar.
However if you set up 960 swiss tournaments at this moment you might not want to have as many rounds as they have for regular chess. 1+0 is 25 rounds, 5+0 is 12 rounds, 10+0 is 7 rounds, and 30+0 is 5 rounds. Setting up swiss tournaments for variants with fewer amounts of rounds would help grow the tournaments because of the players making less of a commitment.
I agree with the idea of making more rapid and classical 960 tournaments because Lichess has always had 1+0, 3+0, and 5+0 960 arenas.
We would just have to see if given the chance people would enter longer time controls for 960 and having less rounds in a swiss tournament would help people take the leap.
@Patrizsche Agreed, Rapid Time Controls for Chess960 have been missing, especially 10+0 and 10+2. Also the current results of the on-going survey about TCs confirm that there is a clear demand for slower time controls. So we'll definitely see more of rapid Chess960 in the near future.
@intoadeepdarkforest Good idea, probably there will be more Swiss tournaments also. However Swiss requires a bit more dedication from the players than Arena, as pairings could get stuck or messed up easily, if the number of participants is small or if they leave midway, which hurts the standings more than it'd in Arena. As the team grows, more formats as well as Swiss tournaments will be introduced. In ideal case, these will be automated at some point and put into a fixed schedule. I've created one Swiss tournament for test for tomorrow as well.