Phew, thankfully I got knocked out of the WC, now that I didn't win, there's a chance for money that wouldn't be there for the winner. Seriously though, if money is involved, I hope that its not too much.
I appreciate the use of posted match times to discourage forfeits, but is it necessary to have such exhaustive guidelines for taking breaks? Whatever happened to the honor system? I remember matches being interrupted or postponed during the last 'championship' tournament without any hitches. On another note, I find preparing during matches to be a little unscrupulous if impossible to prevent. The point after all is to cook something up for your opponent to solve in real-time.
Also, I don't know about cash prizes, but the single biggest change I would make is flooring elimination championships at 2300+ average rating and even higher for RR. The gulf in experience is too large otherwise to make competition worthwhile. Anyway good work again on the inaugural tournament on lichess and if anyone is interested in organizing an invitational or a weekly I have ideas built out from experience for each.
@GrandLapin I am actually planning rating group tournament. The "Open" section with 2401+ rating and U2400, U2200, U2000, based on average of current and highest rating. It is currently under development but if you want to look around, then please visit sites.google.com/site/atomicrtggroup/
@pashpash There aren't cash prizes for this tournament. I believe Arka was talking about a different (potential) event, but I don't know anything about it. It's not related to this World Championship, or future ones I may run.
@GrandLapin I think I disagree. An opponent will have to deal with an idea in real-time the first game you play it. They should have an opportunitity to check it out before the next game, otherwise it can lead to very boring matches with one side not having a clue about how to meet a forcing opening from the opponent.
Also a 2300+ limit for a World Championship seems wrong to me. I think a WC should be at least theoretically possible for any player to compete in and win. An alternative would be to seed higher rated players through to later rounds, while the lower rated players play each other earlier. The qualification round in this tournament did that to an extent but maybe it could be done more to avoid large rating gulfs in the first round.
@GrandLapin I think I disagree. An opponent will have to deal with an idea in real-time the first game you play it. They should have an opportunitity to check it out before the next game, otherwise it can lead to very boring matches with one side not having a clue about how to meet a forcing opening from the opponent.
Also a 2300+ limit for a World Championship seems wrong to me. I think a WC should be at least theoretically possible for any player to compete in and win. An alternative would be to seed higher rated players through to later rounds, while the lower rated players play each other earlier. The qualification round in this tournament did that to an extent but maybe it could be done more to avoid large rating gulfs in the first round.
@tipau I think it would be interesting if you use more 'open' elimination tournament as qualifier and maybe some from tournament and some high rated player might play candidates tournament(RR)to get challenging right to the champion. Like the current format of FIDE World Chess Championship. (World cup -> Candidates -> Championship)
What do you think about it?
What do you think about it?
Here's my concrete suggestion for the invitational anyway (mentioned it once before). Start with 12 players (not hard to hand-pick), split into 2 groups of 6 and play round-robin (or schevenigen!? - meaning you face each player in the opposite group for a total of 6 matches instead of 5) of 8 game matches at 3 2 (3 3, 4 2 !?) rated over 2.5 months - have all match times posted in advance. Top 3 advance from each group. 6 remaining complete another round robin over 2.5 months, top 4 advance and play semi and final elimination matches for the title.
Personally, I like GrandLapin's idea of the invitational round-robin. Also tipau, I'm aware that there was no money involved, i was just joking that in the "candidates", where money might be involved, the winner of the WC doesn't get to play, and has no chance for cash prizes.
GrandLapin's idea is very interesting, I may make it happen instead of the 8 player DRR
Seems a bit of a long time span though?
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