A Lichess Bots Competition variant?

If many bots would be interested in this (at least half of the amount of bots that are going to participate in the 1st Lichess Standard Bots Competition), I could also create a competition with slightly different rules, for example the 1st Lichess Chess960 Bots Competition. There are several options, please let me know which ones you would participate in:

- Chess960.
- Bots aren't allowed to use an opening book.
- A multi-stage tournament like TCEC.
- The pie rule: twitter.com/PHChess/status/1285660274817675264
- Participating bots need to consist of more than 50% original code.

If there's enough interest and the first segment of the 1st Lichess Standard Bots Competition goes well, this could happen. I do first want to see how much time it costs to use the new RVDP system in the standard competition because (even though it seemed to work well in tests I did) some parts of the system aren't automated yet.

We would participate if standard chess would be played.
Aswell as each engine can only be played by a single bot. its annoying to have 7x stockfish, 3x leela etc so the idea with the original code is good

I'd be interested in original code engines. Which then probably should also extend to no book so it's actually those original engines playing.

I'd be interested in origianal code engines. Sadly neither AltarChess (@JohanBlunder) nor Koivisto (@FN_Waldi) supports 960.

I vote for Chess960.
I vote against the opening book restriction, because there is no way to check if a bot is using a book.

@high_five we kinda have to trust that everyone plays fairly. There is no way to check if someone is using sf or lc0 instead of their engine anyway, and that would be way worse cheating. You wouldnt be allowed to participate as just another sf bot tho so idk why ya care :P

I would like a FRC tournament and would participate in it.

Restricting the competition to self-written engines would also be interesting, although this would exclude the engine I use on this account. A technical issue is whether you want to take on faith that the engines are self-written or if you want to see a working copy of the code to check that it indeed finds the moves it makes in the tournament and is sufficiently original. As we could see from engines like Rybka, it can be very tough to decide what is at least half original.

I can also suggest a mandatory opening book, something like the drawkiller or so