Unfortunately, I have the experience that the numbers 1 and 2 didn't play against each other also in tournaments with a lot more participants. However, they were paired again and again to the same opponent who was much lower in the ranking. This is quite annoying. In Swiss this would be impossible.
Some Standard pairing systems (robin, swiss) should be added in custom tournaments; maybe not in officials if they prefer fast pairings.
@odoaker2015 it happens just as well with 25 participants.
Yes, I can confirm that. I may also have something to do with the relatively slow time controls clubs use. We for example have a 10+0 tournament, and even with >20 players not a lot of players will end at the same time, therefore the same two players will be paired up again. (It would be a great substep forward if that isn't possible anymore.) I can imagine at bullet tournaments (1+0) there is less of such a problem.
The suggestion has been in our issues log for 4 years and nobody has volunteered to develop & test it:
github.com/ornicar/lila/issues/1998
I keep saying I'll eventually get around to it and getting overwhelmed by IRL work, other IRL issues, and all my other open-source projects having problems. Eventually could be a very long time.
github.com/ornicar/lila/issues/1998
I keep saying I'll eventually get around to it and getting overwhelmed by IRL work, other IRL issues, and all my other open-source projects having problems. Eventually could be a very long time.
I think, because of the Corona lockdown, more clubs are here. And they, like me, want to play swiss chess or a round robin tournament. That's why so many people here demand this
Your right Hanno
Yesterday eight players from my local club played a tournament
I played six games. Four against one player, and two against an other.
I did not play against five other players.
It would be nice if it would be possible to make a round robin turnament
Yesterday eight players from my local club played a tournament
I played six games. Four against one player, and two against an other.
I did not play against five other players.
It would be nice if it would be possible to make a round robin turnament
Sorry to say that our club will go with chess.com now. As said before we are only a few members in our chess club and we are looking to organize our tournaments. Arena in lichess doesn't give us a balanced pairing. Round Robin would be the best solution but unfortunately there is no official statement for it.
Before you go, ... @TowyTopper
lichess.org/forum/lichess-feedback/what-do-you-want-changed-in-lichessorg-?page=6#57
Way back when I was a young student in high school, I picked computer science.
I had only "A's" in the subject. One thing I did realize, it came very naturally for me and that's why I was good at it, but even being good at something does not make us any faster. Coding toke time. It was fun when I was at school, and I tried to continue later in life, but too many things had changed.
This site is growing and for me the Arena system is much more fun then the Swiss system.
If your club played in these daily Arena tournaments together, they would be playing in a large group of players. Maybe even never having to play each other. In the end they would still get a standings number in the tournament and so you would have known who was 1st, 2nd or 3rd in your club, even if they were not first in the tournament. All you had to do is ask your club to show up and participate all in the same daily tournament that Lichess had organized and you would have only had to extract their standings from the rest of the players in the tournament. Now that's a feature i have asked and hope one day someone in the world will make the code for it.
Have you tried this site?
www.chessfriends.com
Chess websites sorted by popularity.
http://www.chess-links.org/index500.html
lichess.org/forum/lichess-feedback/what-do-you-want-changed-in-lichessorg-?page=6#57
Way back when I was a young student in high school, I picked computer science.
I had only "A's" in the subject. One thing I did realize, it came very naturally for me and that's why I was good at it, but even being good at something does not make us any faster. Coding toke time. It was fun when I was at school, and I tried to continue later in life, but too many things had changed.
This site is growing and for me the Arena system is much more fun then the Swiss system.
If your club played in these daily Arena tournaments together, they would be playing in a large group of players. Maybe even never having to play each other. In the end they would still get a standings number in the tournament and so you would have known who was 1st, 2nd or 3rd in your club, even if they were not first in the tournament. All you had to do is ask your club to show up and participate all in the same daily tournament that Lichess had organized and you would have only had to extract their standings from the rest of the players in the tournament. Now that's a feature i have asked and hope one day someone in the world will make the code for it.
Have you tried this site?
www.chessfriends.com
Chess websites sorted by popularity.
http://www.chess-links.org/index500.html
I too am part of a chess club that has temporarily moved online because of the pandemic. A few of us wanted something different from the 'arena' tournament format Lichess provides, so I tried to run a round-robin tournament tonight, playing the games on Lichess. To manage the tournament I set up a shared spreadsheet using Google Sheets.
However, three players dropped out because they just couldn't figure out how to get a game going. I realise now this is partly down to our having had a Lichess tournament every week prior to this, and as such people haven't got to grips with sending and accepting challenges. It's also partly down to the lack of documentation on the site. But on the whole, it would be better if Lichess would natively support such tournament formats as round-robin and Swiss, to mitigate the complications created by running the tournament externally.
However, three players dropped out because they just couldn't figure out how to get a game going. I realise now this is partly down to our having had a Lichess tournament every week prior to this, and as such people haven't got to grips with sending and accepting challenges. It's also partly down to the lack of documentation on the site. But on the whole, it would be better if Lichess would natively support such tournament formats as round-robin and Swiss, to mitigate the complications created by running the tournament externally.
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