Round Robin Tournament

I am rather new at lichess, but when I read the tournament rules a shaked my head. Doubling points after 2 victories, Berserk mode, more games for super fast players, ... For a lover of chess that's just crazy. OK, if one likes, but that there is no other mode to select (as round robin) is a pity. And to enable a round robin or a swiss system blitz tournament cannot be a problem for the lichess programmers. (But it would require some patience of the players to wait for the next round ...)

More difficult would be such a tournament with classical times of 2 hours per player, played on several days. I started such an classical game competition for players loving real chess. You can find it on my profile (German). But that is a lot of administration work for myself and I understand that it would be difficult to implement a program code for this. I started it for my (and many other) chess kids, because they can learn chess only when playing long games.

#metoo
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When there are many people participating in an Arena Tournament, it can be super exciting and entertaining!

@odoaker2015

It's probably great for people who love playing bullet and blitz. The thing is: not all of us do. And for rapid and classical, the arena format just doesn't make any sense... even if you have many participants.

For the people who like longer games, it would be great if there were also rapid and classical tournaments in a different format than arena.

@Molurus Yeah, that's right. Hopefully Lichess will add possibilities for swiss system and round robin tourneys soon!

For clubs that want to manage tournaments, I believe this online manager is worth investigating:
swisssystem.org/

@xK4LIBUR
thanks for the hint. But the problem is not to get the pairing for any round. Most clubs have software for this, e.g. "Swiss-Chess" www.swiss-chess.de/ or similar software. We want to get it integrated here directly. That would be much more easier for all users

Swiss-chess seems to be german only? Running on wine anyway. Am I doing something wrong?

EDIT: there was a point made that it is too complicated for some clubs to manage tournaments - those clubs probably don't have software... yet

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We struggle with the big rating gaps within our club and have just too few members for a good Arena. An automatic Swiss pairing, or two smaller round-robin tournaments really would make all the difference. We have tried it for a few weeks now, and are now at the point where the lower rated players doubt whether to take part anymore.

Manually sending challenges is a temporary solution, and I would be happy. But for the moment I can only give the opponent as a paramter, e.g. lichess.org/?user=tacticalbert#friend If I, as distributor of the pairings, can add parameters like ?time=10+0, ?color=white, ?variant=standard, it would be much more workable. Like others, we have to deal with a few 65+ members for who it will be too much effort to do all of that theirselves.

Thanks in advance!
Bert

@xK4LIBUR

"EDIT: there was a point made that it is too complicated for some clubs to manage tournaments - those clubs probably don't have software... yet"

The way this works in practice:

"Ok... we have to set up a schedule... check online players... who is using what nic? Send everyone a message to check the schedule. Don't forget to forfeit those who don't respond..."

"You know what? Let's just accept the shortcomings of Lichess Arena, and let the website handle all this. Ok, so the final standings are bullshit, and the last game isn't even counted in the standings... but at least everything is automated."

Can you blame them? I can't. And I assure you: this works exactly like this for clubs that are completely used to using software. "Fix your own schedule" is simply not the solution to a very reasonable feature request.