Another year is behind us. Let us review what shenanigans last year served for us in The House and the Variant Worlds:
- Popularity of our lichess team exploded and the team tripled its numbers. As of today, our family has 3168 members in Discord and 5926 on lichess.
- In Bundesliga, we continued where we left 2020 and won the 2021 Season! Back-to-back champions! The new season starts on Sunday, January 2nd, 2022.
- @caspiwins became a Grandmaster, @littleplotkin achieved IM title. Both @gsvc and @MeneerMandje got a GM norm, now both of them have 2 norms
- 2nd iteration of House Multi-Variant Championship (HMVC) was hosted by @Sinamon73 and @lecw. The Championship featured 83 variant enthusiasts, and the Final Four was won by @catask who emerged ahead of @VariantsOnly, @BughouseKnight and @Astavakra.
- Various variant championships were organized: Atomic World Championship (AWC), Atomar World Championship, Racing Kings World Championship (RKWC), Horde World Championship (HWC), Hyper Horde World Championship (HHWC), and Crazyhouse World Championship (CWC) all finished during last year. Antichess World Championship (ACWC), Three-Check World Championship (TCWC), and Bughouse World Championship (BWC) are still going on.
- Other numerous variant leagues and tournaments were played, such as Crazyhouse Team League, Atomic Chess League, Atomic 960 tournaments, and Lichess Antichess League.
- A dozen of variant puzzle battles were hosted in #puzzle-battle by the community. Most active host was, once again, @RoyalManiac.
- Variant engine development made huge improvements: Fairy-Stockfish was paired with NNUE technology, and the nets were made public for everyone. Fairy-SF rivals with Multi-Variant Stockfish and CrazyAra. The trio broadened the diversity of analysis. In addition, LiGround, a modern variant analysis GUI, improved and gained popularity.
- www.pychess.org/ added new variants and 960 versions of familiar variants.
Happy New Year and may 2022 be even better!
- Popularity of our lichess team exploded and the team tripled its numbers. As of today, our family has 3168 members in Discord and 5926 on lichess.
- In Bundesliga, we continued where we left 2020 and won the 2021 Season! Back-to-back champions! The new season starts on Sunday, January 2nd, 2022.
- @caspiwins became a Grandmaster, @littleplotkin achieved IM title. Both @gsvc and @MeneerMandje got a GM norm, now both of them have 2 norms
- 2nd iteration of House Multi-Variant Championship (HMVC) was hosted by @Sinamon73 and @lecw. The Championship featured 83 variant enthusiasts, and the Final Four was won by @catask who emerged ahead of @VariantsOnly, @BughouseKnight and @Astavakra.
- Various variant championships were organized: Atomic World Championship (AWC), Atomar World Championship, Racing Kings World Championship (RKWC), Horde World Championship (HWC), Hyper Horde World Championship (HHWC), and Crazyhouse World Championship (CWC) all finished during last year. Antichess World Championship (ACWC), Three-Check World Championship (TCWC), and Bughouse World Championship (BWC) are still going on.
- Other numerous variant leagues and tournaments were played, such as Crazyhouse Team League, Atomic Chess League, Atomic 960 tournaments, and Lichess Antichess League.
- A dozen of variant puzzle battles were hosted in #puzzle-battle by the community. Most active host was, once again, @RoyalManiac.
- Variant engine development made huge improvements: Fairy-Stockfish was paired with NNUE technology, and the nets were made public for everyone. Fairy-SF rivals with Multi-Variant Stockfish and CrazyAra. The trio broadened the diversity of analysis. In addition, LiGround, a modern variant analysis GUI, improved and gained popularity.
- www.pychess.org/ added new variants and 960 versions of familiar variants.
Happy New Year and may 2022 be even better!
