Didn't read the thing carefully enough. My bad. Had to scroll all the way down.
Can Magnus play here?
@Sasko yes, Magnus can play here.
nice. Isn't he pretty good at atomic?
Magnus is, but the one and only @ijh managed to beat him before :))
Looking forward to a clash of new and old players and styles! This year's field has an interesting mix.
For anyone out there, don't be afraid to join! Participating in an official world championship is a great experience (and sounds impressive if nothing else :P), and the atomic community is always willing to help you improve if you stick around. The more the merrier!
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Rules and signup instructions: chronatog.com/2019/07/the-2019-atomic-world-championships/
Current entrants: chronatog.com/2019/07/2019-atomic-world-championship-entrants/
TLDR for rules: All games are 3+2 atomic. Each week if you haven't been knocked out yet, you play one match, best of 10 games against an opponent according to the bracket. Match time to be discussed between you and your opponent.
Single-elimination until top 8 (lose a match and you're out of the tournament), double-elimination after top 8 (you can lose 2 matches before you're out.)
TLDR for signups: scroll to the bottom of the rules on Chronatog's site. Read.
For anyone out there, don't be afraid to join! Participating in an official world championship is a great experience (and sounds impressive if nothing else :P), and the atomic community is always willing to help you improve if you stick around. The more the merrier!
-------
Rules and signup instructions: chronatog.com/2019/07/the-2019-atomic-world-championships/
Current entrants: chronatog.com/2019/07/2019-atomic-world-championship-entrants/
TLDR for rules: All games are 3+2 atomic. Each week if you haven't been knocked out yet, you play one match, best of 10 games against an opponent according to the bracket. Match time to be discussed between you and your opponent.
Single-elimination until top 8 (lose a match and you're out of the tournament), double-elimination after top 8 (you can lose 2 matches before you're out.)
TLDR for signups: scroll to the bottom of the rules on Chronatog's site. Read.
2nd! Wow this will be fun to watch :P
Bonne chance
Why is it casual?
Games can be rated instead of casual, upon agreement of both players involved.
The rationale for being unrated by default is that atomic favours white a bit more than regular chess - white has about 55% winrate in games with average rating >2k. In high-level atomic, an extremely well-prepared player (say 2k+, but extremely well-prepared) could as white beat a top player (really top player) by very deep preparation - in such a case, black is satisfied with a draw.
So having matches casual by default means that a higher rated player doesn't need to take unnecessary risks as black to win and save rating points against lower-rated opposition, if objectively a draw should be satisfactory as black.
The rationale for being unrated by default is that atomic favours white a bit more than regular chess - white has about 55% winrate in games with average rating >2k. In high-level atomic, an extremely well-prepared player (say 2k+, but extremely well-prepared) could as white beat a top player (really top player) by very deep preparation - in such a case, black is satisfied with a draw.
So having matches casual by default means that a higher rated player doesn't need to take unnecessary risks as black to win and save rating points against lower-rated opposition, if objectively a draw should be satisfactory as black.
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