My final response to gbtami in the locked thread

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The correct link is http://www.xichess.com/ sry.

The first Crazyhouse 960 Arena was aborted by me, this is the reason it is not in the list.

Our Tournament winners and Shields pages are limited to latest 5 by variant, similar to lichess.org/tournament/shields

Renaming Gothic Chess to Trice's Chess has no meaning for me. Everyone knows it as Gothic Chess.

Regarding pychess rule page fixes ping CouchTomato87 in our Discord or file it in github.com/gbtami/pychess-variants/issues please.

www.pychess.org/tournament/xVa8Vb5T

If top 2 players finish off with the same score in an arena tournament, then what criteria do you use in sequence to determine the winner?

How many such criteria are there? And if all of them are tied means will a random winner be picked up? Although the odds of that happening is very low. Isn't it?

@gbtami: Although Ouk Chatrang, Dobutsu Shogi and Manchu are not among my favourite chess variants, why do you hold arena tournaments every Tuesday when it is working day and time for me and most westerners. Is Tuesday a non-working day in Hungary?

May I suggest that arena tournaments can be conducted every Saturday and Sunday when it is holiday except for Arab Nations (Friday and Saturday)? Looking forward for arena tournaments in some of my favourite chess variants that are not yet held like Grand chess, Hoppel Poppel, Sittuyin, Janggi and Tori Shogi either on Saturday or on Sunday.

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Also, your response to my question #12 is pending.

www.pychess.org/tournament/xVa8Vb5T

If top 2 players finish off with the same score in an arena tournament, then what criteria do you use in sequence to determine the winner?

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Chess is a hobby just for fun. I think that you started Pychess just because you love chess variants. It is not a paid work and so you can take your own time to answer my questions whenever you are free.

Also, there is no compulsion from anyone to implement any new variants although everyone should be feel free to contribute their own if they can work on the engine. Pychess developers can work out upon other page features of Pychess website if that is top priority for them to encourage furthermore chess variant lovers to start using the Pychess website page.

Sry for the late answer, I simply forget about it.
Regarding determine tournament winners see lichess.org/tournament/help?system=arena
(Except we don't have berserk yet.)

We start tournaments occasionally (except shields), but we discuss them on Discord usually. I strongly suggest everyone to join discord.gg/aPs8RKr

@gbtami: Sorry, your link lichess.org/tournament/help?system=arena does not answer my question.

I asked: If 2 players finish off with the same score at positions 1 and 2 like in this tournament: www.pychess.org/tournament/xVa8Vb5T,
then how many and what criteria are used in order to determine the first place winner?

The answer that is written in Arena tournament FAQ in the link that was given by you says that:
When two or more players have the same number of points, the tournament performance is the tie break.

Yes, Sonneborn-Berger score is the most common tie breaker used and that is valid only in Swiss and Round Robin tournaments.
Is it also relevant for arena tournaments?

By the way, is it also possible to create Swiss, Round Robin or Knockout tournaments at Pychess?
If any of those are not yet implemented, are they also planned to be implemented in the near future or far future?

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I hope everyone enjoyed Tori Shogi arena tournament on 3 October 2021, Sunday. It is one of the most exciting chess variants and Shogi variants at Pychess because most of the pieces move in strange ways that are not found in any other chess variant in any chess variant website online. I hope that all players who participated in that Tori Shogi arena tournament will be newbies to the game.

Except for Quail and Eagle, all other pieces are short ranged pieces, Pheasant and Goose are colour bounded and Goose can reach only to one fourth of all the squares in the 7×7 board. Drop variant is exciting when most of the pieces are short ranged and without that all pieces will be slow moving. Drop variant is less exciting when most of the pieces are long ranged and with that checkmate can happen quite quickly. In Tori Shogi, the Swallow promotes to even weaker piece, the Goose and the Falcon promotes to even stronger piece, the Eagle.

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Anyway, the arena tournaments of Janggi on 2 October 2021, Tori Shogi on 3 October 2021, Sittuyin on 9 October 2021 and Hoppel-Poppel on 10 October 2021 were all enjoyable by me because they were held upon weekends.

That completes 1 round of all arena tournaments of all chess variants that are available at Pychess, but that are not available at Lichess or Lishogi.

Other minor issues:

In the Tori Shogi arena tournament that was held on 3 October 2021, www.pychess.org/tournament/bd8kiH46, in my final game against @CouchTomato87, my opponent lost network connectivity during critical time of byo-yami clock ticking of 20 seconds per move from then on 1 time once after main timing of clock expired. It was only server problem and it happened due to server stress because I also faced the same problem and luckily it happened after my last move was sent, answering my opponent's question at Discord.

But, in Tori Shogi arena tournament, www.pychess.org/tournament/bd8kiH46, last game scores for Tepin000, CouchTomato87, ramanvis1988 (me) and JustAPychessPlayer are not shown. They still remain as an asterisk (*) and 2 points corresponding to their winning scores are not added and recorded in the final leaderboard of list of players in that Tori Shogi arena tournament. Furthermore that in my last played game against CouchTomato87 in that Tori Shogi arena tournament www.pychess.org/Ot2HDfwd also, all of list of played moves have been got lost too.

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In Pychess, the chat history is lost in Pychess lobby, in game chat boxes and in arena tournament lobby upon server restart. Why? Pychess lobby history can be seen in Discord.

But, in Lichess and Lishogi, in arena tournaments, I think that the arena tournament lobby and game chat boxes share the same text. It is good that in Pychess, they are different from each other.

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On 2 October 2021, the tournament name is written as First Janggi Arena. But in fact, it is second Janggi tournament held at Pychess, given that 1 earlier Janggi tournament was held on 2 May 2020, but it is of Swiss type and the 1 held on 2 October 2021 is the first Janggi tournament in Pychess of arena type, isn't it?

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In Grand Chess arena tournament held in Pychess on 30 September 2021, due to some issue immediately after the tournament finished, the number of players was shown as 0 in list of tournaments at Pychess and the player list was empty. It was corrected later on.