ATAR Notes Chess Tournament

[Orb]

Doneskies!

Would people prefer an elimination  tournament, or one where everyone plays everyone else and we tally up the total wins and losses?

i don't mind

[thushan]

I'll play

Game over. King of Chess right here.

[TheAspiringDoc]

How about the players can organise with their opponent which site they play on?
then we could post the results on this page. 

[taiga]

*A wild taiga appears*

In, sniffed this out from a mile away haahah

[brenden]

How about the players can organise with their opponent which site they play on?
then we could post the results on this page. 

Yeah, I think this sounds most reasonable. Regardless of site, it will have to be a live game though.

In, sniffed this out from a mile away haahah

Hahahaha, great, we've got 9. One more person and we'll kick things off?

[Homer]

I'm in

[Stick]

Would people prefer an elimination  tournament, or one where everyone plays everyone else and we tally up the total wins and losses?

Hmm... I'm not sure how good everyone else is here but in my case I'm most likely only going to get one game if it's an elimination tournament, so a round robin tournament might therefore be more fun for the weaker players. Perhaps there can be a bit of a finals though for the top players, in which the game moves into a knockout tournament?

[brenden]

Hmm... I'm not sure how good everyone else is here but in my case I'm most likely only going to get one game if it's an elimination tournament, so a round robin tournament might therefore be more fun for the weaker players. Perhaps there can be a bit of a finals though for the top players, in which the game moves into a knockout tournament?

Yeah I was thinking that, too. If the top four are really close they can playoff or something. I'll buy the winner a Crunchy.

[TheAspiringDoc]

...it will have to be a live game though.

I've already started two correspondence games against these players though.. will they not count? 

[Orb]

I've already started two correspondence games against these players though.. will they not count? 

Already started? What? haha

[Stick]

When are we starting?

[nerdgasm]

Hmm, I personally believe some sort of uniformity amongst game time controls would be fairer. I would have liked it if we could all see each other playing; if anyone knows of a good live site that would facilitate this, I'm more than happy to join it.

Beyond this tournament though, I'd like to say that I'm usually up for a game on FICS (where my handle is 'roentgenium'), or for correspondence chess on GameKnot (where my handle is 'caro-kann'), and it's always nice to see others who have an interest in chess .

[brenden]

I've already started two correspondence games against these players though.. will they not count? 

Oh, yeah, I figured we were just playing around in this game for recreation :S, I thought the tournament hasn't started, and I agree that time controls should be uniform ^^. I know chess.com allows the viewing of play.  I haven't yet played live chess on gameknot so I'm unsure if it has the same function.

I'm in

So I think this makes ten!

So, I think:

- uniform time controls in live games only
- each player will play all other people once
-we will tally the amount of wins, losses, and draws of each person (4, 5, 1) etc, with a scoring system of 2 points per win, 1 point per draw, and 0 points for a loss. From this, we could either call the winner based on whoever has the highest score at the end of the tournament, or we could take the top 4, or top 2 people and have them enter into a playoff tournament. I don't really mind about the 'playoffs'... I won't be in them so they don't impact on me

If that's the case, I'll just match a bunch of you up for the first round of the tournament (not for any real purpose - just for organisation's sake) and we'll all go off and play and report the result back?

[Champ101]

I'm definitely in!

[Stick]

Will there be some sort of countdown clock? As much as I buckle under the pressure when this happens (I lost my first ever chess tournament game this way by forgetting to tap my clock lol) I think it will make for a speedier game that won't drag on for too long, minimising the chance of someone having to forfeit and leave the game due to an unexpected interruption or whatever.