Entrants:
• Your rating must be established (if there is a ? behind your rating it is not) at the time of registration
• You should have an account on www.pychess.org/ (you should use your lichess-account which you register here with to register on www.pychess.org/ )
• You can only register with one account, if you register with multiple accounts you will be removed from the Tournament.
• You can not enter with an account marked for using computer assistance or rating manipulation.
• You can register by writing in this thread until 08 January 2023.
Tournament:
The Tournament will be a simple Knockout-Tournament:
• Each match will have 8 games with the time control 5+2 with each position played twice (the website we play on will do this by default)
• The results of the matches need to be posted in the Results-Forum when played, with a link to the first game.
• After 4 games the starting player for a position will be changed (unless both players agree to not do so). So you will need to start a new challenge so the player that had white in the first two positions first now gets black first in the last 2 positions.
• If one player reaches 4.5 points, the player can stop the match, but they can continue if they like
• If there is a tie after 8 games (with changing the player playing white first for a position after game 4) there will be a tiebreak consisting of 2 games 5+2 (with the lower seeded player choosing which color to play first!). If the match is still tied after those there will be another two games of 5+2. If the match is still tied there will one two more 5+2 games and after that there will be 1+0 games (in pairs of 2) until there is a winner (problem is that only playing one game can be very unfair when position is very good for white)
• A player can request a maximum of one break lasting 10 minutes during the match and another 10 minutes should the match go to tiebreaks.
• Every player has the right to get 1 minute before starting the game, so they can see the position and think about strategies (so only start the game if both players agree in chat or after 1 minute)
• The tournament draw will be like in the AtomicWC, so the 1st seed will play the last and so on.
• The match times will be negotiated by the players. Each player has to offer at least 3 different times where they can play by Wednesday.
• If you finished your round and your next opponent did aswell feel free to play your game faster than the time-table.
I hope you all will enjoy this format and we will see some nice Atomic960-games!
• Your rating must be established (if there is a ? behind your rating it is not) at the time of registration
• You should have an account on www.pychess.org/ (you should use your lichess-account which you register here with to register on www.pychess.org/ )
• You can only register with one account, if you register with multiple accounts you will be removed from the Tournament.
• You can not enter with an account marked for using computer assistance or rating manipulation.
• You can register by writing in this thread until 08 January 2023.
Tournament:
The Tournament will be a simple Knockout-Tournament:
• Each match will have 8 games with the time control 5+2 with each position played twice (the website we play on will do this by default)
• The results of the matches need to be posted in the Results-Forum when played, with a link to the first game.
• After 4 games the starting player for a position will be changed (unless both players agree to not do so). So you will need to start a new challenge so the player that had white in the first two positions first now gets black first in the last 2 positions.
• If one player reaches 4.5 points, the player can stop the match, but they can continue if they like
• If there is a tie after 8 games (with changing the player playing white first for a position after game 4) there will be a tiebreak consisting of 2 games 5+2 (with the lower seeded player choosing which color to play first!). If the match is still tied after those there will be another two games of 5+2. If the match is still tied there will one two more 5+2 games and after that there will be 1+0 games (in pairs of 2) until there is a winner (problem is that only playing one game can be very unfair when position is very good for white)
• A player can request a maximum of one break lasting 10 minutes during the match and another 10 minutes should the match go to tiebreaks.
• Every player has the right to get 1 minute before starting the game, so they can see the position and think about strategies (so only start the game if both players agree in chat or after 1 minute)
• The tournament draw will be like in the AtomicWC, so the 1st seed will play the last and so on.
• The match times will be negotiated by the players. Each player has to offer at least 3 different times where they can play by Wednesday.
• If you finished your round and your next opponent did aswell feel free to play your game faster than the time-table.
I hope you all will enjoy this format and we will see some nice Atomic960-games!
