Dear Chess fans,
round 6 will start tomorrow at the usual time. It collides just with the first half of a EM soccer game - one has to set priorities!
This time I tried an experiment. There will be actually 2 tournaments at the same time, one for players with a rating of 2000 and above, and another one for players with a rating of <=2000 (it is actually the weekly average that is counted). The winner of each tournament gets up to 7 points. The second 6 and so forth. By this the total amount of points to achieve is app. the same (=2*28) as with one tournament with 10,9,8 (=55).
Why the heck he is doing this?
More equally skilled players will play against each other - on average, I hope. And less professional players have more chances to win tournament points which could help making participation more attractive.
The downside?
Smaller groups with probably more waiting time between the games. And of course more work for me to organize and track&count afterwards. But worth a try!
Why 2000?
Because from the numbers of players (in the current ranking) in each category plus their likelihood of participation (some lower ranked players tend to play less frequently) this threshold allows a probably even distribution of players and thus even chance to get points. Only afterwards we will see, if it turned out right or if we would have to adjust the cutoff (to either 1900 or 2100, there is nothing in between).
Funnily, I wanted to do this already last week and had set up the tournaments already. Then I realized that with my rating of at that time 1980 or so I didn´t qualify for the 2000+ one and at the same time apparently my weekly average rating was too high and thus I didn´t qualify for the other one as well! I tried hard to get over 2000 but without success. Fortunately I hadn´t posted the announcement yet, so I cancelled both tournaments and created a new one.
So check out that you at least qualify for one of them to avoid a similar situation.
If it works out well, we could do this more often, but first let´s see!
Time Mode: 4+2 (4 minutes per game, 2 sec. increment), 60 min. arena mode, no streaks
Tournament Links:
2000+: https://lichess.org/tournament/EHw0BXvk
<=2000: https://lichess.org/tournament/Cvh2ydkV
There are already app. 190 Hive in the price pool!
Time zones
Time difference from Greenwich Mean Time GMT 19.00:
| Local Time | ||
|---|---|---|
| Los Angeles | -7 hours | 13.00h |
| New York, Venezuela | −4 hours | 16.00h |
| UTC, GMT, Reykjavik, Freetown | 0 | 20.00h |
| London | 0 | 20.00h |
| Paris, Munich, Madrid, Nigeria, Vienna | +1 hours | 21.00h |
| Moscow, Les'ky, Istanbul | +3 hours | 23.00h |
| Beijing, Hong Kong, Singapore | +8 hours | 04.00h |
| Tokyo | +9 hours | 05.00h |
| Sidney | +11 hours | 07.00h |
GMT time converter: https://time.is/en/GMT
RULES
- For Hivers, Steemians, Blurtters and all others!
- Players of all skill levels are welcome, from newbies to experts, you just need a free Lichess-account!
- Every Friday is one round
- Time mode is varying (5+0, 3+2,...), rated, berserking allowed (except in Swiss mode)
- The winner of this round gets up to 7 points, the second 6,... . If e.g. only 6 players participate, the winner gets 6 points only, the second 5, etc.
- In case two players have the same number of points, the one who played less rounds is first. If that is equal too, then the average tournament performance decides.
- PAYOUT: This season goes over 7 rounds and the tournament points are summed up. All Hivechess-related post rewards are pooled and 90% go to the price pool (PP). The tournament winner will get 15 Hive bonus and the rest of the PP is divided among all players according to (1) the no. of rounds played and (2) the tournament points achieved (1 and 2 weighed equally), but only if a player has participated at least 3 times (If <2 games are played in a round it will be not counted)! So everyone has a chance to get something and the more you play the better!
- If I don´t know your Hive username, I can´t consider you in the rankings, so please let me know your Hive name in the comments or in the Lichess chat
- If you have not yet joined our team in Lichess, please do it here, so that you can participate (required for Swiss tournaments only).
Please share this announcement among your (chess) friends and colleagues!
The more participate, the more fun! And maybe some are even interested to join Hive and it´s Chess Community?
Good luck to All!
