Talossan chess tournament 2024

[Gjermund Higraff]

I guess it's about time I start learning what each of the pieces do, then 😁

[Glüc]

TALOSSACHESS RAPID SWISS 2024


First round (out of 5) pairings:

W @xpb vs @Breneir Tzaracomprada B

W @þerxh Sant-Enogat vs @Bentxamì Puntmasleu B

W @Marcel Eðo Pairescu Tafial, UrGP vs @Iason Taiwos B

W @Gjermund Higraff vs @Ian Plätschisch B

W @Barclamïu da Miéletz vs @Glüc da Dhi S.H.  B

Player listed first plays white vs player listed second plays black


Deadline for scheduling your match: March 6th
Deadline for playing your match: March 13th

Default time control: 10 +5 (May be altered with mutual consent)
Default platform: Lichess (May be altered with mutual consent, preferably to a physical chess board.)

[Glüc]

Some clarifications:


Tournament format
We're doing a swiss tournament, which basically means winners play winners and losers play losers (of course the first round is random).

However there are some complications - like players not meeting twice, there not always being even groups of players with the same number of points, a preference for players switching colours, etc - that make assigning the pairings manually a bit too complex, so I'm using a site for the pairings, in this case swissonlinetournament.com. I don't know the exact algorithm used, but I'm sure you can find it somewhere.

There will be 5 rounds played, which should usually be enough to determine a winner. It means you won't play all players, but you will be likely to face the players that are around your level towards the end.

Scheduling your match
Basically it is up to you to contact your assigned opponent and schedule your match. Keep in mind time zone differences. This might mean that if you live in Cape Town and your opponent lives in Melbourne, you might have to get up early whereas your opponent might have to stay up late.

I've provided a deadline. This should be plenty of time, but of course if you have a good reason (for example you happen to be going on vacation for three weeks) an extension will be granted, provided this was communicated to me. If a match remains unplayed and it turns out one player has tried to schedule a match whereas the other player has been unresponsive and not asked for an extension the active player wins by default.

No reason to wait until the deadline of course. The sooner you send a pm to your opponent asking to schedule your match the better,

Platform
You are free to use whatever platform you agree on with your opponent, but if you can't agree on a platform the default will be lichess.org, which I like because it runs on donations and doesn't steal your data. If you have questions about how to use lichess please let me know.

Of course, if you are able to physically meet and play on an actual board with an actual chess clock, please do! (Ideally do record your game as well in that case.

Time format
The time format used will be 10 minutes + 5 seconds increment per move, which means a game should usually last between 15 and 30 minutes. However, if you and your opponent both agree on a different format that's fine. Don't go crazy though. No ultrahyperbullet or stuff like that please.

Results
Once you have your result please post it here, ideally with a link to the game so we can all have a look at what happened.

(Actually if you have agreed on a time, if you want you can post it here as well along with your lichess account so people might be able to watch along live.)


Outside assistance
Chess engines, tablebase, opening books, help from a friend, etc, during your game, are obviously all BANNED. Don't do it. It's all for fun anyway. No cheating...


If there are any questions about the rules please let me know.

[xpb]

Acknowledged thanks for organizing!

[Glüc]

The match between Barclamïu and myself is provisionally scheduled for 11:00 am CET on sunday, although it might depend on whether Barclamïu has wifi access.

Be sure to schedule your matches. If you run into any problems let me know.

[Marcel Eðo Pairescu Tafial, UrGP]

The game between me and Iason is scheduled for Saturday 7 PM Eastern / Sunday 1 AM CET.

[Gjermund Higraff]

Gjermund Higraff vs Ian Plätschisch scheduled for Monday 7am EST

I forgot go mention my lichess user name earlier in the thread. It's gjehigra.

[Marcel Eðo Pairescu Tafial, UrGP]

The game between me and Iason is scheduled for Saturday 7 PM Eastern / Sunday 1 AM CET.

https://lichess.org/KAHjuA7v
Here is the link to the game.

[Glüc]

Oh right, I misread and though it was going to be 1 pm today.

So we're off. Looks like you both didn't need much time at all. Marcel takes the lead in the competition with a solid performance

[Glüc]

The match between Barclamïu and myself is provisionally scheduled for 11:00 am CET on sunday, although it might depend on whether Barclamïu has wifi access.

Be sure to schedule your matches. If you run into any problems let me know.

It appears Barclamïu does not have access atm. We may have to reschedule

[Iason Taiwos]

That was just a warm-up loss. I'll try to be a little harder to beat for my next opponent. (Throws chess books in the trash)

[Gjermund Higraff]

Stupid question as I've never used Lichess for anything but computer games before (and only briefly), and I feel there's something obvious that I'm missing when I'm looking at the site. Can I set up the game ahead of time?

[Glüc]

Stupid question as I've never used Lichess for anything but computer games before (and only briefly), and I feel there's something obvious that I'm missing when I'm looking at the site. Can I set up the game ahead of time?

Basically you challenge someone either by clicking "play with a friend" or by going to their profile and clicking the challenge button and then clicking what side you are suppose to play (after putting in the correct settings). Using the first method you then get a link to send or you can fill in their profile name.

The game starts when they accept the challenge.

I don't really know how long a challenge lasts before it expires. I imagine you probably can't set it up a very long time in advance, but not sure.

[Glüc]

If anyone has trouble with the game settings on lichess:

variant: standard
time control: real time
minutes: 10 (unless you made other agreements)
increment: 5  (unless you made other agreements)
casual/rated: I'd probably go with casual unless youve agreed with your opponent to play rated. It doesn't really matter.
And then pick the icon with the colour you're supposed to play.

[Glüc]

The game between Barclamiu and me has just been played

https://lichess.org/yUVHiSix

Edit: heh, just realised I missed mate in one three times...

[Barclamïu da Miéletz]

The game between Barclamiu and me has just been played

https://lichess.org/yUVHiSix

Edit: heh, just realised I missed mate in one three times...

Footage of me being bad at chess (2024, colourised)

[Gjermund Higraff]

Gjermund Higraff vs Ian Plätschisch

https://lichess.org/ilNOUOK2

I was trying to get done with all my mistakes in the first game. I have plenty of mistakes stored up, it turns out.

[Glüc]

Congrats Ian. First one to finish a game without any blunders. I enjoyed sneakily watching along there.

[Gjermund Higraff]

I wondered who that was who wanted to spend time watching that game 😂

[þerxh Sant-Enogat]

þerxh - Bentxami was played 30+0 : https://lichess.org/tQPHiIok
Victory to White thanks to the clock