Talossachess Rapid Swiss 2025 [Round 3]

[Glüc]

Yes, it is in fact time for another Talossa chess tournament! Open to everyone from beginners to complete amateurs.

What
A Talossan online chess tournament. Four or five rounds (depending on the number of players), followed by a 3-game final for the first and second placed players.
Previous edition

Where
Wherever you want, but unless you and your opponent agree on an alternative venue the default will be lichess.org. Creating an account is free, simple, and doesn't require you to submit all sorts of personal information.*

When
Second half of 2025. Registration deadline is July 1st. Each rounds will take roughly a month. Within each month, each players is responsible for scheduling their game with their opponent, picking whatever date+time is most suitable.

How
Register by posting in this thread or letting me know by other means before July first!

The tournament will be created using https://swissonlinetournament.com/, which I will use to generate the matchups. The format will a swiss tournament, which (oversimplified) means players are matched with players that won the same amount of games so far.** The default time format will be 10+5, but players may agree to use a different time control. Detailed instructions for setting up your game in lichess will follow.

Sounds nice, but I'm terrible at chess
Based on the previous edition, so are the rest of us. The swiss format makes it more likely that you will play against opponents of similar strength towards the end of the tournament. It's just for fun, don't worry!

Cool, but will I have enough time for that
It's four or five 30 minute games, spread out over 6 months. There should be plenty of time to plan your games.

Yes, but I'm going on a month-long holiday to a remote island without internet
This doesn't need to be a problem, we can maybe shift the deadlines for rounds. But you should let me know in advance so we can find a solution.




<sub>*The organisation is in no way affiliated with lichess and is not sponsored or in any way or form paid for the organisation or for saying this.

**The organisation however reserves the right to exclude certain pairings in order to keep the tournament enjoyable for everyone.</sub>

[Glüc]

Registered players
- Glüc
- @Sir Lüc
- Iac Marscheir
- Marcel Eðo Pairescu Tafial, UrGP
- Sir Ian Plätschisch
- Bråneu Excelsio, UrN
- Mic'haglh Autófil, O.Be
- xpb
- þerxh Sant-Enogat
Registration deadline: July 1st

[Iac Marscheir]

Meh, I'll have a go.

[Marcel Eðo Pairescu Tafial, UrGP]

¡Partiçiparhéu!

[Sir Ian Plätschisch]

Count me in

[Bråneu Excelsio, UrN]

I'd like to participate.

[Mic’haglh Autófil, O.Be]

I'm in

[Glüc]

Tagging some people who may or may not be interested (apologies if you prefer not to be tagged)

@xpb @þerxh Sant-Enogat @Barclamïu da Miéletz @Iason Taiwos @Iac Éovard Valadeir @Cevaglh @Bitour Scurzniescu

[xpb]

sure, why not?

[þerxh Sant-Enogat]

Count me in also!

[Marcel Eðo Pairescu Tafial, UrGP]

I have a question: how is the tournament structure going to work with an odd number of participants?

[Glüc]

That is an excellent question, and also a reason Im hoping we will get one (or three or five) more participant(s) 😅

[Glüc]

Im happy to leave the registration open just a while longer until we get a 10th participant. If we really cant find anyone who's interested I will think about a format that works for 9 players.

[þerxh Sant-Enogat]

The 8 of us can compete to be the Challenger in front of last year's winner, America Cup style!

[Glüc]

Ok last call for registering. If don't have an even number of players by tuesdayafternoon we will go with þerxh's suggestion