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

[Marcel Eðo Pairescu Tafial, UrGP]

Apparently there is a way of having a Swiss-style tournament with an odd number of players (the lowest seed / score gets a bye for that round, no repeats). I guess we can do that instead.

c. Should the number of players to be paired be odd, one player is unpaired. This player receives a pairing-allocated bye: no opponent, no colour and as many points as are rewarded for a win, unless the rules of the tournament state otherwise.

d. A player who has already received a pairing-allocated bye, or has already scored a (forfeit) win due to an opponent not appearing in time, shall not receive the pairing-allocated bye.

(surçă)

[Glüc]

Ok registrations are closed. We are going with Marcel's plan (apparently the bye thing is build in in the tournament generator anyway).

I will create the tournament using the following settings on https://swissonlinetournament.com:

Playsystem: Swiss Dutch Fide (JavaFo)
Points per game: 1-0,0-1,0.5-0.5
Bye value: win
Total rounds: 5 (realistically 4 or even 3 would be enough, but I want players with a bye to play at least 4 games, because playing chess is the whole point.)

The site is just for generating the pairings. I will post them here so no need for players to log in there or anything like that.

[Glüc]

First round:



Will post instructions soon-ish

[Glüc]

Ok, Talossachess 2025 has started! Thanks to everyone who registered.

How to proceed:

Step 1. Contact your opponent to plan your game. You can see who your opponent is in the post above. Contact them to discuss what date and time suits both of you for playing your game. I'm not gonna start with deadlines for now, because that only caused confusion last time, but try to plan at the earliest opportunity.
When you scheduled a date you can post it here, so we have some idea of when the round is gonna end (and also maybe some specators might show up).

Step 2. Create a lichess account (if you don't have one).
You don't have to play your game on lichess, but it is recommended. If you don't have an account yet, you can go to lichess.org -> sign in -> register. It's free. There is also a mobile app you can use, but I prefer to use the browser version on my laptop.
Let your opponent know your lichess name so you can set up the game.

Step 3. Set up your game.
When the scheduled time have arrive, to set up your game login on lichess.org. On the browser version click on "play with a friend" on the right side of the screen and you should get the following menu:



Use the following settings:
Variant: Standard
Time Control: Real Time
Minutes per side: 10*
Increment in seconds: 5*
Casual **

and then click the black crown if YOU are playing black and the white crown if YOU are playing white. (You can check whether you are supposed to play black or white in the post above this one)
* Time format is recommended. If you and your opponent both agree on a different format that is ok.
** If you wanted to play rated thats fine too. It just means the game will affect your lichess rating. Doesn't really matter tbh.

You then enter this screen:



As you can see there are several options, but the best option is to just fill in your opponents username in the searchbar under "Or invite a lichess user". Once you click on their name the other person will receive a challenge which they can accept to start your game.

Of course in the mobile app this will look different

Step 4 Beat your opponent

Step 5 Post your result on this thread.

GOOD LUCK!
@Iac Marscheir @Marcel Eðo Pairescu Tafial, UrGP @Sir Ian Plätschisch @Bråneu Excelsio, UrN @Mic'haglh Autófil, O.Be @xpb @þerxh Sant-Enogat

[Iac Marscheir]

With apologies, I believe it would be best to forfeit my games, including my current one against Glüc. Just can't really expect people to be down to play on a day's notice or less.

Mayhaps could match people on a bye against my would-be opponents?