💡📝Greg Strong wrote on Sat, Jun 17, 2017 03:41 AM UTC:
Fergus is correct with everything except for playing all 8 games at a time. That was not my intention. That would be overwhelming for many of us (myself included.) Conversely, playing one at a time is also not really workable as the tournament would last far too long and people would lose interest. This is one thing I never nailed down.
I'm thinking either 3 or 4 games at a time. If we do 4, the tournament will end in two rounds. If we do 3, the tournament will run for three rounds. If we decide to go with three rounds, I'd also increase the number of games played from 8 to 9 so there would be an even three games in each round. The game with the next highest vote total not selected is Wildebeest Chess, so that's the one we would add.
So what do you all think? Two rounds with four games at a time or three rounds with three at a time? Although I'm running it, (because someone has to,) this is really your tournament.
As for a computer-assisted ("cyborg") tournament, this is an idea that has interested me, and I may run one at some point, but this is a human-only tournament. I'd imagine a cyborg tournment would attract a different, and probably smaller, crowd.
Thank you everyone for bearing with me as we nail down these final details and excusing the delay caused by the server move. Games will be created and the tournament will officially begin a week from tomorrow - Saturday June 24th - somewhere between noon and 3:00 PM Eastern Standard Time (GMT-4)
Fergus is correct with everything except for playing all 8 games at a time. That was not my intention. That would be overwhelming for many of us (myself included.) Conversely, playing one at a time is also not really workable as the tournament would last far too long and people would lose interest. This is one thing I never nailed down.
I'm thinking either 3 or 4 games at a time. If we do 4, the tournament will end in two rounds. If we do 3, the tournament will run for three rounds. If we decide to go with three rounds, I'd also increase the number of games played from 8 to 9 so there would be an even three games in each round. The game with the next highest vote total not selected is Wildebeest Chess, so that's the one we would add.
So what do you all think? Two rounds with four games at a time or three rounds with three at a time? Although I'm running it, (because someone has to,) this is really your tournament.
Regarding game selection, as previously posted, the game selection has been finalized. New participants are still welcome to join, but voting for games is closed. (This is because I have to cut it off at some point - people would be reluctant to commit if I never made it clear what the games were going to be.) The final game list is: Fischer Random Chess, Berolina Chess, Xiangqi (Chinese Chess), Victorian Chess, Eurasian Chess, Glinski's Hexagonal Chess, Courier Chess, and Chess with Different Armies. (And, if we go with three rounds of three games, we will add Wildebeest Chess.)
As for a computer-assisted ("cyborg") tournament, this is an idea that has interested me, and I may run one at some point, but this is a human-only tournament. I'd imagine a cyborg tournment would attract a different, and probably smaller, crowd.
Thank you everyone for bearing with me as we nail down these final details and excusing the delay caused by the server move. Games will be created and the tournament will officially begin a week from tomorrow - Saturday June 24th - somewhere between noon and 3:00 PM Eastern Standard Time (GMT-4)