I noticed the rise of popularity of tournaments on lichess recently.
Maybe, it is time to work on their improvements. What do you think, people?
Let's discuss here your wildest ideas, how lichess developers could improve in this area.
1. First of all - berserkering seems like not very effective strategy. The reward is only 1 point, but it can easily ruin your win streak. The bonus for berserkering should be bigger. Maybe introduce some Berserk Streak as well? If you win 3 berserk games in a row - you achieve +2 extra points. Win 6 games - and you'll get +3 every game.
2. Long tournaments, for serious classical time control chess, that is played more than 1 day. This could be played same way as GMs play their tournaments.
3. Correspondence tournaments, including official yearly one, with a champion every year.
4. Combined variant tournaments - chess variant randomly selected before the game, or one of the players select which he prefer.
5. Time odds tournaments. Higher rated player have less time. 100 points difference - 5% of time, 200 - 10%, 300 - 15%, 400 - 20% (numbers should be adjusted).
6. Theme tournaments, were all play the same opening moves, for example King's gambit or Sicilian Dragon.
7. Team match tournaments - 2 or more teams play a match. For example Kingscrusher fans VS Fins fans. Captains choose players in their team before the start.
8. Suggestion: make last game count too (in bullet only), so that all games, that were started before countdown clock reaches zero, will give points, even if time ended during game. Right now games in progress must be finished, however they don't count for the tournament, which makes last game no sense.
PS - fix a mistake - 30 seconds to 15 seconds in the tournaments description (Other important rules.)
Maybe, it is time to work on their improvements. What do you think, people?
Let's discuss here your wildest ideas, how lichess developers could improve in this area.
1. First of all - berserkering seems like not very effective strategy. The reward is only 1 point, but it can easily ruin your win streak. The bonus for berserkering should be bigger. Maybe introduce some Berserk Streak as well? If you win 3 berserk games in a row - you achieve +2 extra points. Win 6 games - and you'll get +3 every game.
2. Long tournaments, for serious classical time control chess, that is played more than 1 day. This could be played same way as GMs play their tournaments.
3. Correspondence tournaments, including official yearly one, with a champion every year.
4. Combined variant tournaments - chess variant randomly selected before the game, or one of the players select which he prefer.
5. Time odds tournaments. Higher rated player have less time. 100 points difference - 5% of time, 200 - 10%, 300 - 15%, 400 - 20% (numbers should be adjusted).
6. Theme tournaments, were all play the same opening moves, for example King's gambit or Sicilian Dragon.
7. Team match tournaments - 2 or more teams play a match. For example Kingscrusher fans VS Fins fans. Captains choose players in their team before the start.
8. Suggestion: make last game count too (in bullet only), so that all games, that were started before countdown clock reaches zero, will give points, even if time ended during game. Right now games in progress must be finished, however they don't count for the tournament, which makes last game no sense.
PS - fix a mistake - 30 seconds to 15 seconds in the tournaments description (Other important rules.)