Originally posted by FabianFnas And moreover, when you join the tournament you are not limited by the 6 games only. Even if you already have 6 games going, you can join!
Cool, I just entered my first online tournament! I'm confused though by the warning: " tournaments significantly increase your gameload". don't you play a game at a time?
I don't think so, unless it's a joke played by Russ himself - I just entered the >1500 one. Go in tournaments and select the starless one that applies to you...
Originally posted by Joan34 Cool, I just entered my first online tournament! I'm confused though by the warning: " tournaments significantly increase your gameload". don't you play a game at a time?
I just looked at the tournaments. They have a group size of 4, which means you are playing three opponents in one round. You also play a white and a black game against each opponent. So you get six games in one round (in later rounds the group size may vary a little, depending on the total number of participants in the round). All these games start simultaneously.
Originally posted by Joan34 I don't think so, unless it's a joke played by Russ himself - I just entered the >1500 one. Go in tournaments and select the starless one that applies to you...
thanks, that was stupid of me not to notice the starless ones.
Originally posted by Nordlys I just looked at the tournaments. They have a group size of 4, which means you are playing three opponents in one round. You also play a white and a black game against each opponent. So you get six games in one round (in later rounds the group size may vary a little, depending on the total number of participants in the round). All these games start simultaneously.
mmmhh, I didn't realize that, thanks for the info... hopefully a couple of my games currently in progress will have cleared by the time the tournament starts (btw, is there any rule on when it actually starts?)
I just entered the 1200-1500. When does the tournament start? I see that min entrants is 12 and max is 128. Once the minimum is satisfied who or what determines the start?
You are only allowed to start in one non subs tournament, so if you start in this tournament and if you like it, you nead to be a subs even if there comes more non subs tournament in the future. It looks like advertisment in my opinion.
I wish good luck to everybody that starts in the tournament !
Originally posted by FabianFnas Russ is very generous, really!
128 non-sub players in each of the three tournaments are invited!
The tournaments are started individually, when 128 players has entered, or if the interest is not so high (would surprise me) earlier.
Not really. I think allowing non subs to enter say 1 tournament every six weeks (and only be active in 1 at a time) will actually give them a taste of better things and incentivise them to become subscribers.
Looking at them I am surprised there are so few entrants (only 12 between all 3 tournaments) and 3-4 of these are ex subs anyway. I would have expected 128 entrants in double quick time.
Originally posted by DagamoStyle You are only allowed to start in one non subs tournament, so if you start in this tournament and if you like it, you nead to be a subs even if there comes more non subs tournament in the future. It looks like advertisment in my opinion.
I wish good luck to everybody that starts in the tournament !
Maybe I'm reading too much in your post, but it seems that you hint at something being wrong in this format.
Without doing anything or spending a single penny I'm allowed to try a tournament - it's like going to the grocery store and having free trial of a kind of cheese. Of course this is done with the hope that someone will eventually buy the product... what's wrong with that?
Gosh, I'm again helping derailing a chess only thread...
Read this, non subs ! ! !
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