Because it's useless.
Banded tournaments are more fun as everyone stands a chance.
What's the point,for us low rated players,in entering a tournament where you barely have a chance in progressing to the next round and absolutely NO chance in progressing to the final round?
For this very reason I also avoid grouped random tournys as well.
By the way I bet someone will ask it to Russ and you'll have the "championship" anyway,probably somewhere in January.
I really hope there's a 2006 Championship. It promotes great competition and, as I've said here somewhere before, chess is our sport and we deserve to have some type of champion here. I honestly don't see why Russ would have a 2005 Championship if he didn't intend to repeat the action in 2006, and 2007, and well the world will probably be nuke-food by 2008 but expect more.
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Get on the case flexmore, you sound like you know what you're doing 😉
Doesn't matter if you're not going to win it, you need a championship like that for prestige and it is the taking part that counts. Why do Canada try and qualify for the World Cup? They're never going to win it either. It is possible for us lesser to beat a 2000+ player, it's just rare, but it does happen. If you think you've lost before you've started then you'll lose, be a bit more positive man.
I'll stop now before I use I up my entire portfolio of cliches.
Originally posted by RavelloI don't play because i enjoy winning, i play because i enjoy chess and personally i really enjoy my games against 2000+ players as i like seeing chess executed at a level i cannot achieve (yet 😉) and i find it useful trying to raise my game to at least resist for a little while.
Thanks for the great pearl of wisdom but I already know I can't beat a 2000+ player.
And i whole-heartedly agree with the sentiment that we should have a champion.
Originally posted by RavelloWell I enjoyed last year's champs. I made it through to the second round thanks to a reasonable draw. I was then expecting to get zero points in the second round, but I won a few games and yes it does help your game to play high ranking players.
Because it's useless.
Banded tournaments are more fun as everyone stands a chance.
What's the point,for us low rated players,in entering a tournament where you barely have a chance in progressing to the next round and absolutely NO chance in progressing to the final round?
For this very reason I also avoid grouped random tournys as well.
By the ...[text shortened]... will ask it to Russ and you'll have the "championship" anyway,probably somewhere in January.
Originally posted by TheGambitYes, it's like the clubs such as Chasetown entering the FA Cup.
Get on the case flexmore, you sound like you know what you're doing 😉
Doesn't matter if you're not going to win it, you need a championship like that for prestige and it is the taking part that counts. Why do Canada try and qualify for the World Cup? They're never going to win it either. It is possible for us lesser to beat a 2000+ player, it's jus ...[text shortened]... t more positive man.
I'll stop now before I use I up my entire portfolio of cliches.
They have 1,000,000,000/1 odds on them winning it, they have 100/1 odds on making it through the qualifying rounds.
Yet it was a tremendous achievement for them to make the first round, and just shows that it is possible to beat those better than you.
You never know, you could get through on timeouts!