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Tournament 1600
1/21 time controls
I guess I forgot to ask for it to be duels but group size is 4, pairings random.
Originally posted by trevor33It's somewhat out of style with 7. 0-0 being more common from what I've seen. I'm rather hoping to learn something from the higher rated players.
never seen that before, interesting set up, should be fun.
As far as the 1 day timout goes, my reasoning was that I want to see about 15 differnt thematic tournaments, and if we keep them short, we can play a reasonable amount of them in a year.The next one up would probably be the Winawer declined 5. ... Ba5 variation followed by a french exchange and then a Tarrasch tournament.
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I guess I forgot to ask for it to be duels but group size is 4, pairings random.[/b]i am glad you did! if it was duels it would take forever to finish ...
duels, groupsize 2:2x2x2x2x2x2x2 = 128 means 7 rounds.
which would take years to finish.
groupsize 4: 4x4x4x4=256, 4 rounds.
maybe a year to finish.
groupsize 6: 6x6x6 = 216, 3 rounds
probably finished in a few months.
In case people need to make complete pgns, the first 7 moves are...
1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nb1c3 Bf8b4 4. e5 c5 5. a3 Bb4xc3 6. bxc3 Ng8e7 7. Qd1g4 Qd8c7
Typically blacks moves c5 and Ne7 can be made in either order (Weyerstrass seems to play Ne7 first).
and this is the fen...
rnb1k2r/ppq1nppp/4p3/2ppP3/3P2Q1/P1P5/2P2PPP/R1B1KBNR w KQkq - 0 1
