STW Chess Tournament - anyone up for it?

I'm in. Already got a chess.com account. I'm also not amazing, can't remember my rating.

Count me in 🙂

Chess.com is wall to wall with cheats , adverts & trash talkers

Lichess.com would be a more civilized site to host forum games imo.

"7 days per move..." How does that work then? If I make a move you have up to 7 days to make your move? Surely that'll take ages? I've never played online chess so excuse me.

Yes that’s exactly how it works and yes some games can take a while. People usually make their moves quicker though. I could set it at 3 days but that can be a bit quick if you’ve got 4 or 5 games on the go 🙂

As for Lichess - I am easy but all the online platforms have cheats and this will be an STW only tournament so hopefully people will play it with a straight bat. Just means people setting up another account possibly as chess.com is the most popular.

Let’s gauge interest and we can take it from there.

^^^ you can change the time control so games have a max limit anywhere from years to 30 seconds.
Yes the pros play games that are done in under a minute.
You also have the choice of correspondence games - where each player only has to make 1 move a day at their convienience or real time games in the live arena where they are completed during a single session.

gave up playing on-line too many people turn into bots when they start to lose.

@Klunk. They’re much better at spotting cats now. It’s fairly easy for the software to spot when a weak player suddenly starts playing perfect moves and bans come quick these days :).

@brownsauce - indeed, just thought a nice leisurely correspondence tournament would be easiest for everyone to fit in. Could always set up an STW ‘clubs’ within chess.com and people could do live games as and when they wished

The only chess games I enjoy are on "Really Bad Chess", it's the only time I stand a chance 😀

@bentandbroken - g’wan, join in. I’m pretty terrible myself. My biggest issue is getting into a reasonable position and then making a horrific blunder! My end game with only a handful of pieces left is very weak too 🙂

Yup please do - I looked up my rating and it's 745, that's really bad isn't it?

I'd be up for it. Also pretty hopeless at chess.

I’m up for it, pretty terrible too. Prob makes it more fun.

Have been on an awful losing streak on Chess.com lately, Kiz92 if anyone wants a game. Normally play 30min rapid.

Do we have to play wearing awesome sixties outfits ?

I’d be up for it. Chess.com works for me.

I’ll be up for that

Possibly interested. Used to be a very average club player. 1500 rating. I've never played online.

What form of tournament? I used to play Swiss system weekend tournaments. 5 rounds. Basically random draw round 1 thereafter winners played each other, losers played each other etc.

Wouldn't work with a move a week though as 40 move game would take over a year.

I suppose with online chess, depending on the number of players, it could be all play all with games running simultaneously.

I'm in and I am also rubbish. I am Nosedive37 on chess.com

I'd be up for it too. Enjoy chess, pretty rubbish at it (I suspect if I had a rating it would at best just creep into four figures) but have never played online (only against a computer opponent).

I'm bad but I'll have a go.

I'm up for it.

Used to be ok & play for school & county but that was many many moons & not played since ( really bad chess app aside!)

Am going to buy a new chess set after finishing the Queen's gambit last week so this be perfect.

Count me in. MWyer on chess.com.

I’ll have a go.

I’d like to join in as well. I’ve just got an acc on chess.com. Not played very much lately but I’m enjoying it a lot.

Right we seem to have plenty of players and chess.com seems to be the most common platform.

If you haven’t already can you pop a note of your chess.com username and I’ll look at getting something set up.

I'll play. stevo_mcd on chess.com

Early invites sent out. If you wanna play either pop your chess.com username here or PM me 🙂

And link to the tournament here. Don't know if you can request to join and I approve you? Perhaps someone would be kind enough to try for me...

https://www.chess.com/tournament/the-inaugural-stw-chess-championship/join/89301d

I just clicked the link and its looks like it added me? geomickb

I'm on as kprook.

@geomickb - yes added. Thanks for testing that.

@kennyp - I can find kprookie but not kprook? Perhaps easier to just click the link?

I've joined as idkay. I might be worse at usernames than I am at chess.

Haven't used chess.com for years but I clicked on the link to see what it's all about and it seems to have added me (xebeq), so I guess I'm in. My chess is appalling!

I'll join in. haven't played online for ages but enjoy a game every now and again

Clicked the link, looks like I’m in. Should be good fun.

We're up to 9 players :). Would be good to get to 15-20 and then I can hit the start button 🙂

I've joined through your link, username neverumind.

Now up to 13 player. If anyone has recently tried to join and it's said tournament full please re-click the link. I had inadvertently changed a setting. Thanks to @irc for flagging this to me 🙂

I'm in , used to be ok but haven't played for 20 years so never played online . Hope the rules haven't changed .

I’m in
User name is dtcaban
Thanks

Can you add richwales please?

@richwales - invite sent via chess.com 🙂

I'm STW-jimmy - count me in!

Having not played an online tournament is there a link to how the time controls work. Not finding much help on Chess.com Time control Set as 5 days. Is that play your whole game in max 5 days per player?

It's normally 5 days per move.
Can you please count me in!
Jordan_ke

@dannybgoode Yes please. Am rubbish, see me an cannon fodder.

Just set up a chess.com account my username is i_like_more_food

Thanks 🙂

Just clicked and in as- chessron99.I am down as unrated but feel it should read underrated.

@irc. It’s 5 days per move. The entrants will be split into groups of 4 (automagically) and you will play each player in your group concurrently as white and black.

The top 2 from each group will progress to the next round and so on. It won’t be a quick thing, rather something to while away the evenings and gives players the chance to think about their moves 🙂

Latest batch of invites sent. Heading toward 30 players now - think I will l eave registration open until Friday and hit start Saturday so anyone else wanting to join either click the following link or drop me a note of your username on chess.com and I'll send you an invite...

https://www.chess.com/tournament/the-inaugural-stw-chess-championship/join/89301d

I'm rubbish, but why not, in, sounds good!

I’m rubbish, but why not, in, sounds good!

Looking at the ratings of those who have joined... Well let's just say it's more Fool's Mate than Queen's Gambit (myself very much included in that) :D.

Quick little bump on this should anyone want to join in the fun 🙂

Click the link below to join or drop me a note of your username on chess.com and I'll will fire you an invite:

https://www.chess.com/tournament/the-inaugural-stw-chess-championship/join/89301d

I played a couple of 30 minute games last night to get a bit of practice in, I haven't played in a couple of years, won both. This means I'm doomed to failure in this comp, probably in my first game! 😆

btw what's the format for the tourney? Is it just a straight knock out, on 1 day games or something?

@seosamh77 - 5 day per move tourney. Groups of 4 playing all group games concurrently, top 2 from each group progressing. Will take a while to complete but gives everyone the chance of at least playing a few games.

champions league then! cool, looking forward to it! 🙂

Thanks for this OP, just joined, same username as here. Not played since high school (40 years ago)!

Think I've signed up - 2Bitbish

I;m in. Flushthetoilet.

Joined up, looking forward to it (aide46)

Excellent - up to 34 players now so thanks for all the entries so far. Looking good 🙂

Well I wasn't going to bother because there was a round 32 already and I'm shite so would provide no-one with a challenge, but I see a couple of others have signed up so will give it a go anyway 🤣
EDIT: weirdly, seems I actually registered before anyway automatically when I clicked on the link just to check it out!!

because there was a round 32

The chess.com hamsters can work out numbers not divisible by 4 I think :). You ned up in a group of 3 from memory...

4 games simultaneously! 🤯 I'm going to need cooling fans on my head...

@i_like_food. Another reason to have 5 days per move. Means you have plenty of time to concentrate properly on each game 🙂

Followed the link and created an account. *think* I have joined (iancity29).
What now, is something sent from you, from chess.com?

Looking forward to this, although same as most (or so they say) on here, pretty rubbish !

Final call for entries into the tournament. Will be hitting the start button tomorrow morning 🙂

Good stuff! Game on!

I'm hopefully in, pkgelliott. Only ever play chess with the kids, so probably pretty poor... but that seems to fit nicely, unless everyone else is sandbagging!

Candyfromababy is in. (i think). Will be the sacrifice on the alter for all of you. Just spent a day doing the online lessons to learn ho to play.

Brill - we’re up to 41 players so a smashing entry list. I’ll hit start around 9am tomorrow 🙂

Looks like I might be in as well, oh well that’s an easy win for someone 🙂

Hope I haven’t missed the boat

Marmite4u

So how do the games start?

I appear to have joined but I don't really know how! Username - KevinPhilipsBong

Right the play button has been hit and your first games should have appeared :). Good luck everyone and feel free to chat, discuss or otherwise intimidate your opponents here by saying things like Bb4 - hmm, interesting. I think Qc2 would have given better development potential etc 🙂

Three matches. Made my first two moves. Expect to be humiliated tbh.

Looks like i picked an apt username.

My three games are underway. Couple of quick questions though.

Does the 5 day limit mean 5 days for each player ie in theory a game could last 10 days? Can't really see this happening with any of my games, and not in a good way!!

Secondly, is there anything that notifies you your opponent has made a move? Or is it just a case of checking regularly?

And lastly, does the clock count down to show your remaining time? Still showing as 5 days.

Enjoying it so far though. Years and years since I played a human opponent.

I cant help you there @Kennyp. Only learned how the pieces move a couple of days ago after watching the Netflix program. I do seem to be getting notifications though.