The only tournament I play in these days is a monthly 4 round 25/5 event which lasts from noon to 4:30 on a Saturday. If I lose a game it's almost time for the next one. Longer events are just too tiring (I'm 82).
It’s a great format for working parents tbh - I can’t do ANYTHING on a weeknight - but once a month I can give up my whole Saturday for chess even if it means driving 75 mins
Ok, I was not going to write more, only because I never send comments!
But I have been in shock, as a player who has played classic games from the age of 9 to 60, about the lack of ambition in these comments and some words from you, too (sorry).
Even so MC lost it and are now trying to get closed elite group to take 80% of prices in Fischer Random wrongly called Freestyle, 960 or whatever ever, there is no need to follow all bullshit from him, mainly damage to game.
Online is fun but only that, fun. Impossible to take it seriously.
I see from your text that 60 10 seems to be the most popular. The only country I have heard use it in Europe is Faroe Island. But after they tested they are very positive about it.
But it can be useful to mix opinions, which you have written about.
I have never been interested in playing in the USA; Canada is another thing. The system is so strange, and for my, some rules are just wrong. For example, it was bad that you could start again in a tournament in the first three rounds; just pay for it. $$$ looks like the only thing that is important there.
Another reason (and now you have given me more, like bring the chess sets) is that you don´t get a rating for playing. If that is, what is the purpose? I know that you have some USA rating, but that is not important when you are playing all over. Need to include that I heard about some tournaments in Germany and Switzerland is like that, I almost had wasted time and money when I heard that in the last minutes!
Icelandic GM had also told me that the tournaments organized in the USA are very realistic inthe Queens Gambit. I mean, it was like that.
If you look at the players list in the Reykjavik Open, which starts in less than 2 weeks, you see probably 20 players from the USA, all without rating. But probably they have all 2000 elo, plus minus 200. But because they have never played with real rating, they come in as beginners.
Not all tournaments allow beginners; even so, we do.
I hate the bye rule because, for me, it is embarrassing for chess as a sport (chess is a sport, not a board game!). But it help this groups a little.
Sorry if I am too hard, especially because you are one of my favorite authors. But I must admit reading this all and more coaches from USA have both been shock for the sport but too, if this is the spirit, can I trust the quality on the material. I mean if this is the thinking, is the material not for that group?
The only tournament I play in these days is a monthly 4 round 25/5 event which lasts from noon to 4:30 on a Saturday. If I lose a game it's almost time for the next one. Longer events are just too tiring (I'm 82).
It’s a great format for working parents tbh - I can’t do ANYTHING on a weeknight - but once a month I can give up my whole Saturday for chess even if it means driving 75 mins
30/30 is the future. It's a nice mix of speed and long thinks.
Ok, I was not going to write more, only because I never send comments!
But I have been in shock, as a player who has played classic games from the age of 9 to 60, about the lack of ambition in these comments and some words from you, too (sorry).
Even so MC lost it and are now trying to get closed elite group to take 80% of prices in Fischer Random wrongly called Freestyle, 960 or whatever ever, there is no need to follow all bullshit from him, mainly damage to game.
Online is fun but only that, fun. Impossible to take it seriously.
I see from your text that 60 10 seems to be the most popular. The only country I have heard use it in Europe is Faroe Island. But after they tested they are very positive about it.
But it can be useful to mix opinions, which you have written about.
I have never been interested in playing in the USA; Canada is another thing. The system is so strange, and for my, some rules are just wrong. For example, it was bad that you could start again in a tournament in the first three rounds; just pay for it. $$$ looks like the only thing that is important there.
Another reason (and now you have given me more, like bring the chess sets) is that you don´t get a rating for playing. If that is, what is the purpose? I know that you have some USA rating, but that is not important when you are playing all over. Need to include that I heard about some tournaments in Germany and Switzerland is like that, I almost had wasted time and money when I heard that in the last minutes!
Icelandic GM had also told me that the tournaments organized in the USA are very realistic inthe Queens Gambit. I mean, it was like that.
If you look at the players list in the Reykjavik Open, which starts in less than 2 weeks, you see probably 20 players from the USA, all without rating. But probably they have all 2000 elo, plus minus 200. But because they have never played with real rating, they come in as beginners.
Not all tournaments allow beginners; even so, we do.
I hate the bye rule because, for me, it is embarrassing for chess as a sport (chess is a sport, not a board game!). But it help this groups a little.
Sorry if I am too hard, especially because you are one of my favorite authors. But I must admit reading this all and more coaches from USA have both been shock for the sport but too, if this is the spirit, can I trust the quality on the material. I mean if this is the thinking, is the material not for that group?