Closing Standard chess tournaments

  

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Thibault de Vassal    (2026-08-08)
Closing Standard chess tournaments?

Hello everyone,

This topic to know your opinion on the idea to close the whole Standard chess tournaments, to keep & favour Rapid ones.

Waiting lists should fill quicker this way...

What do you think?


John Dyson    (2026-08-08 14:55:09)
Closing Standard chess tournaments?

If that happens, I will leave FICGS immediately


George Jempty    (2026-08-08 15:04:38)
Closing Standard chess tournaments?

Yeah, we don't want anybody defecting, and I personally prefer standard over rapid at this point ....


Ilmars Cirulis    (2026-08-08 17:15:49)
Closing Standard chess tournaments?

I would prefer for them to stay.


Scott Ligon    (2026-08-08 17:21:45)
Closing Standard chess tournaments?

I prefer Rapid, but closing one or the other would make sense to me. Closing Rapid and keeping Standard would be ok too. The existence of the 2500+ category makes no sense to me at all, that's never going to fill up, and 2400+ seems marginal at best. One set of tournament time controls with 2300+ being the top rating division would be a nice improvement. Even then, that top rating category would have the problem that almost every game will be a draw, but there's nothing to be done about that in a standard game of chess with modern engines.


Janusz Swiatek    (2026-08-08 23:15:46)
Closing Standard chess tournaments?

I wouldn't close it, but changed form of starting them. Now we have to wait for the list of participants to be completed, but what about starting games as soon as at least 2 players join in a similar way as for example on LSS server.


Janusz Swiatek    (2026-08-08 23:24:07)
Closing Standard chess tournaments?

Alternatively you could decrease the number of participants to 4 per tournament and each player would need to play agains each opponent as white and black - so the same amount of games as now, when 7 players join the tournament.


Thibault de Vassal    (2026-08-09 02:55:17)
Closing Standard chess tournaments?

Ok... many thanks for your answers! Thinking about it.


Ulises Pineda    (2026-08-09 05:11:16)
Closing Standard chess tournaments?

Just stretch the rating ranges to fill them faster. If it was 0-2500 they would fill daily, so find the right amount of tourneys with the right rating ranges so they fill as fast as you want.