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While most of you enjoyed your participation, we did experience technical difficulties which caused some players to lose their game because their screen froze or they were kicked off the site.
After discussion, we did not want to penalize these players nor did we want to penalize the player who was still logged on and won the came in that fashion.
The best solution we could find to this dilemma was the following:
1 - Final standings will stand.
2 - A player who lost a game because their screen froze or they had other technical difficulties, will not have any rating change based on that game. In otherwords, they will not lose rating points.
3 - A player who won the game because his or her opponent was unable to play the game due to technical problems, will receive the rating points they deserved based on that game.
Chesskid.com is significantly less reliable than lichess.org and chess.com. For the fast games you should use the web app on an actual laptop/desktop rather than a tablet or phone.
Is the next one still on the 14th or is it the one organized by Ottawa office on the 21st?
Thanks!
Hi Tony,
Yes, the Chess 'N Math Association's next Online Chess Tournament is indeed on Sunday June 14th,
from 1 pm. It will be hosted through Lichess, using CMA ratings, paired through SwissSys. The event
will be directed by 3 FIDE-qualified Arbiters - Omar Shah, Corinna Wan, and Karen Wan. Register here: https://chess-math.org/cma-online-chess-tournament
Thanks,
Francis
Francis Rodrigues, LLB - Regional Director Strategy Games & The Chess'n Math Association
tel: 416-488-5506; 416-486-3395; 647-232-6014 (cell)
701 Mt. Pleasant Road, Toronto, ON, M4S 2N4 fax: 416-486-4637; website: www.chess-math.org
Hi Tony,
Yes, the Chess 'N Math Association's next Online Chess Tournament is indeed on Sunday June 14th,
from 1 pm. It will be hosted through Lichess, using CMA ratings, paired through SwissSys. The event
will be directed by 3 FIDE-qualified Arbiters - Omar Shah, Corinna Wan, and Karen Wan. Register here: https://chess-math.org/cma-online-chess-tournament
Thanks,
Francis
Francis Rodrigues, LLB - Regional Director Strategy Games & The Chess'n Math Association
tel: 416-488-5506; 416-486-3395; 647-232-6014 (cell)
701 Mt. Pleasant Road, Toronto, ON, M4S 2N4 fax: 416-486-4637; website: www.chess-math.org
Thanks. We registered. For some reason I was expecting an email with chess jokes!
There are two unique aspects to disconnecting on lichess.
1. Opponent can claim win after fairly short period. Will players be reminded not to do this?
2. Losing a game from disconnecting and even losing on time when you had a lot of time for your move (I think 20/30 sec) results in the player being "paused". The player needs to unpause themself to be paired for the next round.
Thanks for your support & feedback esp., which is being taken into account.
I'm sure you must have received an email too about tomorrow's (Sunday) free tournament, which is
open to all - and is a serious practice run run for next Sunday's major event. For everyone who would
like to enter, watch, or participate, I am reproducing here below, FA Omar Shah's official invitation:
........................................................................................................
Greetings Parents and Students,
CMA ,Chess n Math Association, will be hosting a Mock (practice and
non-rated) tournament tomorrow from 2:00 - 4:30 pm. The Tournament will be hosted via LiChess.
If you have a LiChess account already, great. Otherwise please signup for one (it is free to sign up):
Lastly, for all those who register before 11 am tomorrow an email will be sent out to show you step by step
on how to look up your pairing,challenge your opponent and report your results.
Yes, but they are using CMA ratings for pairings, not LiChess ratings.
Hi Fred,
I know you're prob busy of a Sunday, plus you have an ongoing Tourney a.m., but if you could
spare a min towards 1:45 pm, Omar would really appreciate your input and experience with this.
Meeting ID: 824 5754 1254
Password: 058312
...............................................................................................................................................
BTW, if anyone's interested, we still have a few Zoom Full annual memberships available at 50% off!
PM or email me: toronto@chess-math.org;
I know you're prob busy of a Sunday, plus you have an ongoing Tourney a.m., but if you could
spare a min towards 1:45 pm, Omar would really appreciate your input and experience with this.
Meeting ID: 824 5754 1254
Password: 058312
...............................................................................................................................................
BTW, if anyone's interested, we still have a few Zoom Full annual memberships available at 50% off!
PM or email me: toronto@chess-math.org;
Thanks,
Francis
Francis.
In my opinion, the effort to do the pairings with SwissSys and have players manually challenge each other is difficult and may contribute to the forfeit level, but I suppose the problem would be getting the results in a usable format to be rated for large events. My events aren't big enough (yet) that a reporting tool like SwissSys is required at all.
In my opinion, the effort to do the pairings with SwissSys and have players manually challenge each other is difficult and may contribute to the forfeit level, but I suppose the problem would be getting the results in a usable format to be rated for large events. My events aren't big enough (yet) that a reporting tool like SwissSys is required at all.
Fred
My son participated in this tournament, and the technical format was actually fine: direct challenging of participants and communicating results to moderators was pretty straightforward. The reason we forfeited is that for some mysterious reason we were asked to play Racing Kings instead of actual chess...Not sure why participants were not allowed to play chess even in a training tournament with no rating recorded: waiting for half an hour+ between rounds to play something that only remotely resembles chess was too much for us... I just hope that chess will still be played at all other online CMA tournaments, training or not.
Francis Rodrigues, LLB - Regional Director Strategy Games & The Chess'n Math Association
tel: 416-488-5506; 416-486-3395; 647-232-6014 (cell)
701 Mt. Pleasant Road, Toronto, ON, M4S 2N4 fax: 416-486-4637; website: www.chess-math.org
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