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Re: Partnership game - hypothetical
This concept would be great for a team chess league or tournament: every team of 2 or 3 or 4 would play against one chess engine running on one set of hardware using identical engine settings and books each time. Each team player would be in a different room, making any communication impossible.
Here's an even better idea for a team event: each team is comprised of 8 players. These 8 are divided into 4 sets of 2 partners. A match between team A and team B starts off as 4 games between each of the 4 sets of 2 players. They alternate moves with no communication for 16 moves.
When Black has made the 16th move in all games, team A's set of players switch to continue the game to their right (the last set of team A's players move to the first game). Another 16 moves are played in each game. For all games are still going after Black's 32nd move, team A's set of players switch again to the next game to their right. Another 16 moves to move 48, then a final shuffle. The final matchup continues until all games are decided. The result would be that each team of 2 partners plays each other team of 4 partners, unless any game ends on or before the 48th move. Whenever a game ends, all players currently playing that game are removed from further play.
The interesting part of this would be matching up your sets of partners before the match. You don't want your best set of 2 partners switching to a lost game after move 16 or move 32 or move 48 and getting knocked out of further play.
Originally posted by David Ottosen
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Here's an even better idea for a team event: each team is comprised of 8 players. These 8 are divided into 4 sets of 2 partners. A match between team A and team B starts off as 4 games between each of the 4 sets of 2 players. They alternate moves with no communication for 16 moves.
When Black has made the 16th move in all games, team A's set of players switch to continue the game to their right (the last set of team A's players move to the first game). Another 16 moves are played in each game. For all games are still going after Black's 32nd move, team A's set of players switch again to the next game to their right. Another 16 moves to move 48, then a final shuffle. The final matchup continues until all games are decided. The result would be that each team of 2 partners plays each other team of 4 partners, unless any game ends on or before the 48th move. Whenever a game ends, all players currently playing that game are removed from further play.
The interesting part of this would be matching up your sets of partners before the match. You don't want your best set of 2 partners switching to a lost game after move 16 or move 32 or move 48 and getting knocked out of further play.
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