Post by buns on Oct 20, 2021 23:18:04 GMT
What: Chess tournament
Time and date: 23rd of October, 19:00 UTC
Tournament link : lichess.org/tournament/FBHOTo8n Password: casualchess
Hi everyone,
It’s time for another Casual BA Chess Extravaganza! On the 23rd of October, Casual BA will host a chess tournament, starting at 19:00 UTC on Saturday.
People from any skill level are welcome to join! We are all playing for the fun of it.
It will take place through the lichess website, and I will be streaming my gameplay with commentary on either Discord OR twitch (depending on the number of viewers, as discord is capped at 25 in a channel). The tournament will most likely be streamed on Discord. [If twitch, check out twitch.tv/bbuunnss]
Feel free to also stream your POV in Discord, if you would like.
For those unfamiliar with lichess (or chess in general), watch the video below. It will cover how to join the tournament through the lichess website, and it will include some basic strategy for anyone that is new to chess.
The games themselves will be 5 minute games per side, without increment (so up to 10 minutes/game). We will set the total time to 90 minutes assuming a decent amount of participants. If fewer people than expected show up, we might decrease this to 60 min.
After the rounds, we’ll ask the top 4 players to play against eachother (#1 vs #4, #2 vs #3) for a single game-knockout, followed by a best-of-three of the winners in order to determine the chess champion (format 3 min + 2 sec per move).
These final games will be commentated by myself (as there’s no shot I’m making it to the finals). If you would like to join me, feel free to message me on Discord!
The winner will be crowned “Chess Master” the Casual Ba discord, taking the title from navimydude , as well as receive a bit of osrs gp.
There will also be some prizes in other categories, detailed below. These do not require you to be amazing at chess, so anything is up for grabs.
Hope to see a lot of you Saturday the 23rd!
Video on joining tournament + how pieces move/basic strategy : youtu.be/OdZupsPJmx0
Tournament link : lichess.org/tournament/FBHOTo8n Password: casualchess
Note: this is a for fun event. Lichess has excellent detection of people cheating using engines and will often ban these accounts right away, or within the next couple of hours. While we hope nobody will ruin this event by using engines, this is partially why we wait a day or two before administering rewards. Cheaters will obviously be excluded from rewards, and this might echo into other sanctions like exclusion from future events.
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Prizes:
1st and 2nd place will take 10m and 5m respectively.
Additionally the 6 fashionscape sets displayed below will be given away for a few different categories (each worth between 2 and 3 million old school runescape gold pieces.
For the first two sets (the tuxedo sets):
#1 will be awarded to the person with the longest diagonal pawn chain
#2 will be awarded to the first person to underpromote a pawn to a bishop or knight (or rook if knight/bishop underpromotes don't occur).
We’ll reveal the categories for the other 4 sets directly after the event!
Hope to see a lot of you Saturday at 19:00 UTC
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Time and date: 23rd of October, 19:00 UTC
Tournament link : lichess.org/tournament/FBHOTo8n Password: casualchess
Hi everyone,
It’s time for another Casual BA Chess Extravaganza! On the 23rd of October, Casual BA will host a chess tournament, starting at 19:00 UTC on Saturday.
People from any skill level are welcome to join! We are all playing for the fun of it.
It will take place through the lichess website, and I will be streaming my gameplay with commentary on either Discord OR twitch (depending on the number of viewers, as discord is capped at 25 in a channel). The tournament will most likely be streamed on Discord. [If twitch, check out twitch.tv/bbuunnss]
Feel free to also stream your POV in Discord, if you would like.
For those unfamiliar with lichess (or chess in general), watch the video below. It will cover how to join the tournament through the lichess website, and it will include some basic strategy for anyone that is new to chess.
The games themselves will be 5 minute games per side, without increment (so up to 10 minutes/game). We will set the total time to 90 minutes assuming a decent amount of participants. If fewer people than expected show up, we might decrease this to 60 min.
After the rounds, we’ll ask the top 4 players to play against eachother (#1 vs #4, #2 vs #3) for a single game-knockout, followed by a best-of-three of the winners in order to determine the chess champion (format 3 min + 2 sec per move).
These final games will be commentated by myself (as there’s no shot I’m making it to the finals). If you would like to join me, feel free to message me on Discord!
The winner will be crowned “Chess Master” the Casual Ba discord, taking the title from navimydude , as well as receive a bit of osrs gp.
There will also be some prizes in other categories, detailed below. These do not require you to be amazing at chess, so anything is up for grabs.
Hope to see a lot of you Saturday the 23rd!
Video on joining tournament + how pieces move/basic strategy : youtu.be/OdZupsPJmx0
Tournament link : lichess.org/tournament/FBHOTo8n Password: casualchess
Note: this is a for fun event. Lichess has excellent detection of people cheating using engines and will often ban these accounts right away, or within the next couple of hours. While we hope nobody will ruin this event by using engines, this is partially why we wait a day or two before administering rewards. Cheaters will obviously be excluded from rewards, and this might echo into other sanctions like exclusion from future events.
___
Prizes:
1st and 2nd place will take 10m and 5m respectively.
Additionally the 6 fashionscape sets displayed below will be given away for a few different categories (each worth between 2 and 3 million old school runescape gold pieces.
For the first two sets (the tuxedo sets):
#1 will be awarded to the person with the longest diagonal pawn chain
#2 will be awarded to the first person to underpromote a pawn to a bishop or knight (or rook if knight/bishop underpromotes don't occur).
We’ll reveal the categories for the other 4 sets directly after the event!
Hope to see a lot of you Saturday at 19:00 UTC