Lila: Round robin tournaments

Created on 10 Feb 2018 · 6Comments · Source: ornicar/lila

Many users of lichess want to have a possibility to play the round-robin tournaments.
Because there are tournaments where participants want to play against every another participant.
This feature especially useful for some community-private events or top player online events.

I propose to implement such a feature in lila project.

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nizhikov

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I was playing a lot of round-robin correspondence tournaments on chess.com, I miss them since I switched to lichess.org.
Correspondence tournaments would be a nice feature, and round-robin sounds like the way to go for that.

MCMic on 5 Apr 2018

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I'm experienced scala developer.
I'm ready to take care of this feature and fully implement it.

Do Lila committers consider merge this feature into the project if I implement it?

nizhikov on 10 Feb 2018

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Quoting myself from the discord #devs channel:

We used to have swiss tournaments, and I removed them, because they were not popular enough
Arena is by far the best suited format for online chess
other formats induce wait and deal badly with late joining, pausing, and early quitting
some people do want swiss and/or round-robin, but I usually see as a projection of OTB habits to Internet. Likewise there's people who demand touch-move on lichess. Such projections are often invalid.
It is my opinion that these formats are inferior, therefore less popular; they add yet another split in the tournament user base, reducing number of player in every tournament and consequently quality of every tournament; add complexity to the codebase, making maintenance harder.
That's why it has not been added (back).

ornicar on 10 Feb 2018

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MCMic on 5 Apr 2018

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Hello, @ornicar!

Can we now consider the addition of round robin or swiss tournament to lila?

I can take care of this feature, let's add it to the product!

nizhikov on 1 Nov 2018

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maybe before the community of lichess was small and there was no interest in round robin tournaments.
just out of curiosity how many players have the modalities: Antichess, Crazyhouse, Atomic, Racing Kings, etc?

I have just finished a tournament among children aged 7 -9.
It was difficult to explain how to challenge, that they did it correctly, both in color and time of each game, then take the board etc.
How nice it would be to have a tool for this type of tournaments, with 3 or 4 days of duration.

excuse my english, I use google translate