Rules of the 1st Lichess Standard Bots Competition:
After four Lichess Bots Championships there’s now the 1st Lichess Standard Bots Competition. To participate you have to be a lichess BOT and post that you’re going to play the next 3 rounds segment (at the official forum post about that segment) before the Monday when the next segment starts. The pairings are then announced before Wednesday. The first segment starts at Monday July 27th and the first pairings will be announced before Wednesday July 29th. You can play in as many segments as you want.
Segment 1 (round 1-3): July 27th – August 16th
Segment 2 (round 4-6): August 17th – September 6th
Segment 3 (round 7-9): September 7th – September 27th
Segment 4 (round 10-12): September 28th – October 18th
Segment 5 (round 13-15): October 19th – November 8th
Segment 6 (round 16-18): November 9th – November 29th
Segment 7 (round 19-21): November 30th – December 20th
Segment 8 (round 22-24): December 21st – January 10th
Final segment (round 25): January 11th – January 24th
During the first 8 segments you have 3 weeks to play your 3 matches (against 3 different opponents), during the final segment you have 2 weeks to play your final match. Ajile is the arbiter. Please contact Ajile if something isn't working (for example: scheduling or starting a match), so Ajile can try to find a fair solution before the next segment starts.
The 1st Lichess Standard Bots Competition uses the Rankings Via Differentiating Pairings system, which you can download (this isn’t a requirement to participate) at blitztwitchchessrefresh.wordpress.com/blog-july-august-2020/
To make pairings for 3 rounds at the same time, the pairings of the first round become forbidden pairings for the second round and both the pairings of the first round and the pairings of the second round become forbidden pairings for the third round. This way the players will have three different opponents (at most one of them is a bye) in each segment they participate in.
Each participant can contact its opponent to agree on a time and date (and other agreements that are allowed within the rules). You don’t have to play the 3 rounds segment in the order it is given (your third opponent may be available sooner than your second opponent), but please make sure you at least play those three opponents before the end of the three weeks (otherwise Ajile will choose the winner based on who did the most to make the match happen).
Time control: 5+10 (best of 4, but 2-0 also wins), then (if the score is 2-2) the first to get a 4 point advantage with 1+3. All games are rated and you change colors each game. The pairings show which player starts with white. All wins simply count as wins, it doesn’t matter how many games it took you to win, but the scores do have to be posted in this forum (at the official forum post about the segment the games were played in) by both players so the result can easily be confirmed.
The 1+3 part of the match (if there’s no winner after the 5+10 part) is won at the first time when one participant gets a 4 point advantage over another (for example 7 won games, many drawn games, and 3 lost games against an opponent during the match).
After four Lichess Bots Championships there’s now the 1st Lichess Standard Bots Competition. To participate you have to be a lichess BOT and post that you’re going to play the next 3 rounds segment (at the official forum post about that segment) before the Monday when the next segment starts. The pairings are then announced before Wednesday. The first segment starts at Monday July 27th and the first pairings will be announced before Wednesday July 29th. You can play in as many segments as you want.
Segment 1 (round 1-3): July 27th – August 16th
Segment 2 (round 4-6): August 17th – September 6th
Segment 3 (round 7-9): September 7th – September 27th
Segment 4 (round 10-12): September 28th – October 18th
Segment 5 (round 13-15): October 19th – November 8th
Segment 6 (round 16-18): November 9th – November 29th
Segment 7 (round 19-21): November 30th – December 20th
Segment 8 (round 22-24): December 21st – January 10th
Final segment (round 25): January 11th – January 24th
During the first 8 segments you have 3 weeks to play your 3 matches (against 3 different opponents), during the final segment you have 2 weeks to play your final match. Ajile is the arbiter. Please contact Ajile if something isn't working (for example: scheduling or starting a match), so Ajile can try to find a fair solution before the next segment starts.
The 1st Lichess Standard Bots Competition uses the Rankings Via Differentiating Pairings system, which you can download (this isn’t a requirement to participate) at blitztwitchchessrefresh.wordpress.com/blog-july-august-2020/
To make pairings for 3 rounds at the same time, the pairings of the first round become forbidden pairings for the second round and both the pairings of the first round and the pairings of the second round become forbidden pairings for the third round. This way the players will have three different opponents (at most one of them is a bye) in each segment they participate in.
Each participant can contact its opponent to agree on a time and date (and other agreements that are allowed within the rules). You don’t have to play the 3 rounds segment in the order it is given (your third opponent may be available sooner than your second opponent), but please make sure you at least play those three opponents before the end of the three weeks (otherwise Ajile will choose the winner based on who did the most to make the match happen).
Time control: 5+10 (best of 4, but 2-0 also wins), then (if the score is 2-2) the first to get a 4 point advantage with 1+3. All games are rated and you change colors each game. The pairings show which player starts with white. All wins simply count as wins, it doesn’t matter how many games it took you to win, but the scores do have to be posted in this forum (at the official forum post about the segment the games were played in) by both players so the result can easily be confirmed.
The 1+3 part of the match (if there’s no winner after the 5+10 part) is won at the first time when one participant gets a 4 point advantage over another (for example 7 won games, many drawn games, and 3 lost games against an opponent during the match).
