The reason we start with hyperbullet is to provide some fast pace tournament. Title players, action, hype.
It's just to attract a lot of players to get things running. Once people know what's happening we will focus on the "casual" player.
We going to organize tournaments in all variants which are offered by LiChess altough I have to check about Horde, this mode seems a bit fishy.
I know a lot of player want rating prizes and stuff like that but you know there are tons of problems with that.
We want to provide non exploitable tournaments.
Some upcoming plans:
- Regular events with ChessAt3 + Wesley and ChessWhiz
- Crazyhouse events with JannLee audio commentary
- Hopefully a big tournament hosted by john bartholomew
- Every week a small tournament with another chess variant
- Random prizes ( starting by tomorrow ) to random players, you will like it.
Longterm goals:
Providing an healthy environment for the online chess community. LiChess is the foundation of everything, great software, great time. 100% non profit. It's up to the community now to improve the online chess world.
It's a valid question:
There is nothing in for us / me. I created BitChess with a friend of mine our profession is Bitcoin / Cryptocurrency.
Personally I see the online chess economy stagnating. While LiChess /
Chess.com and Chess24 providing good services I think this is not enough.
Everyone is scared of engine use. The last 2 tournaments proved there is nothing to fear about. Stop bitching about engines, the paranoia is way too high guys.
We need more innovation, more freelancing and a more dense community and rather work together then against each other.
