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Lichess Puzzle Tournament

With the puzzles here at lichess being so wildly popular, a Puzzle Tournament would be a smashing success !

Members could submit puzzles for consideration, with various themes as mates in 3; find the winning move, find the drawing move for Black. etc.

Formatting a tournament is the challenge. A suggestion is to solve 10 puzzles. The winner is the 1st solver to complete all 10. A wrong guess and the puzzle remains "frozen" for 10 seconds before another guess can be made. After correctly solving 1 puzzle, the next puzzle is presented.

Other suggestions? I'm sure the Tournament would draw a lot of attention. It's a matter of a developer and a few volunteers to organize such an event.

Thanks !
I don't think puzzles should be rushed nor should they be made in to a competition. You should savour each position and really try and find the truth of it. I would say, on average I spend about 30 minutes on each puzzle I complete on here. I like to see everything though, calculating all possible lines to exhaustion but then I am what some might call a chess purist.

Also how would you prevent cheating?
@NeverBeenTimid has completed 2976 puzzles at 30 minutes each ..

1463 hours on puzzles in 6+ months = 8 hours a day. More of your complete BS that is not believed for a second. This pounding of your chest in every post of yours is boring. How to prevent cheating? I won't dignify your continued stalking of my threads with a response to your foolish question.

There is a long history, tradition of puzzle competitions. I made a suggestion on the slight chance it might interest someone to develop such a contest/tournament. I'm fully aware it requires much work and time, but maybe sometime in the future.

Timid .... you've had your due. We've all heard ad nausea about your Cup, you're a world top ten player, now please go hang out and eat some more caviar you're so fond of. Respectfully, Please do not post here again. In your team posts, you have discussed your intent of trolling the threads, harassing certain members. If you post here again, it is an indication as such and will be reported.

Good luck and good chess in your travels.
Why not Puzzle Arena Tournament?

I will add an average rating of puzzle.
Like Puzzle Arena average ~1500, ~1750, ~2000, ~2200 and higher.

For example: 60 min tournament and puzzle average ~2000.

With standard Arena rules:
0 for bad answer
+2 for good answer
+4 for good answer in row
You can start anytime and withdraw anytime.
There must be a "penalty" of some kind for wrong answers, other wise solvers will just start guessing straight away. I suggested the puzzle would "freeze" for a given amount of time, but losing points would also work.
The suggestion requires quite a bit of new programming, but it would not interfere with or require changes to existing code.
A major criteria is would a Puzzle tournament be something that a majority of members would like to see happen? Apparently not, as there has been little response to the thread.

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