OTOH just prior to posting this and another question, I joined a tourney with 10 of 12 spots filled and it is now started. Perhaps that's the secret -- to find one that people have been joining regularly (if one can tell how long it's been open)?
Quickly filled (automatic?) tournaments?
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(The subject may sound like a repeat of a question I just asked, but it's not quite the same.)
Prior to selecting Chess.com as my new playing site, I enjoyed entering tournaments that filled up quickly, and this was at a site with fewer players than here (as far as I can tell). I don't mean that as criticism; I did after all leave that site to come here -- I'm just trying to find my way around.
You could, for example select from a long list of tournament types (example: medium rating, 6 players, 3 days per move, etc.) and the games started when the sixth player entered. The tournament would fill up within a few days, usually two to four days as I recall. The events did not require someone to manually create them, and when one filled up another was automatically opened with the same criteria.
I realize that here you can browse the tournament list and find, for example, tournaments with only a few players (to prevent, in the event of winning, having a longer term commitment to play a subsequent tournament) and most of the slots filled, but as far as I understand they don't fill up quickly (perhaps that's only the tournaments with just one "round"?). Am I missing options/opportunities that I should be checking out (perhaps automatic tournaments not requiring an individual to create them and not specifying a start date well in the future)?
I notice that some tournaments have a specified start date that has passed but they don't seem to have started, presumably because the specified number of players haven't joined.
Thanks for any help and clearing up any misconception I may have.