Who is the best chess player of the Netherlands? of germany? of Poland? (are there people from poland)
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another idea (which can be fit in the ideas of Orejano) is to make tournaments per country.
Who is the best chess player of the Netherlands? of germany? of Poland? (are there people from poland)
Who is the best chess player of the Netherlands? of germany? of Poland? (are there people from poland)
A site championship open to everyone is always a great idea... any self respecting chess site has one :).
I also like the idea of having Titles to the top players... it gives people goals.
just make sure anyone who gets up there is run through an engine screening.. cheaters shouldn't be recognized for anything!
I just came up with some ideas for the tournaments, you may already be working on that, but if you don't then you may consider it.
1. Tournament norms: You can create official tournament to earn norms for a Chess.com title (something like chess.com candidate master, chess.com master and chess.com grandmaster), and this type of tournament will be valid only for premium members. And there you have another reason for become premium!.
2. Pyramid tournament: I took this idea from another page, but is very very fun. You can divide the users by countries (or group of countries if they are too few) and then make a continue tournament. To start, the higher rated player will be on the top of the pyramid, and then the rest will be grouped in different levels. Everyone is in the pyramid and everyone can play a pyramid match whenever he wants. The challenger will always play with the black pieces and if he wins he will go up one level on the pyramid and the loser will go down one level. The challenger have to challenge to a user one level above and this user may accep or may not. But he has to play at least one game in a certain period of time in order to remain on his level.
3. Pyramid tournament continuations: You can also set up some sort of world championship with all the players at the top of their respective pyramid. Maybe once a year? And give some nice trophy to the winner and maybe a prize (24 hours of chess mentor or so). And these type of tournament will be available for premium members only.
4. Team tournaments. I don't think I have to explain this type of tournament, and I'm pretty sure that you are already working on this.
What do you think?