Every single game ends in a draw

Start Date: Jan 27, 2023

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This is a "No Vacation" tournament!

This is my dumbest idea yet.

This is a custom position, where white has only one move: to take black's bishop and stalemate. However, if white doesn't move and times out, it's still a draw because black doesn't have sufficient material to checkmate. So every game ends in a draw (unless you resign or withdraw but that's not cool)

Games are unrated, obviously. If you still don't want to join, don't join. If you do, you may always withdraw.

Let's see how far this goes before it causes a bug in chess.com's tournament system because that outcome is very likely.

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New Every Game Is A Draw tournament

wk_18 | Dec 29, 2024, 6:58 PM

This time group sizes of 12

https://www.chess.com/tournament/every-game-is-a-draw-2025-edition