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I often don't notice that my opponent offers a draw - during games, I look at the board, not at the right side of the window .... . It's also the case for other people I know, and presumably for some …

On the Internet (Lichess or elsewhere) but all players at the same location. For games to be nationally rated, I would also need an arbiter on location from a different club (to rule out cheating) - w…

The Bavarian blitz team championship was held the same way, the tool from Kelheim quickly became widely known and popular - it will also be used for the event I have in mind: U14 hybrid tournaments of…

I think Swiss provides more meaningful final standings - in the Arena format, a lot also depends on which pairings you happen to get (including whether you get enough 'beatable' opponents in a row for…

For an upcoming hybrid event, I need to test the Internet quality at our club venue beforehand - advice from our landlord. As far as I know, the Internet there had only been used before to check email…

Great! It would be even better if the TRF file was sorted by final standings rather than post-tournament rating. But with a bit (well, a lot) of manual editing it seems that http://www.tarrasch-muench…

It also gives an incentive to NOT finish games before the tournament ends - refuse to resign in a dead-lost position, even one move before unavoidable mate, but simply let your clock run down. The way…

Thanks! So I was lucky (TPR 2126 vs. 2123). It meant 10 Euros extra prize money - I got the prize for best player of the organizing club, my clubmate got the <2000 rating prize where I was also eligib…

Due to circumstances, the 33rd edition of the Christmas tournament of my club was for the first time held on Lichess https://lichess.org/swiss/4GYQfapK . Several questions-suggestions arose before and…