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[WIP] Increase variant tourney frequency #15977

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@isaacl isaacl commented Aug 30, 2024

  1. For the four most popular variants, make hourlys constant.

The time controls are adjusted to each variant

  • Atomic and Antichess tend to be played faster, so give them more bullet
  • In contrast, chess960 isn't played as fast
  • In contrast, zh isn't played as fast, and, additionally, game length is hard to predict, so keep zhInc function as is, so to maintain high freq of zh tourneys with at least +1 inc.
  1. Add back zh elite tourney. The zh team elite tourneys are too hard to find.

  2. Adjust tourney UI to group the popular variants in their own lanes.

Fixes #15861

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isaacl commented Aug 30, 2024

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suggestion: replace the 02:30 (1+0) zh 30 min arena with a 30 min (2+1) arena to avoid repetitive (1+0) bullet zh arenas?

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cFlour commented Aug 30, 2024

suggestion: replace the 02:30 (1+0) zh 30 min arena with a 30 min (2+1) arena to avoid repetitive (1+0) bullet zh arenas?

I agree with the idea, but instead of replacing 1+0 with 2+1, it can be replaced with 1+1 (like bullet U2000, U1700 etc arenas) or something with less initial time; in order to make the time control as close to 1+0 as possible.

Print time controls and clean up condition strings.
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isaacl commented Aug 30, 2024

I'll replace all top hour variant bullet tourneys with 1+1. So first it will be 1+1, then 1+0.

This is a draft FYI, more adjustments to come. The zh increment schedule is screwed up in the screenshot as well.

@isaacl isaacl changed the title Increase variant tourney frequency [WIP] Increase variant tourney frequency Aug 30, 2024
1) For the four most popular variants, make hourlys constant.
- Atomic and Antichess tend to be played faster, so give them more
  bullet
- In contrast, chess960 isn't played as fast
- In contrast, zh isn't played as fast, and, additionally, game length is
  hard to predict, so keep zhInc function as is, so to maintain high
  freq of zh tourneys with at least +1 inc.

2) Add back zh elite tourney. The zh team elite tourneys are too hard to find.

3) Adjust tourney UI to group the popular variants in their own lanes.
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isaacl commented Aug 30, 2024

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@cFlour I don't agree re 1+1, imo it is a universally disliked TC

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isaacl commented Aug 30, 2024

@QRMLichess I hear you, will follow up.

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