Hi Everyone.

We are over half way through our first tournament, and I noticed that there are some ways we can possibly enhance the daily tournaments.

Vacation Mode:
We are a small city group of current and former Kamloops residents, and people using vacation mode can greatly slow the tournament down for everyone else in the tournament. I have been in other tournaments (not this group) where vacation mode delayed everyone's games for months.

As these are meant to be 'friendly' tournaments to help keep chess alive in Kamloops, I'm looking for alternatives to address vacation mode. My proposal for daily tournaments is to:

1) Deactivate Vacation Mode for future tournaments (I forgot to do so this tournament)
2) Increase the time per move from 1 day to 2 days to give those some extra time to make a move if something comes up.

The change would be implemented for all future daily tournaments, starting with the new daily tournament starting in March.

What are your thoughts?

Kamloops Chess Club

Super Admins