Bitcoin Forum

We are organizing a chess tournament on Chessque(https://chessque.com) on Septemeber 17th at 2:00 PM (GMT).  We are giving out prizes in bitcoins. If you are a chess enthusiast, do give it a try. Entry fee is just 25000 Satoshi.

It is a 1 min blitz tournament. For more details visit https://chessque.com

Hurry up! Only limited slots are available.

PS: The prize money increases with increase in participation, so dont forget to invite more people to play.

the first question that comes to mind: how will you determine if a player is not just another chess programme?
this will be a bot fest,you will be lucky if you get a single legit human player there
also the entry fee is very low,wonder what the prizes are going to be
Ilove chess but my ELO is not high enough to participate in such a tourney

lichess covers against chess engines pretty well and considering this is a bullet tournament crappy chess players are going to be forced to set engines to unfavorable conditions (by lowering the depth). Good players will likely premove and still spend less time than engines however due to consistent playing which adds memorization of certain patterns used in tactics.

A very good idea by the way. I dont play chess but I guess it would have been great if you let others bet on the games which are running in the tournament. Heard about lichess engines and its great implementation to clarify the real gamers.

sounds like a great idea but... i am totally negated at chess! i could not win a game even if i was the only player.

how much reward if win youre tournament
i think you must write about reward can much people interest join youre tournament
how to play player vs player, and how to tournament system

This will miserably fail. What if a grand master chess player joins? For sure he'll defeat most players for sure. Skill based gambling like chess is not something that would last since we cannot really determine the level of expertise of every player and match them with each other. That would mean that a newbie will always lose and he will not profit from this.

do not enter in this case,25.000 satoshis is not something that you should be afraid to lose
it is just 1$ and you can spend it on entertainment,not everything people do has the sole purpose of earning money,you know
my ELO was around 1900 or so,I was a pro chess player once,but I haven't touched chess for a decade if not more
if I was sure the players were human players I would play for fun,cause I'm sure I would not be able to win it ,the current form I'm at
also,its one minute time control limit,this is more like luck than skill,make it at least 2-3 minutes blitz

Don't be too lazy to find the details on the site, all what you ask is explained on the site already so go visit the site if you really wanna know the answer of your question.


So whats the problem? This is a tournament, anyone can join it including a chess grand master even though I doubt there will be any grand master wasting their time for this kind of site.

Very nice idea, been looking for this type of game in bitcoin with bet. Can you post on how many participants have joined and how many are the participants that you will accumulate until you close the registration? No hopes to be a champion but I just want to compete and try it out, this would be fun.

Thanks for the interest. Currently we have 25 users registered. We are promoting this event from today. We are hoping to get 500 participants for this tournament.

It will be awesome if you can follow us on Twitter(@chess_que) and share the post.

We want to try with 1 min tournament this time. It will eliminate people using engines to cheat.

We have kept the entry fee low so that anyone who can play chess can participate and enjoy the tournament feeling.

How you  detect bots playing ? A friend of mine is a very good chess player and he said is very hard to find bots when they may be as good as pro players. Just wondering...

I can finally test my chess skills on this site and its good that bitcoin winnings could possible be achieved on this one.Im not a pro player but would really be worth to try to compete with other players.I dont have doubts if these games have bot or not since the entry fee is very cheap.
I will try this one later on and give feedback on my sites experience.

lichess.org has a good bot detection system in place. We have chess masters on our platform, who will also check for suspicious activities.

Don't get me wrong, I really love chess, and I would participate if that wasn't an online event, because that's just the way to play chess. Maybe by video conference would work as well, but not on any simple online platform. What would you consider to be a "suspicious activity"? Unless you are asking for a player to justify every single move, you just can't accuse him of using a bot.

It is nice to see someone created a site that allows users to compete with each other playing chess and also stand a chance to win bitcoins as prizes for being the winner of the game, the low entry fee of just 25000 satoshi per game is also a good way to attract more players for playing on the site for entertainment purpose.

I haven't seen any chess tournament before and it is even rare to find one in bitcoin niche, can't understand how this tournament will work. Played few round of chess in http://lichess.org/ will look around to know how actually I can play in this tournament. You can also add donation address for pot, few users might donate to pot because of this interesting idea.

Just look to your site right now, and I must say I really liked its interface. These sites never last long though because of the bot problem, like most users are saying here. I haven't registered yet, but I saw you can play vs a friend. Can you choose a friend and bet an amount of BTC? That could be a good way to keep the site alive, because we can play vs some trusted friends, without the fear of facing a bot and thus having an unfair game.

Easy, if they have chat room and we can talk with other player on this game. that wasn't a bot because they held a tournament and i think all participant will don't mind to chat.

LOL this is the funniest suggestion on how to avoid bots. Even if you see all players are chatting, how do you know that they do not use bot? They can simply set the bot ON then they can chat while the bot works.

Very nice idea, i play chess buy i am entry level players so it will be helpful for my other friends who are pro in chess. But what about the genuinely of the site and how the site will perform on the games. Because after reading some comments it is sure that their will be lot of bot playing and winning it.

Please dont worry about the bots. We will analyze the games before declaring winners. We have chess masters working with us.

Users can report to us if they feel that they are playing against bots. 

If you have any other concerns, please mail us at info@chessque.com

also the time limit is very low,indeed
1 minute control leaves,practically,no time to get distracted on bots
but it is also some kind of a lottery too,I would suggest 2+1 minutes or a similar format
on the other hand,with 1 minute time control,even the not so strong chess players can have a chance to show decent results
as the overall quality of the game will be much lower and even masters can be beaten

We will consider changing the time control for the next tournament. For this tournament we will keep the time control as 1 min with no increment.

1 minute is indeed too short especially for amateurs. Maybe this is good for pros but amateurs will likely be hit by the time limit and just instantly lose. It would be like a tournament where the winner is the guy who moves the fastest.

Still an interesting gambling game though. Good luck to all participants.

its bad for both pros and amateurs,some pros won't be able to finish the game in one minute
even if you have been dominating,sometimes it takes a lot of time to checkmate your opponent
and you will hate losing because you just moved your mouse slower than him :)

The point is that (typically) average players are more or less on the same level as players that are +-150 elo [approximately] and can still pull a victory out of their ass if they're against higher-rated players. If you're just randomly plopping down moves then sure, you'll lose via the base game. However, the key part of this is mainly just opening theory and you honestly don't need skill for that: just a repertoire and knowledge of which premoves are risk-free.

---

I would consider 'pros' at 2k+

It's not that easy! I can run the soft at background and still chat with you.
This is the problem of playing skill games online - bots. Especially when there are prizes involved.
Yahoo was a very good place to play recreational chess from time to time but bots screw it!

how you guys gonna calculate prizepool?
how much rake you gonna take it and how many people registered now?
i cant see it on your site..

I would love to participate and I guess I will because of the low entry fee but I am not a good chess player, every time I have played online against other people 90% of the time I have lost, so it would be worthless for me to join. I am sure the people who will join this tournament will be mainly chess masters so I am staying away. Still a very good idea to hold a tournament in bitcoin and to share as a prize pool a bigger percentage from all the money you will collect from the entrants.

Oh, okay. That makes sense.

Well, you're being honest about it.

Wait, what?

What are you saying? Did you not just say you would enter because of the fee in your very first sentence? These contradictions are asinine.

---

Many times already OP and I have posted about anti-bot conduct. There should be no problem.

I  really have a doubt how they will address if a user lost his internet connection during playing the game. and how they would settle the game reward ????

If you disconnect completely then that's too bad: you'll lose the tournament most likely. If during a single independent game, IIRC, the timer goes down until you reconnect. Obviously, with bullet games, this also likely leads to a loss but that's how it is. Get a better connection if you want to play for a prolonged period of time.

Just one more day to go! We are looking for more participation.  This will be an exciting tournament.

Also, if you have registered and not able to participate in the tournament due to unforeseen reason, we will refund your bitcoin.

It's a very good idea. Playing games like this would be great fun and it's not just chess its many other games. The problem is that people will always want to cheat when it comes to winning money.

Very unfortunate that people will ruin things like this since I really like chess. For the life of me I can't figure out anyway to get around this issue. Any ideas ?