Ben Reiniger wrote on Mon, May 14, 2018 02:06 AM UTC:
I've heard similar ideas for bigger versions of Bughouse chess, but I don't think I've heard it in connection to tournament design. I guess you could just do one trio and the rest usual Basque doubles, allowing any odd number of players?
I'm not entirely sure that a longer cycle like this would balance things as well; it makes it easy to balance the number of games played as black/white, but not against each player...
I've heard similar ideas for bigger versions of Bughouse chess, but I don't think I've heard it in connection to tournament design. I guess you could just do one trio and the rest usual Basque doubles, allowing any odd number of players?
I'm not entirely sure that a longer cycle like this would balance things as well; it makes it easy to balance the number of games played as black/white, but not against each player...