A chess day

Yesterday was the day of the Dress Rehearsal and the Tech Trek at #ICPCBaku. I am planning to solve the mirror contest on Thursday together with Kevin and Mateusz, so we used the Dress Rehearsal time to practice our solving and streaming setup as well (photo on the left). Unfortunately we could not practice the submissions since it seems that the mirror was not available for the Dress Rehearsal, but the rest seems in order. Tune in tomorrow (Thursday) at 11:00 Baku time to my Youtube channel to watch us compete! You will also be able to look at the official broadcast of the real contest, its scoreboard and problems (you can find more links here), and of course please support the #ETH team!

Today is the ICPC Challenge day, with the results due to be announced in a couple of hours. In the evening the Alumni-hosted events will continue, and I have decided to use my slot for an online chess tournament for the World Finals onsite attendees. Here is how I propose to run it:

• We will run a 5-round Swiss tournament on lichess with 3+0 time control (3 minutes for each side per game, no increment). This yields a ~30-minute duration but if games finish earlier hopefully it will be a bit faster and everybody will be in time for the push-ups :)
• To join the tournament, you need a lichess account and a phone or a laptop to play. If you do not have a lichess account and want to participate, please create it in advance!
• To join the tournament, you also need to join this team on lichess first. I will need to approve everybody who wants to join the team so that it keeps being an onsite event, so you will need to find me in person for that.
• The easiest way to find me in person will be to come to the Chill Zone in the Marriott Blvd today at 17:30 (or a bit earlier).
• The tournament will start at 17:35, so don't be late! If you are late, you should be able to join the tournament late during the first two rounds as well, but then you will miss some games :)

If you have any questions, please ask in comments here or on Codeforces!