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Well, the profile says he's Vladimir Konev. Konev is basketball player. They are tall. Let's see if we can think of tall/big Russian chess player named Vladimir...

@odoaker2015 and @Molurus (but mostly the first one): stop spamming this thread with your meaningless discussion, you can use PMs

@tpr no, that's not how it works. You don't need 2^n players to have n-round Swiss. Look at real Swiss tournaments, they have 9 rounds and often have less than 100 players

Implementing no duplicate pairings in arenas with few players might actually be difficult task - you should actually implement something like Swiss pairings, maybe little easier.

I'm sure that swiss pairings are not that hard to implement. Maybe even simpler than arena pairings.

Beautifully written, just make it happen :-)

I hope for c), but kinda think it will be b)

I'm not sure if it's still possible, but couple of years back in some marathon arena I just resigned games against much higher rated players before making first move, because the outcome was pretty mu…

Of course implementing of RR tournaments is probably easy. I don't think the problem is with implementation at all, those are not hard things for skillful people like lichess staff. The question is: i…

And is it implemented or the cross-table and pairings will be outside and just games will be played on lichess?