Everyone who registers for our 10th Atticus Open / Summer Tournament 2020 has to submit his Lichess-Nick.
1. Creating an accont on Lichess:
Go to https://lichess.org/signup, enter a username, password and your e-mail, agree to all four points below, and click on "Register". You will get a welcome e-mail.
2. Adjust your Lichess account setting
Login at Lichess, click in the top-right on your Lichess-nick and click on "Profile". Then click on the gearwheel-icon (= edit profile). Go to "Privacy" and change "Let other players challenge you" to "always".
3. Challenging your opponent
If you play white: A list of all players with their linked Lichess-nick is on our website. Simply login at Lichess with your standard browser (I recommend Firefox) and then click on the Lichess-nick of your opponent. Now click om the "crossed sword icon" at the top-right of his profile, choose Variant "Standart", Time Controll "Real Time", Minutes per side = 60 and Increment in seconds = 30 and select "Rated". As you are playing with white, click on the "White King Icon". Now wait for your opponent.
If you play black: You opponent challendes you. You will see the number "1" (in white on a red background at the "Two crossed swords" icon at the top-left the Lichess-window. Click on this icon and accept the challenge by clicking on the green tick.
Now the game starts.
Remarks: Choose always "Rated". because "Casual" will turn off the Lichess Anti-Cheating measures.
4. Reporting the result of the game
After the end of the game, the winner downloads the pgn-file and
In case of a draw, the white player
5. Every round starts on Mondays at 7.30 p.m. (Britisch Time = 20:30 German Time.)
If you can not play at this time, please