rule: one problem one try.
1st round: solve 20 basic tsumego problem. pick some winner based on their correct answer & their time duration
2nd round: more difficult tsumego problems
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final: battle of two person solving high level tsumego problems.
During one french summer camp we did this during the lunch. Each day was a different categorie (tsumego, joseki, fuseki, tesuji…). A bunch of them to solve quickly on a paper sheet.
Was fun.
When is the first edition of TST?
(Tsumego Tournament) TT should be enough abbreviation as long as there is no Tsumego Designing Tournament
Briljant. Let’s also do a TDT.
Maybe different categories for designing tsumego targeting different levels? so what might win a category targeting ddks, would be very different from what would be in contention targeting mid-dans
Another way is to give a starting bonus like 18k has 18 points, 5k 5 points and 3d -3pts.
Then each successful problem gives 1 point
I’ve heard of a chess tactics tournament that worked, if I recall correctly, by giving the contestants a bunch of problems to solve, like 1000 (maybe there was a time limit and you tried to get through as many as possible?). Then there was a break of a month or two. Then there was a second round where you faced the exact same set of problems. 1 point for each correctly solved problem, so max 2 points per problem if you got it right both rounds. It tested a combination of solving skills and recall of previously seen patterns
EDIT: note that you did not get to review the problems during the break, you just had to rely on what you remembered from the first round