Ectya (Enes CanTear You Apart) has suggested we start a blitz tournament for JazzFanz. I can organize and keep track of scores if enough people are interested. We could try it with as little as four players or as many as eight or more. I have in mind a double round-robin with a five minute time control for each player, so if we have four players you would play each person twice, black and white, for a total of six games.
The time commitment is only about fifteen minutes (twenty maximum) to play one player twice. If we try to finish all the games in a week or so there should be plenty of time for players to arrange to be online for three separate fifteen minute windows. The two people playing each other would make their own arrangements for a window that works for both and then post the results here.
Since ectya and myself are interested we need just two more players to get things going. The suggested website (lichess.org) is easy and intuitive to play; one player goes to the site, starts a game, sets the time controls, and then posts a link here (the link is done automatically by pressing the "play a friend" button), the other player clicks on the link at the arranged time, and away you go.
Blitz is a great way to sharpen your tactics while playing a wide variety of games in a short amount of time. By nature, the games are much more likely to be wild and aggressive as both players try to win by force before time expires. It should be fun, so no reason not to at least try a few blitz games! Please let us know if you're interested.
