Thanks for picking this up and running with it. It’ll be interesting to hear others thoughts too.
As a titled player, assumedly you’re within the top 0.01% of players on these sites (?). I haven’t played enough here to have a meaningful elo, but I‘d guess I’m in the lowest third or even lower. My cycling stats indicate I’m in the top 10-15 centiles for power depending over the period in which it’s measured. This info can be obtained if you use Strava and intervals.icu (both free versions work fine).
This leads me to think that whatever method we choose, it should probably lead to you winning quite handsomely if it’s a fair reflection of our relative standings in the combination of realms.
I wonder if custom time controls might be best, where I’d be looking to survive for as long as possible, but couldn’t purely sit on the clock would be best, something like 30 secs + 3. And if/when I lose I have to stop pedalling for a minute. Assuming you play almost immediately I’d have to last up to move 10 even if I were twice as fast on the bike, which I doubt is true. And each time I’d have to start from 0 mph. Should make for exciting chess and a fun hare and tortoise (no insult intended) type bike race. Plus we’d have to play moves whilst going all out on the bike.
As a titled player, assumedly you’re within the top 0.01% of players on these sites (?). I haven’t played enough here to have a meaningful elo, but I‘d guess I’m in the lowest third or even lower. My cycling stats indicate I’m in the top 10-15 centiles for power depending over the period in which it’s measured. This info can be obtained if you use Strava and intervals.icu (both free versions work fine).
This leads me to think that whatever method we choose, it should probably lead to you winning quite handsomely if it’s a fair reflection of our relative standings in the combination of realms.
I wonder if custom time controls might be best, where I’d be looking to survive for as long as possible, but couldn’t purely sit on the clock would be best, something like 30 secs + 3. And if/when I lose I have to stop pedalling for a minute. Assuming you play almost immediately I’d have to last up to move 10 even if I were twice as fast on the bike, which I doubt is true. And each time I’d have to start from 0 mph. Should make for exciting chess and a fun hare and tortoise (no insult intended) type bike race. Plus we’d have to play moves whilst going all out on the bike.