NEWS 1340 (7-Mar-00) IM Vassili wins Tomato 75K Celebration tourney!
On February 26, The Tomato 75K Celebration broke the record for the
largest tournament ever run on chessclub.com by attracting 336 players.
This event was managed by Tortonpion with the assistance of
several Main Managers and Super Users.
IM Vassili (2524) won this event with an impressive 11-1 score. His
only defeat was at the hands of Caulo (2530) in the 10th round.
Vassili rebounded from losing his perfect mark to defeat FM Vikingo
(2504) and DukeNukem (2404) in the final two rounds to secure first
place. Vassili's victims also included the next two finishers,
walloud (2508) and maradona (2612).
walloud took second place with 10.5 points in 12 rounds. He could
have tied for first with Vassili with a final round win, but he drew
maradona in the final round. maradona finished in third place with
9.5 points ahead on tiebreaks over Templeman and zfdfsdf.
Congratulations to the prize winners.
1st - 6 months - Vassili
2nd - 3 months - walloud
3rd - 2 months - maradona
4th - 1 month - Tempelman
Class Prizes (1 month, 0.5 month & 0.5 month)
Under2200: Under2000:
1st vic-1952 1st Fishman
2nd Jesus 2nd stany
3rd Suksoi 3rd HACMORK
Under1800: Under1600:
1st Timbo 1st henk
2nd TheBestRock 2nd schrat
3rd hpling 3rd Queensryche
Under1400: Under1200:
1st Kaiser1459 1st apollo13
2nd RoughRider69 2nd trapman
3rd chasty 3rd yuandy
To see the grid of this event, type: "tell tomato grid 75316" or
mail it to yourself with the chessclub.com command
"tell tomato mailgrid 75316 <your email address>"