ICC News Item #1708

NEWS 1708 (2-Aug-03)
Play Tournaments on the Internet Chess Club! Last month's winners.

The Internet Chess Club holds over 700 tournaments every week for
members!  There are 74  regularly-scheduled weekly events(plus
other semi-regular events), and hundreds of impromptu tournaments
each day for bullet, blitz, standard, and wild variations.

Winners of the scheduled events can get their names listed in
these news items.  1 month prize for winning the most scheduled
events, 1 month prize for winning the most points during scheduled
events, and 1 month prize for playing in the most rounds during
scheduled events each month.  Maximum prize is 1 month prize per
person per month.

***NEW*** Each player can win a maximum of 1 freemonth from ordinary
scheduled prizes each month. ***NEW***

Tournament series events have monthly prizes too!  "finger
tomatowinners" and finger Tomato-Prizes for prizes and prize-winners.
Tournaments are run by over 200 managers, using the tournament
programs Tomato, Slomato, Flash, etc.  For general information,
use help Tomato and help tournaments.

To request a certain type of tournament, request it in channel 221:
"tell 221 I would like a 5 0 rated u1500".

Winners of 2 or more scheduled events (July 1-31):

10 wins: ECP, narog       ***each wins 1/2 month extension***
7 wins:  Fishman, pampachess
6 wins:  HSK
5 wins:  Molton, MrPipes
4 wins:  Iambeginner, mudilo, OLEG423, RMartin, SCARLETTE, Tornon,
whitewasp
3 wins:  Avetisyan, Azazel666, Beats20Cents, BoneCrusher-a1,
chesskilleruk, Chezzdevil, ElGaboconBotas, erwinromel, FuLinHyu,
MagnusFaldt, noforevis, Qualo, ratty, SlowDonkey, tuco1
2 wins:  B931943, buzdovan, cactus, canadianblitz, DonZampano,
DukeNukem, Enfatico, florish, FlyingSumo, freddi, gator03,
Grand-attack, grillster, hadzija, Hawkeye, Jahonas, KOFF, Knut,
MarsAttacks, SeaHorse, skeelosdownfall, snorky, Strelac, tagaipao,
Tipau, wschill, Xplodingplastix, Xyinze
1 win:  145 others

Most scheduled tourny rounds played-  ECP (709 rounds) +1/2 month
extension, 2nd-narog (500 rounds), 3rd-OF (432 rounds) +1/2 month
tell tomato series most jul03-scheduled

Most scheduled tourny points earned-  ECP (488.5 points), 2nd-narog
(345.0) +1/2 month extention, 3rd-OF (249.5) +1/2 month
tell tomato series best jul03-scheduled

To access the entire grid report use:
tell tomato series mail jul03-scheduled youremailaddress

During the month of July 2003 there were:
324 tourneys - 1,800 rounds - 2,501 players in the scheduled events.
3,120 TOTAL tournaments not including automato and pear.

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