ICC News Item #1787

NEWS 1787 (3-Jan-05)
Play Tournaments on the Internet Chess Club!

The Internet Chess Club holds over 500 tournaments every week!  There
are 74 scheduled weekly events, as well as hundreds of impromptu
tournaments for bullet, blitz, standard, and wild variations.

The next 24-hour Tomato tournament Marathon will be held January 8-9th.
There will be five sections and dozens of membership-extension prizes;
see help marathon.

The 4 2 Thematic Championship ran from December 4-11th.  206 players
participated, and the winners were:

Open:   VerdeNotte(IM)  
u2000:  chmate       
u1600:  BillietheKid   

Next up is the 1 0 Championship in February.  See help Championship
for full details on these exciting events.

The 2004 ICC Kriegspiel (w16) Championship ran from December 17-26th;
rjay won both the 1 0 and 3 0 sections.  The next Wild Championship
will be 1 0 w29, see http://www.chessclub.com/finger/WildChamps

See http://www.chessclub.com/finger/TomatoWinners for a list of the
monthly prize winners.

Top 5 Scheduled Event Winners:
14 wins - ECP  (+1 month extension)
13 wins - JoeBanks
10 wins - manest(FM)
 9 wins - KevinEM
 6 wins - Burning-Bush, cldng, chesskilleruk, CyberTal, erwinromel,
          MoltenThinker, searchforbobby1, Wolfi

Most points earned - OF (321.5 points) (+1 month extension)
Most rounds played - robbonz (387 rounds) (+1 month extension)

During the month of December, there were 2,538 players in the 346
scheduled tourneys and a total of 2,862 tournaments overall.

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