ICC News Item #1789

NEWS 1789 (3-Feb-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 1 0 Bullet Championship with prizes starts February 5th!
Here is the schedule of the qualifiers; each one is a 15-round event:

Saturday, February 5   14:00 EST
Sunday, February 6     12:00 EST
Monday, February 7     19:00 EST
Tuesday, February 8    21:00 EST
Wednesday, February 9   9:00 EST
Thursday, February 10  15:00 EST

For full details, read help Championship.

The 24-hour Tomato tournament marathon was held on January 8-9th.
202 tournaments with 970 total rounds were run over the 24-hour period.
There was a total of 1,137 unique participants.  For a complete list of
winners and prizes, see:

http://www.chessclub.com/finger/MarathonWinners

For full details on this exciting, bi-monthly event, see
help marathon.  Come join us March 19-20th, 2005 for the next
24-hour, Tomato tournament marathon!

For a list of the January monthly prizes, see:

http://www.chessclub.com/finger/TomatoWinners

Scheduled Event prize winners (maximum 1 month per person):

Top 5 Scheduled Event Winners:
13 wins - KevinEM, Mummu  (+0.5 month extension each)
12 wins - manest(FM)
9 wins - Wolfi
6 wins - akdog3, leocarlos

Most points earned - Acid-Test (435.5 points) (+1 month extension)
Most rounds played - OF (611 rounds) (+1 month extension)

During the month of January, there were 2,537 players in the 328
scheduled tourneys, and a total of 2,875 tournaments overall.

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