ICC News Item #1796

NEWS 1796 (3-Mar-05)
Play Tournaments on the Internet Chess Club!

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

The next 24-hour Tomato tournament Marathon will be held March
26-27th. There will be five sections and dozens of membership-extension
prizes; see help marathon.

The 1 0 Bullet Championship ran from February 5-12th.  Over 400
players participated, and the winners were:

Open:   JohnJR(IM)
u2000:  SK

Next up is the 3 0 Championship in April.  See help Championship
for full details on these exciting events.

The 2005 ICC Random Wilds (w29) Championship ran from February
18-26th; StesurBarsa won both the 1 0 and 3 0 sections.  The next Wild
Championship will be Three Checks (w25); see

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

For a full list of the February monthly prizes, see:

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

Top 5 Scheduled Event Winners:
12 wins - laburi(WIM)
9 wins - manest(FM)  (+1 month extension)
8 wins - akdog3, Molton, Wolfi

Most points earned - Acid-Test (316.5 points) (+1 month extension)
Most rounds played - OF (466 rounds) (+1 month extension)

During the month of February, there were 2,534 players in the 314
scheduled tourneys and a total of 2,326 tournaments overall.

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