ICC News Item #1809

NEWS 1809 (1-Jun-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 3 3 Blitz Championship with prizes starts June 11th!
Here is the schedule of the qualifiers; each one is a 9-round event:

Saturday, June 11   14:00 EST
Sunday, June 12     12:00 EDT
Monday, June 13     19:00 EDT
Tuesday, June 14    21:00 EDT
Wednesday, June 15   9:00 EDT
Thursday, June 16   15:00 EDT

For full details, read help Championship.

The 2005 ICC Loser's (w17) Championship starts June 17th!
For a schedule of the qualifiers and a list of prizes, see:

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

The 24-hour Tomato tournament marathon was held on May 14-15th.
218 tournaments with 1,048 total rounds were run over the 24-hour period.
There was a total of 1,043 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 July 9-10th, 2005 for the next
24-hour, Tomato tournament marathon!

For a list of the May monthly prizes, see:

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

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

Top 5 Scheduled Event Winners:
17 wins - Mummu  (+1 month extension)
14 wins - Predator64
12 wins - manest(FM)
10 wins - Wolfi
9 wins - mudilo, trevor21

Most points earned - Predator64 (225.0 points) (+1 month extension)
Most rounds played - BillietheKid (361 rounds) (+1 month extension)

During the month of May, there were 2,403 players in the 328
scheduled tourneys, and a total of 2,467 tournaments overall.

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