ICC News Item #1816

NEWS 1816 (1-Aug-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 5 0 Blitz Championship with prizes starts August 13th!
Here is the schedule of the qualifiers; each one is a 9-round event:

Saturday, August 13   14:00 EDT
Sunday, August 14     12:00 EDT
Monday, August 15     19:00 EDT
Tuesday, August 16    21:00 EDT
Wednesday, August 17   9:00 EDT
Thursday, August 18   15:00 EDT

For full details, read help Championship.

The 2005 ICC Atomic (w27) and Fischer-Random (w22) Championships start
August 19th! 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 July 9-10th.
213 tournaments with 1,011 total rounds were run over the 24-hour period.
There was a total of 1,017 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 September 10-11th, 2005 for the next
24-hour, Tomato tournament marathon!

For a list of the July monthly prizes, see:
http://www.chessclub.com/finger/TomatoWinners

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

Top 5 Scheduled Event Winners:
14 wins - Predator64  (+1 month extension)
11 wins - Mummu
8 wins - mudilo, trevor21
6 wins - NightShift, sharkmeister

Most points earned - OF (331.0 points) (+1 month extension)
Most rounds played - BillietheKid (373 rounds) (+1 month extension)

During the month of July, there were 2,344 players in the 331
scheduled tourneys, and a total of 2,488 tournaments overall.

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