ICC News Item #1826

NEWS 1826 (5-Oct-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 15 0 Standard Championship with prizes starts October 8th!
Here is the schedule of the qualifiers; each one is a 6-round event:

Saturday, October 8    14:00 EDT
Sunday, October 9      12:00 EDT
Monday, October 10     19:00 EDT
Tuesday, October 11    21:00 EDT
Wednesday, October 12   9:00 EDT
Thursday, October 13   15:00 EDT

For full details, read help Championship.

The 2005 ICC CrazyHouse (w23) Championship starts October 21st!
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 September 10-11th.
209 tournaments with 1,003 total rounds were run over the 24-hour period.
There was a total of 1,038 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 November 12-13th, 2005 for the next
24-hour, Tomato tournament marathon!

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

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

Top 5 Scheduled Event Winners:
9 wins - mudilo  (+1 month extension)
8 wins - Burelom
7 wins - Mossingen
6 wins - KevinEM, Saravana

Most points earned - OF (287.5 points) (+1 month extension)
Most rounds played - BillietheKid (337 rounds) (+1 month extension)

During the month of September, there were 2,164 players in the 319
scheduled tourneys, and a total of 2,312 tournaments overall.

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