ICC News Item #1852

NEWS 1852 (5-Jun-06)
Play Tournaments on the Internet Chess Club!

The Internet Chess Club holds over 500 tournaments every week!
There are 81 scheduled weekly events, as well as hundreds of impromptu 
tournaments for bullet, blitz, standard, and wild variations.

The Tomato team are proud to introduce two new bots to our family that 
will host tournaments: gaia233(TD) and hermes234(TD).  There is a new 
scheduled 1 0 Bullet tourney that started May 29. The tourney is held on 
hermes234 every weekday (Monday through Friday) at 10:00 EDT.

The 2006 3 3 Blitz Championship starts June 10th!  These exciting 
tournaments are very popular as many of ICC's top Blitz players hope to 
win the title currently held by last years champion, INDIAN-ELEPHANT(IM).

Here is the schedule of the qualifiers; each one is a 9-round event:

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

For full details, read help Championship.

The 2006 ICC Loser's (w17) Championship starts June 16th!
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 13-14th.
1,097 players played in 211 tournaments over the 24-hour period.  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 8-9th, 2006 for the next 24-hour, Tomato tournament 
marathon!

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

To learn more about playing in ICC's Tomato tournaments, see:
http://www.littleper.com/

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