As a Platinum member on chess.com, I can give away one year of free Gold membership to a member of my choice. I have decided to offer this as a prize for winning a 100-player tournament.

Visit the tournament page here: http://www.chess.com/tournament/win-gold-membership-on-chesscom.

You must be a NON-PREMIUM member to participate in this tournament.

You will have ONE DAY ONLY to play each move.

Sign up quickly while seats are still available... I will be launching the tournament as soon as we have 100 non-premium members signed up.

Good luck to all of you!

This is a good idea, but I do not have the skill at this point.

To willisl0 - the best way to learn is to go up against players with a little more experience. Worst case scenario, you'll play 8 games in Round 1 without advancing. Best case scenario, you'll meet opponents whom you can actually beat! If I were you I would give it a shot...

i dont think this is working too well. im quite surprised, myself, that more people haven't leapt on this opportunity. there are just too many places to fill up - if at all possible, id recommend making the tournament smaller.

Hi Rob,

Great idea. I am joining now :)

Daniel

Bah, my ratings too high :( I would so love a gold membership.

im pretty sure some people will be desperate enough to use engines

like 90 percent sure

we will certainly check the winner :)

Maybe a bit offtopic, but what happens if people use an engine to get a good opening and then continue off by themselves?

The opening is the part you shouldn't need a computer for.

why can't i join? have played more then 25 real time chess games, yet the red alert appears?

Correspondence tournaments are based on the number of correspondence games played, and according to your statistics you only have 2... Sorry, I have no way of setting the tournament based on the number of live chess games played.

Or maybe use an engine every other move. Or only use an engine for moves 10-20. It's hard to prevent it. If you say anyone who makes some engine-correct moves cheats, then strong players will be "caught" as well.

awww. 1500 or below. shucks.

I wold love to join but i cant because i left on vacation and forgot to come and lost on timeouts