Com Join this wonderful tournament and display your great (or not so great) knowledge of this counterpoint to the Sicilian!!! Only 1 more person needed to start!!

http://www.chess.com/tournament/smith-morra-gambit-open

Come play the Smith-Morra Gambit!

1.e4 c5 2.d4 cxd4 3.c3

• Want to learn how to play this exciting White gambit that is full of tactical potential?
• Are you an e4 player who's always wanted to try this sharp response to Black's Sicilian?
• Maybe you already play the Morra but want to get better at it?
• Or are you a 1.e4 c5 player and you just want to perfect your technique for defeating this slightly unorthodox opening?

Whatever your motivation, you are warmly invited to participate in this open knock-out double round robin event. All games are rated. Moves must be made no slower than once every three days. Up to one hundred players will be divided into groups of five. Then, the top two winners of each group will advance to the next round and placed into new groups of five. This continues until we have the final group compete in the last round for the title of 2008 Smith-Morra Gambit Open Champion. Players of any rating are accepted; the only requirement is that you have been around on Chess.com long enough to have completed five games. 

What could be more fun? What's more, there is no better way to learn how to play--or play against--an opening system than to just jump right in to lots of games.

This is the fourth in a planned series of large opening-themed tournaments I'm running. (The first three, currently underway, are the Caro-Kann Open, the Slav Open, and the Goring Gambit Open.) If there's enough interest, a fifth event will start in June.

So sign up now, and if we get a big turnout, I'll be taking suggestions for other opening themes for future events.

 But only if this idea remains a popular one. So sign up for the fun now!

Tournament will automatically begin once we have a full 100 participants. So after you sign up, tell a friend!