Hi, I am organising a tournament to create a team from chess.com to play at ICCF Champions League. If you are intersted, please join it at : http://www.chess.com/tournament/iccf-champion-league!

dang, my rating dissapeared cuz i havent played online chess in a while

Okay, I've joined but I think eleven games simultaneously is a lot of games and a lot of processor time.

Too late to join?

Yup, already started.

why is my rating all messed up? i remember it being a 1700 but now it went unrated and wont let me play any tourneys

Play one rated game and it will return to its correct position, it's a known bug.

ah okay

The exact circumstances under which this bug shows itself are as follows:

1. A few months ago the site changed something in its handling of player stats.

2. Anyone who had previously played more unrated games than rated became unrated until they play another rated game.

See my forum:

http://www.chess.com/forum/view/help-support/544-games-and-still-unrated

(Goes off topic but who can resist the comely AfafBouardi? )

Houdini 2.0 Pro coupled with the Beast and just a little input from me, is comfortably crushing all and sundry, so far. I'm also better in all my unfinished games:

You and I might have to play a side game. I've dealt with 'Beasts' hooked up with Houdini on ICCF many times.

Send me a challenge, if/when you work up the courage.

rofl riiiiiight cuz a couple times is a lot

Sorry, just got back from a trip up north. Sending challenge now. I'll send one white and one black to make it fair.

@Ino,

No idea where you come off assuming that, or what your problem is. I'm in fact involved with several currently running games against Houdini beasts on ICCF. It's actually become quite common now on ICCF, especially within the last few months.

Just an update in that our games are currently underway. The downside is both games have become rather tame opening lines. My strategy was to draw as black and push for a win as white, but I gambled on the 4.f3 Nimzo-Indian variation since it contains a lot of sting if black plays the 'popular' d5 line. Prawn, not feeling comfortable with the online databases for d5, ran his beast overnight and went with the more solid reply of c5 suggested by Houdini. This is also my preferred move whenever I face the 4.f3 Nimzo, so I can't blame him at all for choosing it :-) The downside as I mentioned, is both games are rather equal and solid on both sides. I expect there will be uneventful draws in both games.

At any rate, I've been redesigning my repertoire. Hopefully we can play some more games in the future so I can try out some new ideas.