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Good Luck

Posted by BrooksJ on Friday, Jul 18 at 8:29am

Good luck to all the competitors.  Hopefully, you are all as sick of the sicilian as I am -on both sides of the board.  So lets see some Kings Gambits, Ruy's, Philidor's,  Italian Games, two knights.  But for once no sicilians.  Have fun!


Winners:

#1 1st Place tarkus (2302) United States

#2 2nd Place polleke (2130) Belgium

#3 3rd Place GotGoose (1933) United States

TD: BrooksJ Started on Jul 18, 2008 @ 7:33am

Players: 40   Time Control: 3 days/move
Max Group Size: 5   Rating Range: Open
# Advance: 2   Tie Breaks: Yes
Points Available: 489   Games Rated: Yes
Max Avg Time/Move: 6 hours

TOURNAMENT FINISHED!
Tournament Stats
Starting Players: 40 Completed Games: 240 (tournament is 100% complete)
Eliminated Round 1: 24 (60% of field) Games in Round 1: 160
Eliminated Round 2: 9 (22% of field) Games in Round 2: 60
Eliminated Round 3: 5 (12% of field) Games in Round 3: 20
Players Withdrawn: 4 (10%) # Timeouts: 36 (15%)
Remaining Players: 4 (10%) Remaining Games: 0 (current round)
Average Rating: 1619 Biggest Upset: 1392 defeats 1784

Test your skill in this venerable opening.  The top two from each group will advance.  Good luck to all players!



 

Comments:

by mauerblume - 3 years ago
Duesseldorf Germany
Member Since: May 2008
Member Points: 9343

I have played in the last years most of the times Caro-Cann and Sicilian with black and d4/c4 and Nf3 with white

Why not try something new - with black!

By the way. If someone of my my opponents have a question because of my rating fall from 2112 to 1200 , I will answer in a personal message. Thanks!

by fiddler - 3 years ago
Wikieup,AZ United States
Member Since: Mar 2008
Member Points: 601

I play just about everything!(badly)


by eternal21 - 3 years ago
New Jersey Poland
Member Since: Mar 2008
Member Points: 399

That's all I play as well...


by chessext - 3 years ago
Vienna Austria
Member Since: Jan 2008
Member Points: 96

I play nothing else, so this should be my tournament :-)


by GotGoose - 3 years ago
Indiana United States
Member Since: Aug 2007
Member Points: 331
I definitely need practice on the white side of King's Pawn.  Thanks for the tournament. Smile