Komoliddin's Chess 960 TOURNAMENT

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Congratulations

Posted by Ko7 on Thursday, Mar 4 at 5:58pm

Congratulations to the winners of the tournament. Hope everyone enjoyed the tournament.

For more fun with RNADOM CHESS come, join Chess960 Players Group...

Winners:

#1 1st Place fgalvan (1690)

#2 2nd Place yoff (1638)

#3 3rd Place kid_of_chess (1118)

TD: Ko7

Started on Jun 30, 2009 @ 7:09pm

Players:	56	Time Control:	3 days/move
Max Group Size:	4	Rating Range:	Open
# Advance:	1	Tie Breaks:	Yes
Points Available:	201	Games Rated:	Yes
TOURNAMENT FINISHED!

Tournament Stats
Starting Players:	56	Completed Games:	222 (tournament is 100% complete)
Eliminated Round 1:	40 (71% of field)	Games in Round 1:	168
Eliminated Round 2:	12 (21% of field)	Games in Round 2:	48
Eliminated Round 3:	3 (5% of field)	Games in Round 3:	6
Players Withdrawn:	2 (3%)	# Timeouts:	54 (24%)
Remaining Players:	2 (3%)	Remaining Games:	0 (current round)
Average Rating:	1151	Biggest Upset:	1216 defeats 1629

fun tourney!!!

IF YOU DIDN'T MAKE IT TO JOIN BEFORE IT STARTED HERE IS THE other ones:

Comments:

by kid_of_chess - 23 months ago
Ottawa,Ontario Canada

Member Since: May 2008
Member Points: 7434

undeserved cuz i made the las round mostly by opponents timing out, then i beat u in that cheap "blunderitis game.

by yoff - 23 months ago
London United Kingdom

Member Since: Jun 2008
Member Points: 2976

Why undeserved? You played well...

by Ko7 - 23 months ago
Uzbekistan

Member Since: Jul 2007
Member Points: 28441

by kid_of_chess - 23 months ago
Ottawa,Ontario Canada

Member Since: May 2008
Member Points: 7434

yes! an undeserved bronze medal!

by AElyas - 2 years ago
London United Kingdom

Member Since: Mar 2009
Member Points: 4

It was great fun . Thanks to all .

by Ko7 - 2 years ago
Uzbekistan

Member Since: Jul 2007
Member Points: 28441

for more tournaments and more fun join the Chess 960 team!

by Ko7 - 2 years ago
Uzbekistan

Member Since: Jul 2007
Member Points: 28441

no, this game is called chess960 which was invented by Boby Ficher....it is call 960 because there are 960 different positions to start with....this game was added to chess.com yesterday....and no tournament director can make up the starting position.....

here some more:

http://www.chess.com/forum/view/chess960-chess-variants/chess960-explained

by joelampiasi - 2 years ago
New York United States

Member Since: Oct 2008
Member Points: 229

I must expand on StonedEmoKid's inciteful query.

Is the unique arrangement a brainchild of the tournament diractor?

Should participant's have realized the beginning position would be non-standard due to 'Komoliddin' or '960' which are code words for 'something will be different' and are known to all, but the extreme neophytes?

Is the beginning position always at the whim of the tournament director?

I probably would have enterred anyway, but when the initial positioning is awry, one wonders what else might be different. For instance, can Kings move two spaces?