Thanks for the tournament, it was a long and exciting journey indeed.

Good skills Knightz and welcome to rounf two.... 

Focusm pay attention and do things that are proven as the competition gets steeper.

Paladon

Thank you all for your patience.  I do not see a reason to eliminate anyone right now because of vacation or time.

Paladon

Patience shmatience.. at least this tourney is almost advancing to the next round

 stonedfuzzy Geeze what homo vacationers wasting time.

I think that would be me that you are referring to, patience is a virtue my friend, yo!

to rephrase what  stonedfuzzy said, this is getting slitghtly anoying

Geeze what homo vacationers wasting time.

Xpsdell!

Congratulations on such a wonderful chess playing ability. Good luck in your up coming rounds and matches too.

Thank you all for participating in this tournament.  It is awesome and very demanding.  Good skill.

Paladon

I think chess.com is something doing very good for the humanity and future of the world.

This is my first tournament that I competed in. I never thought that I would get even 2 or 3 points. This tournament has opened up new horizons for me. And I am committed to perform well in the next tournament. Good Luck to those who are gonna advance to the next round and Good (learning) fights for those who WILL advance next time.

Thanks! will take heed on that advice and will fight each battle without fear to the last bit of my connection even if a dragon with a 3000 raing stands infront of me! come what may! :D lol

Hello PalashD, Great win against a higher rated player.  Advice, don't even consider the ratings and just focus on each move and use the tools at your disposal.  Tiebreakers are calculated using the system set up in the tournaments.  I will post the technical explanation later.

Good hunting everyone.  Eat, drink, and take names.

Paladon

How is tie break calculated?

Yes.  I will consult and talk with the finalist and give them a choice of a few items (prizes) from Chess.com.  Nags4you, you are so right.  It really let's you experiment and see how your style is and you can see how other players are defending and attacking.

playing so many games simultaneously does affect the performance, i am seeing dis, many gud players r there, may b i wont get thru, bt surely improvement shal b thr, so one shud play in tournaments.

are there any prizes?

oh yeah! let the games begin!!!!

Hello Everyone,

I reviewed the tournament and there were alot of invites, almost 300, but everyone in the tournament were between 1150 and 1850.  Do your best.

I will give more info later.

Paladon

I will clean it up tonight and then start it in the morning.

Thank you to all of the participants.

Paladon