Honest Chess Leagues (Summer Season) - Finished!
Hello everyone!
I am glad to announce that we have finished our Honest Chess Leagues (Summer Season) Tournament, and I congratulate everyone who participated. Unfortunately, a few players gave up and couldn't finish the tournament. But anyway, thank you for playing!
Now let me introduce our winners!
League 2
Daniel Sloutsky scored 6 points and got the 3rd place. Daniel, I'm sure you could score much more if you played all the games.
The second plays goes to Timothy Oliveri (6.5 points), Tim also qualifies for the League 1. And the winner is... Peter Hawkins (9 points). Peter took this tournament seriously and demonstrated that he is a very focused and organized person! Congratulations to Peter! Peter also qualifies to the League 1.
Table for League 2
| Name | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | Score | Place | |
| 1 | Mark Demchenko | X | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 5-6 |
| 2 | Abi Dube | 1 | X | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 5-6 |
| 3 | Kirill Garcia | 0 | 2 | X | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 4 |
| 4 | Peter Hawkins | 2 | 1 | 1 | X | 2 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 1 |
| 5 | Timothy Oliveri | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | X | 2 | 1,5 | 6,5 | 2 |
| 6 | Daniel Sloutsky | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | X | 1 | 6 | 3 |
| 7 | Gabriele Varallo | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0,5 | 0 | X | 2,5 | 7 |
League 1
In League 1 two players scored 9.5 points. They are Yashasvini Sreeram and Anirudh Shidlagatta. But when they play between each other Yashu defeated Anirudh with the score 1.5 to 0.5. That's why she gets the 2nd place and Anirudh is only the 3rd. However, they both qualify for the Premier League and next time they will play with elite players 
The winner of League is Alex Carter (10.5 points). Alex lost only 1 match and drew 2 and demonstrated an outstanding results. Congratulations to Alex (who also qualifies for the Premier League)!
Table for League 1
| Name | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Score | Coeff. | Place | |
| 1 | Peter Bolden | X | 1,5 | 1,5 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 4 | |
| 2 | Alex Carter | 0,5 | X | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 10,5 | 1 | |
| 3 | Alexander García | 0,5 | 0 | X | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3,5 | 7 | |
| 4 | Eugene Marsavin | 0 | 0 | 1 | X | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 6 | |
| 5 | Stefan Rakocevic | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | X | 1 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 5 | |
| 6 | Anirudh Shidlagatta | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | X | 2 | 0,5 | 9,5 | 0,5 | 3 |
| 7 | Benjamin Sloutsky | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | X | 0 | 0 | 8 | |
| 8 | Yashasvini Sreeram | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1,5 | 2 | X | 9,5 | 1,5 | 2 |
And now our main tournament - Premier League:
Even here in such a сompetitive tournament a few matches were not played and some players got "losses".
However, let's celebrate our winners! Nic Carter from Australia scored 7.5 and got the 3rd place! As a prize Nic gets my newest chess course devoted to Calculation Skills.
Douglas Schwartz from the US scored 8.5 and was the 2nd. The 2nd prize is 25 USD + 1 hour training session!
And the winner is Oskun Anar from Turkey (scored 11 points and didn't lose any match). I should admit that Oskun Anar is a very experienced chess player with his maximal FIDE rating over 2000. The first prize is 75 USD.
Table for Premier League
| Name | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Score | Place | |
| 1 | Oskun Anar | X | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 11 | 1 |
| 2 | Nic Carter | 1 | X | 1,5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1,5 | 1,5 | 7,5 | 3 |
| 3 | Alex Fedorov | 0 | 0,5 | X | 2 | 1 | 0,5 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 4 |
| 4 | William Hoggarth | 0 | 0 | 0 | X | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 8 |
| 5 | David O'Grady | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | X | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 6 |
| 6 | Douglas Schwartz | 1 | 0 | 1,5 | 2 | 2 | X | 0 | 2 | 8,5 | 2 |
| 7 | Michael Sherman | 0 | 0,5 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | X | 2 | 5,5 | 5 |
| 8 | Kristina Soloviova | 0 | 0,5 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | X | 4,5 | 7 |
Thank you for playing! All winners, please contact me by e-mail at tricksofchess@gmail.com to receive your prizes!
Best Regards,
FM Viktor Neustroev
