Midweek sparring, Wednesday 1/4, 18:00 UTC / 13:00 EST

Hello Everyone and Happy New Year!

If your new year resolutions include playing more chess games, slow games in particular, you are in the right place: the DHLC club is going to have its first sparring match of the year this Wednesday, January 4, at 18:00 UTC / 13:00 EST.

Time control: 45m+45s (Rated), and you will play 1 game only.

Please register by providing in a comment below this post the following information: chess.com username and current rapid rating.

IMPORTANT NOTES: 

• Registration will close on Wednesday, Jan 4, 17:50 UTC / 12:50 EST (10 minutes before start time).
• In order to make sure that everyone attends their game, please be online on chess.com at 17:50 UTC / 12:50 EST - I will only pair registered players who are online at that time.
• I will post the pairings in the comment section around 17:55 UTC / 12:55 EST.

Please register early if you are interested.

As a concrete example of how the sparring match works, you can check out one of the previous matches organized by fhunfi:
https://www.chess.com/announcements/view/2nd-section-mid-week-sparring-match-45m-45s-wed-dec-28-19-00-est 

I wish everybody a wonderful chess year!

Best,
Giovanni