Weekend sparring match 60m+30s, Friday Dec 30, 21:00 UTC/ 16:00 EST

Hi everyone,

Hope you all have an enjoyable holiday season and we wish everyone a Happy and excellent New Year 2023.

Last event for this year - weekend sparring match will be held on Friday (1 section only) and there will be no Sat / Sun event this weekend.

Time control: 60m+30s (Rated), and you will play 1 game only.

Played on: Friday, Dec 30, 21:00 UTC (16:00 EST)

You will register by writing down in comment section: Your chess.com nick, your current Rapid Rating when registered.

NOTE: 
- Registration will be closed on Friday, Dec 30, 20:50 UTC / 15:50 EST (10 minutes before starting time).
- In order to make sure that everyone attends their game, please be online on chess.com at 20:50 UTC / 15:50 EST -- I will only pair registered players who are online at 20:50 UTC / 15:50 EST.

- I will then post the pairings in this comment section around 20:55 UTC / 15:55 EST.

I will list the players from highest rating to lowest rating.

For example: if there are 6 players 

Player#1 (highest rating)
Player#2 (2nd rank)
Player#3 (3rd rank)
Player#4 (4th rank)
Player#5 (5th rank)
Player#6 (6th rank)

Then I will set the pairing manually as follow:

Player#1 (White) vs Player#2 (Black) or Player#2 (White) vs Player#1 (Black).
Player#3 (White) vs Player#4 (Black) or Player#4 (White) vs Player#3 (Black).
Player#5 (White) vs Player#6 (Black) or Player#6 (White) vs Player#5 (Black).
.. and so on

This way, the 2 players with closest rating with play each other.

Please register early if you are interested.

PS: To give you an idea of how it works, this link of past event of this format.
https://www.chess.com/announcements/view/2nd-section-mid-week-sparring-match-45m-45s-wed-dec-28-19-00-est 

Have fun, everyone.

Best Regards,
fhunfi