The «Eastern Hemisphere Slow Live Chess WEEK-END Championship» Registration Center
Here you're signing up for a WEEK-END four (4) round slow LIVE chess tournament, litterally a chess revolution at Chess.com. Please sign up by posting your comment below. The «Eastern Hemisphere Slow Live Chess WEEK-END Championship» is a four (4) round LIVE 90|30 tournament.
Here's a detailed schedule:
Round 1: Saturday, July 5 of 2014 @ 00:00 USA ET;
Round 2: Sunday, July 6 of 2014 @ 00:00 USA ET;
Round 3: Saturday, July 12 @ 00:00 USA ET;
Round 4: Sunday, July 13 @ 00:00 USA ET
Shortly after you're signed up, a related (sub)group invite will be sent to you. It's crucial that you accept to join the (sub)group, when all the pairings will be published inside it. Once they're in, all the players will have to read the given instructions.
I love chess. I love it so much that playing the game is not enough. I also need to promote it. This is why I arrange chess tourneys as much as I can. There was a time where I organized OTB events. One never knows, I may return to it.
But for now, I am arranging online tourneys via the '' Slow LIVE Chess Association '' here, on ChessDotCom. It gives me the opportunity to play longer games with increment.
Incidentally I think ChessDotCom have been blundering in a terrible way since they cancelled Time Control G45|45 and replaced it with the deceptive G60|0. This is like going backward 50 years while making all those new post-pandemic chess enthusiastics believe that this is real chess. That it is normal to lose a game up a piece or a full rook. It's time to rehabilitate G45|45, and even cancel G60|0.
Some may ask: '' Ok, but what are you doing on ChessDotCom as a Diamond member? '' The dull answer is that ChessDotCom is the best chess site in the world. Period. And I strongly support their efforts in providing a clean and safe environment dedicated to chess. Moreover, they answered '' present! '' when organizers like me found themselves with no place to set-up chess events during the pandemic. That will never be forgotten by me.
As a chess player, I'm a 1.e4 player as White, while I typically use the KID set-up when facing 1.d4 as Black. I try to focus on squares rather then only on the material. As many players, it happens too often that I gain an advantage but fail to find a path to the win. Also, I get lost if I'm not better after the opening
Sylvain Courtemanche; AKA zugzwang67
