hi hi: We got the first (hopefully) event of the second LCT season tonight! It's at 2:00 tomorrow UTC, which is 22:00 EST tonight in the States and sometime mid-Saturday for India peeps. See you there! https://www.chess.com/live#r=138309
Hey everybody! Welcome back to the Live Chess Tour! Season 2 starts on Friday, October 4, at 8:00 EST. (This is early Saturday morning for those in Europe and Asia.) We're introducing some new features and changing some rules for Season 2, altho t...
LIVE CHESS TOUR HALL OF FAME CHAMPION RUNNER-UP THIRD PLACE LINK SEASON ONE @typewriter44 @jaredjm @GCEDW2001 S1 >> Records Total Points 1 @Typewriter44 292.5 2 @jaredjm 270.2 ...
The Live Chess Tour Season One wrapped up on Saturday with its Week 12 Rapid event. @typewriter44 scored 2.5/3 to win the tournament, and the 81 LCT points from that leapfrogged him two spots in the standings to 292.5 total and made him the first ...
The first season of the Live Chess Tour will conclude tomorrow with its Week 12 Rapid Event. As with last rapid (Week 8) there are large prizes available in the rapid; the games are worth more points themselves, and the podium prizes are a good ch...
As the first LCT season draws to a close, our Week 11 event is tomorrow at 16:00 EDT / 20:00 UTC. The time control is 2|1 Bullet, yielding 2 LCT points for every win, plus another 0.4 for every game played. In addition to this, the winner of the t...
We're entering the final stretch of the Live Chess Tour's first season, and the leaderboard is still wide open. This week's event is on Saturday at 18:00 UTC (14:00 EDT / 23:30 IST). The time control is 3|2 Blitz, yielding 3.5 LCT points for every...
Hey guys our week 9 bullet is starting in 12 minutes ! Please join : https://www.chess.com/live#r=124712
We're two thirds of the way completed with the Live Chess Tour Season One, and it continues tomorrow afternoon with a 90-minute Bullet Arena (1|0 time control). You'll get 1 LCT point for every win, plus another for every five games played. Get ou...
The LCT Week 8 Rapid tournament will begin in about half an hour. This tournament, being rapid, will have large point totals available to win, so this is an event you shouldn't miss! Here's the link: https://www.chess.com/live#t=1086275.
Hi all, Since last week's tournament was canceled we are going to replay Week 8's Rapid Tournament on Saturday, pushing it and all remaining weeks back one week. The Rapid events have the highest potential for huge point gains; thi...
We approach Week 8 of LCT's first season, and the title is still up for grabs. I hold the lead right now by a mere forty LCT points, and as we head into the first Rapid week, the standings could get a major shakedown. The time control for Week 8 i...
Hello all, The LCT has passed the halfway mark of Season One, and with it we switch the tournament to Saturdays in the US. Week 7's event is a 3|2 Blitz Chess960 Arena.
Guys the LCT week 6 event starts in 16 minutes !! Dont miss out ! Time control is 3|0 and arena lasts 90 minutes. Come join us : https://www.chess.com/live#r=118458
In the last week before the event switch to Saturday, the Live Chess Tour continues tonight with a 3|0 Blitz Arena at 10p EDT / 2a (Sat) UTC. 2.5 LCT points will be awarded for every win, plus an additional 0.5 point for every game played. Additio...
guys week 5 blitz arena starts in < 25 minutes !! time control is 5|0 ! everyone please get join here: https://www.chess.com/live#r=117246
Season One of the Live Chess Tour will continue with the week 5 event at 10 pm EDT tonight. The format is a 5|0 Blitz Arena. The point scale for this time control is 4: 4 LCT points will be awarded for every game point (4/win + 2/draw) and 0.8 LCT...
To stimulate member participation and interest, I have made two changes to the procedure of the LCT for Season One. These changes will remain in effect indefinitely. First, all Swiss tournament formats scheduled with time controls slower than 15...
Hey all, Week 4 of the LCT season will be a 1|0 Bullet Swiss tournament at 10p EDT tonight. See you there!
Hey everyone, The Week 3 LCT Blitz tournament never occurred due to the bad time zone for this week, so we are going to do a somewhat impromptu makeup event in about 40 minutes. The same amount of points will be awarded as normal. Join it ...
Hey everyone, the third LCT tournament will be in a matter of hours here. This week it's a 3|2 Blitz Arena, giving 7/10ths of a point per game played, plus 1.75 for every game point. See you there: https://www.chess.com/live#r=114511
The Live Chess Tour Week 2 Event starts in a little less than three hours! This event is a 5|0 Swiss, so don't be late! In this time control (5|0), you get 4 LCT points for every win, plus an additional 0.8 points for every game played. Cu...
Week 2 of the first season of the Live Chess Tour will continue on Friday/Saturday at 2:00 AM UTC. (10:00 PM EDT, 6:30 AM Sat IST). The format this week is a 5|0 Blitz Swiss tournament; this means every game point is worth 4 LCT points, and every ...
Hey everybody, the LCT kicks off today (or tomorrow, depending on your timezone ). It's at 00:00 UTC tomorrow, which is 8 PM today for the East Coast of the United States (EST timezone). This is 5:30 tomorrow morning for the IST timezone. ...
Times are UTC.
