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Can you please post or link to a few single-tagged puzzles? Especially forks, pins and skewers. My team thanks you.

The hardest mate-in-1 i've ever seen (not counting the promote-to-knight, castle and en passant puzzles): Tactic 91102

Hey everyone. I Recently Started a Youtube Chess Channel. Check it out. Ive been having alot of fun making videos. Live Commentary Blitz etc! www.youtube.com/user/btr73186

Standings after 2 rounds emschorch 2 philidor_position 2 mellancholia 1.5 marvellosity 1 kacparov 1 claudelejuen 1 akapovsky 1 (withdrawn) uriblass 0.5 (withdrawn) asdf1qaz 0 Draw (white listed first) emschorsch v philidor_position claudlejuen v mellancholia kacparov v marvellosity asdf1qaz bye Either player may challenge. Call the game 'chesstempo members championship round 3' and post a link to it in this thread when it starts.

http://chesstempo.com/chess-forum/training_diaries/narzs_training_diary-t1912.0.html Feel free to comment (here or there).

Here is the draw for round 2. Black must challenge white. 3 days/move. Call the game 'chesstempo members championship round 2' kacparov v mellancholia (already played) marvellosity v uriblass akapovsky v philidor_position asdf1qaz v emschorch claudlejuen bye Please post a link to the game in this thread, and later the result.

Just in case any of you is interested - I would appreciate if you would consider joining this small tournament ! Description: A very relaxed knock out tournament, reserved to players below 2000. This will add only one (yes, one!) game to your busy schedules, so hopefully you will be able to enjoy! Warm welcome to anyone who joins! Thanks for reading! Andrea

As there are only 9 entrants this will be a 4 game tournament. Here is the draw for round 1. Black must challenge white. 3 days/move. Call the game 'chesstempo members championship round 1' Pairings (white first) mellancholia v marvellosity uriblass v kacparov philidor_position v asdf1qaz emschorsch v claudlejuen akapovsky bye When the game has started, white post a link to it in this thread. When it is finished, post the result here.

its a little bit late...but I wish you good luck in new year and many enjoyable games here and OTB

Post in this thread to register for the group championship. It will be manual, rather than a chess.com tournament. 3 days/move 6 games altogether, not all starting at once. Fewer if there are few entrants. Registration closes 10th October.

We're going to hold a manually-run championship tournament for members of this group. In this thread I want to agree the rules, so don't enter yet. When we are agreed how to run the tournament, we'll start a new thread for entries. We're not using the chess.com tournament system because, frankly, it is pretty rubbish, and most of us are limited to one tournament. OK so here's what I suggest: 1. 6 rounds, one game each per round. Swiss-style-ish 2. So we're not waiting for everyone to finish, rounds 2 and 3 will start before round 1 is complete. Round 4 will start when round 1 is complete, round 5 when round 2 is complete, etc. 3. Some sort of accelerated pairings logic will be used. Because it's cool. 4. Players may withdraw between rounds - before a draw is made, but please finish any ongoing games. 5. Once a draw is published, black will be responsible for challenging white in each game. Games should be standard chess, and rated. I'm open to suggestions for the time controls. Comments/suggestions below please.

Maybe we can play a vote chess game?

I've gone ahead and annotated the vote match against Rapid Chess up to the last move made (still in progress). I'll continue editing this post as the game progresses.

I've had a request to start another team match. If you'd like to play, please post below with Minimum & preferred time control How soon you can/would prefer to start. For me, that is 3 days/3 days/right away/a week or two.

Please say whether you are available for team matches, and I will try to arrange some. My preference would be to go for 3 days/move, 1 simultaneous game and as close as possible to opponents' ratings. I don't propose to do any vote chess, unless there is a big demand. I don't think it really works.