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We will have two primary tournaments, on the first Tuesday of the month and the following Saturday. While the Saturday time schedule may be reviewed, the practice of rotating time slots to cater to different time zones will continue. The Tuesday event will come after Titled Tuesday, as before. In other weeks, after Titled Tuesday, we will have a minor event. These will follow the same format (3|1 time control, 10 rounds), although depending on turnout we might reduce the number of rounds. There will not be weekly events on Saturday. I'm open to suggestions on what to call the major and minor events. If we do recaps for minor events, they should be restricted to analysing one game. Recaps for major events should be restricted to covering 3-4 games from the two events combined. This will decrease the workload of writing the recaps and make the turnaround faster. The current leaderboard points system gives 15 points for first, 12 for second, then 10, 8, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, and 1 for 10th place. I'm thinking of reworking this as follows: For major tournaments, 30 for first, 25 for 2nd, 20, 18, 16, 14, 12, 10, 8, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 for 15th, so 174 points total For minor tournaments, 10 for first, 8, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 for 8th, so 39 points total This means that the leaderboard points are heavily weighted towards the major events. As a result, those who can only play one event per month will focus on the major events. Also, while those who play all the minor events and perform strongly will accumulate a meaningful number of points, it will be the major events that mostly decide the overall title. I'll work on documentation and setting up spreadsheets to hand off as much as possible of the workload to other people. I already have several offers of help from people who have experience running tournaments on the site or have other relevant experience.

Here you go!!

I have read much of the back and forth regarding weekly tournaments. Untitled Tuesday was created to mirror Titled Tuesday without the prizes or titled players. Titled Tuesday has now gone to a 3|1 time control and weekly events. I propose we do the same, but with a slight difference Until July, 2020. We have a tour based on two events every month. That should remain unchanged. But, we can mirror Titled Tuesday by having a single tournament every week as well! We can use the next few months to see how the event changes participation rates and work to grow our base. If, as some fear, there will be fewer participants, we can scrap the weekly events before the regular UTT for July. If overall attendance grows, we can either start a new tour, or add all the UTT events together. I volunteer myself to help keep tally of the tour points. I have one article I am working on, but don’t plan any more long recaps. I could do a weekly recap (a paragraph or two) without any games. I get the impression very few actually looked at the analysis I wrote in the February article anyway. @MGleason will still have extra work. He will still need to run fair-play checks on every tournament played in UTT. But if he’s willing to do that, I’m sure we can make rest work too!

Event History Event date 1st 2nd 3rd Report January 1st, 2019 @Yourinsuil1991 @grubyilysy @SJFG link January 5th, 2019 @MynameisJeff21lol @Tudorache_M @Marignon link February 5th, 2019 @Flaccidmoves @chessguy1012 @Miss_Tical n/a February 9th, 2019 @Tudorache_M @FlashyFerrari @cjxchess17 n/a March 5th, 2019 @Everyfishknows @Carpe_noctum @SmyslovFan link March 9th, 2019 @Schachmasteo @bishop_to_e4 @CP6033 link April 2nd, 2019 @Everyfishknows @SmyslovFan @TheCosmicWave link April 6th, 2019 @Tudorache_M @patzers @Ochen_Zlaya link May 7th, 2019 @Everyfishknows @patzers @Flaccidmoves link May 11th, 2019 @Tudorache_M @CP6033 @Midav_Veahkar link June 4th, 2019 @Mazetix cjxchess17 @chessguy1012 link June 8th, 2019 @MikeChesser @chess_pagol @Lord_axe link July 2nd, 2019 @Chessking_original @cjxchess17 @MikeChesser link July 6th, 2019 @Tudorache_M @Ochen_Zlaya @BalkanPersona link August 6th, 2019 @maksim95 @cjxchess17 @heavyduty90 link August 10th, 2019 @MangoMankey @SamuelIFowler @Kotleta_s_pI0reshkoy link September 3rd, 2019 @MangoMankey @sedore @Mazetix link September 7th, 2019 @CheeseBreadFuzzyHead @wrtlbrmft @Miss_Tical link October 1st, 2019 @Kryckan80 @chessrunner49 @Nyameba link October 5th, 2019 @SmyslovFan @patzers @Miss_Tical link November 5th, 2019 @Miss_Tical @chessguy1012 @Mazetix link November 9th, 2019 @MikeChesser @Miss_Tical @SamuelIFowler link December 3rd, 2019 @Flaccidmoves @Miss_Tical @SmyslovFan link December 7th, 2019 @tevdore2 @Tudorache_M @cjxchess17 link Leaderboard Player 1st 2nd 3rd Points @SmyslovFan 1 1 2 106 @Miss_Tical 1 2 3 96 @patzers 0 3 0 90 @Tudorache_M 4 2 0 86 @MikeChesser 2 0 1 78 @cjxchess17 0 3 2 75 @Mazetix 1 1 1 66 @chessguy1012 0 2 1 53 @Flaccidmoves 2 0 1 51 @MangoMankey 2 0 0 46 @Everyfishknows* 3 0 0 45 @SamuelIFowler 0 1 1 41 @CP6033 0 1 1 40 @Chessking_original 1 0 0 37 @maksim95 1 0 0 37 @Ochen_Zlaya 0 1 1 34 @1981bole 0 0 0 32 @Nyameba 0 0 1 27 @Midav_Veahkar 0 0 1 25 @CrackLionIX 0 0 0 21 @FlashyFerrari 0 1 0 18 @Elroch 0 0 0 18 @Schachmasteo 1 0 0 17 @tevdore2 1 0 0 16 @CheeseBreadFuzzyHead 1 0 0 15 @Kryckan80 1 0 0 15 @MynameisJeff21lol 1 0 0 15 @Yourinsuil1991 1 0 0 15 @TheCosmicWave 0 0 1 15 @bishop_to_e4 0 1 0 14 @KaosKid 0 0 0 14 @sougataghosh 0 0 0 14 @Lukemaster101 0 0 0 13 @Carpe_noctum 0 1 0 12 @chess_pagol 0 1 0 12 @chessrunner49 0 1 0 12 @grubyilysy 0 1 0 12 @sedore 0 1 0 12 @wrtlbrmft 0 1 0 12 @heavyduty90 0 0 1 11 @MiddlegamerUmesh 0 0 0 11 @BalkanPersona 0 0 1 10 @Kotleta_s_pl0reshkoy 0 0 1 10 @Lord_axe 0 0 1 10 @Marignon 0 0 1 10 @SJFG 0 0 1 10 @DrWeirdBeard 0 0 0 10 @H_Sadah 0 0 0 10 @petitbonom 0 0 0 9 @BabyDragonKing 0 0 0 8 @DevilishApples123 0 0 0 8 @Sergezu 0 0 0 7 @ate_monang 0 0 0 6 @kripri 0 0 0 6 @manritogelaga 0 0 0 6 @shortcastle 0 0 0 6 @bezerramedeiros 0 0 0 5 @CricketRulzOK 0 0 0 5 @gualanday 0 0 0 5 @punter99 0 0 0 5 @RussellWestbr00k 0 0 0 5 @Stephen_Stanfield 0 0 0 5 @Lellmaestro 0 0 0 4 @Martin0 0 0 0 4 @Mi_Amigo 0 0 0 4 @pokerram 0 0 0 4 @RicardoFagner 0 0 0 4 @Willie9Lives 0 0 0 4 @1_d41-0 0 0 0 3 @678proof 0 0 0 3 @geracarp 0 0 0 3 @hamhoney 0 0 0 3 @shirovin 0 0 0 3 @attackchesskid 0 0 0 2 @Checkmaterz101 0 0 0 2 @drunkchesspirate 0 0 0 2 @GoPikachu 0 0 0 2 @Moscatel87 0 0 0 2 @AvielPS116Chess 0 0 0 1 @ChessZone9937 0 0 0 1 @Noah215 0 0 0 1 @Tinustephenson 0 0 0 1 @Typewriter44 0 0 0 1 @Vyacheslav_Sub 0 0 0 1 * No longer eligible to play in Untitled Tuesday events due to earning a title in OTB play Points are calculated as follows: 1st - 15 points2nd - 12 points3rd - 10 points4th - 8 points5th - 6 points6th - 5 points7th - 4 points8th - 3 points9th - 2 points10th - 1 pointExtra events such as the 1500 member celebration tournament do not count for the leaderboard. Previous Years 2018: https://www.chess.com/clubs/forum/view/event-history-and-leaderboard-20182017: https://www.chess.com/clubs/forum/view/event-history-and-leaderboard

Hello All, Seasonal Greetings. Does the winners of Untitled Tuesday win a prize? Or is it the standard, "Pride"? Cheers, Chess_Putz

@StealthySalamnder won the Untitled Tuesday Tournament ahead of @MangoMankey and @Sedore who scored 7/8 and 7/10 respectively! A full report with in-depth analysis will probably be published at the end of the month.

So I plugged my games from our four events so far into a performance rating calculator: http://www.kosteniuk.com/EloCalc/elo.php The results vary rather wildly! May 2017 Test-run event: (2/7) 1184June 2017 UTT: (4.5/8) 1763June 2017 Sat: (5/8) 1650 (would have been 1600 if the final game had been lost, and I was up against a stronger opponent, but he had to leave so we agreed an early draw)July 2017 UTT: (3/8) 1372 July 2017 Sat: (2.5/7) 1424 (I also had a bye) August 2017 UTT: (3/9) 1288 August 2017 Sat: (3.5/9) 1595 Interestingly, I had a higher performance rating in the June UTT event than the following Saturday event, despite scoring slightly fewer points. That's because I started with wins in the UTT event, and thus faced mostly strong opponents all the way through, whereas in the Saturday event I started with two losses and then recovered, so more of my games were against weaker opposition.

Event History Event date 1st 2nd 3rd Report January 2nd, 2018 @Dominus_et_Deus @Everyfishknows @chessforthesun link January 6th, 2018 @SmyslovFan* @mouse_mouse_mouse* @ChessMathLife* link February 6th, 2018 @KaosKid* @Schachmasteo* @SmyslovFan* link February 10th, 2018 @Tudorache_M* @tevdore2* @Javachip3* link March 6th, 2018 @CP6033 @Lllionking* @The_Helloer* link March 10th, 2018 @SmyslovFan* @LllionKing* @Grandmaster2B* link April 3rd, 2018 @Grandmaster2B @Misowalker @bluegalaxy4 link April 7th, 2018 @Carpe_noctum @sanchesster @KaosKid link May 1st, 2018 @thomaswittmann* @freude34* @LllionKing* link May 5th, 2018 @MrDodgy @SmyslovFan @tevdore2 link June 5th, 2018 @Carpe_noctum @ChessZone9937 @freude34 link June 9th, 2018 @Carpe_noctum @freude34 @tevdore2 link July 3rd, 2018 @Everyfishknows* @asg2* @ericbowiereed* link July 7th, 2018 @cow24 @MrDodgy* @SmyslovFan* link August 7th, 2018 @Everyfishknows† @Chess4PK† @heavyduty90† link August 11th, 2018 @kstorn @cjxchess17 @Marignon link August 14th, 2018 @SmyslovFan* @thomaswittman* @cjxchess17* link August 25, 2018‡ @Yourinsuil1991‡ @FT029‡ @Astraferz‡ link September 4, 2018 @asg2 @GAR2706* @Jancotianno* link September 8, 2018 @SmyslovFan @CP6033 @ghostdragon1212 link October 2, 2018 @dpnorman* @SmyslovFan* @CrackLionIX* link October 6, 2018 @Astraferz @srecko @Andrew_Klintsevich link November 6, 2018 @FlaccidMoves* @cjxchess17* @chessguy1012* link November 10, 2018 @chessguy1012 @Miss_Tical @PlasterhippyTwitch link December 4, 2018 @EveryfishKnows @SamuelIFowler @ChessZone9937 link December 8, 2018 @cjxchess17 @Astraferz @Ochen_Zlaya link *promoted due to fair play violations†partial credit awarded for standings after six rounds due to server crash‡extra event with no points awarded Leaderboard Player 1st 2nd 3rd Points @SmyslovFan 4 2 2 150 @kstorn 1 0 0 54 @chessguy1012 1 0 1 51 @Everyfishknows 2.5 1 0 50 @cjxchess17 1 2 1 50 @Carpe_noctum 3 0 0 47 @CP6033 1 1 0 43 @Lllionking 0 2 1 43 @KaosKid 1 0 1 40 @freude34 0 2 1 40 @Marignon 0 0 1 39 @ericbowiereed 0 0 1 35 @tevdore2 0 1 2 34 @SamuelIFowler 0 1 0 33 @Midav_Veahkar 0 0 0 33 @Miss_Tical 0 1 0 28 @asg2 1 1 0 27 @Astraferz 1 1 0 27 @MrDodgy 1 1 0 27 @thomaswittmann 1 1 0 27 @CrackLionIX 0 0 1 26 @MiddlegamerUmesh 0 0 0 26 @Grandmaster2B 1 0 1 25 @Tudorache_M 1 0 0 25 @ChessZone9937 0 1 1 25 @cow24 1 0 0 21 @Otocolobus_manul 0 0 0 19 @Misowalker 0 1 0 18 @bluegalaxy4 0 0 1 18 @heavyduty90 0 0 0.5 18 @Brian-E 0 0 0 16 @Dominus_et_Deus 1 0 0 15 @dpnorman 1 0 0 15 @Flaccidmoves 1 0 0 15 @Capricorn95 0 0 0 14 @DrWeirdBeard 0 0 0 14 @Ochen_Zlaya 0 0 1 13 @Enderao 0 0 0 13 @GAR2706 0 1 0 12 @mouse_mouse_mouse 0 1 0 12 @sanchesster 0 1 0 12 @Schachmasteo 0 1 0 12 @srecko 0 1 0 12 @Mgleason 0 0 0 12 @patzers 0 0 0 12 @Andrew_Klintsevich 0 0 1 10 @chessforthesun 0 0 1 10 @ChessMathLife 0 0 1 10 @ghostdragon1212 0 0 1 10 @Jancotianno 0 0 1 10 @Javachop3 0 0 1 10 @PlasterhippyTwitch 0 0 1 10 @The_Helloer 0 0 1 10 @2007chess 0 0 0 10 @H_Sadah 0 0 0 9 @SaqtheKingtowin 0 0 0 9 @1981bole 0 0 0 8 @chess_pagol 0 0 0 8 @NWSedinery 0 0 0 8 @swang19 0 0 0 8 @tacticalchessplayer 0 0 0 8 @vic369 0 0 0 8 @wiahwib 0 0 0 8 @losingforever 0 0 0 7 @Martin0 0 0 0 7 @nemirena 0 0 0 7 @Chess4PK 0 0.5 0 6 @ChessinBlackandWhite 0 0 0 6 @TheRealK-Fresh 0 0 0 6 @Tiger_2014 0 0 0 6 @Typewriter44 0 0 0 6 @A-boy415 0 0 0 5 @Goodwin5435 0 0 0 5 @MikeChesser 0 0 0 5 @NF31415926 0 0 0 5 @UNCLE_UA 0 0 0 5 @aa-ron1235 0 0 0 4 @bezerramedeiros 0 0 0 4 @canilopiyt 0 0 0 4 @d0gofch3ss 0 0 0 4 @FT029 0 0 0 4 @laciiuhasz 0 0 0 4 @lakituba 0 0 0 4 @maksim95 0 0 0 4 @pranay_p 0 0 0 4 @redscale 0 0 0 4 @RookSacrifice 0 0 0 4 @frankiesheehy 0 0 0 3 @javipdr 0 0 0 3 @marty310 0 0 0 3 @reynaldo123456 0 0 0 3 @Sergezu 0 0 0 3 @TheExpertOfChess 0 0 0 3 @InteractiveChess 0 0 0 2 @Ipersist 0 0 0 2 @lagaffe1er 0 0 0 2 @maxmlynek 0 0 0 2 @nicelynicely 0 0 0 2 @Prokaryote 0 0 0 2 @shortcastle 0 0 0 2 @Alma_Confundida 0 0 0 1 @ataquesalrey 0 0 0 1 @Condoseres 0 0 0 1 @Emadeddin-Abaid 0 0 0 1 @Evergreen_Warrior 0 0 0 1 @Krishna673 0 0 0 1 @NonSequitur7 0 0 0 1 @redazure 0 0 0 1 Points are calculated as follows: 1st - 15 points2nd - 12 points3rd - 10 points4th - 8 points5th - 6 points6th - 5 points7th - 4 points8th - 3 points9th - 2 points10th - 1 point For the event affected by the server crash, points are awarded as described in this news post.Extra events such as the 1500 member celebration tournament do not count for the leaderboard. Previous Years 2017: https://www.chess.com/clubs/forum/view/event-history-and-leaderboard

I went like 3/10 last time (including a bye). I mean, I play like garbage, so I’m thinking whether I should even play.

Event History Event date 1st 2nd 3rd Report May 20, 2017 @LonerDruid @SmyslovFan @triggerlips link June 7, 2017 @canwedoit @Schachmasteo* @Everyfishknows* link June 10, 2017 @KinglyCalm @LonerDruid @frankierooks link July 4, 2017 @Dominus_et_Deus @Marignon* @Snow_Lion* link July 8, 2017 @SmyslovFan @drunkchesspirate @kstorn link August 1, 2017 @Dominus_et_Deus @SJFG @Joseph_Truelson link August 5, 2017 @Joseph_Truelson* @Noctis_Lucis_Caelum* @bluegalaxy4* link September 5, 2017 @Joseph_Truelson @Misowalker @shepherd_shepherd link September 9, 2017 @ukchessbomber @Ankalyov @Enderao link October 3, 2017 @CP6033 @ghostdragon1212 @Dominus_et_Deus link October 7, 2017 @Yourinsuil1991 @bluegalaxy4 @chessguy1012 link November 7th, 2017 @RichyNix @doublexclam @CP6033 link November 11,2017 @Schachmasteo @Joseph_Truelson @Yourinsuil1991 link December 5, 2017 @chessguy1012 @Schachmasteo @Ast_F link December 9, 2017 @CP6033* @MishaMedved* @cancrushyou* link *promoted due to fair play violations Leaderboard Player 1st 2nd 3rd Points @SmyslovFan 1 1 0 60 @Joseph_Truelson 2 1 1 52 @CP6033 2 0 1 48 @Dominus_et_Deus 2 0 1 40 @Schachmasteo 1 2 0 39 @Marignon 0 1 0 37 @chessguy1012 1 0 1 35 @LonerDruid 1 1 0 27 @bluegalaxy4 0 1 1 27 @Yourinsuil1991 1 0 1 25 @Ankalyov 0 1 0 23 @Enderao 0 0 1 22 @Tudorache_M 0 0 0 22 @SJFG 0 1 0 20 @ghostdragon1212 0 1 0 18 @Capricorn95 0 0 0 17 @MishaMedved 0 1 0 16 @canwedoit 1 0 0 15 @KinglyCalm 1 0 0 15 @RichyNix 1 0 0 15 @ukchessbomber 1 0 0 15 @frankierooks 0 0 1 15 @FT029 0 0 0 15 @Snow_Lion 0 0 1 14 @Otocolobus_manul 0 0 0 14 @SpeedyChess11 0 0 0 14 @drunkchesspirate 0 1 0 13 @doublexclam 0 1 0 12 @Misowalker 0 1 0 12 @Noctis_Lucis_Caelum 0 1 0 12 @shepherd_shepherd 0 0 1 12 @chess_pagol 0 0 0 11 @Ast_F 0 0 1 10 @cancrushyou 0 0 1 10 @Everyfishknows 0 0 1 10 @kstorn 0 0 1 10 @triggerlips 0 0 1 10 @dpnorman 0 0 0 9 @Grandmaster2B 0 0 0 9 @adumbrate 0 0 0 8 @KaosKid 0 0 0 8 @M_Mewtwo_EX 0 0 0 8 @Saaamsch 0 0 0 8 @skotheim 0 0 0 8 @logozar 0 0 0 7 @chess2wonder 0 0 0 6 @Ecavol 0 0 0 6 @Hectogon 0 0 0 6 @Martin0 0 0 0 6 @Mgleason 0 0 0 6 @MiddlegamerUmesh 0 0 0 6 @nissou-ach 0 0 0 6 @ReddyKnight 0 0 0 6 @sedore 0 0 0 6 @tacticalchessplayer 0 0 0 6 @tufferguy 0 0 0 6 @attackchesskid 0 0 0 5 @Lllionking 0 0 0 5 @Mazetix 0 0 0 5 @SamuelIFowler 0 0 0 5 @SerBrus 0 0 0 5 @Elkhan_Aliyev 0 0 0 4 @Paldrick 0 0 0 4 @pokerram 0 0 0 4 @Axonn 0 0 0 3 @Eugen 0 0 0 3 @Indirect 0 0 0 3 @knighttour2 0 0 0 3 @petitbonom 0 0 0 3 @sunnygoodboy 0 0 0 3 @ClassyWitch 0 0 0 2 @goldenstar2660 0 0 0 2 @ICCSuperGMBobbyF 0 0 0 2 @indy500plus 0 0 0 2 @MeforChessPresident 0 0 0 2 @Midav_Veahkar 0 0 0 2 @Phoenix_Scorpion 0 0 0 2 @KosimAbdullayev 0 0 0 1 @landontu 0 0 0 1 @Lord_axe 0 0 0 1 @MynameisJeff21lol 0 0 0 1 @Renegade_Yoda 0 0 0 1 @Sai 0 0 0 1 @solskytz 0 0 0 1 @SpiritualWarrior 0 0 0 1 Points are calculated as follows: 1st - 15 points2nd - 12 points3rd - 10 points4th - 8 points5th - 6 points6th - 5 points7th - 4 points8th - 3 points9th - 2 points10th - 1 pointExtra events do not count for the leaderboard.

Guys, several hours ago I took the 3rd place, so you maybe wish me to share some thoughts. Even if you do not wish, I share anyway, because it is absolutely gorgeous for me. I wanted to participate, but I was not sure about the time - it started in 01:30 AM for me and I usually go to bed in 10:00 PM to get up in 6:00, so I knew that participation will break my next day. Before the tournament I wanted to check if I am OK and the very first game of that day made me feel very confident. I mated with my only remaining piece the guy who wanted to flag me. I did not lose head after I blundered and created threats to the end. That's all you need in blitz.