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Hello everyone! Congratulations to mrneale for winning the randomly picked diamond membership. mrneale now gets a free month of diamond membership. Now with the real tournament:P Congratulations to Petrosianic for winning the tournament with a score of 6 and tiebreak score of 21. However since Petrosianic is a title player, TheCurse will be getting the one month diamond membership. Here are the results for the top 8 people in this tournament: Place Username Points Tiebreak Score 1 Petrosianic 6 21 2 TheCurse 5.5 16.5 3 CaroInferno 5 22 4 SiRTeTRiS 4.5 17.5 5 Portishead93 4.5 17 6 Sunglasses1089 4 13.5 7 linhvnguyen 4 13 8 alfredpena 4 12 Remember the weekly schedule: USCF Blitz: Monday at 3 p.m. Pacific, 6 p.m. Eastern 5 rounds 10 | 0 time control USCF Blitz: Monday at 8 p.m. Pacific, 11 p.m. Eastern 7 Rounds 5|0 time control USCF Blitz: Wednesday at 5 p.m. Pacific, 8 p.m. Eastern 7 rounds (fewer if not enough participants) 3|2 blitz time control USCF Rapid: Friday at 5 p.m. Pacific, 8 p.m. Eastern 5 rounds 15|10 time control

Hello everyone! Congratulations to AndrewLSmith84 for winning the randomly picked diamond membership. AndrewLSmith84 now gets a free month of diamond membership. Now with the real tournament:P Congratulations to Ecalevol for winning the tournament with a perfect score of 5 and a tiebreak score of 15. Ecalevol will be getting the same prize as AndrewLSmith84 (free month of diamond membership) Another congratulations to Xen1227 for getting second place with a score of 4 and a tiebreak score of 7. Here are the results for the top 8 people in this tournament: Place Username Points Tiebreak Score 1 Ecalevol 5 15 2 Xen1227 4 7 3 SolaFide 4 6 4 TheInimitableKan 3 4 5 The_Dragon488 3 2 6 andrewLsmith84 2 3 7 amingjl 2 2 8 kkarla 2 1 Remember the weekly schedule: USCF Blitz: Monday at 3 p.m. Pacific, 6 p.m. Eastern 5 rounds 10 | 0 time control USCF Blitz: Monday at 8 p.m. Pacific, 11 p.m. Eastern 7 Rounds 5|0 time control USCF Blitz: Wednesday at 5 p.m. Pacific, 8 p.m. Eastern 7 rounds (fewer if not enough participants) 3|2 blitz time control USCF Rapid: Friday at 5 p.m. Pacific, 8 p.m. Eastern 5 rounds 15|10 time control

Hello everyone! Congratulations to Petrosianic and NorthUnited for tieing first in this tournament with a score of 4 and a tiebreak score 8. Another congratulations to Xen1227 for getting third place with 4 points and a tiebreak score of 7. Here are the results for the top 8 people in this tournament: Place Username Points Tiebreak Score 1 Petrosianic 4 8 1 NorthUnited 4 8 3 Xen1227 4 7 4 Eidol 3.5 5.75 5 RealGojira 3 4.5 6 P135799 2.5 2.25 7 henrybbad 2 1.5 8 Mean-Mr-Mustard 2 1 Remember the weekly schedule: USCF Blitz: Monday at 3 p.m. Pacific, 6 p.m. Eastern 5 rounds 10 | 0 time control USCF Blitz: Monday at 8 p.m. Pacific, 11 p.m. Eastern 7 Rounds 5|0 time control USCF Blitz: Wednesday at 5 p.m. Pacific, 8 p.m. Eastern 7 rounds (fewer if not enough participants) 3|2 blitz time control USCF Rapid: Friday at 5 p.m. Pacific, 8 p.m. Eastern 5 rounds 15|10 time control

Hello everyone! Congratulations to TheLancer for winning this tournament with a score of 6.5 and a tiebreak score of 23.25. Another congratulations to titust for getting second place with a score of 5.5 and a tiebreak score of 19.25. Here are the results for the top 8 people in this tournament: Place Username Points Tiebreak Score 1 TheLancer 6.5 23.25 2 titust 5.5 19.25 3 Jahonas 5 15 4 Xen1227 4.5 13.5 5 mattch00 4.5 12.75 6 OtherGabe 4 12 7 rynos0411 4 11 8 Samsch 3.5 9.5 Remember the weekly schedule: USCF Blitz: Monday at 3 p.m. Pacific, 6 p.m. Eastern 5 rounds 10 | 0 time control USCF Blitz: Monday at 8 p.m. Pacific, 11 p.m. Eastern 7 Rounds 5|0 time control USCF Blitz: Wednesday at 5 p.m. Pacific, 8 p.m. Eastern 7 rounds (fewer if not enough participants) 3|2 blitz time control USCF Rapid: Friday at 5 p.m. Pacific, 8 p.m. Eastern 5 rounds 15|10 time control

Is there anyway black can win this endgame? I am spending a lot of time pondering this position wondering how it could have been, my opponent forgot to but the delay but I didn't want to take risks.

Hello everyone! I know you're all excited to find out who got the free one month diamond memberships! So Im not going to have you guys wait. Congratulations to Sunglasses1089 for winning the randomly picked diamond membership. Now for the real tournament:)Congratulations to Jahonas for winning this tournament! Jahonas won this tournament with a score of 6 and a tiebreak score of 22. Jahonas will also be getting the one month free diamond membership!:) Another congratulations to rodtejedor for getting second place with a score of 6 points and a tiebreak score of 21. Here are the results for the top 9 players in this tournament: Place Username Points Tiebreak Score 1 Jahonas 6 22 2 rodtejedor 6 21 3 misowalker 4.5 17.5 4 WilliamRDavis 4.5 15.75 5 blackcat11 4.5 15 6 NorthUnited 4.5 14.25 7 Zigwurst 4.5 11 8 Sunglasses1089 4 14 9 mattch00 4 13 Remember the weekly schedule: USCF Blitz: Monday at 3 p.m. Pacific, 6 p.m. Eastern 5 rounds 10 | 0 time control USCF Blitz: Monday at 8 p.m. Pacific, 11 p.m. Eastern 7 Rounds 5|0 time control USCF Blitz: Wednesday at 5 p.m. Pacific, 8 p.m. Eastern 7 rounds (fewer if not enough participants) 3|2 blitz time control USCF Rapid: Friday at 5 p.m. Pacific, 8 p.m. Eastern 5 rounds 15|10 time control

Hello everyone! Congratulations to Xen1227 for winning this tournament with a score of 4.5 out of the 5 rounds and a tiebreak score of 12.75. Another congratulations to NorthUnited for getting second place with a score fo3.5 and a tiebreak score of 6.5. Here are the results for the top 8 people in this tournament: Place Username Points Tiebreak Score 1 Xen1227 4.5 12.75 2 NorthUnited 3.5 6.5 3 hah217 3 7 4 storus 3 6 5 thshupe 2.5 2.75 6 Germanyredbulls 2 3 7 redfishfinder 2 1 7 andrewLsmith84 2 1 Remember the weekly schedule: USCF Blitz: Monday at 3 p.m. Pacific, 6 p.m. Eastern 5 rounds 10 | 0 time control USCF Blitz: Monday at 8 p.m. Pacific, 11 p.m. Eastern 7 Rounds 5|0 time control USCF Blitz: Wednesday at 5 p.m. Pacific, 8 p.m. Eastern 7 rounds (fewer if not enough participants) 3|2 blitz time control USCF Rapid: Friday at 5 p.m. Pacific, 8 p.m. Eastern 5 rounds 15|10 time control

Hello everyone! I know you're all excited to find out who got the free one month diamond memberships! So Im not going to have you guys wait. Congratulations to Symphonist for winning the randomly picked diamond membership. Now for the real tournament:)Congratulations to Xen1227 for winning this tournament! Xen1227 won this tournament with a perfect score of 5 and a tiebreak score of 11. Xen1227 will also be getting the one month free diamond membership!:) Another congratulations to TheInimitableKan for getting second place with a score of 3.5 points and a tiebreak score of 9.25. Here are the results for the top 8 players in this tournament: Place Username Points Tiebreak Score 1 Xen1227 5 11 2 TheInimitableKan 3.5 9.25 3 NorthUnited 3 5 4 andrewLsmith84 3 3.5 5 fishfish00 2.5 4.25 6 SDefense 2 4.5 7 AragornKingOfGonder 2 3 8 Ossetian85 2 2.5 Remember the weekly schedule: USCF Blitz: Monday at 3 p.m. Pacific, 6 p.m. Eastern 5 rounds 10 | 0 time control USCF Blitz: Monday at 8 p.m. Pacific, 11 p.m. Eastern 7 Rounds 5|0 time control USCF Blitz: Wednesday at 5 p.m. Pacific, 8 p.m. Eastern 7 rounds (fewer if not enough participants) 3|2 blitz time control USCF Rapid: Friday at 5 p.m. Pacific, 8 p.m. Eastern 5 rounds 15|10 time control

Hello everyone! Congratulations to ari_O for winning this tournament with a score of 6 points out of the 7 rounds and a tiebreak score of 27.5. Another congratulations to Jahonas for getting second placce with a score of 6 and a tiebreak score of 22. Here are the results for the top 9 people in the tournament: Place Username Points Tiebreak Score 1 ari_O 6 27.5 2 Jahonas 6 22 3 Zigwurst 5 20.5 4 Xen1227 5 18.5 5 Samsch 4.5 15.75 6 CabassoG 4.5 14.25 7 dblackw2 4 13.5 8 ObiRonKenobi 4 12 8 Mean-Mr-Mustard 4 12 Remember the weekly schedule: USCF Blitz: Monday at 3 p.m. Pacific, 6 p.m. Eastern 5 rounds 10 | 0 time control USCF Blitz: Monday at 8 p.m. Pacific, 11 p.m. Eastern 7 Rounds 5|0 time control USCF Blitz: Wednesday at 5 p.m. Pacific, 8 p.m. Eastern 7 rounds (fewer if not enough participants) 3|2 blitz time control USCF Rapid: Friday at 5 p.m. Pacific, 8 p.m. Eastern 5 rounds 15|10 time control

Hello everyone! Congratulations to Xen1227 for winning this tournament with 4 points out of the 5 rounds and a tiebreak score of 10. Another congratulations to SJFG for getting second place with 3.5 points and a tiebreak score of 10.75. Here are the results for the top 8 people in this tournament: Place Username Points Tiebreak Score 1 Xen1227 4 10 2 SJFG 3.5 10.75 3 Samsch 3.5 8.25 4 fishfish00 3.5 7 5 Zigwurst 3 5 6 2013-knights-Boston 3 3 7 Jay_Roy_Hall 2.5 3.5 8 Ossetian85 2 2 Remember the weekly schedule: USCF Blitz: Monday at 3 p.m. Pacific, 6 p.m. Eastern 5 rounds 10 | 0 time control USCF Blitz: Monday at 8 p.m. Pacific, 11 p.m. Eastern 7 Rounds 5|0 time control USCF Blitz: Wednesday at 5 p.m. Pacific, 8 p.m. Eastern 7 rounds (fewer if not enough participants) 3|2 blitz time control USCF Rapid: Friday at 5 p.m. Pacific, 8 p.m. Eastern 5 rounds 15|10 time control

Hello everyone! Congratulations to Petrosianic for winning this tournament with a perfect score of 7 and a tiebreak score of 30.5. Another congratulations to shootfilm for getting second place with a score of 6 and a tiebreak score of 20. Here are the results for the top 8 people in this tournament: Place Username Points Tiebreak Score 1 Petrosianic 7 30.5 2 shootfilm 6 20 3 Zigwurst 5 15.5 4 Jay_Roy_Hall 4.5 13.75 5 divncom 4 11.25 6 Sunglasses1089 4 11 6 Mean-Mr-Mustard 4 11 8 redfishfinder 4 10.75 Remember the weekly schedule: USCF Blitz: Monday at 3 p.m. Pacific, 6 p.m. Eastern 5 rounds 10 | 0 time control USCF Blitz: Monday at 8 p.m. Pacific, 11 p.m. Eastern 7 Rounds 5|0 time control USCF Blitz: Wednesday at 5 p.m. Pacific, 8 p.m. Eastern 7 rounds (fewer if not enough participants) 3|2 blitz time control USCF Rapid: Friday at 5 p.m. Pacific, 8 p.m. Eastern 5 rounds 15|10 time control

Hello everyone! Congratulations to busygin for winning this tournament with a perfect score. Busygin got 5 points and a tiebreak score of 12! Another congratulations to MightyDogg for getting 4 points and a tiebreak score of 7.5. Here are the results for the top 8 people in this tournament: Place Username Points Tiebreak Score 1 busygin 5 12 2 MightyDogg 4 7.5 3 fishfish00 4 7 3 shootfilm 4 7 5 Khalid_Alig 3.5 9.75 6 microbear 3 6.25 7 matt_martello 3 4.75 8 DDayman 3 3 Remember the weekly schedule: USCF Blitz: Monday at 3 p.m. Pacific, 6 p.m. Eastern 5 rounds 10 | 0 time control USCF Blitz: Monday at 8 p.m. Pacific, 11 p.m. Eastern 7 Rounds 5|0 time control USCF Blitz: Wednesday at 5 p.m. Pacific, 8 p.m. Eastern 7 rounds (fewer if not enough participants) 3|2 blitz time control USCF Rapid: Friday at 5 p.m. Pacific, 8 p.m. Eastern 5 rounds 15|10 time control

Hello everyone! Congratulations to Jahonas for winning this tournament with 6.5 points out of 7 rounds and a tiebreak score of 28. Another congratulations to ari_O for getting second place with 6 points and tiebreak score of 23. Here are the results for the top 8 people in this tournament: Place Username Points Tiebreak Score 1 Jahonas 6.5 28 2 ari_O 6 23 3 busygin 6 22.5 4 eugeniusjr 5.5 18 5 asg2 5 11.5 6 DDayman 4.5 12.25 7 TheCurse 4 13 8 divncom 4 11.5 Remember the weekly schedule: USCF Blitz: Monday at 3 p.m. Pacific, 6 p.m. Eastern 5 rounds 10 | 0 time control USCF Blitz: Monday at 8 p.m. Pacific, 11 p.m. Eastern 7 Rounds 5|0 time control USCF Blitz: Wednesday at 5 p.m. Pacific, 8 p.m. Eastern 7 rounds (fewer if not enough participants) 3|2 blitz time control USCF Rapid: Friday at 5 p.m. Pacific, 8 p.m. Eastern 5 rounds 15|10 time control

Hello everyone! Congratulations to ari_O for winning this tournament with 5.5 points out of 7 rounds and a tiebreak score of 21.75. Another congratulations to divncom for getting second place with 5 points and a tiebreak score of 18. Here are the results for the top 8 people in this tournament: Place Username Points Tiebreak Score 1 ari_O 5.5 21.75 2 divncom 5 18 3 WilliamRDavis 5 14 4 beez2310 4.5 11.25 5 eugeniusjr 4 12.5 6 amingj1 4 5.5 7 MightyDogg 3.5 10.25 8 13bazinga 3.5 8.75 Remember the weekly schedule: USCF Blitz: Monday at 3 p.m. Pacific, 6 p.m. Eastern 5 rounds 10 | 0 time control USCF Blitz: Monday at 8 p.m. Pacific, 11 p.m. Eastern 7 Rounds 5|0 time control USCF Blitz: Wednesday at 5 p.m. Pacific, 8 p.m. Eastern 7 rounds (fewer if not enough participants) 3|2 blitz time control USCF Rapid: Friday at 5 p.m. Pacific, 8 p.m. Eastern 5 rounds 15|10 time control

Hello everyone! Congratulations to TheInimitableKan AND fishfish00 for winning this tournament. Both of them got 4 points out of the 5 rounds and tiebreak scores of 8. Another congratulations to third place winner Xen1227 who got 4 points and a tiebreak score of 5. Here are the results for the top 8 players of this tournament: Place Username Points Tiebreak Score 1 TheInimitableKan 4 8 1 fishfish00 4 8 3 Xen1227 4 5 4 drahcirtimothy 2 1 5 divncom 2 0 6 SMOKEandBEERORRS 1 0 6 rotchopf 1 0 6 AragornKingOfGondor 1 0 Remember the weekly schedule: USCF Blitz: Monday at 3 p.m. Pacific, 6 p.m. Eastern 5 rounds 10 | 0 time control USCF Blitz: Monday at 8 p.m. Pacific, 11 p.m. Eastern 7 Rounds 5|0 time control USCF Blitz: Wednesday at 5 p.m. Pacific, 8 p.m. Eastern 7 rounds (fewer if not enough participants) 3|2 blitz time control USCF Rapid: Friday at 5 p.m. Pacific, 8 p.m. Eastern 5 rounds 15|10 time control

Hello everyone! Congratulations to eugeniusjr for winning this tournament with a perfect score of 5 and a tiebreak score of 12.5. Another congratulations to divncom for getting second place with 4 points and a tiebreak score of 10.5. Here are the results for the top 8 people in this tournament: Place Username Points Tiebreak Score 1 eugeniusjr 5 12.5 2 divncom 4 10.5 3 misowalker 4 9.5 4 wadethestealth 4 5.5 5 Mean-Mr-Mustard 3.5 5 6 Aksh0412 3 5.5 7 fishfish00 3 5.5 8 thshupe 3 4 Remember the weekly schedule: USCF Blitz: Monday at 3 p.m. Pacific, 6 p.m. Eastern 5 rounds 10 | 0 time control USCF Blitz: Monday at 8 p.m. Pacific, 11 p.m. Eastern 7 Rounds 5|0 time control USCF Blitz: Wednesday at 5 p.m. Pacific, 8 p.m. Eastern 7 rounds (fewer if not enough participants) 3|2 blitz time control USCF Rapid: Friday at 5 p.m. Pacific, 8 p.m. Eastern 5 rounds 15|10 time control

Hello everyone! Congratulations to Jahonas for winning this tournament with 6 points out of 7 rounds and a tiebreak score of 24. Another congratulations to asg2 for getting second place with 6 points as well and a tiebreak score of 21. Here are the results for the top 8 people in this tournament: Place Username Points Tiebreak Score 1 Jahonas 6 24 2 asg2 6 21 3 KnightyNight1 5 15 4 PhaseShift 4.5 12 5 Everling10 4 10 6 rynos0411 4 7.5 7 blackmanrook 3.5 9.5 8 corenjmeeks 3.5 9.25 Remember the weekly schedule: USCF Blitz: Monday at 3 p.m. Pacific, 6 p.m. Eastern 5 rounds 10 | 0 time control USCF Blitz: Monday at 8 p.m. Pacific, 11 p.m. Eastern 7 Rounds 5|0 time control USCF Blitz: Wednesday at 5 p.m. Pacific, 8 p.m. Eastern 7 rounds (fewer if not enough participants) 3|2 blitz time control USCF Rapid: Friday at 5 p.m. Pacific, 8 p.m. Eastern 5 rounds 15|10 time control

Hello everyone! Congratulations to eugeniusjr for winning this tournament with a perfect score of 5 and a tiebreak score of 13. Another congratulations to WilliamRDavis for getting second place with a score of 4 and a tiebreak score of 8. Here are the results for the top 8 players in this tournament: Place Username Points Tiebreak Score 1 eugeniusjr 5 13 2 WilliamRDavis 4 8 3 mattch00 3 6 4 Martin_Stahl 2 3 4 redfishfinder 2 3 4 muffinman21 2 3 7 Sunglasses1089 2 2 8 divncom 1 0 Remember the weekly schedule: USCF Blitz: Monday at 3 p.m. Pacific, 6 p.m. Eastern 5 rounds 10 | 0 time control USCF Blitz: Monday at 8 p.m. Pacific, 11 p.m. Eastern 7 Rounds 5|0 time control USCF Blitz: Wednesday at 5 p.m. Pacific, 8 p.m. Eastern 7 rounds (fewer if not enough participants) 3|2 blitz time control USCF Rapid: Friday at 5 p.m. Pacific, 8 p.m. Eastern 5 rounds 15|10 time control

Hello everyone! Congratulations to BadHabitMarco for winning this tournament with 7 points and a tiebreak score of 25. Another congratulations to Jahonas for getting second place with a score of 6 and a tiebreak score of 21.5. Here are the top 6 players in this tournament: Place Username Points Tiebreak Score 1 BadHabitMarco 7 25 2 Jahonas 6 21.5 3 titus 5.5 16.5 4 Vannatar 5 17.5 5 DocRoy 5 14.5 6 hazy13 5 10 Remember the weekly schedule: USCF Blitz: Monday at 3 p.m. Pacific, 6 p.m. Eastern 5 rounds 10 | 0 time control USCF Blitz: Monday at 8 p.m. Pacific, 11 p.m. Eastern 7 Rounds 5|0 time control USCF Blitz: Wednesday at 5 p.m. Pacific, 8 p.m. Eastern 7 rounds (fewer if not enough participants) 3|2 blitz time control USCF Rapid: Friday at 5 p.m. Pacific, 8 p.m. Eastern 5 rounds 15|10 time control

Hello everyone! Congratulations to Jahonas for winning this tournament with a score of 6 out of 7 rounds and a tiebreak score of 21.5. Another congratulation to ari_O for getting second place in this tournament with a score of 5 and a tiebreak score of 21.5. Here are the results for the top 8 people in this tournament: Place Username Points Tiebreak Score 1 Jahonas 6 21.5 2 ari_O 5 21.5 3 CabassoG 5 17 4 CRERULES 5 17 5 pawn2bomb 5 15 6 2014KING 4.5 16.75 7 Magnafox 4 10.5 8 wadethestealth 4 7 Remember the weekly schedule: USCF Blitz: Monday at 3 p.m. Pacific, 6 p.m. Eastern 5 rounds 10 | 0 time control USCF Blitz: Monday at 8 p.m. Pacific, 11 p.m. Eastern 7 Rounds 5|0 time control USCF Blitz: Wednesday at 5 p.m. Pacific, 8 p.m. Eastern 7 rounds (fewer if not enough participants) 3|2 blitz time control USCF Rapid: Friday at 5 p.m. Pacific, 8 p.m. Eastern 5 rounds 15|10 time control