Time for a new turtle tounament?

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Avatar of DrPhil

My fellow turtles, are you interested in a turtle-only tournament? Of course there is the epic original ( http://www.chess.com/tournament/the-turtle-tournament )
but that has been going on for over 2 years now, so many of you had no chance to join that or are eliminated.

I do propose a slightly different setup though, as the duel structure of the original leads to 5 year tournies - great fun, but you don't want to have 5 of those, especially as a non-premium member with a limit on how many tournaments you can join. Settings would be:

pace: 14 days / move (turtles! turtles!)
group size: 4
max players: 48 (wih priority for members of the group)
advance: 1
rating: open
move speed: all players
standard starting position.

All games would be rated, tie-breaks would be used, vacation time allowed, min number of games completed: 10; max timeout: 5%.

In case of succes we can repeat this every so often.

Comments, suggestions welcome!

Avatar of Kacparov

I'm in

Avatar of DrPhil

BTW, if people are interested, I'll set this up with a Feb 1st start date.

Avatar of DrPhil

I've set it up anyway, sign up here :

http://www.chess.com/tournament/chess-turtles-jan-2011-tournament

Please join!