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Welcome everyone to the latest tournament of my 1st Thematic Tournament Series! This one's theme is the Caro-Kann Defense, meaning every game will begin with 1.e4 c6.
This is the O1500 Section. if you are rated under 1500 (or are 1501-1599 and would like to play down) please join the U1600 Section here: http://www.chess.com/tournament/1st-thematic-tournament-series-the-polish-opening-u1600-section
The time control will be 3 days per move, with group sizes 5 and one per group advance. Vacation time is allowed.
Winners receive these cool custom trophies!
If you would like to see the other thematic tournaments in this series, as well as other tournaments I direct, you can join my tournament group here:
http://www.chess.com/groups/view/maroon5fans-tournament-group
As in all of my tournaments, top finishers are invited to the Winner's Championship, a special invitation-only event for the best players of my tournaments.
Good luck everyone, and have fun experimenting with this opening! 
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If you liked this tournament - Join the group!
Hello everyone! 
If you are enjoying this tournament, and you may be interested in playing in more directed by me in the future, you can join my tournament group with the link below:
http://www.chess.com/groups/view/maroon5fans-tournament-group
Simply click the "Join Group" button, and you will instantly be added to the group!
Whenever a new tournament is created, an invite is sent out to all members, and links and info to all currently available tournaments is posted in the forums. In addition to this, we do many other fun things like many kinds of team matches (including team match leagues), a wide variety of team vote chess, tournament series, group-only tournaments and group championships, fun activities, forum games, group chat, and more! We are an active group and currently have 343 members.
Hopefully, I'll see you there! 
--Maroon5fan (your tournament director)