First of all important to say the prize for the winner is a 2 way match v Fide master Elliott Liu(ImmortalTechnique) on chess.com) This tourney is going to be quick but long lasting as we will have seasons where promotion and relegation will happen and fastest players will be kept in it. Only really slow play will maybe lose your place in the Tourney/League for season 2.
This Tourney is For players who move fast and love chess. Rated between (1500-1700) at point of invitation) ;-)
Other requirements are no vacation and from the U*K only. Top 3 from each group go through to final group of 9 and the bottom 1 from each group plus the one other lowest performer will be relegated to the Championship division already started rated for players 1350-1500. These are my 1st tourneys ive made on here so not sure if I can set those settings of final group of 9. I guess ile see when we get passed first round.
This tournament is connected to my first 3 tournaments where 2 are under way and the other should be soon. This tourney will act as the highest division(of 4) in which the bottom 4 performers will be relegated and the top 4 from the champ section will be promoted. The other tourneys is for players 0-1100(League 2) 1100-1350(League 1) and 1350-1500(Championship). In these sections the bottom 8 performers from each section will move down to the lower and top 8 from the lower will replace them aslong as they wish to compete again. If we lose any we will either bring new in or promote or relegate more to make groups even again. Hopefully these tourneys will be fun, fast, fair, and maybe create bonds as we are all from U*K and maybe enter some real life tourneys.
P.S And as I said the winner of each tourney will get a 2 game match v Fide Master Elliott Liu who is one of my mates on facebook. Hes rated 2512 and number 112 in the states. And I have played him 3 times already and have 2 currently running ;-)
Hope you all accept.
Lee
Elliott in action) (ImmortalTechnique on chess.com)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWAhklNF4Ts
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41Pi3FJW_nw
These are some clips on Elliott Liu. one from 4 years ago when he qualified for the US champs aged only 16 and a new proggramme he started recently commentating on chess games and chess news. Nice of him to agree to play the winners of each section ;-)
Few announcments. ;-)
Just to say hope all is well in this tourney for all you guys.
Firstly some of you may of noticed Elliot Liu who will play the winner of this and all my U*K only
tourneys now broadcasts every Sunday evening at about 11pm/12am. He puts out a question to the
viewers and the perosn who correctly answers it he will analyse a game of your choice that you have
played on this site on any other site or even a game you may have played otb. He has already
started a game v Petearch who was the winner of my League 2 tourney for players rated under 1300.
So I would be interested if any of you tune in already or are interested in this?
Also the other thing would be to take a look at these links and please join them if you can. One is
a group called Chess.com UK OTB tournament and link can be found here.
http://www.chess.com/groups/forumview/chesscom-uk-otb-tournament2
The second is a group for players that are from London or have connections to London. As this is a
group that is looking for players to play for them in a Chess League where different Areas of the
counrty play online games v eachother. Please check it out and let me know if you sign up or not
;-)
Following link here.
http://www.chess.com/groups/forumview/london-team-for-the-british-tournaments2
Please any comments or if anyone is interested message here or write to me, Thanks. ;-)
Lastly we may to get season 2 going pick the best 4 or 5 from each League and lowest 4 or 5 and
promote and relegate and put people into groups now. With a more organised and quicker settings. By
this I mean no vacation, smaller groups and not lots of different rounds which I think is going to
happen with these 32 player tournaments. So the 4 group winners from round 1 and maybe the best
runner up will get promoted and lowest 4/5 relegated for people who widh to still continue in these
U*K Chess Leagues. Im hoping to set a division above our Current Premier for players above 1700 and
I may even try and get som Masters/titled players to join our Top league.
I also was thinking we have a deadline of when each league should finish. Meaning if games are not
completed they will go down as draws unless there is a very big advantage for 1 player and another
is obviously hanging on by moving deliberately slow. Im not saying the games have to be agreed
drawn. I just mean for league purposes they will be drawn unless big position or material
advantage. Players feeling a game is going on too long and were closing in on deadline could let me
know and I would decide. Im thinking we start new divisions/seasons every 2 or 3 months. Any ideas
or feelings please let me know. ;-)
Watch Brittish chess champs guys!
Hi guys,
Hope you are loving the tourney.
Just thought I would send a few links on some great sites and a few showing the brittish chess champs this year. Has commnetary and live webcam and a chatroom. Let me know if you found it fun or interesting or if you knew about it or not ;-)
This one you can follow the results, pairings, and full info on the whole tournament plus all the other sections for lower players. also you can click on live games and watcvh the games going on each day at 2.15pm. live commentary from 3pm
http://www.britishchess2010.com/index.htm
Webcam.
http://www.livestream.com/ecfwebcam
Commentary
Info
So far we have 24 in prem. 32 in champ, 32 in League 1, and 18 in League 2. Was a bit harder finding players under 1100. But im sure there around. Plenty that are not in that are rated 1300 ish so wele see who plays fast and keep those in. When we are nearing half way point i most I will decide a time per move cut off and see whos struggling to finish games and decide if its forced or not as im sure we all dont want to drag on.
We may even decide a cut off point and if games are not fin by then they must be agreed to be drawn games.Unless 1 person is winning by massive advantage game will be drawn. ok guys just thought id get some of that info out to you and enjoy the tourney.
Please add me as a friend on here as nice to see whos online etc. And also add me to facebook or msn if you want
lee-football@hotmail.co.uk