Tournament designers---check into Chess and ChessVariants Clearinghouse to get info to chess players of all tags.

I want announce,that you can download the Livechess-client Chessgate now in the new version 2.1. Chessgate (www.chessgate.de) is from Germany and also in the english language. It is usable to play livegames ,as interface for free engines (gnu chess and others) and for e-mail games.Mostly 100 people are online(Europeen daytime) and want play short games! (It is completely free!)
Perhaps we see us there for a five minutes or an half an hour match :)?

Internet Chess Club presents Dos Hermanas V
March 6th through the 14th

THE Internet Chess Tournament of 2004!

* Free International Online Chess Tournament
* Thousands of dollars in prizes
* Over 150 Grand Masters and International Masters
* Over 1000 players competing

For more information check out:
http://www.doshermanas.net, http://www.chessclub.com/help/DosHermanas, and
http://www.chessclub.com/news/1747

For the fifth time, the Internet Chess Club (ICC) is hosting the annual
Internet Chess Tournament "Ciudad de Dos Hermanas". This year's cash prize
fund has been increased to EUR 6,100 (about $7,750), plus ICC membership
prizes.

Entry is completely FREE. You don't even need to be a paying member of ICC
to compete. Just follow the instructions at the bottom of this message to
sign up for an free trial of ICC. During your trial you can play in any or
all of the twelve Dos Hermanas qualifying tournaments and enjoy ICC's other
features and activities.

From March 6 through the 11th, there will be two Swiss-system qualifying
tournaments each day, beginning at 1:00 PM and 8:00 PM EST. You can take
part in any or all of the tournaments. Winners of the qualifying
tournaments and the 20 best-scoring other players advance to the knockout
finals beginning March 13th. The games will be blitz chess with each player
getting 8 minutes to make their moves and with 2 seconds added to each
player's time after each move.

This tournament gives everyone the chance to compete in a field of world
class players! Last year, the tournament had record participation. 67 Grand
Masters and 103 International Masters took part in a field of 1,117 players
from 75 countries! Every Dos Hermanas tournament has been bigger than the
last and Dos Hermanas V will be THE internet chess tournament of 2004.

If you wish to play, rules and entry forms are at
http://www.doshermanas.net (click the poster graphic on the far right). You
will also find information on previous tournaments there.

Make sure to register early. Your registration is valid for all qualifying
tournaments, but does not obligate you to play. Log on to ICC 15 minutes
before the beginning of any qualifying tournament and you will
automatically be paired with an opponent.

This event is sponsored by the Dos Hermanas City Council, the Municipal
Foundation for Sport of Dos Hermanas, EDAMI (Miguel Illescas Chess School),
and the Internet Chess Club at www.chessclub.com.

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Instructions For Participating in Dos Hermanas V

1. Visit http://www.doshermanas.net, click the poster graphic on the
far right, then click on a link to choose your language.

2. Click on the link that says "Click here to register". Follow the
onscreen instructions until you get to the "ICC: Dos Hermanas Internet
Tournament 2004 Registration Form"

3. If you don't have an account on ICC, click on the link that says
"Register an ICC name". The "Chessclub.com Registration" page opens in a
separate window. Follow the onscreen instructions to complete your ICC
registration. Be sure and download and install the BlitzIn interface
software as instructed.

4. Once you have registered an ICC name, return to the window with the
"ICC: Dos Hermanas Internet Tournament 2004 Registration Form". Follow the
onscreen instructions to complete your Dos Hermanas registration.

5. You may begin using your ICC free trial immediately. Log onto ICC using
the BlitzIn interface software and enjoy ICC's many features and activities.

6. To participate in any of the twice daily Dos Hermanas qualifying
tournaments from March 6th through the 14th, log on to ICC 15 minutes
before the tournaments begin at 1:00 PM or 8:00 PM Eastern Time. You will
be automatically assigned an opponent for your first match. It may take a
few minutes for your opponent to log on. Once both you and your opponent
have logged on, your first game of the tournament will begin. If your
opponent does not log on you will receive a forfeit win for that round.

7. When the first round is over you need only remain online and wait. You
will automatically be assigned an opponent for your next match. While you
wait you may explore and enjoy ICC's many other features and activities.

If you have any questions, select the "Ask a question" option from
BlitzIn's Help drop down menu. Look for your question and your answer in
the console window.

We look forward to seeing you at the Dos Hermanas V Internet Chess
Tournament, March 6th through the 14th on the Internet Chess Club!

For more information check out:
http://www.doshermanas.net, http://www.chessclub.com/help/DosHermanas, and
http://www.chessclub.com/news/1747

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Just another update on Backoff's Chess Blowout.

Section 1: Ustica and Bobes has taken 2 games each so far.

Section 2:Oliottavio and Masoud already has 4 wins and Bluefin and Strydor have all taken 2 games.

Section 3:Rabbitoid has 4 wins and Andreas Kaufmann, Hannelore, & JAGR each have 2 wins.

Section 4:Charly2 has a pair of wins

Section 5:NOMOEO & honcho have a pair of wins each.


Who will win the 6 month rook membership??? We'll soon find out.

Good luck to all.

I have been surprised to see that black wons more often then white.

I do not know the explanation, maybe some "bunnies" just like posting new games with white ?!




Statistics
White won 7184 (46.80 %)
Black won 7598 (49.50 %)
Draws 567 (3.69 %)

http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_28-1-2004_pg9_3

Just a quick update on Backoff's Chess Blowout.

Section 1: Ustica has taken 2 games so far.

Section 2:Oliottavio, Masoud, and Bluefin have all taken 2 games, with strydor have won 1.

Section 3:Rabbitoid and Andreas Kaufmann both have 2 wins each.

Section 4:Charly2 has a pair of wins

Section 5:I think everyone is on vaction, no completed games yet.


Who will win the 6 month rook membership??? We'll soon find out.

Good luck to all.

I have the same position.I know the IECG (www.iecg.org), a great organisation with more than 10000 members only chess,right? But why do so many people not use a chessserver? I don`t understand it.

as for me, I'm still active in the IECC, which is an email chess organisation, but have slipped to only 1-2 games since IYT, and then GT and BK became active. it's simply too comfortable to play on a server.

Recently I read a statistic that the bigger part of the correspondence chess players is still playing with postcards (more than 50 percent). A smaller part is playing with e-mail and fax and only the smallest part plays on a webserver. Can you believe this?
Does anybody know how is the situation in his own national correspondence chess federation?

I'm sure Ug did :)

Do you really think,that he has had fun? :)

He didn't seem to want the game to finish and I didn't want to spoil his fun.

Ug: nice ones ... queening pawns into knights just to give you opponent a fighting chance :)

Okay ughaibu, seems to be the record at this moment and I can try to establish a new one.:). Or anybody here with more than 76 moves?

76 moves: http://www.brainking.com/game/ArchivedGame?g=234990

too less Backoff, in my game against Rabbitoid
we are now at move 68, may be this game can perhaps reach 90 or 100 moves.
Anybody there, who has a game with more than 70 moves (chess only) ?:)

nope my biggest (chess) is it 44 with no sign of ending soon. I have an old game with 60 something moves in it. Now 5-in-a-line is a different story, I have one with 89 moves before the other person timed out.

Who has the record at this moment with the most moves in one game? Has everybody a game with more than 80 moves?

Well the big chess blow out is underway and the field is a tough one. With 7 out of the 23 rated over 2300 BKR this should be real fun. I would say I glad I'm in section 4 but I have the undefeated Charly2 in there as well as AlexII who's very strong as well. Well lets get it on!!!

I would like to send good luck to Andrew Martin from Berkshire (where i live lol) who is going to try to break the world record by playing 300 simultaneous games of Chess, and get in the Guinness Book of Records.
I have trouble with one LOL

Ok everyone, you have 24 hours to sign up for my New Years Chess blowout!!! HERE. The winner gets a 6 month rook membership. Some of the top players on the site are in this and it should be very fun. Good Luck.

Anyone who is interested in playing a good game of chess come and join CheckMate Fellowship!

Ok everyone lets play some chess. Backoff's chess blowout is the perfect way to start the new year. Winner will get a 6 month ROOK membership.

Click here to sign up

No unrated players, mutli-nics, cheaters, programms, etc. Have a great game and good luck.

New Year Topplayer`s Chess Invitational

Invited players please join,we want start after christmas!

Wow,the first five chessplayers in the established and in the provisonal rating are Europeens! Viva our good old Europe! :)

i didn't know nothing about chessbase ill try it then but not right away so give me time i might do it on nov 18th in the day or so let me know who good and teach me good trick too lol !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

it going ok with me how it going with u ?

I too was a bit surprised that a link to chesslab
was suppressed, although Caissus seemed pleased. ;-)

useful ones from danoschek least. this so-called server
turns to the same fraud like the confessing cheater. hope they'll
eventually be capable of a proper backup after all. the gothic coward
acchieved another goal after recruiting czech accomplices for an apple
and an egg plus empty promises: Dano timed out in their game.

seems easy to summon czech racism against germans -
also Caissus' won game against the wimp disappeared.
manipulation became a regular approach here,
and fencer? just a clown on command.

I cussed and insulted and was rude - several days.

To proove I'm still here - I'm not particular good at gothic you know.
And I most likely cannot defeat the vortex engine either, unlike Dano.

GothicInventor The environment is changing 15. November 2003, 10:33:17
In case you have not noticed. Everyone has been given a clear slate at ths point in time. Dano was warned about his posts, which were unwarranted, and now he is gone.

He keeps making mention of manipulated posts. I am not sure what he means by that. I occasionally make typo corrections or punctuation changes at the tournament board, if this is manipulation, so be it.

Yes, I posted that I would help everyone playing Dano in Gothic Chess to win. I was letting off steam, but I really meant it when I said it. Logistically, does anyone really believe this was possible? In fact, nobody took me up on my offer, as those who were members of the fellowship recall. They all wanted to try and give him a drubbing by their own hands, win, lose, or draw.

I posted it mostly because I knew it would agitate dano when it leaked, so the spies helped me immensely, and I thank you for it.

It was an impossible task to do (play every move for every opponent against dano) but knowing the way his paranoia is manifest, I knew it would send him over the deep end.

So what had I actually done?

I made a post, then took no action on it. How many times a day do we each do similar things? You see a beautiful woman walking down the street, do you think "I wonder if she likes doing Crossword Puzzles?" If you see an armored car making a cash pickup at a store, do you think "I wonder what kind of gas mileage it gets?"

No, we have fleeting thoughts about getting her in the sack, and tossing bags of money into the back seat and peeling off down the road. (Or maybe peeling off down the road with the girl in the back seat, and sleeping with the bags of money, whatever you prefer!)

The point being my previous fellowship was created for those to let off steam about dano, much as this one is most likely geared at letting steam off about me.

But does anyone really think I crashed the server just so dano, who won his section in the $3000 Gothic tournament, would not be able to continue on? Did he really think I was making all of those moves against him and he kept beating me game after game?

Folks, you have to face the fact that he was at least a little off his rocker. If nothing else, this must be conceeded.

The server crashed. That's all that happened.

A new policy is in place. It is one we can all live with. When I make a post about how the 4 kings in the deck of cards are not really modeled after those in antiquity that have permeated the culture, then someone calls me a prick for doing so, a line has been crossed. It was uncalled for.

Even now, I could of had this person banned, but I elected not to do so.

No more warnings will ever be issued, as the policy is any direct insult, in a private or public forum, will result in an immediate banning.

If it cannot be discussed without name calling, do us all a favor, and save yourself some keystrokes.

If you have read the hidden message I placed in this post, you know which 4 people will be banned next because they will most likely make snide remarks about this post. This is what I am hoping for. This is the bait.

...and it is freeware, I have it too on my pc :).
Try also http://www.playwitharena.com/ for another good chess-application (like winboard)
...and in chesslab you can find some of my tournement games :)

click here to get to yet another one ... chesslab. (Java RTE required) ~*~

Scid is an applications program in which internet datatbases can be downloaded, PGN for instance. Scid then converts the PGN file into a "scid" file that allow the moves to be replayed on their chess board. There are search engines to find the games you want from the database by ECO, or a given position, or a particular player, etc...

hi. try chessbase.com. it also has good chess articles. what is "Scid"?

Is anyone familiar with "Scid" chess database application?

Thanks Zucan, very helpful...

Does anyone know of a website where a good sized database of games (preferrably catagorizable by ECO) is available for free?

I would be interested in strengthing my game
Thank you!
Doc Holliday

I am a former master willing to give lessons to beginners and intermediate players as a service to this site, which I am unable to support financially. Respond here if you are interested.

Christian, hey? How about a cathloic? Born and breeded cathloic.

Hello, good luck.

deleting my/our games. Thank you.

would like to play chess with christian chess players.

Would it be possible to add 4-player chaturanga to the offerings on Brain King? I enjoy this game very much and think that others would, too. I personally prefer the no-dice variant and alliances between red and yellow, and black and green, as described in Gollon's modern version of the variant.

Dare I say that Yonin Shogi (4-player Japanese chess) is even better?

Yes, only paid members can join fellowdhips.

Do you have to be a paid member?

aante na doume!!!