All of last week, qualifiers were held on ICC for the coveted spots in the 16-player KO Mainz Chess Classic online Chess960 finals, to be staged Sunday, June 22, starting at 15:00 EDT.
Four players won through from each of the four hotly-contested qualifiers. Of the 16 contesting the finals, over half the field are titled players with 5 GMs – Dmitry Andreikin, Hikaru Nakamura, Aleksa Strikovic, Gawain Jones and Mateusz Bartel – 4 IMs and 3 FMs. The full list of finalists and pairings can be found at our dedicated Mainz Chess960 page.
The overall winner will receive over $1000, hotel room and breakfast at the Hilton Mainz Hotel by the banks of the Rhine, just 1 block from the picturesque Old Town. They will also receive an automatic seat into two of the biggest and most prestigious series of rapid chess tournaments in the world, playing alongside many of the game’s top grandmasters at the FiNet and Ordix opens.
Play starts Sunday, June 22 at 15:00 EDT.
Go Gawain Jones!
why would anyone pay to be able to play online, when there is a quite good free server: freechess.org
There you could play for free. =)
And there are even the better bughouse players. (In case you like that.)
And don’t forget that ICC-Software BlitzIn is not only closed-sourced, but also gathers infos about your computer without telling the user.
Better you use a free open source software like Winboard / XBoard or Thief’s newest version on a free server!
Btw: Some years ago in qualifiers for Dos Hermanas Online tourneys some GM were disqualified after the qualifiers, but never got a “(C)” beside a handle, that would ahve indicated they had cheated or not. Is there still the same group at force on ICC with the same lame policies?
Greetings
dgecl
On the last day of this upcoming August 2008 tournament in Mainz, the ChessTigers should announce which ONE chess960 position will be used for ALL games in their August 2009 tournaments.
Maybe we have learned all we are going to learn from the current fully-random format they have used every August so far.
GeneM
CastleLong.com, for FRC-chess960
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