Sounds great. On 2010-09-13, at 10:25 PM, R Dinger wrote: > Hello Paul and others, > > The theme idea appears so far to be what the players want. > > So if there are enough players for a tournament, how about: > * one King Pawn, one Queen Pawn and one flank opening? > or > * three major variations of one opening like Ruy Lopez or The Sicilian? > or > * other ideas? > > Richard > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Benson" <paul.benson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > To: <blind-chess@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Monday, September 13, 2010 3:14 PM > Subject: [blind-chess] [blind-chess] Proposed Fall-Winter Chess Tournament > > >> Hello Richard, >> >> Please include me for this event. There is some talk of theme openings. If >> the tournament is a 4 player, double-round event, I assume that the idea >> would be three different openings, each player trying the opening from the >> black and white side, right? >> >> Paul Benson. >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: R Dinger - Email Address: rrdinger@xxxxxxxxxx >> Sent On: 13/09/2010 16:15 >> Sent To: chess - Email Address: blind-chess@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >> Subject: [blind-chess] Proposed Fall-Winter Chess Tournament >> >> Hi All, >> >> I would like to know if there is any interest among blind-chess members in >> an additional tournament. A brief outline of my proposed tournament follows. >> >> The tournament will be a Quad format, that is groups of four players in a >> double round robin tournament. You play two games with each of the other >> three players in your division or six games total. >> >> The tournament will begin October 1 with games scheduled to begin on the >> first of each month so you only have one additional game a month. >> >> Tournament divisions will be grouped by player rating as of September 15. >> Division ties will be settled either by play-off or tie break rules as >> decided by the players. Division winners will have exclusive bragging >> rights until the next tournament. >> >> If you would like to play in such a tournament, please let me know. If you >> have other ideas or suggestions, please post them to the list for discussion. >> >> Richard > > ========== The blind-chess mailing list View list information and change your > settings: //www.freelists.org/list/blind-chess List archives: > //www.freelists.org/archives/blind-chess ========= =========The blind-chess mailing list View list information and change your settings: //www.freelists.org/list/blind-chess List archives: //www.freelists.org/archives/blind-chess =======