Hi Lea,
Please count me in.
Happy New Year!
Dave
-----Original Message-----
From: chess-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <chess-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of
Lea Ryan (Redacted sender "lea.ryan" for DMARC)
Sent: Friday, January 1, 2021 4:26 AM
To: chess@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [chess] Last chance to join the January-March World Chess Parlor
Tournament, a Free Tournament! You May Use Skype or Freechess.org
Hi Chess lovers,
You have until Saturday 23UTC to enter.
Please check carefully on this list if your name is on it if you want to
join. if your name is not included,please email The list immediately
entered already are:
Olivier Deville
Stephen Hilton
Jim Slagle
Steve Burnell
Omkar Sameer Talwalkar
Viral Trivedi
Neil Graham
Gaurav Khetre
Pankaj Bendre
Yves Le Brun
David Rosenkoetter
Johannes Grib
Laura Scata
Mark Hague
George de Nobrega
Curtis Cockayne
Massino Maccaferri
Bittor Ibanez
Regis Gerbaux
Lea Ryan
First, join our list,
chess@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Then enter the tournament by emailing our list.
You are invited to play in the World Chess ParlorTournament.
The tournament is Swiss style.
The time control is thirty moves per hour.
This time, to enter,
you must promise to get at least 2 Good Citizen points by the end of Round
3.
Usually this means that you will be the
third-person timekeeper for at least one game by the end of Round 3.
If you have not received at least 2 GC
points, you will be removed from the Tournament.
If you do not have a chess clock, you
can write to our chess list, and ask for someone to show you how to use a
software chess clock.
Probably, someone will help you.
This will mean that probably many of your games will have a third party
timekeeper.
All are welcome to play.
You arrange to play
your games at a time and
date convenient to you.
We can work around your
schedule, even if you
are going to be unavailable during the tournament for a week or so.
A game usually lasts a
couple of hours.
The full rules will be emailed
with the Round 1 pairings.
To enter this free
tournament, simply e-mail
chess@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
by Saturday at 23:00 UTC or GMt.
Before you enter this tournament you
must get a Skype account, if
you do not have one.
You must also be a
member of our group,
chess@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
To join this group send an email to
chess-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
In the subject, put subscribe
You must speak at least a little English or have someone who can help you
with your English.
You can play using Skype or, if your opponent agrees, freechess.org.
The permanent list will not be used for
this tournament.
Yours in chess
Lea. Ryan. TD
Sent from my iPad
