CFCC Saturday Online Tournaments

The club wishes to congratulate NM Raghav Venkat (LilRag) for his clear 1st Place win in our July 4th online prize tournament with a perfect score of 4/4 points and a prize of $80, along with Michael Thomas (gmiket) who not only won clear 2nd Place with 3/4 points, but was also awarded the “Best Played Game” of the four rounds for his 3rd round game against speedyshadowater for a combined $80 prize!

Three players, 520Zhuyibei, CM Andy Catlin (acatlin), and phiro47 all tied for 3rd Place with 2/4 points which, when combined with our Top U1800 prize, provided each player a $20 prize.

Other winners include Nspace for our Top U1400 $30 prize and speedyshadowater for the Top U1200 $30 prize.

We hope everyone had a great Fourth of July as we look forward to this Saturday’s online prize tournament on July 11th that starts exactly at 2pm EST!

Player Results Table (7/4)

Thanks to all the players who have joined our online chess club and participated in Saturday’s event! We had 9 club players competing in Saturday’s July 4th online prize tournament that includes a results table listing all the players and tournament pairings.

New CFCC Online Player Lookup Table

In an effort to discourage the few online players who apparently want to play dramatically stronger online than they are able to do in OTB USCF tournaments, the club now provides a quick access alphabetical online-username-to-USCF lookup table as an objective reference point for evaluating a player's online vs over-the-board performance.

Next CFCC Saturday Online Prize Tournament:

July 11, 2020

Exactly at 2pm

4 rounds @ 15 | 10

Entry Fee: $15 if registered by midnight each Friday
$20 if registering on Saturday

Prizes:
($250 b/18, 50% guaranteed)
1st Place: $80 - 2nd Place: $50
3rd Place: $30 - Top U1800: $30
Top U1400: $30 - Top U1200: $30

Learn more about our Online Prize Tournaments
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Check out the 3 easy steps to make sure you’re ready to play!

Reminder of Chess.com’s Fair Play Policies For Online Tournaments

Chess.com has strict Fair Play policies and advanced software analysis tools regarding players who appear to be using some form of electronic assistance (e.g. chess engines) in making their moves in tournament games played on their platform.

In fact, after a chess.com review process of our May 9th online tournament, two of our players in that tournament, who finished in 1st & 2nd place, were flagged by chess.com for their unrealistic accuracy rate in games against titled National Master players. As such, both players had their accounts closed by chess.com and were disqualified from winning their place prizes.

Fair & Square

The Central Florida Chess Club (CFCC) is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization founded in 1987 to organize and host USCF rated chess tournaments in the Central Florida area.

Having organized over 390 competitive USCF rated chess tournaments over the past 30+ years, CFCC will not reward chess players who appear to be using anything other than their existing knowledge of the game when competing in any of our chess tournament events, whether online or over-the-board.

We encourage our online Chess Club players to provide us feedback about your online tournament experience and to pass along any ideas you may have about improving the dynamics of our online tournament events.