CFCC Announces Online 3 | 2 Blitz With 6 Prize Levels!

CFCC announces weekly Wednesday evening Arena 3 | 2 blitz tournaments starting at 8pm with prizes and a $10 early entry fee! Please see our Online Prize Tournaments page for more details.

Saturday's Rapid Winners (7/18)

The club wishes to congratulate NM Corey Acor (TampaChess) and NM Raghav Venkat (LilRag) for their 2-way tie for 1st Place in Saturday’s online prize tournament, where both players earned 3.5/4 points providing each a $65 prize award. Fm Dalton Perrine (MattyDPerrine), Rohith-P, and NM Bob Persnate (Cornwallite) all tied for 3rd place with their score of 3/4 points, providing each player with a $10 prize award.

Other winners include M_Qadir21, farpecan1, PaulLeggett, and gmiket for our Top U1800 prize with 2/4 points and a payout of $7.50 each, along with IvanGoponenko and agrimjax who tied with 1.5/4 points to win our Top U1400 prize and a $15 prize award each.

We look forward to this Saturday’s online rapid prize tournament on July 25th that starts exactly at 2pm EST!

RAPID Player Results Table (7/18)

Thanks to all the players who have joined our online chess club and participated in Saturday’s event! We had 16 club players competing in Saturday’s online rapid prize tournament that includes a results table listing all the players and tournament pairings.

Wednesday’s Blitz winners (7/22)

Congratulations goes to FizzyBand for winning 1st place and a $50 prize in Wednesday’s blitz arena tournament with a total of 22 points! chessgm8 won 2nd place with 17 points and received a $35 prize, and sterlsp09, with a total of 11 points, finished in 3rd place with a $20 prize.

Other winners include LChessMaster2 who won our Top U1800 prize of $20 with 8 points, and arthurhv who completed the tournament with 4 points and won our Top U1400 prize of $20.

We had a total of 6 players compete in our inaugural online blitz arena tournament; thank you to everyone who participated! You can view the full results table and pairings from each round on chess.com.

We look forward to next Wednesday’s online blitz arena prize tournament on July 29th, which starts exactly at 8pm EST!

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 Rapid
Prize Tournament:

July 25, 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
or
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.