Saturday’s Rapid Winners (10/31)

The club wishes to congratulate FM Corey Acor (TampaChess) and Goran Markovic (goranm21) for their 1st place tie in our free entry Halloween Online Rapid tournament yesterday. Both players were paired in the last round, where their game ended in a draw holding each player to 3.5/4.0 for the tournament and a $32.50 prize each.

Jayant Maheshwari (Flareblitz7) and Nelson Zhao (thechicken99) tied for 3rd place/U1800 with their score of 3/4 points, giving them each a $15 prize. Other winners include Winston Wu (f3e5g4) for our Top U1500 prize of $15 and John Bowman (jbowman512) winning our Top U1200 prize of $15.

We had 22 club players competing in yesterday’s Rapid online prize tournament that includes a chess.com results table listing all the players and tournament pairings. We look forward to our next chess.com Rapid 15|10 online prize tournament on November 14th that starts exactly at 2pm EST!

Next Online Rapid 15|10 Prize Tournament:

Saturday
November 14, 2020

Exactly at 2pm

4 rounds @ 15 | 10

Online Entry Fee: FREE
For your Free Entry discount code
(expires 10am Saturday 11/14):
See our latest CFCC email
or
Visit our News Blog
or
Contact us via email by
midnight Friday (11/13)

Prizes:
($125 guaranteed)
1st Place: $40 - 2nd Place: $25 - 3rd Place: $15
Top U1800: $15 - Top U1500: $15 - Top U1200: $15

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.