Saturday’s Rapid Winners (1/23)

The club wishes to congratulate Bence Leszko (Tooweak2slow03) for winning clear 1st Place in last Saturday’s CFCC online rapid tournament with a perfect score of 4/4 points and a prize of $49, while Barry Hyman (barryh1976) and Jayant Maheshwari (Flareblitz7) shared a combined 2nd/3rd place with 3/4 points and a prize payout of $24 each.

With 2.5/4 points, Ivan Goponenko (IvanGoponenko) won our Top U1800 prize of $18, while Michael Moschos (MikeVillages) won our Top U1500 prize with 2/4 points and a prize of $18. Dylan Walter (dylanemilwalter) won our Top U1200 prize with 2/4 points and a prize of $18.

We had 13 club players competing in Saturday’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 with $250 (b/18 50% guaranteed) in prizes on February 6, 2021 that starts exactly at 2pm EST!

Next Online Rapid 15|10 Prize Tournament:

Saturday
February 6, 2021

Exactly at 2pm (EST)

4 rounds @ 15 | 10

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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.