1 year ago
Updated on July 15th at 9:18am PST.
If you registered for this tournament, I sent you an email. As a friendly reminder, to join today's tournament,
go to my club, "Chess By Lauren" on chess.com. Click
here.to join the club. Then you have to click on the tournament link.
The tournament link is
here.
Here is the entry list for my
inaugural online USCF rated chess tournament on Saturday, July 15th at 10am PST. So far, 13 players have signed up, including a master!!
1) Hridayesh Mohan Kumar, 31329631 USCF ID, Unrated
2) Neil Bhatkhande, 16031303 USCF ID, 640
3) Hamilton Zhang, 16414260 USCF ID, 718
4) Christopher Snell, 12659622 USCF ID, 1811
5) Hugo Pu, 31093860 USCF ID, 926
6) Sam Beckerson, 31337648 USCF ID, Unrated
7) Ryan Khoury, 31332330 USCF ID, Unrated
8) Ishan Bhat, 31282823 USCF ID, Unrated
9) Yashasree Sabui, 30559287 USCF ID, 128
10) Gabriel Joseph Araujo, 31316019 USCF ID, Unrated
11) Brandon Wu, 15742987 USCF ID, 135
12) Dipro Chakraborty, 12935003 USCF ID, 2238
13) Russell Kula, 30700877 USCF ID, Unrated
Here is my official United States Chess Federation tournament listing.
It's not too late to join the tournament! If you want to join, join as soon as possible! I will end registration about two hours before the tournament starts. That's about 8am PST.
Click here to join the tournament.
I also offered a LIVE Q&A session on Zoom on Thursday, 7/13 at 5:40pm PST, in case anybody had questions about my tournament. This session already happened.
Zoom details:
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/89144038751?pwd=WG5qKzFtWG1OR2JyK2tIcExrTWpIQT09
Password: 302674
Here is more info about this tournament:
When: Saturday, July 15th at 10am PST
Tournament Format Type: Swiss-system. That means nobody gets eliminated from the tournament, even if she/he looses.
# of Rounds: 5 rounds
Time control is G/10 + 2 (affecting US Chess online quick rating).
Sections: one open section with no rating restriction (open to all ratings!)
Pairing: based on chess.com rapid rating.
Entry Fee: $15
Prizes: First place wins $20. Second place wins $15. Third place wins $5.
Rating of the event: The tournament will be submitted to US Chess for rating after the fair play screening has been completed. Any adjustment due to fair play violation will follow the standard US Chess Online Play guidelines.
Other things to know:
My monthly USCF rated online chess tournaments will always be the third Saturday of every month at 10am PST. The platform for the chess tournament is chess.com. Cheating is never tolerated in my tournaments.
If you aren't a USCF (United States Chess Federation) member, you must be a USCF member to play in my my tournament. You can join the USCF
here.
I have been a USCF member since 1999!
Here is my USCF rating page. You will get a USCF rating page once you are a USCF member too.
Only players with a chess.com account in good standing are qualified to play in the tournament. At any point a player has an account that's been closed, they loose the right to play in the tournament. No exceptions.
I hope you can play in the tournament! I want people to have fun while they play in my tournaments!
If your rating is under 1000 or unrated, I'll analyze your chess games on my
Twitch livestream!
