ICC Help: playthemaster

Every Sunday afternoon at 2pm and Monday night at 7pm ET (ICC time), we will have Play the Master!

Schedule (see help PTM2 for previous masters)

Sunday Monday 12/11: Tankist(GM) 12/12: Camila(GM) 12/18: Morad-Magdy 12/19: PTrajkovic(IM) 12/25: Petrovich(GM) 12/26: manest(IM) 1/01: zoranp(IM) 1/02: Whole 1/08: Salinnikov(IM) 1/09: joelbanawa

A master will be here to play games with anyone rated under 300 points (ICC blitz) below the master. We hope this will give a lot of people a chance to play blitz against a master, who may have never played a master before!

People are welcome to watch, play, and have fun by kibitzing comments. It will be a fun, non-serious type of event. HASSLE the master with kibitzes, to make the game more even! :)

The time control is 2 minutes with a 5-second increment, and the games are unrated.

To challenge the master, BlitzIn users: Click "Window", "Event List". Click the link to play. Or, type "match Petrovich 2 5 u" assuming Petrovich is the master. Type "event" to see the command.

That should put you in line to play; you can see the line with the command "pending Petrovich" (but use the master's name. If you start a game, or withdraw your challenge, or if either you or the master is disconnected, you lose your place in line, sorry. The master will take the first (oldest) entry on the pending challenge list.

The master will play all comers rated 300 or more points lower. Please, play only one game each session, so everyone can get a chance to play the master.

Masters who wish to volunteer for Play the Master:
1) message Smiley to schedule a date. It must be at least 8 weeks after your previous date, to give others a chance to do it!
2) We pay $30 to GMs, $20 to IMs, 2 free months to FMs, one free month to other masters (over 2200 USCF, 2200 FIDE, or 2300 ICC blitz)
3) Play at least 10 games of 2 5 against registered players.
4) Be sure your formula allows 2 5 unrated.

See also: event, event2, event-all

Zek 2005/2/2