ICC News Item #1859

NEWS 1859 (3-Aug-06)
Play Tournaments on the Internet Chess Club!

The Internet Chess Club holds over 500 tournaments every week!
There are 86 scheduled weekly events, as well as hundreds of impromptu
tournaments for bullet, blitz, standard, and wild variations.

The Tomato team are proud to host the 2006 UPI Computer Shop
Championship.  1,000 euros, a laptop computer, weekly internet lessons
and many years of ICC membership-extensions are available as prizes.
The tournaments play using a time control of 3 1 and occur every
Saturday.  To participate, log in a few minutes before 15:00 EDT and
type "tell pear join".  See help UPI2006 for full details.

The 2006 5 0 Blitz Championship starts August 12th!  These exciting
tournaments are very popular as many of ICC's top Blitz players hope
to win the title currently held by last years champion, Super13(FM).

Here is the schedule of the qualifiers; each one is a 9-round event:

Saturday, August 12     14:00 EDT
Sunday, August 13       12:00 EDT
Monday, August 14       19:00 EDT
Tuesday, August 15      21:00 EDT
Wednesday, August 16     9:00 EDT
Thursday, August 17     15:00 EDT

For full details, read help Championship.

The 2006 ICC Atomic (w27) Championship and Fischer-Random
(w22) Championship start August 18th!  For a schedule of the
qualifiers and a list of prizes, see:
http://www.chessclub.com/finger/WildChamps

The 24-hour Tomato tournament marathon was held on July 8-9th.
917 players played in 206 tournaments over the 24-hour period.
For a complete list of winners and prizes, see:
http://www.chessclub.com/finger/MarathonWinners

For full details on this exciting, bi-monthly event, see
help marathon.  Come join us September 16-17th, 2006 for the
next 24-hour, Tomato tournament marathon!

For a list of the July monthly prizes, see:
http://www.chessclub.com/finger/TomatoWinners

To learn more about playing in ICC's Tomato tournaments, see:
http://www.littleper.com/

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