Ah, are there people of honor in round 2? Good luck to all.

Any sore losers in this group? Anybody who will not quit an obvious  lost game? Come on people.

yeah, 3 months is crazy long.  I joined another tourney too.  starts next week...  that means rnd 2 should start next week as well.  :P

Macho, pónganse las pilas y terminen.. 3 meses para la primera ronda! Y ya empieza el otro torneo! Apúrense!

Not that I want to get my butt kicked any sooner.

Thanks to the vacation rule. The percentage hasn't changed in a week.

it's taking forever just to finish the first round.  how long do they normally take.  I want to play other games but I don't want to get suddenly bombarded with 8 more games!

That's right Striyker.  Every Saturday I go to my neighborhood cofee shop and get my butt handed to me repeatedly in blitz chess, and every Saturday I leave Beaner's Cofee shop having learned a great deal.

bottom line is you play better opponents and your level of play increases. i don't learn from victories; only losses. you raise your game against better opponents for fear of getting your butt kicked. god bless everyone

that is true! but what there trying to say i think is that you should know where your rating should be around.you know if your a bove averge player! so why join a tournament when you know your going to blow people away!because they lossers!!!!!

It's actually pretty simple.  One could theoretically be playing many many other games at the same time as the tournament.  Add to this the rating system that changes wildly when you first start because it is determining app. where you should be.  If you had only played the minimum number of games when the tourny started, and then you go on to win a bunch of games against good opponents your rating could be over 2000 pretty quickly.

Ummm. how does one enter a 1400 rated tournament and then increase 400 points in rating?

hey, its good to play in this tournamnet when i started to play it was my first tournament and then i started to play online games too and gradually my ranking incresead from 1250 to ~1550. did not know abt the time out things in the starting too. but right now I just want to know how is tie break score calculated? can soembody help me?

I wasn't expecting to advance to the second round. Very exciting. Thanks for the excellent first round play. Looking forward to the second round. Good luck to all.

So infinitah..I see you did crush your rivals...but is it a fair fight? Here are the ratings in your group from this 1200 to1400 tournament.  Is there no one else out there that sees the inequity in this????? Your rivals never had a chance.....

Infinitah  1723

Nieldale   1438

Nub9834   1292

sf_kidd      1264

nicotastik   1360

wow'' that's tough!!!!!

Maybe you'll learn to spell too.

Hey since this tournement earns you points the winners are apt to go over the 1400 point my rating is no wear close to wear I play but its fun the rerason you play against someone better is taht you learn how to play better I use to play this guy he beat me all the time I beat him once and that was cool reallyt any way um when do we move to the next braket and all that thanks to eveyone in my group good games and it was fun thanks.

yes it will.so let's get it on! what are your guy's highest win's ?

Fair enough Infinitah:) Indeed time will tell.