GCCC Swiss Allegro Thursday 21st 6pm.
Gold Coast Chess Club is hosting a Swiss Allegro this Thursday night. The tourney will be a 5 round 10 minute per side with no increment. Sonneborn–Berger is the tiebreak.
The tournament link is GCCC Swiss Allegro
This is (hopefully) the final test before the Swiss system goes live and unattended.
All w [...]
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GCCC Swiss Allegro Thursday 21st 6pm.
Gold Coast Chess Club is hosting a Swiss Allegro this Thursday night. The tourney will be a 5 round 10 minute per side with no increment. Sonneborn–Berger is the tiebreak.
The tournament link is GCCC Swiss Allegro
This is (hopefully) the final test before the Swiss system goes live and unattended.
All w [...]
Cheating and Online Chess
I woke this morning and the first article in my news-feed was a youtube link to IM Danny Rensch from chess dot com talking about online cheating. He mentioned the word “pandemic” in describing the avalanche of evidence gathered by their site on players using engines or bots to assist their play.
Link to IM Danny Rensch “Don& [...]
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