Join us for a speed chess tournament, with prizes awarded to top finishers. Rounds will be timed, and use Swiss-system pairings (no eliminations).
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Whether your goal is to test out your online skills over the board, just meet other chess enthusiasts, or to become the unofficial chess champion of Gen Con, experienced players of all skill levels are welcome to this event. This will be an unrated tournament (i.e., not submitted for US Chess or FIDE rating systems), but we can provide players with estimated ratings based on their tournament performance. The number of rounds, time controls, and number of prizes awarded will vary based on advanced entries. First-time tournament players are welcome, and we will go over tournament rules and etiquette for everyone, but players are expected to know and adhere to the rules of the game.
Nightmare Chess, Tile Chess, & Global Chess. Basic chess knowledge is required as these variants break rules & twist the game in interesting fashions.
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3 Different Chess Variants -- Nightmare Chess, Tile Chess, and Global Chess. These awesome chess variants will be available to try out. Basic chess knowledge is required as these variants break rules and twist the game in interesting fashions.
Chess Tournament (Gen Con Indy 2009 United States Chess Federation Rated Open)
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Everyone will play three games over a two hour period. Clocks and boards provided. Entry fee includes a "tournament" membership to the USCF. Prize(s) will be awarded.
Mega Chess played with Omega Chess pieces in a Bughouse format. See descriptions of Omega Chess, and Mega Chess, and Mega Bughouse Chess. GM Fred Lange.
Kings jump to take, move normally. Rooks, Bishops, Queens move once, and must move again at right angles to the first move without capture on first move. Knights switch places with pieces within two spaces. Pawns promote only to Kings. Pawns move and take forward like Knights, or bounce off friendly pawns to go backward, etc. En passant is complicated. Good luck! GM Fred Lange.
At last, a national tournament for all the Express Chess die-hards out there. Sealed Deck match play multi-round tournament using space/safari decks. $120 1st/2nd prizes.
Four-round Swiss chess tournament. Clocks and sets for sixteen players will be provided.This is not a USCF rated event, but the 1999 annual list will be used to seed players.Time control is twenty minutes for each player in each game.Touch move, touch take. In a Swiss tournament, everyone plays all four rounds. After each round, you play someone with the same win/loss record. GM Fred Lange.