Chess Battle
Editors Note: This will be yaltmax's final Battle report for us as he has stepped down.
We would like to take this opportunity to thank him for his hard work & the great articles he
has provided for us over the past few months. The Chess Battle will continue on, as will this
section in the Newsletter, with megs taking over in the upcoming March issue. --RC
ChessBattle.org Report #4
"End-of-2002 Summary
and new 2003 season"
January 30, 2003
Results
We had total of 118 players in one of the last
Battles! It's our new record. Well, I can see we might go 150 or even 200
players each week pretty soon.
The last Battle of the year 2002 defined the Grand
prix winners. We extended the prizes from top 5 to top 15 players in the Grand
Prix standing with top 5 receiving full subscription to all 60+ eBooks, from 6
to 10 receiving 2 eBooks each, and from 11 to 15 receiving 1 eBook each.
Grand Prix winner (#1 place in the Grand Prix final standing) is ThoBjo!
He scored 84 points and Bulten is just 1 point behind him! ThoBjo is the
official "2002 Chess Battle Player of the Year" and will receive appropriate
certificate along with his prize of full access to 60+ eBooks for 2 years!
Frozenshade(IM) is awarded with "2002 Chess Battle Master" as he was the
one playing in the most Battle Games during year of 2002. He played in total of
5 Battle Games (final games of the event). He will also receive the certificate
(you can see the samples of the certificates on our website) along with his
prize of US$ 30 dollar eGift certificate from Amazon.com.
TeemuTH is our
official "2002 Chess Battle Champion." He earned this prestigious title by
winning the Grand Battle Elite Event in special
by-invitation-only tournament. Only Elite members were able to play and those are
the ones who played in any regular weekly Battle Game. You can find the list of
qualified players online on our official website at http://www.freechess.org/Events/ChessBattle
as well as the complete
coverage of the Elite event including the very final Grand Battle Game between
TeemuTH and Frozenshade with all its comments!
"2002 Chess Battle
Champion" as well as his runner-up received great prizes as full
subscriptions to daily chess newspaper. The Champion also got the US$ 30
dollar eGift certificate from Amazon.com. And you can count on some more
surprise prizes!
In conclusion, we would like to thank all of
YOU players for making Chess Battle such a huge success! There would be no
battle without you! And of course we are happy to say nice words and thank our
lovely FICS for providing such an awesome venue for the Battle events to take
place!
Thank you all and we are waiting for you to be with us in this New
2003 Year! With your help, Chess Battle proved to be a big success and it will
continue in 2003 as usual with all the previous sponsorships, prizes, features,
etc. and you can count on more in the this New Year.
Sincerely,
Your Chess Battle team.
Previous issues of Chess Battle reports:
- October 29, 2002, "What the
Chess Battle is all about"
- November 27, 2002, "Tips
& Tricks & Info"
- December 31, 2002, "Results
from our last Battle of 2002 with end-of-year summary"
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