InfinityChess Freestyle Battle 2014

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InfinityChess Freestyle Battle 2014

Tour Plan

Invitation tournament for 30 players
Round Robin (29 rounds)
Long games (90"+15"")
One game per day
Matchdays: Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday
Start 11 pm server time for all games (new schedule!)
Players may not postpone or re-schedule games
Free use of play mode (engine/centaur) for each round.
The winners are obliged to provide tour reports
Players are obliged to accept the InfinityChess tournament rules
Entry fee $ 70,- (incl. forfeit money $ 40,- EUR)
[PayPal details will be given with invitation]

Total Prize Money $ 20,000 USD

1st 5,500 $
2nd 4,100 $
3rd 2,700 $
4th 1,400 $
5th 1,200 $
6th 1,000 $
7th 900 $
8th 800 $
9th 700 $
10th 600 $
Lucky Winner Prizes: 2 x 550 $



Schedule

Round 1 February 4 (Tuesday)
Round 2 February 6 (Thursday)
Round 3 February 8 (Saturday)
Round 4 February 11 (Tuesday)
Round 5 February 13 (Thursday)
Round 6 February 15 (Saturday)
Round 7 February 18 (Tuesday)
Round 8 February 20 (Thursday)
Round 9 February 22 (Saturday)
Round 10 February 25 (Tuesday)
Round 11 February 27 (Thursday)
Round 12 March 1 (Saturday)
Round 13 March 4 (Tuesday)
Round 14 March 6 (Thursday)
Round 15 March 8 (Saturday)
Round 16 March 11 (Tuesday)
Round 17 March 13 (Thursday)
Round 18 March 15 (Saturday)
Round 19 March 18 (Tuesday)
Round 20 March 20 (Thursday)
Round 21 March 22 (Saturday)
Round 22 March 25 (Tuesday)
Round 23 March 27 (Thursday)
Round 24 March 29 (Saturday)
Round 25 April 1 (Tuesday)
Round 26 April 3 (Thursday)
Round 27 April 5 (Saturday)
Round 28 April 8 (Tuesday)
Round 29 April 10 (Thursday)

You like to join in and may be qualify?

Invitations will be sent out after January 15th. Everyone who likes to join in and may be qualify for this high-class event may please first try out our server and send us an email (till January 15th), providing some further information, for example on:

- Real name

- Nationality

- Age

- Titles

- Prizes

- Ratings

- Hardware

- Software/engines

- Play mode (engine stand-alone or centaur)

Titles, prizes and ratings may be in human chess (e.g. FIDE, ICCF) computer or freestyle chess and may be related to other chess servers apart from InfinityChess.



All those who fail to qualify for this event will nevertheless improve their chances to get invited for further prize money tournaments. We will of course not forget our regular and loyal users who are with us to build up the InfinityChess community.



Further tournament details, esp. our updated rules will be published here until January 12th.



ICCF GM Arno Nickel



IC Tournament Director
& IC General Manager