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Austin Lockwood wrote on Thu, Dec 16, 2004 01:41 PM UTC:
The First SchemingMind.com Correspondence Fischer Random Chess Dropout Tournament will commence on Monday 10th January 2005. <p>The dropout format is similar to a conventional Swiss tournament, except that players 'drop out' after each round. Each player plays one game with white and one game with black in each round (against different opponents) and 'Malus points' are awarded after each game (0 for a win, 1 for a draw and 3 for a defeat). Players with six or more MP (totalled over all rounds) are eliminated from subsequent rounds. First round pairings are drawn at random, and subsequent pairings attempt to match players on the same MP score. <p>This tournament will be held on the SchemingMind.com correspondence chess server, entry is free. Up to six rounds may be played and each round will last a maximum of four months (unfinished games will be adjudicated at that time). <p>A prize of a chess e-book will be awarded to a player at random qualifying from round one, and another to a player qualifying from round two, no other prizes will be awarded for the tournament. Prizes have been kindly donated by chesscentral.com <p>To enter the tournament, you must first register as a player on SchemingMind.com (registration is also free). There is a link on each page to the tournament registration page. <p>Fischer Random Chess is a great game for players who would like to try playing chess without reference to opening books or databases! - for this tournament, the starting position for *each game* will be decided at random and not be announced until the games have started. <p>Good luck! <p>Austin Lockwood Webmaster, http://www.schemingmind.com/

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