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chess4him 28-Nov-13, 16:21	London System Tourney I started a third installment of a London System Tournament. Check out the tourney @ gameknot.com If you are between 1400 and 1950, I would sure enjoy your participation and getting to know you as a fellow club member!! And, you would have an opportunity to see a good opening system for those with little time to study theory deep openings!
tactical_abyss 29-Nov-13, 05:18	Good luck in your tourney Joe!I'm too high in rating to get involved,but the "London System"you are involved with is a splendid learning tool!I will keep my eye on it! I have never checked,but are there "unrated"tourneys that can be set up like yours?I would like to start a tourney one day,maybe with a Sodium Attack or a Basman Defense,ect,but i'd rather keep it unrated for several reasons.
chess4him 29-Nov-13, 05:48	Mini-Tournament Options Thanks, TA, for your interest and opportunity to look in and check us out! This is the third tourney in the London System series and we added 4 more players since posting this message! The book, "Win with the London System" is a well regarded treatise for the London System. Although the authors suggest a move order with 2.Bf4, these tournaments will initially follow the four branches associated with the "Classic" London System to avoid transpositions. Tourney #1 and #2 are almost over and began with 1.d4 d5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.Bf4, Tourney #2 was 1.d4 Nf6 2.Nf3 e6 3.Bf4. Tourney #3 is 1.d4 Nf6 2.Nf3 g6 3.Bf4 for the King’s Indianites and Tourney #4 is 1.d4 Nf6 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bf4 against the Chigorians and is forming soon. We are going to play at a little faster pace then the first two tourneys. Gameknot's "Mini-Tournaments" have a range of options. Particularly, to answer your question, you can set up an "invitation only" tournament for between 5 and 11 players that will be unrated and offer no points for players. Of course, any rating is allowed in those tourneys. By "invitation only", you may limit to players only in this club for the benefit of players our players. When the tourney is underway, typical correspondence rules are waived and kibitzing is allowed. Other options include thematic play. This is why I enjoy the mini-tournaments. I can practice openings in my repertoire. The only downside (and to many others including yourself I suspect, a positive) is having to play against your own opening repertoire because you play both colors against every opponent. At my level, I have not developed enough to benefit from playing against an opening I want to learn. I still would prefer playing just the color I want to play during an opening idea but, I expect to develope that "strength" that would allow me to benefit and learn when playing against myself!
tactical_abyss 29-Nov-13, 06:18	Thanks Joe, I will reflect on the idea of the unrated tourney.I suppose,however,a custom tourney can be set up manually in a club so that I do not need to play against my own repertoire,right?Just an idea.
chess4him 29-Nov-13, 06:26	What happens in the Club, stays in the club... Yes, a tourney can be set up for club players. But, outside of Gameknot's invitiation tourney, you can only set up one game against another player.
tactical_abyss 29-Nov-13, 06:38	Thx Joe.I do not get involved much in tourneys on GK.But for a learning experience with club members in the future,I may indeed start something after the holidays....but in my club. Again,good luck in that tourney! TA

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