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Tournaments are a chance for chess players all around the world to gauge their skills against other chess players — and possibly earn themselves a bit of extra green to pack in their wallet.  Fortunately for chess novices to chess enthusiasts, ChessBoss is offering monthly ChessCube Tournaments and Chess Title Tournaments:

ChessBoss Monthly ChessCube Tournament

This new variant of chess, named ChessCube, involves rolling a cube with a different chess piece displayed on each side.  Each player rolls a cube on their turn and must move the piece corresponding to the face-up side of the cube.  If a piece is unable to move, the player loses his or her turn.  ChessCube offers a new way to play the game, training players to become better at chess with an aspect of randomness providing new situations and revealing new moves for players to consider.  The monthly tournament pays $300 to the winner of each tournament, $150 to the second place and $50 for third place.

In order to qualify for the ChessCube main event, players must win one of the 64 satellite ChessCube Tournaments.  Each tournament, whether it is a satellite tournament or the main event, uses the Olympic System in which players are eliminated following their first loss.

The 64 satellites leading up to the monthly main event will be permanently listed in ChessBoss’s tournament listings area.  Each satellite tournament goes live when 16 players join the tournament room.  Immediately following the start of a satellite tournament, another satellite tournament room will appear.  Using this system, the 64 participants in the main event may be decided within two weeks, one week, or even the first day!  It would be unwise to sleep on the opportunity to make $300, so act as soon as possible!  The main event will be hosted on the last Saturday of every month.

ChessBoss Monthly Title Tournament

Although the ChessBoss Monthly Title Tournament is directed generally toward kids, anybody can participate.  The tournament will be hosted on the second Saturday of every month, with no cap on the total participants.  The tournament is run in a “knock-out” format in which players are eliminated after their first loss.  The players will be competing for three titles:

1st place: Chess Samurai
2nd place: Chess Ninja
3nd place: Chess Warrior

Titleholders will receive a trophy through the mail and gain bragging rights on ChessBoss in the form of their title being included in their account name for the month.  Do you have what it takes to become next month’s Chess Samurai?

Registering for Tournaments:

To register for any of the ChessBoss tournaments, players must create their own ChessBoss account.  Have a Facebook?  ChessBoss is fully integrated with the popular social-networking site, allowing users to challenge and connect with friends, post results on their walls and much more.

After creating an account, visit the tournaments tab in the ChessBoss server to join a tournament.  It’s as easy as a simple click of the mouse!

Future Tournaments

ChessBoss is continually planning new tournaments and new prizes in hopes of creating a community of chess players that improve each other and provides prizes and titles to deserving players.  In the future, ChessBoss will host monthly Swiss, Round-Robin, and Knock-Out tournaments.

In Swiss-System Chess Tournaments, players are matched with players of even skill (the top player is matched with the player just under the half-way mark, the second player is matched with the player under the opponent of the top player).  Winners receive one point and half point for drawing.  In each subsequent round, players compete with others with the same number of points.  Each player is expected to compete through the entirety of the tournament; the player with the most points at the end of the designated rounds is declared the winner.

In Round-Robin Chess Tournaments, each player faces every other play once as white and once as black.  The player with the best win-loss record at the end of the tournament is declared the winner.

In Knock-Out Chess Tournaments, players participate in an elimination tournament in which winners from the first round advance to the second round, and losing players are “knocked out” of the competition, eventually leading to a final of two players playing for a title.

Whichever tournament you decide to participate in, ChessBoss chess tournaments provide a free, competitive environment to hone your chess skills.  Be on the lookout on ChessBoss.com for more information.  Continue training on the server to win prizes, trophies, and titles on ChessBoss!