Announcement: STEEM Chess Tournament Saturday 11 January 20 GMT (finished!)

Reminder for Season 9 Round 2: 11 January - 20 GMT (Duration 1 hour)

Free to join in at anytime, for all levels!

Mode: Chess with 3 minutes plus 2 seconds per move

Any thoughts on the biggest chess event ever on the blockchain are welcome, the new date is still open:

STEEM WORLD CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP 2020

Please check if you are registered and on the list in the winning post! Please check the local time and GMT time due to summertime in many countries!

Here I will add the link to the tournament 1 hour before the start:

Link: https://lichess.org/tournament/E3jGWUm9

Password: steemchess9

I am live streaming this event:

Time difference from Greenwich Mean Time GMT 20.00

Hawaii	-9 hours	11am
Los Angeles	−7 hours	13pm
New York, Venezuela	−4 hours	16pm
UTC, GMT, Reykjavik, Bamako, Freetown	0	20.00
London	0	20.00
Paris, Berlin, Madrid, Nigeria	+1 hours	21.00
Istanbul, Moscow	+3 hours	23.00
Dubai	+4 hours	00am
India	+5.5 hours	01.30am
Novosibirsk	+7 hours	03am
Beijing, Singapore	+8 hours	04am
Tokyo	+9 hours	05am
Sydney	+11 hours	07am

• Registration with a comment and your lichess.org name

• We play every Saturday 20 GMT!
• We play on the free chess server lichess.org
• An access there is set up in a minute with your email verification
• All games are scored, so your initial score of 1500 will change according to your performance
• Game mode is 5 minutes plus 2 seconds for each turn, or something like this
• Total play time is 60 minutes
• Pairings are determined automatically
• Try to keep the games short so you can play more games
• Beserk Button for halving your time and deleting your extra time to play faster
• Games must be started after 20 seconds, otherwise they are considered lost
• Please upvote and resteem to help us grow the number of players
• Tournament link and password will be inserted in this post 1 hour before the start
• Promotion and analysis-post desired, all payout is for you!
• GMT time converter: https://time.is/en/GMT
• The SBD or STEEM of this reminder posts will be distributed to the top 10 placed players in equal shares.
• Feel free to post your links in the comments
• Team Page: https://lichess.org/team/steemit-steem-chess-tournamants
• Discord: https://discord.gg/tCAZ2f7
  

Please do not hesitate to post your chess-related link in the comments! In order to enlarge the pool of the players you are welcome to create your own analysis or promotion post!

Final result season 1 link Chess King: @stayoutoftherz
Final result season 2 link Chess King: @ape-5th
Final result season 3 link Chess King: @samostically
Final result season 4 link Chess King: @anadello
Final result season 5 link Chess King: @anadello
Final result season 6 link Chess King: @anadello
Final result season 7 link Chess King: @foxconnmars
Final result season 8 link Chess King: @renerondon

Payout for last week (January 04):

I got 6.304 STEEM from last week for the reminder post, 8 registered players (payout to the Top 10 payers): 0.788 STEEM each, rounded to 0.800 STEEM!

See you next time!

Thank you for your attention!

Original content by

        Schaman Gerbert