SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT FOR XMAS 2012
This year, Santa Claus is giving away eleven (11) premium memberships to 11 lucky chess fans. All you have to do to enter is make a post to this page that starts with the words "Dear Santa" before Christmas Morning. Please see the administrator post Santa Claus for other important information.
And the winners are: (1) andrewjsacks (2) HeMateMe (3) rannewman (4) Bratek (5) SilentWitness (6) Zkid (7) Bhrugu (8) castagno (9) Abdel Irada (10) poorpatzer (11) gauer
SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT FOR XMAS 2011
This year, Santa Claus is giving away eight (8) premium memberships to 8 lucky chess fans. All you have to do to enter is make a post to this page that starts with the words "Dear Santa" before Christmas Morning. Please see the administrator post Santa Claus for other important information.
And the winners are: (1) Il Palazzo (2) galdur (3) capanegra (4) JT the Chess Addict (5) Birthday Boy (6) tsj2000 (7) pkkandel (8) Sularus
SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT FOR XMAS 2010
Due to the generosity of several members, in 2010 Santa will have a free ChessGames.com Premium Membership for 26 lucky chess fans. All you have to do to enter is make a post to this page that starts with the words "Dear Santa". Please see the administrator post Santa Claus for other important information.
And the winners are: (1) Pravitel (2) strife328
(3) kudubux (4) ciberchess (5) chesssantosh (6) polarmis (7) Bratek (8) Whitehat1963 (9) Elsinore (10) Sparta (11) Bobwhoosta (12) Ragh (13) bharatiy (14) Raffael (15) mastermind7994 (16) Brettwith2ts (17) Dieago (18) KKDEREK (19) soldal (20) theagenbiteofinwit (21) crazybird (22) Scarecrow (23) dieter33 (24) Penguincw (25) jmactas (26) kakisto
SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT FOR XMAS 2009
Due to the generosity of anonymous members, in 2009 Santa will have a free ChessGames.com Premium Membership for 20 lucky chess fans. Then 2 accounts were donated from the Rinus Scholarship (see Rinus chessforum for more info). To this amount, Chessgames has donated five more, for a total of 27 free accounts.
And the winners are: (1) fedor12 (2) Scriptum (3) davegras (4) Hesam7 (5) Legend (6) jmi (7) magnuschess (8) TheBish (9) muwatalli (10) Albums Dummyflap (11) Golden Executive (12) TheLightSquares (13) sdbra (14) alexirc (15) The Famous Chess Cat (16) jjmobjj (17) hhmm (18) Greygreen (19) randomsac (20) LeBronstein (21) minasina (22) hellochesspeople (23) Ladolcevita (24) cade (25) Skoolboye (26) ughaibu (27) solstys.
Please read Santa Claus for more info.
SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT FOR XMAS 2008
Due to the generosity of an anonymous member, 13 premium accounts have been donated to give away in the "Dear Santa" drawing. To this amount, Chessgames has donated three more, for a total of sixteen (16) free accounts.
On Christmas Day, 2008 the winners were announced: (1) deadlysin (2) dexterious (3) hatilloteclavo (4) jeeky1996 (5) GeauxCool (6) saintstephen11 (7) FabrikaLaHun (8) Pulse (9) YuanTi (10) sandmanbrig
(11) JaneEyre (12) JointheArmy (13) savuflorin1983 (14) imthecat (15) duffer (16) gundamz. Congratulations!
SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT FOR XMAS 2007
Due to the generosity of an anonymous member, 10 premium accounts have been donated to give away in the "Dear Santa" drawing. To this amount, Chessgames has donated two more, for a total of 12 free accounts.
On Christmas Day, 2007 the winners were announced: (1) Gouki, (2) Shanes, (3) maxxowar, (4) TheDrunkenPawn, (5) k0mi, (6) sisyphus, (7) chugalugaboo, (8) johnsbrother, (9) Nepa Pugna, (10) dippel, (11) mito1985, (12) Hot Logic. Congratulations!
SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT FOR XMAS 2006
Due to an act of kindness on the part of User: OhioChessFan and one other user, we have a special Christmas present. OhioChessFan donated eleven (11) one-year premium memberships to be distributed at random to non-premium members. Then, another user wrote to us to donate two more accounts, and Chessgames.com added two of our own, for a grand total of fifteen (15) accounts.
On Christmas Day 2006, the winners were announced: (1) ClassZPlaya (2) jackmandoo (3) skakmiv (4) MyriadChoices (5) brobdingnag (6) nintenchess (7) crptone (8) Thorski (9) diemjay (10) Jole (11) silas75 (12) Loschinski (13) Manic (14) chrismiceli (15) vagrantlike. We hope they all enjoy their Christmas present. See you next year!