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Jan-08-21 Chessgames Bookie chessforum    Chessgames Bookie: Thanks for the tip, WinKing. Hope it works because, to tell you the truth, I'm feeling a bit frustrated. ciao, jingo      Jan-08-21 chessgames.com chessforum    Chessgames Bookie: It would be great if we could get the Bookie site set up to start the new leg with the TATA Steel tournament about to begin in a week. Thanks      Dec-26-20 Sargon chessforum    Chessgames Bookie: Sargon, Could we get an adminstrator to close out the Fall Leg of the Chessbookie? Prizes and reset all to $1000, or more if we're not going to get a mid-leg payday? Thanks, jingo Gens una sumus!      Oct-07-20 Norway Chess (2020)    Chessgames Bookie: Please join us at the ChessBookie room for some fun wagering, play money. Tough competition! Altibox Norway 2020, Rd 6: Aronian-Caruana Thanks      Oct-01-20 Kibitzer's Café    Chessgames Bookie: Rub your lucky charm! Time to bet on the Winner of the upcoming Altibox tournament. Altibox Norway 2020: Winner! Gens una sumus      Sep-16-20 Petrosian vs G Stoltz, 1952    Chessgames Bookie: I had no idea that Kotov won that tournament, and with what a score!!      Sep-15-20 St. Louis Rapid & Blitz (2020)    Chessgames Bookie: And how will Alireza do tomorrow against the Champ? St. Louis Rapid & Blitz, Rd 7 Rapid: Firouzja-Carlsen Place your bet (after checking your crystal ball, of course).      Sep-13-20 Champions Showdown Chess 9LX (2020)    Chessgames Bookie: Speaking of draws, how many today in round 7? Starts in a few hours. Only one in Rd 6 yesterday. Place your bets! Click ChessBookie at the top of the page to play!      Apr-19-20 moronovich chessforum    Chessgames Bookie: Hi moronovich, I'm jingohanson, the new Bookie. The Pick two is for day four of the event, with the games I posted. Sorry about the confusion. I should have put (Day 4) in the description. Thanks for welcoming me. Your suggestions are welcome. Ciao, jingohanson      Dec-23-19 Biographer Bistro    Chessgames Bookie: Just for the record. Annie and Twinlark were volunteers. I posted more on my profile page. 😊

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< Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 248 OF 501 ·  Later Kibitzing> Mar-28-12    Golden Executive: <WinKing: With only 4 Rnds. left till the end of our season I suspect the pace will pick up a bit from here on out.> I expect (wish) exactly the same. Thumbs up for a superfecta at the last round. <wordfunph: nothing to lose, everything to gain.> That´s the spirit. Go <WinKing>, Go <wordfunph> ! Mar-28-12    brankat: Good luck to all of You guys! Mar-28-12    LDJ: I lost 2,000 yesterday :( Better luck today, I hope... Mar-28-12    wordfunph: I lost 1,600 yesterday :( Better luck next leg, I hope... go <LDJ>! Mar-28-12    Chessgames Bookie: The Mecking-Granda bets are all refunded as we cannot find any information confirming that the match even took place, much less a winner. Sorry about that, good luck going into the final rounds. Mar-28-12    Golden Executive: <SETTLEMENT DATE: Mar-18-12 PROJECTED PAYOUT: 1,100 ( ) Mecking vs Granda Match: WINNER Mecking REFUND 1100 1100c$ [collect refund]> Well, 1k more available for the final rounds. Mar-28-12    LDJ: Another loss of 1,000. Back from 3,500 to 400 in 2 days... I'll be back next leg I hope. Doesn't mean that I'm not gonna spend all my chessbucks in the last rounds though... Mr. Loanshark always forgets the money I owe after a leg has ended, so no need to keep it ;) Mar-29-12    Penguincw: I managed to gain 11 chessbucks, but it would've been more if it weren't this error. European Individual Championship: Rd 9: Azarov vs Bacrot : Bacrot [info] 50 LIVE BET 9:4 3.33 166 Mar-29-12 Sighs. Mar-29-12    wordfunph: ouch! DDD :( lost $1.8k Mar-29-12    Chessgames Bookie: The 2012 Chessbookie Championship will end with wagering on the final round of the European Individual Championship on March 31. Good luck to everyone! Mar-29-12    wordfunph: thanks <CGB>. hmmmm... Bookie World Champions 2007 = iron maiden 2008 = percyblakeney 2009 = holland oats 2010 = Barok Espinosa 2011 = AnimusEtOblivio 2012 = SwitchQuylthulg ? good luck <all>! Mar-29-12    technical draw: 2012 = technical draw ????????????????????? Mar-30-12    Penguincw: My streak ends. I drop 29 today. Mar-30-12    technical draw: Maybe I should have added a few more question marks to my previous post. -300cbs. Mar-31-12    Barok Espinosa: Still hoping to land at the top with a measly sum of 1K at the start. Congrats to the <Switch>... you may now turn it off. Mar-31-12    Barok Espinosa: Top 10 finisher, I mean. Mar-31-12    LDJ: European Individual Championship: Rd 11: Pick Three : White-Draw-Black [info] 263 LIVE BET 47:1 47.52 12,497 Mar-31-12 If only Vallejo had beaten Inarkiev... Mar-31-12    wordfunph: my consolation prize :) <European Individual Championship: WINNER : Jakovenko [info] 49 LIVE BET 14:1 14.89 729 Apr-01-12> Mar-31-12    SloVice: <SwitchingQuylthulg> all I can say is WOW! Congrats! I hope I can maintain the top 10. Mar-31-12    technical draw: Darn, I had Fressinet . I could have picked up another $5,000. Unless there's a huge surprise let me congratulate Mr. SwitchingQuylthug, congrats! Mar-31-12    voratco: I am not much of a gambler. I can only afford 5 bucks for Jako. European Individual Championship: WINNER : Jakovenko [cash in ticket] 5 YOU WIN! COLLECT 74 14:1 14.89 74 Apr-01-12 Congrats to Switch???????. Tounge twisted. Sorry. Mar-31-12    Assa S. Sin: European Individual Championship: Rd 11: Jakovenko vs Fressinet : Jakovenko [cash in ticket] 600 YOU WIN! COLLECT 3507 5:1 5.85 3,507 Mar-31-12 European Individual Championship: WINNER : Jakovenko [cash in ticket] 300 YOU WIN! COLLECT 4467 14:1 14.89 4,467 Apr-01-12 :(:(:( Mar-31-12    technical draw: Well, by finishing 4th I get to qualify for next year's championship leg w/10 grand. Which means I can try to win a leg with riskier play since there's nothing to lose. Mar-31-12    Penguincw: <Switch> sets a new record! So the theme of "qualifying for the champ. leg to win" continues. The final leader board is like this: L E A D E R B O A R D updated Sat Mar 31, 20:29 User Net Worth (1) SwitchingQuylthulg 80,924 (2) dakgootje 35,356 (3) ChessWriter 23,459 (4) technical draw 21,432 (5) SloVice 15,011 (6) Robin01 13,000 (7) Barok Espinosa 12,922 (8) 4tmac 12,777 (9) moulicules 12,063 (10) ddaniell 11,145 (11) gus inn 10,000 (12) Calcium 10,000 Apr-01-12    Chessgames Bookie: And we have our winners! (1) SwitchingQuylthulg 80,924 Breaking all previous records, head-and-shoulders above the rest, <SwitchingQuylthulg> is the 6th Chessbookie World Champion with 80,924 chessbucks. SwitchingQuylthulg will win a $100 Gift Card spendable the new The Chessgames Store, a free year premium membership to Chessgames.com, and a T-Shirt of his choice from our Chessgames T-Shirt Shop. << Congratulations to SwitchingQuylthulg, the Sixth ChessBookie Champion of the World! >> (2) In second place we have "the silver" winner <dakgootje> with 35,356 c$. He wins a free year's membership and a T-Shirt of his choice. (3) And the bronze goes to ChessWriter with 23,459 c$. He wins a free year's membership. The qualifying runners up (automatically seeded into the 2012/13 season) are: (4) technical draw 21,432 (5) SloVice 15,011 (6) Robin01 13,000 (7) Barok Espinosa 12,922 (8) 4tmac 12,777 (9) moulicules 12,063 (10) ddaniell 11,145 They will *all * receive a free 1-year subscription. We are going to contact the winners over the next few days. For t-shirt winners we'll be needing your mailing address and shirt size (S, M, L, XL) as well as the style (see Chessgames T-Shirt Shop for more info.) Congratulations to everybody who participated, and good luck with the Spring leg which should start in a few days. Jump to page #   (enter # from 1 to 501) search thread:    < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 248 OF 501 ·  Later Kibitzing>

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