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| May-01-16 | | WinKing: Here is how I feel about the bettors wagering this past leg: https://video.search.yahoo.com/vide... |
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May-01-16
 | | eternaloptimist: <WinKing> U r welcome. |
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| May-01-16 | | TIMER: <Switchingquylthulg> Thankyou, I always had to be on my guard with you behind me. <Golden Executive> Thankyou, it never stops feeling good being called that! <eternaloptimist> Thankyou. It is funny as I was outright last on about -6000 after the first week, so it seems I got all my bad runs out the way early.
Then it was basically up all the way. |
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May-01-16
 | | chessgames.com: The 2016 ChessBookie Champion of the World is:
<< TIMER >> Finishing with 83,107 chess bucks. He wins a $50 Chessgames Store Gift Certificate, 1 free year Chessgames Membership, and a Chessgames T-Shirt of his choice... plus, most importantly, he wins coveted 2016 Chessbookie Championship Trophy, a one ounce ingot made out of solid 99.9% pure silver! (look and covet: http://imgur.com/DonMPrA) The 2016 Silver Place Runner-Up with 34,681 chess bucks is << jared10001 >> who wins a $25 Chessgames Store Gift Certificate, 1 free year Chessgames Membership, and a Chessgames T-Shirt of his choice. Bronze place <<Touch of Knight>> with 30,913 chess bucks will receive 1 free year Chessgames Membership, and a Chessgames T-Shirt of his choice. Other winners:
(4) centralfiles (28,692) - 1 free year membership
(5) pmosteo (27,931) - $25 Chessgames Store Gift Certificate (6) SwitchingQuylthulg (27,283) - $25 Chessgames Store Gift Certificate (7) FSR (22,435) - $25 Chessgames Store Gift Certificate (8) 4tmac (22,011) - Chessgames T-Shirt of His Choice (9) Beholder (21,931) - Chessgames T-Shirt of His Choice (10) Kynas (21,537) - Chessgames T-Shirt of His Choice Note to all T-Shirt winners, I will need to know (1) your name & address, (2) your size (S, M, L, XL), (3) your preferred style (Morphy, Fischer, CG Logo.. see here https://secure.chessgames.com/), and finally please let us know a second choice of shirt in case we don't have the style you want in your size. All 1-year memberships have been activated.
We will contact you via email soon to give out the gift certificate codes. Congratulations to all the winners, and thanks to everybody for playing in the 2016 Chessbookie game. The new season will start in a few days, and SwitchingQ has volunteered to be your bookie. |
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May-01-16
 | | Chessgames Bookie: I would like to congratulate all those that won prizes. <chessgames> gave out some nice goodies this Championship Leg. This was an amazing group to work with. You the bettors came to play! The chessbucks were flying from the get go! Thanks for a super exciting Championship leg. This is <WinKing> signing off until next time. |
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May-01-16
 | | Penguincw: Excellent job by <WinKing> for being bookie in the longest leg ever. Never easy taking on the Championship leg (or pretty much any leg, for that matter). Congrats to <TIMER> for being ChessBookie champion, with a record 83,107 cbs, breaking the previous record by <SwitchingQuylthulg> of 80,924 cbs. Interesting to note <TIMER> also holds the unofficial record of <LOWEST> net worth as well of -135,508 cbs in Spring 2008. Also, with this victory, it remains the case that no non-championship leg winner has gone on to win the championship leg that very season. Well, the lone exception is <Barok Espinosa> in Spring 2009. Although <Switch> "fails" to become the first back-to-back champion (and 3 time champion), he does become the only reigning champ to place in the top 10 in the championship leg following the win (he did it in 2012-13 as well). Congrats to him for hitting top 10 in 5 straight legs he has played in, and good luck hosting the Spring Leg, again. Oh, and this is the 20th time he finished top 10 in a leg. Other than that, congrats to <4tmac> and <Touch of Knight> for their 6th and 5th championship leg top 10 finish, respectively. Congrats to <centralfiles> for becoming just the 2nd user (<Fredrik>, Spring 2007) for winning the Spring Leg, and finishing top 10 in the following Championship Leg. Congrats to all the top 10 finishers. Congrats to all 34 qualifiers for achieving history, as this is the first (or second, not sure) time in ChessBookie history, that not a single non-qualifier even managed to place top 12, <ONCE> during a Championship Leg. I think the highest was <TheFocus> (18th?), 9313 cbs, Mar/17/2016. This was all despite receiving Pay Day and a record long leg. And here are the final standings among non-qualifiers: L E A D E R B O A R D
updated Sun May 01, 20:02
User, Net Worth
19. Appaz 6,549
20. madquick 6,422
21. Zhbugnoimt 6,165
22. yiotta 5,264
23. Naniwazu 4,530
24. Keyser Soze 4,015
25. crazyim5 3,971
26. fm avari viraf 3,970
28. pakis 3,900
29. dontwakedaddy 3,869
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30. eternaloptimist 3,752
31. QR1 3,699
Well, see you all in a couple of days. |
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| May-03-16 | | WinKing: Thanks <Penguincw>! |
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| May-03-16 | | centralfiles: I don't think a year of membership was added to my account. |
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| May-03-16 | | centralfiles: Congrats winking well done. |
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| May-03-16 | | centralfiles: And congrats to timer of course. |
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| May-03-16 | | WinKing: Thanks <centralfiles>! <centralfiles: I don't think a year of membership was added to my account.> Did you look on your profile page. There is a date there that tells you when your membership expires. Just below where it says: Chessgames.com Account Administration |
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| May-03-16 | | centralfiles: Yes. That is why I thought a year was not added. |
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| May-03-16 | | WinKing: <centralfiles: Yes. That is why I thought a year was not added.> I asked <chessgames> to check on it <centralfiles>. |
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May-03-16
| | chessgames.com: <centralfiles> Our apologies, it was just a fat-finger mistake. Your year has been added. <winners> I'll make sure I get in touch with all of the winners via email (who need to be gotten in touch with). The new leg should start on Thursday. Good luck!
<all> The new leg should start on Thursday. Good luck! |
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| May-04-16 | | TIMER: <chessgames.com> Thankyou very much, I look forward to all those prizes. <Penguincw> Thanks.
<centralfiles> Thanks. You gave a good challenge too getting to 50k chessbucks at one point. I am also waiting. |
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| May-04-16 | | centralfiles: Thanks<chessgames.com><timer> |
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May-04-16
| | Chessgames Bookie: ♔♔ ANNOUNCEMENT ♔♔
The 2016 Spring Leg is now under way! The leg begins with betting on round 6 of the Hasselbacken Open. New players can learn more about the game at the ChessBookie Game Help Page. Don't be afraid to place your bets - you have nothing to lose but play-money. Good luck everybody, and have fun! |
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May-04-16
 | | Annie K.: Off to the races! :) |
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| May-04-16 | | WinKing: Thanks <Annie K.> & <Switch> for all the help you guys gave me during my tenure as Bookie. It was greatly appreciated. :) |
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May-04-16
| | eternaloptimist: <TIMER> U r welcome. Wow I didn't know that u rebounded from ~-6,000 c$! I also turned things around but my turnaround pales in comparison to yours. I got down to -2,000+ c$ & moved all the way up to #30 in the rankings as <Penguincw> mentioned in his post. <Penguincw> That's a nice summary of the leg that u posted! Thx for posting that! |
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| May-05-16 | | TIMER: My last post I meant I was still waiting like centralfiles as I heard nothing either including no year added. |
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May-05-16
 | | SwitchingQuylthulg: <TIMER> The other prizes haven't been given out yet, I think; but if you haven't received your free 1-year premium membership, that's a problem. I've asked the admins to look into it. |
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May-05-16
| | chessgames.com: We just received the coupon codes for the CG store, so I will send out emails to all prize winners of the Championship Leg today. Please make sure that you do receive emails at the email on file with CG. |
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| May-05-16 | | TIMER: <SwitchingQuylthug> Thankyou the year has been added now. |
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| May-07-16 | | technical draw: The short ranking board on the main page is not the same as the longer one. |
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