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Dec-31-16
 | | chessgames.com: I haven't gone over all the logfiles yet but congratulations to <sydbarrett> who most certainly is the winner of this leg. One last call to anybody who wants to "be the bookie" for the upcoming leg. Just contact Daniel at chess@chessgames.com and I will fill you in on the details. |
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| Dec-31-16 | | sydbarrett: Got a premium account notification. I believe that's the prize. Your website has been invaluable over the years for going over historical GM games. Cheers for the upgrade. |
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| Dec-31-16 | | WinKing: Congratulations <sydbarrett> on winning the Fall Leg! You stuck with your horse(Karjakin) & rode him on to victory, good call. I went with Carlsen, as did many here, but he failed to have the better tiebreaks. See you in the Championship Leg. |
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Dec-31-16
 | | Penguincw: Yep, great last round picks <syd>. Congrats on the membership, and also qualifying for the Championship leg. I also made some last minute cash, but it was insignificant (believe it or not, I had already qualified, so I didn't really try, for whatever reason), hitting DBD in Rilton Cup Round 4: Pick Three and also betting on favourite A Muzychuk in Blitz WC - Women: In-Play Winner, when she was only like half a point behind the lead. Anyhow, congrats to those who have qualified, and let's rest a few days before welcoming the new bookie to the 2017 Championship leg: 10 years since the first one. |
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| Jan-01-17 | | sydbarrett: I saw the In-Play Women's Winner bet. Some measly amount like $20 was on Muzychuk while the whole pot was worth $1000s. Had no bucks to spare or I would have thrown a few on it. All I could do was envy the winner. |
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| Jan-01-17 | | wordfunph: my last-ditch make or break tickets..
<Blitz World Championship: In-Play Winner : Karjakin [cash in ticket] 1500 YOU WIN! COLLECT 6466 7:2 4.31 6,466 Dec-30-16Blitz World Championship: In-Play Winner : Jobava [discard ticket] 150 LOSE 59:1 59.76 -- Dec-30-16 Blitz World Championship: In-Play Winner : Yu Yangyi [discard ticket] 150 LOSE 59:1 59.76 -- Dec-30-16 Blitz World Championship: In-Play Winner : Dominguez Perez [discard ticket] 150 LOSE 59:1 59.76 -- Dec-30-16 Blitz World Championship: In-Play Winner : Salem [discard ticket] 150 LOSE 59:1 59.76 -- Dec-30-16 Blitz World Championship: In-Play Winner : Bosiocic [discard ticket] 150 LOSE 58:1 58.65 -- Dec-30-16 Blitz World Championship: In-Play Winner : Dubov [discard ticket] 150 LOSE 58:1 58.65 -- Dec-30-16 Blitz World Championship: In-Play Winner : Vachier-Lagrave [discard ticket] 150 LOSE 58:1 58.65 -- Dec-30-16 Blitz World Championship: In-Play Winner : Morozevich [discard ticket] 400 LOSE 12:1 13.10 -- Dec-30-16 Blitz World Championship: In-Play Winner : OTHER [discard ticket] 150 LOSE 58:1 59.01 -- Dec-30-16 Blitz World Championship: In-Play Winner : Ivanchuk [discard ticket] 250 LOSE 23:1 23.81 -- Dec-30-16 Blitz World Championship: In-Play Winner : Nakamura [discard ticket] 150 LOSE 58:1 58.65 -- Dec-30-16> congrats to <sydbarrett> and all qualifiers! |
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Jan-03-17
 | | Stonehenge: Playing chess is more sinful than gambling:
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/pl... |
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Jan-04-17
 | | OhioChessFan: Wow, what does that make gambling on chess? |
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| Jan-04-17 | | diceman: <OhioChessFan:
Wow, what does that make gambling on chess?> Sin squared. |
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| Jan-04-17 | | WinKing: Thanks <Annie K.> for another fun filled leg! Doing back to back legs is no easy task. Your efforts are greatly appreciated. :) |
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Jan-04-17
| | chessgames.com: Good news, not a trace of cheating in the logfiles, all winners are verified and will be placed in the ChessBookie Hall of Fame shortly. This is the first leg I can recall where a top 10 finisher accomplished the job with pretty much one bet. Call it luck or foresight, but it was a clean win. A 200 c$ pick-three is all he needed to earn a spot in the upcoming championship. Good job (you know who you are.) More info on the championship leg coming shortly. |
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| Jan-06-17 | | WinKing: 7 days till the Tata Steel Chess 2017 tournament!!! ♘Tata Steel♘ Tata Steel Masters ♗Tata Steel♗ https://www.timeanddate.com/countdo... This tournament will run from Jan. 14th thru Jan. 29th 2017. (13 Rounds) Participants include Adhiban, Andreikin, Aronian, Carlsen,
Eljanov, Giri, Harikrishna, Karjakin, Nepomniachtchi, Rapport,
So, Van Wely, Wei & Wojtaszek.
Average rating: 2753 - Category: 21 (FIDE-ratings of December 2016) *****
*****
<<> Tata Steel Chess 2017 <>> http://www.tatasteelchess.com/
< 3 Prediction Contests: (Win virtual medals - Gold, Silver & Bronze) > User: lostemperor - Predict the order
the players will finish. Run & hosted by <lostemperor>. (3 categories to medal in) User: Golden Executive -
Predict the result 1-0, 1/2, or 0-1. Run & hosted by <Golden Executive>.
(3 categories to medal in)
This year will be the 11th Anniversary for this contest!
(from 2007 to 2017 - 11 years running)
User: OhioChessFan - Predict
the result 1-0, 1/2, or 0-1 & the number of moves. (4 categories to medal
in). This contest is run by <chessmoron> & hosted by <OhioChessFan>. *****
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Also, don't forget about <chessgames> ChessBookie game for this event. He can't wait to take some or all of your chessbucks. ;) ChessBookie Game
This is the Championship Leg for the ChessBookie game. Nice
prizes given out to the top(10) finishers.
Don't miss out on the fun for this Super Event!!! |
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Jan-09-17
 | | WannaBe: Hello <Bookie>, new leg will start with Tata(??) =) |
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Jan-09-17
 | | Annie K.: Yes, it will... I intend to put up winner bets soon, probably tomorrow or so. More announcements will be forthcoming shortly too. ;) |
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Jan-10-17
 | | Chessgames Bookie: The Championship Leg has begun - place your bets on the fine selections of players in the Tata Steel Masters and Challengers tournaments! <♔ Important Notice! ♔> Bookie players, please take note of the Announcements section: the tournaments listed there are going to be the only ones guaranteed to be covered by the ChessBookie this leg (inasmuch as they take place as planned). So far, late March seems to hold no event of interest, but be sure to check back and participate if one turns up. The <ChessBookie> has decided to adopt a policy of no longer attempting to offer daily or near-daily action; like the other betting contests on <chessgames.com>, we will cover only significant tournaments. We made this decision, because the increasing difficulty of finding volunteers to run this game indicates that the post of the Bookie needs to become less time consuming to appeal to volunteers; and while minor events usually don't offer great profits to the players anyway, dropping the hassle with them will make the Bookie's work much easier. This way, the ChessBookie Game can be kept running, and there will still be plenty of opportunities to make good headway on the Leaderboard for anybody who cares to make the most of the major events covered. Plan your strategies accordingly, and good luck to everybody! :) |
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| Jan-11-17 | | scout118: Can you put out a list of qualifiers and give the 10,000 bonus to each account before Tata Steel starts? Also, post the top ten prizes at stake. Thanks much. |
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Jan-12-17
| | chessgames.com: <Can you put out a list of qualifiers and give the 10,000 bonus to each account before Tata Steel starts? Also, post the top ten prizes at stake.> Stop back later today for that. |
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Jan-12-17
| | chessgames.com: Here is my list of qualifiers for the 2017 Chessbookie Championship: 4tmac
Barok Espinosa
Beholder
bishopbandit
centralfiles
Chnebelgrind
dunkenchess
fivealpha
FSR
gunsan
HowDoesTheHorsieMove
jared10001
kereru
kurtrichards
Kynas
naufallabs
Penguincw
Phony Benoni
pmosteo
Robin01
Smooth Operator
SwitchingQuylthulg
sydbarrett
TIMER
Touch of Knight
truepacifism
WinKing
wordfunph
xajik
ycsidney
If I made any mistake please let me know immediately! I am going to now give all of the aforementioned qualifiers an extra 9000 chessbucks. People who didn't qualify should not give up hope; upsets are part of this game's history. Prizes will be announced shortly. |
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Jan-12-17
| | chessgames.com: Oops! How could I have forgotten <Sneaky>? OK, he's in the race too this year, please let me know if I've missed anybody else. It's simply the list of all top-10 finishers for the last 4 legs (including last year's championship.) |
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Jan-12-17
| | chessgames.com: <THE PRIZES ARE> First place: A $100 gift certificate, a 1 year premium membership to Chessgames.com, and immortality in our ChessBookie Hall of Fame. Second Place; A $25 gift certificate, a 1 year premium membership. Third place: A 1 year premium membership.
Places 3-10: A 4-month trial membership as well as automatic inclusion in next year's ChessBookie! championship. |
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Jan-12-17
| | Penguincw: <cg> I also see you forgot <scout118> (but don't worry, you already gave that user 10,000 cbs; I'm just saying this in case someone else points it out). But I think you might have forgotten <Boomie>, since in the Summer 2016 leg, you decided to add 2 more runner-ups (<Sneaky>, who qualified anyway, and <Boomie>): Chessgames Bookie chessforum < Third place: A 1 year premium membership.Places 3-10: A 4-month trial membership as well as automatic inclusion in next year's ChessBookie! championship. > So are you saying that if you finish in 3rd place, you get 16 months of membership. Wow. :) (I'll also assume that places 1-10 will all automatically qualify and have their name in the ChessBookie Hall of Fame) |
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| Jan-12-17 | | scout118: <chessgames.com: Here is my list of qualifiers for the 2017 Chessbookie Championship:> Hey, sport! Are you upset with me?;) |
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| Jan-13-17 | | Boomie: <Penguincw: But I think you might have forgotten <Boomie>> Perhaps we missed an arbiter's decision. I did expect to play with the big boys and girls this time, though. |
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Jan-13-17
| | Annie K.: <Boomie> Jump in, the water's fine! ;) |
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Jan-13-17
| | WannaBe: That's what a great white once said, too. |
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