I have purchase a new domain for this website. I will still have the wordpress.com account, but you will be able to use http://saintlouischess.com as well. This will facilitate my posting games on the site. Hope everyone is excited. I certainly am.

Sincerely,

Orderemerges

I will post a game that was awarded the Informator Brilliancy Prize every week.

However, at this point I am having difficulty posting a replay board on WordPress. So it might be a few days until I get it to work properly.

To first start it off, I would like to hold a few games over ICC to qualify people and place them on the list. This will have the added benefit of drawing players to ICC.

I am open to suggestions and comments. Here are the rules I propose: Game in 60 or Game in 25 as agreed upon by the two participants; Higher ladder players must accept all challenges, but can only be challenged 2 times per 20 days; Colors are assigned at random; Anyone can challenge anyone, but players who challenge and lose may not re-challenge the same player within 30 days; A miniature trophy be awarded to the top rung player to be passed on to succeeding challengers.Please email me with suggestions if you have any. I will be trying organizing the first ladder tournament soon.

Updated: February 19th, 2008 – Bold Words are changes.