MSI Multiple Events 19 – 23 November 2014, Docklands

[Adam Raoof]

Mind Sports Academy Finals
Multiple Chess Events 19 – 23 November 2014

Chess Mind Sports Academy Finals

What are you doing between Wednesday 19th and Sunday 23rd November 2014? Come and play chess in one of the best venues I have ever seen! This event is part of a Mind Sports Festival including Scrabble, Magic the Gathering, Go and others. We might even squeeze in some Shogi.

I'm proud to have been asked to run the chess events - let's make the chess the best part!

If you have five days and fancy winning a share of £10,000
If you have a weekend free
If you have spare time during the week
If you like rapid chess
If you like blitz chess - and fancy winning £600
If you have one evening
If you are Under 18

Then this has an event for you! The event will be broadcast live on the internet thanks to Dave Clayton, and the assistance of the ECF is gratefully acknowledged.

VENUE: ExCeL London Docklands, Royal Victoria Dock, 1 Western Gateway, London E16 1XL (easy to get to by tube, has its own station! Custom House for ExCel)
Arbiters: Adam Raoof and Tim Dickinson; Thomas Thorpe and David Eustace (British Blitz Championships)

There are three main sections -

FIDE OPEN (£5,000 prizes, Arkell, Eggleston, Hebden, Gormally etc)
£2,000.00
£1,000.00
£750.00
£500.00
£250.00
£250.00
£250.00


FIDE Under 1900 (£2,000 prizes)
£1,000.00
£500.00
£300.00
£200.00

ECF graded Under 120 (£2,000 prizes)
£1,000.00
£500.00
£300.00
£200.00

Format: 9 round swiss. Time control: 90+30 seconds a move. Round times 10.30am and 3pm daily (one morning round on Sunday).
Gold+ ECF Membership required for English players in the FIDE events; Silver+ for all in the Under 120. All games also ECF graded.

WeekDAY Congress (ECF Graded), Weds 19 to Friday 21 (Round times 10.30am and 3pm daily plus one morning round on Friday) - Open, Under 160 and Under 120
Weekend Congress (ECF Graded), Friday 21 (one afternoon round on the Friday, round times 10.30am and 3pm daily) to Sunday - Open, Under 160 and Under 120 sections.

MSI FIDE Youth Championships a FIDE rated and ECF graded rapid tournament for players Under 18: Saturday 22nd November, £1,000 in prizes! Six rounds, starts 10.30am. One section.
FIDE Saturday Rapidplay, Four Sections: Open, Under 170, Under 145, Under 120. 10.30am start. Also ECF graded.
Official British Blitz Championships, Sunday 23 November 1pm, 11 rounds, FIDE rated, 11 rounds of Blitz chess at 3mins + 2 secs 1st prize £600 2nd prize £300 + grading prizes

ECF GRADED Rapidplays Wednesday, Thursday and Friday during the day from 11am
FIDE RATED Blitz tournaments on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday starting at 4.30pm

Enter the event online: https://www.mindsportsevents.com/

Check out their website: https://www.mindsportsevents.com/

I hope to see you there.

[Ian Thompson]

When will full information, which doesn't contradict itself, be available for all events? For example, the weekend swiss:

1. Starts at 15:00 on Friday according to the website page listing all the events.
2. Starts at 13:00 on Friday according to the downloadable information sheet.
3. Onsite registration in order to play in round 1 closes at 17:00 on Friday at the top of the downloadable information sheet.
4. Registration in order to play in round 1 closes at 11:30 on Friday further down the downloadable information sheet.

[LawrenceCooper]

Is everyone being spammed with this e-mail or just me and Alex Holowczak?

Chess World Championship!
November 19th, 2014
Dear Lawerence,
We are excited to announce that after our Chess Player selection process you are invited to attend and partake in the Chess World Championship in London ExCel!
Mind Sports International World Championship!
My name is Christopher Roush, and I am the Marketing Director for MSI (Mind Sports International). I would like to extend a welcoming hand out to you, from chess player to chess player, and invite you to the Mind Sports International World Championships being held in London ExCel.
To sign up for this event click this link --> Mind Sports International - World Championship
We would love for you to post this event on your page(s) (Facebook, Twitter, Website), invite your chess comrades, and attend this World Class Chess competition! For more information on this event please go to our home page to find out more. Thank you for your time, and we look forward to seeing you at this amazing Chess Championship!
"We cannot resist the fascination of sacrifice, since a passion for sacrifices is part of a Chess player's nature"
Cheers,
Christopher Roush
Mind Sports International

[Adam Raoof]

I haven't received it yet

One update to the information sent out - the MSI Youth Championships is now going to be FIDE rated too.

More GMs are entering the 9 round Open - Hebden, Gormally and more!

[LawrenceCooper]

I haven't received it yet

One update to the information sent out - the MSI Youth Championships is now going to be FIDE rated too.

More GMs are entering the 9 round Open - Hebden, Gormally and more!

The person behind the e-mail claims to work for Mind Sports so it may be worth your while asking him to stop spamming invitations to a tournament that doesn't actually exist.

https://www.linkedin.com/pub/christophe ... 86/459/108

-Manage all Social Media channel for Living it Loving it and MSI (Mind Sports International)
-Optimize all events with campaigns, Social Media, and creative marketing
-Increase exposure of all Social Media pages
-Drive traffic to websites including, Livingitlovingit.com and MindSportsInternational.com

[Kevin Thurlow]

"We are excited to announce that after our Chess Player selection process you are invited to attend and partake in the Chess World Championship in London ExCel!"

Send the email to Stan Vaughan and see what happens

http://www.wcfchess.org/wp/about-stan-vaughan/

[LawrenceCooper]

I am pleased to say that following the intervention of the ECF's Commercial Director Bob Kane this matter has been raised with MSI and we have been assured that the over enthusiastic marketing person in the US will be spoken to and told to stop e-mailing out invites to the non existent world championship.

[Adam Raoof]

MSI have started to manually add a list of entrants to their website, though if you have entered online recently it may lag.

There are no late fees, so you can just turn up and play, but please enter in good time, and email me to let me know as I don't get the entries directly and it would be useful to know asap

https://www.mindsportsevents.com/events ... hess-info/