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Hello Guys! Have you ever heard of Not-So Pro Chess League (a good sub-alternative to Pro Chess League)? I want to register at least 1 team (maybe more?) which is formed by Cruel Chess Dudes to it! I need the minimum of 5 players who are interested and would join the event! Link: https://www.chess.com/club/not-so-pro-chess-league Feel free to share your opinion! Let's discuss this topic in the comment section! David

I downgraded some admins who yet haven't joined our facebook group. From now on, this will be an essential step for anyone who would like to become one of our administrators. The reason for this is to avoid all unnecessary surprise that happens to this team from time to time. I myself finally had enough of these cases. Every member has a choice to join our facebook group, but for our admins this will be a must!

Wanted: Ambitious player(s) of (ideally) USCF 2150-2400 or FIDE 2100-2400. Higher-rated players welcome if interested. Must be willing to regularly join in sessions in Live Chess using discord, and work with other members in pre-scheduled sessions on some or all of the following: Training game matches/tournaments Group game analysis of OTB games Time management and decision making Endgame competitions/study More if necessary. Salary: Steady increase in playing strength, possible "lump sums" in rating. Please comment below if you are interested or have any questions. (I will create a non-competitive [so CCDs has nothing to fear] club for us to post analysis, schedules, ideas, etc.) Thanks for reading!

Hey Chess Dudes! Let me say thank you to you all for your kind support so far! You may have noticed by now, that our current events were mostly correspondence chess events. I know that some of you do not like this format and of course we are trying to open new ways of opportunities - we do not want to be a boring community. We have many ideas for the future: Live Chess events (CCDs Weekly Skirmish, CCDs First Blitz Championship) Vote Chess events Correspondence Chess events (of course we will not give up on this one ) Chess960 Correspondence Chess events Live Chess Variants events (Three-check, Chess960, Crazyhouse, Bughouse, King on the hill) Publishing Articles on chess (theory, game analysis, etc.) Online Zoom Web Conference Online Streaming There must me many more extra hidden opportunities. If you have additional ideas, then please let me know! You all joined this team with a good reason, so let's do something for it together! If you want to help improving a specific event that you like, you can join our administrator team! Please leave comment about your wishes! David

Hey Chess Dudes! Some of you may have already thought on something like: "Oh okay, we are now in a team where noone knows anything about the other, we just hang next to each other individually, nothing makes sense, nothing special is happening and life goes on..." and so on. No offense, sorry to damage your feelings with such thinking process, this may be too cruel, unnecessary and unjust. However, we can make difference! Here comes CCDs Online Zoom Web Conference! This way we can meet each other in person, wherever you live on this Planet, we can join all in one time and discuss things about the team and in general: chess. This technology takes communication to a very high level and allows screen sharing! Webcams and microphones can be connected and their usage is optional for everyone! We could host such conference at any random time when you are available and we can have game analyses, sharing opinions, fun and much more! All you need to do is getting the Zoom software. It is very easy to setup, if I remember correctly it is autopilot, so you only have to click on the link that I will always share with you. This mentioned link will guide you to the Web conference room. My zoom room: https://zoom.us/j/579339674 Please leave comments and share your opinions! David

About CCDs membership -(1): The below mentioned players' membership are definite and unquestionable. We invite them separately and privately by sending the letter of invitation. Their own submitted application are automatically accepted. They can become administrators. -(1a): Official fide titled players (GM/WGM, IM/WIM, FM/WFM, CM/WCM), -(1b): National titled players (NM/WNM), -(1c): 2000+ FIDE rated players. -(2): We do not invite nor accept automatically those players who are not mentioned at point (1)! -(3): However, if those players who are not mentioned at point (1) are interested and still want to join our club and submit their application in some way, then we honour their gesture, so we offer them unique chance to prove themselves! (More details: at points (4)-(7)) -(4): Players who are mentioned at point (3) (hereafter: 'applicants') must not be considered by any subjective means that guarantee advantage or disadvantage for them. Their current level will be measured by objective means. -(5): Further explanation of point (4): As a basic starting point we refer to FIDE's calculations. Applicants have to play against at least 2 of our great administrators who are fit to point (1). Applicants must play 8 games against each administrators. Time control: 2x3min+2sec increment per every single move. If administrators have both fide and fide blitz rating, then we consider the higher one in our calculations. The criteria for applicants is to reach at least 2000 TPR (performance). -(6): Applicants earn club membership if they successfully reach 2000 TPR (the exact calculation is based on our administrators fide blitz/fide rating average, the number of games played and applicants' final score). -(7): Applicants who are not able to complete the criteria mentioned at point (6) will be rejected. -(8): Admission events on every Friday night (from 8 p.m. CET) -(9): Club members in exceptional cases can lose their membership if they prove to be unfit or unreliable. We cannot stand shameful players: -(9a): Cheaters' membership, -(9b): Flagged players' membership will be cancelled immediately! Players who: -(9c): wantonly resign, -(9d): wantonly offer draw, -(9e): wantonly accept a draw offer will also lose their membership! About CCDs administrators -(10): We are looking for active administrators who want to help our community and are fit to point (1)! -(11): Duties: -(11a): inviting new members who are fit to point (1), -(11b): participating in the admission of U2000 applicants, -(11c): keeping ideal conditions, -(11d): doing other useful things. -(12): If you meet the requirements and you also submit your application then we welcome you as our new administrator! About CCDs Weekly Skirmish -(13): Closed blitz tournament for all CCDs' members which is organised every Saturday night at 8 p.m. CET. -(14): Rounds: 7 -(15): Time control: 2*3min+2sec/move increment About CCDs rights -(16): All rights reserved!

Player dilinyos was forced to resign both of his games against Team 8. I know the full story behind the scenes and for now I keep it there. I know it is madness and I take full responsibility for it. Due to what happened, I cancelled his membership. Now Team 8 leads to 0-2 against us which is just a sligh edge and I am sure that we can handle it as we are definitely the favourite in this match (and all the other ones as well ). I hope that this strange incident will not put you off! All of your support is priceless and I thank it to you all! Let's win this event! Tally-ho Cruel Chess Dudes! David

Player Zsoltinyo gratuitously omitted his duties, betrayed us and flagged in both of his games against Art of Chess. Due to this, we cancelled his membership. Zsoltinyo játékos indokolatlanul elmúlasztotta kötelezettségét, cserben hagyott minket és mindkét partijában leesett az Art of Chess elleni meccsünkön. Mindezért a tagságát érvénytelenítettük. Dávid

(Hungarian form): Sziasztok Cruel Chess Dudes! Először is szeretném megköszönni mindannyiótoknak, hogy elfogadtátok a meghívásunkat, csatlakoztatok a csoportunkhoz, és ezzel bizalmat szavaztatok az eddigi munkánknak! Én a magam részéről igyekszem megfelelni az elvárásotoknak, és szeretném továbbá azt is elérni, hogy mindenki magáénak érezze azt, aminek most részesei vagyunk. Komoly célokat fogalmaztam meg akkor, amikor létrehoztam ezt a közösséget. Szeretném, ha egy napon ez lenne a világ egyik, ha nem a legerősebb csapata, minden tekintetben. Azt gondolom, hogy ez a cél mindannyiónkat motiválhat a jövőre nézve, és ennek érdekében csakis a legnagyszerűbb játékosokkal érdemes együtt dolgozni - ezek vagyunk mi! Igyekeztünk olyan rendszert létrehozni, amelyhez bárki csatlakozhat, aki teljesítményével kivívja a csoport elismerését - erről bővebben a külső, illetve belső csoportleírásban is olvashattok. Aki szeretné velünk együtt még jobbá tenni a csoportot, és aktívan részt szeretne venni a közös munkánkban, azoknak lehetőséget adunk, hogy a továbbiakban a csoportunk adminisztrátoraként működjenek velünk közre - erről is olvashattok bővebben a belső leírásban! Ezen kívül szeretnénk minél jobb teljesítményt nyújtva legyőzni a rivális csapatokat, előkelő helyezést elérni a csoportok ranglistáján, és ezáltal hírünket vinni a nemzetközi porondon - minden meccsünk közzé lesz téve a leírásban! További terveim között szerepel például a jövőbeni stream közvetítés, ahol csapatunkat képviselve teremtenénk értéket, és ahová bármelyik kedves csapattagot szívesen invitálom vendégül! Ezen felül lehetne szó a jövőben közös játszmaelemzésekről, szavazós sakkról, és bármiről, amiről úgy gondoljátok, hogy érdemes lenne vele foglalkozni. Ha eddig nem tudtad igazán, hogy mibe is vágtál bele, amikor jelentkeztél vagy pedig éppen meghívtunk, akkor remélem sikerült megfelelő tájékoztatást adnom! Ismételten szeretném megköszönni azt, hogy elfogadtátok a meghívásunkat a közösségünkbe, és külön köszönetet szeretnék mondani azoknak, akik jelenlétükkel támogatják a holnap kezdődő debütáló meccsünket az Art Of Chess csapata ellen! Minden jót kívánok, hajrá Cruel Chess Dudes! Dávid (English form): Hey Cruel Chess Dudes! First of all, I would like to thank all of you that you have accepted our invitation and have joined our group, and also that this way you have already shown the reliability of our work! As to myself, I try to do my best to meet the requirements and I would also like to make our community close to everyone's heart! I defined serious goals when I founded this team. I want Cruel Chess Dudes to become the best one all round someday! I strongly believe that this goal could motivate all of us for the future, hence we should work with great players altogether - and that's who we are! We tried to create a system which helps the idea that everyone can join who achieve our respect by their performance - about more specific details you can read on our description. If anyone of you would like to make our community even better with us and actively help in our general work, then you could be our new administrator - for further details you can read on our private description. Additionally, we try to do our best and defeat rival teams so that we can improve our rank and also our existence will take wind on the international platform - every encounter will be shown in our description! In addition, my plan for the future is to make stream broadcasting where we would stand for us and make something precious, and of course I would invite anybody of you any time as my guest if you wish so! Moreover, I also plan to have collective game analyses, to play vote chess together, and much more that you think that it is useful! If you haven't really known yet what you have entered into or where you have invited to then I hope that I could make a good instruction. Once again, I would like to thank all of you who have accepted our invitation and have joined us, and extra thanks to those of you who will play on our side from tomorrow against Art Of Chess team! I wish all of you all the best! Let's go Cruel Chess Dudes! David