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Originally Posted by EddyB66
Where can I find some tournaments for intermediate players like myself?
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Originally Posted by A-Rod's Cousin
I play on chess.com as do many/most people on 2p2.
Be wary, though. Joining a big tournament can take several weeks to finish!
That's why I play only in TMs on chess.com (have withdrawn from two tourneys despite advancing in both; you can do this with no penalty when you've finished playing in a round but some other players haven't).
Note that, on chess.com, non-premium members can play in only one private tournament at a time. This limitation doesn't take into account official chess.com tourneys (those set up once a month by Patzer24; you can take part in all of them, except that you can't enter the quick knockout ones if you've had >10% of timeouts in the last 90 days or spent >3 hours per move lifetime), which are however the slowest because of the large number of participants and the tolerance for vacations.
On lichess.org, people have fewer concurrent correspondence games running on average
(there's simply no room for any slow poke to get hundreds of games running, and there seem to be no vacations), so games get finished surprisingly faster, sometimes even within a few hours if both opponents happen to be online, as far as I can observe (see
the game result reports of the first ever lichess correspondence tourney; the first results started coming in only a few hours after the tourney start).
The above assumes that you'd like to join a correspondence tourney; there are live bullet, blitz and rapid chess tourneys on both mentioned servers (as well as on chess24.com, whose interface is however laggy, especially for Black).
Last edited by coon74; 02-20-2015 at 03:05 AM.