The IBCO is a bullet-chess organization for tournaments.
This was created by Superman30 at 2000 and is now managed
by TRADE. MakeLotsOfMoney also helped us in a period of
some months. The IBCO was and still is the first Organization
on ICC to run his tournaments on Tomato Bots. Our tournaments
are at most rated, with any bullet time control. We use 1 0
,0 1, 2 1 and 2 0 as Main TC's. We are now sponsored by
MrBirdBrain and CHESSTODAY.net.
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1.Joining IBCO
1.1.Who can join IBCO ?
First of all, you must be registered here, at the Internet
Chess Club(ICC). That means you must have a username. If you
still aren't registered and want to get a username, type
"register". (C)omputers or computer-assisted players aren't
allowed to join IBCO.
1.2.How to be a member
Meeting the requirements above, you just need to send a
message to the "IBCO" account here, or an e-mail to
"ibco_on_icc@hotmail.com", telling your e-mail and from wich
country you are. For example : "mess IBCO I want to join IBCO,
my e-mail is ... and I am from USA". After it, you will receive
a confirmation message saying you joined us. And then, you must
also join our group, in order to receive messages about news,
tournaments, etc . Do that by typing "g-join IBCO".
We need to know from where you are and your e-mail, to keep that
information to send news, prize notifications, etc.. So, PLEASE,
who still did not gave his country / e-mail, tell us by message
or by e-mail. Thanks.
1.3.Joining Confirmation
To make things easier for all of us , we introducted the "joining
confirmation. What's that? Formerly , when you join an IBCO tourn,
you were putted directly at the members list. That caused problems,
because people didn't know what they were doing when joining the
tournament. This new idea, created on October , consist of : When a
player joins a tourn , he will get a tell and a message,with basics
information about us, and saying that he will become a member ONLY
if he answers that message confirming he wants to (as described in
article 1.2).
1.4.Joining fee
Actually, there is no need to pay anything to join IBCO, so
it's totally free.
1.5.Privileges of being a member
Being an IBCO member, you get the right to play in our weekly
tournaments (they may have prizes), and also to have your own
IBCO Rating(that has nothing to do with ICC's).
1.6.How to be a collaborator
In order to be a collaborator, just help us :
* divulging IBCO, putting a link to http://ibco.ownsthis.com
on your ICC finger.
* divulging IBCO, putting a link to http://ibco.ownsthis.com
on your Web Site.
* giving productive ideas on how to improve this Organization.
* giving productive ideas on how to improve this Website.
1.7.How to be an Official IBCO Manager
If you want to be an Official IBCO manager, to run our scheduled
tournaments, just contact the IBCO account about it by ICC message
or by ibco_on_icc@hotmail.com. We will be SO grateful.
Note: You must be already a Tomato manager.
2.Tournaments
2.1.Time Controls
We use in our tournaments ANY bullet time control other than 1 0.
Mainly 0 1 and 2 0. Here is a list of all possible bullet time
controls that may be used in our tourns:
0 1 , 0 2 , 0 3 , 0 4 , 1 1 , 1 2 , 2 0 , 2 1
2.2.General Information
We are using the "open to all" style in our tournaments.
We will continue to use this style, until people get used to the
forcejoin thing.
If you are a member, you will always know when there is going going
to happen a tournament. We send message to all members about that.
2.3.Dates
As of November, IBCO got a scheduled weekly tournament here. It will
be every WEDNESDAY at 7pm. Each month we will have a different time
control. All of them will be Swiss - 9 rounds - IBCO/ICC Rated.
We WON'T have weekly tourns for October and November, due to problems
and also due to the special tournament.
Improving each month something, IBCO now will be giving out FIVE
prizes per month. Now the player who score MOST POINTS in the month
will get 4 MONTH SUBSCRIPTION to CHESSTODAY (our new sponsor), 2nd will
get 2 MONTH SUBSCRIPTION to CT, 3rd will get 1 MONTH SUBSCRIPTION
to CT, 4th and 5th will get 2 WEEKS SUBSCRIPTION to CT ; Player with
MOST GAMES will get 2 month subscription to CT ; Under2000 with MOST
POINTS will get 2 month ICC-membership extension ; Under1600 with MOST
POINTS will get 1 month ICC-membership extension. Note that the same
player CAN'T win more that one prize.
Note : you MUST be an IBCO member to receive prizes.
Note 2 : For Class prizes (U2000 and U1600 )ICC's ratings will be
considered.
2.4.1.Tiebreaks
Tiebreak for any of the cases will be a best of 5 game-match with
current month's time control.
2.4.2.Class Limits
Best Under 2000 and Best Under 1600 scorers can win monthly prizes
(2 month ICC-memebership for U1800 / 1 month to U1400).They must meet
the conditions listed below(from ICC Championship rules):
1) Rated under the class limit at the start of the month
2) No best bullet rating 200+ points over the class.
3) Established rating with 50 bullet games played BEFORE the tournament.
4) No current tournament rating floors of any rating.
2.5. Computer policy
We use the same computer policy that ICC does. This following text
is from help computers, 2nd article.
2) Using chess database software, analysis software or chess engines
to assistance your play on IBCO tournaments is prohibited. ICC has
the right to monitor such activity. ICC and IBCO considers the use
of assistance from computer programs or other people to be cheating,
and will take appropriate action. You may lose your IBCO and ICC
membership and be prohibited to join us again. ICC has years of
experience detecting computer-use, so please don't try to get away
with it.
3.Ratings
3.1. What are Ratings ?
Ratings were created to classify each player's level in our tourns.
We use same method that FIDE does to calculate them, but with a K factor
little increased (50) to let ratings vary more. Players start with
at 2000 , and this has nothing to do with ICC Ratings. We update the
Rating list after each tournament and you can see them at the Ratings
section in our website.
Note : You will get a rating ONLY if you are a member ; If you
become a member after this period, your rating will be 2000 and
the tournament(s) you played will not be considered. Non-members
rated players were eliminated from the list already.
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