Virtual Chess Tournament 2021 - VCT 4

Ever wondered how did the Clan Names come? Well they were voted between the 4 clan leads! Clan Forkie was later renamed to Clan Fork to keep it a chess term.  And did the Clan Leads get their desired Clan Names? No, it was also done through random selection! Thanks to Atrayee for selecting the paper chits to allocate the Clan Names to the Clan Leaders. VCT 4 Auction was publicly held, and the ceremony was such skillfully conducted by Anustup, that he has now rightfully earned the VCT Auctioneer role for the future VCT editions. You can find more details on the VCT 4 Auction blog.  As 'morning shows the day', the Curtain Raiser match of VCT 4 hinted that the tournament is going to be a super successful one! Arkadip defeated VCT 3 runners up Avik even after losing his Queen! There were 3 Brilliant moves by Avik (Top Right), Shouvik (Bottom Left) and Bikash (Top Left) in Gameweek 1 as given below. Ironically, Avik and Bikash lost their respective matches even with their brilliant...

Although this was the 4th Edition of VCT, there has been a Magic with the number ' 3 ' throughout the tournament! Let us first see the final Clan scores of VCT 4 after the completion of all 6 Gameweeks. (henceforth Gameweek will be mentioned as 'GW' in this blog) As you can see, the most prominent figure in the final score is 3 !  The only other digit on the scoreboard is 9, which is = 3 * 3 ! To decide the Champion Clan, there were 3 Tie Breaker matches, played between 3 players from each Clan belonging to 3 Tiers each!  The final Champion - Clan Zugzwang is the only team with 3 draw matches. Rest of the 3 clans had once draw match each. Bored? We have not started yet! Let us see some more magic of  ' 3 ' in VCT 4! The magical influence of ' 3 ' in VCT 4 ! VCT 4 was played from 3 countries from 3 continents -  Akash ( aQi87 ) from USA (North America)  Nandita ( nandy111 ) from Australia (Australia)  And rest of the players from India (Asia). There...

First of all, a big thanks to you all for your support and sharing your opinion on VCT 4. This time we got the opinion from all 24 players, and well within the stipulated timeline, and that shows the superb enthusiasm among you all. Kudos! I hope we could provide utmost entertainment in this new format of VCT and also helped you grow more interest in the game of chess and enhance your skillsets. So without further ado, let us see the results of the Opinion Poll -  1. Which of these would you vote for the best comeback of the tournament ? With 9 votes, Sayak's (sayak23) win against Matcho (hopelessindian) in Gameweek 4 is voted as the best comeback in the VCT 4 tournament! Congratulations to Sayak for winning the VCT 4 Auxiliary Prize for the ' Best Comeback '! There is a very close contest between the rest of the candidates as you can see! 2. Whom have you loved to watch to play in the entire tournament ? (People's choice award) Irfan (irfanraza_6) remains one of the mo...