Play Chess, Win a MacBook Pro!
Hear Ye! Hear Ye!
Calling out to the Chess warriors… The contest is about to begin!
Announcing the ultimate challenge to find the Grand Master of iPhone Chess. If Chess has always been your game, then it’s about time you prove your worth and take home a shiny new MacBook Pro! 
To win, all you have to do is play, play and play some more till your Chess Elite Elo Rating hits 2500. And if you’re the first one to reach the mark, the MacBook Pro is yours. Besides this, there are other fabulous prizes to be won as well. 7 others players will win other Apple goodies depending on their Elo Rating.
If you don’t have the game yet, download it now from the App Store!
Check out the contest page for more details on the various prizes to be won.
Cheers!!!
UPDATE: Contest extended till June 30th.
Posted by:
Seema
Hi,
I’ll try to play!
downloaded the paid version and playing it, can you explain aagain how to win?? i played a lotttt!!
@JG
As you win more games against players in the Chess Elite community, your Elo Rating will increase. The first player to achieve an Elo Rating of 2500, wins a MacBook Pro.
Besides that, there various other prizes to be won!
First player to reach 2100 - iPod Shuffle
First player to reach 2200 - iPod Nano
First 3 players to reach 2300 - iPod touch 16 GB
First 2 players to reach 2400 - iPod touch 32 GB
Click on the link below for more details on the contest:
http://www.99games.in/chesselitecontest.html
hey guys,
I already got to 2100 rating!! and am definitely the first to do that!!
see you at the chessboard
Benetti
I didn’t understand the rules… you should only claim for one prize?
then I will try for higher rating…
j’adoube
Benetti
@Benetti
Hey Benetti,
Congratulations for being the first player of Chess Elite Community to achieve an Elo rating of 2100. We are delighted to have skillful players like you in our community and we really appreciate your interest in Chess Elite.
The Chess Elite Contest allows you to claim only one prize so that more players get an opportunity to win. If not for that, you would have won all the prizes!
Since you have chosen to forgo this prize (iPod Shuffle 2GB), you are eligible to compete for one of the higher value prizes.
All the best!
Hi everyone!
Hot on Benetti’s trail… reached 2100 on the last day of the competition. If that means I must claim my prize then I do!!! If the competition will continue to run than I shall aim higher too
Ciao tutti
has the contest already finished?! it seems impossible to complete enough games in the time to win the prizes?
please let me know as i’d love to try for one of the higher value prizes if so?
abbraci, Benetti
@yellowidol
@Benetti
Hello there! Since no one has managed to achieve an Elo Rating of 2500 yet, the contest has been extended till 30 June 2010.
GREAT!!!!
Hi Yellowidol
Why are you not continuing our close ongoing game? Your last move was 8 mars. Do you have an older version of chess elite? Then this close game will end without any change in rating. I played against cedlerustre and he stopped playing when he was mate in 2 moves. He had an old version and the game was just gone without any change in rating. I think this is very bad behaviour
Hello all I have played this game vs. Benetti. But there is one rigged move.
I have no idea this can be done, since when is it possible to do so?
Please help me.
This is the summary of the Chess Game between Zeusuez and Benetti started on Mrz 22.
Game lost by:Zeusuez
Move Details:
1.e2e4 2.e7e5 3.d2d4 4.f8b4 5.c2c3 6.b4d6 7.g1f3 8.e5d4 9.c3d4 10.d6b4 11.b1c3 12.g8f6 13.f1d3 14.f6g4 15.h2h3
16.g4f6 17.e1g1 18.e8g8 19.e4e5 20.f6h5 21.d3h7 22.g8h7 23.f3g5 24.h7g6 25.d1d3 26.f7f5 27.e5f6 28.g6f6 29.c3d5 30.f6g6
Regards,
Zeusuez
In Move 25 he put me on check, i protect the king in move 26 with moving the pawn from F7 to F5. THEN!!! the amazing magical moves come in nr 27. He moves his pawn from E5 to F6 and kills my pawn which is place on F5 lol, which is just impossible!
Hi Zeusuez
This is a valid “En Passant” move made by Benetti
You can read more about Enpassant moves here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/En_passant
We will be happy to help you if you have queries on your other games!
Keep playing!
Cheers!!!
Man this Benetti is playing such a good game!
Congrats, I never manage to win against him, and i am not the first lol
hi Zeusuez,
I haven’t seen the wikipedia yet but I think the en passant rule harks back to the old times when the pawns could only move one square at a time, before you could move them 2 squares as an opening move
thanks again for a good game
Benetti
@ZEUSUEZ
Hey Zeusuez,
Check out the Chess Elite thread on Touch Arcade: http://bit.ly/aO78ub
You can interact with a lot of Chess Elite players there. (Including Benetti!)
Cheers!
@99Games
Hi 99games!
I have a problem and hope you can help. A game with Periquin started Sun Mar 21 at 0757 indicates that it is me to play (showing under “Your turn” section. If I touch to open the game it states at top “Periquin’s turn” and shows only my first move but if I select “Analyze” although it shows on the board that only white has moved, Periquin’s reply is given in the “Move List”!! I am unable to make a move but am told it is my turn. Can you fix this bug please?
Thanks
Yellowidol
@Yellowidol
Hey there! Can you mail the screenshot of this game in the Gameplay
and analysis mode to support@99games.in
We’ll immediately look into this issue and fix it!
Cheers!
99Games
hello 99Games!
I have just reached 2300 rating
and have since won about 8 games but the rating changes for my opponent (-1 or -2) but I don’t get any change in rating - this seems strange for an ELO system
I was wondering if there’s some kind of cap on rating improvement when you reach 2300? if so, I’d like to claim the prize now - but if not, I’d like to continue for a bigger prize!
can you let me know please? thanks again
regards, Benetti