Problems with Colle-Zukertort Thematic 1550-1650

Help. This tournament just started and all of my games were given a board that is about 8 moves into it. The games are identical, and my clock is running. What are we supposed to do?

Originally posted by gilaadm
Help. This tournament just started and all of my games were given a board that is about 8 moves into it. The games are identical, and my clock is running. What are we supposed to do?

its a thematic tournament., each start starts from the set opening position. luckily you joined a tourney with not too hard of an opening, or dangerous

try to look up a few sites that talk about it and get some pointers.
http://www.zukertort.com/Zukertort-Excerpts.html
has a few excerpts from the book

Thanks. I'm pretty new to tournaments.

Originally posted by gilaadm
Thanks. I'm pretty new to tournaments.

If you go to the tournaments page there can be a little white square with a black T in it behind a tournament name. This T indicates its an Thematic tournament.
All other tournaments start (normal) games with 0 moves made.

I'm playing in that tournament too (different band of course) and you may be interested in this:

http://www.chessville.com/instruction/openings/FourKeystotheColle-Zukertort.htm

Thanks again to all of you. I was looking to increase my number of games, and just randomly entered tournaments for which I was eligible.

One more question -- Are these games rated the same way as other games?

Originally posted by gilaadm
One more question -- Are these games rated the same way as other games?

Yes.

Thanks again.