DDG E-mail Tournament 1996

The first thematic DDG e-mail tournament started in October 1996, and finished in July 1997. Out of 65 finished games, White scored 23+, 11=, 31- (44 %).

The second DDG tournament started in October 1997.

The official tournament page (by Tomas Segerberg) is partly mirrored here:

Introduction and rules
Participants (34): names, ratings (8 players rated over 2000)
Games schedule, individual results, and links to small PGN files
64 finished (and 26 abandoned) games in one PGN file; 1 finished and 9 abandoned are still missing
Standings, ignoring abandoned games, so they look a bit different from the official ones

Comments (by Jyrki Heikkinen):

Motivation: how's and why's of playing the DDG
Suggest games and moves as nominees for tournament awards
I have analysed three of my tournament games in two articles published in Chess Mail and BDG World
Old plans for the second round for the top finishers

Jyrki Heikkinen