|
Tournament Information
|
Tournament Date:
|
Tournament Location:
|
|
Tournament Registration
and Fee:
-
The tournament
entry fee is $15.00
-
All tournament
registrations and fees must be received prior to 6:00 pm on Friday,
March 27, 2009
-
Payments can be
made via PayPal or via check mailed to
GISCA.
If mailing a check, please ensure that it will arrive prior
to the tournament date
-
Unlike the
typical GISCA tournament, this tournament
WILL NOT HAVE
ONSITE REGISTRATION, ONSITE PAYMENT, OR ONSITE CHECK-IN.
|
|
Tournament Schedule:
-
Round 1 pairings
will be posted at 9:00 AM
-
It is the
parent’s responsibility to arrive early enough to verify that all
participant information is correct prior to this time
-
The five round
times are:
-
10:00 AM
-
11:15 AM
-
12:30 PM
-
1:45 PM
-
3:00 PM
-
The awards
ceremony will take place immediately after the last round
|
|
Tournament Format:
-
This is a five
round, individual Swiss system paired tournament, G/30 (each player
has 30 minutes to complete all moves in a game). As an
individual championship, players will be paired without
consideration for school affiliation
-
The following
students are eligible to participate in this tournament:
-
Full-time
students enrolled in school in the state of Georgia for the entire
semester in which the event is held
-
Home schooled and
virtual schooled students must be schooled in the state of Georgia
or residents of the state of Georgia
-
There will be 6 sections in
this tournament, four championship and two novice:
|
Championship Sections |
Novice
Sections |
|
|
-
Non-rated K-5
-
Non-rated 6-12
|
-
Current United States Chess Federation
(USCF) membership is required for participation in all Rated
sections
-
Non-rated sections are
available for
a player:
-
All players with USCF
ratings are encourage to participate in Rated sections
-
USCF March 2009 Ratings
Supplement will be used for this tournament
-
The recording of chess notation
(i.e. keeping score) is required for all Rated sections with the
exception of the Rated Primary (K-3) section. While not
required for the Rated Primary (K-3) section nor the Non-rated
sections, keeping score is strongly encouraged. Players who
elect not to keep score may forfeit certain rights, such as the
right to claim a draw by three-fold repetition of position
-
Players are responsible for
providing their own chess clocks, if desired
-
In Rated sections, if one
or more players have and want to use a chess clock, the clock
will be used for the game
-
In Non-rated sections, if
one or more players have a clock, both players must agree to the
use of the clock if the clock is to be used for the game
-
When a clock is not being
used, a tournament director may choose to apply a clock to a
game to maintain the schedule of the tournament
-
Players, not tournament
directors, are responsible for knowing how to properly set
delays in their chess clocks
-
Byes:
-
A student may miss up
to two rounds if arranged in advance during their registration
-
All
byes will be zero point byes
-
If a student cannot participate in at
least three rounds, they should not attend this event
-
Players must have a clear
understanding of all fundamental chess rules in order to
participate
|
|
Tournament Awards:
-
Top finisher in the following
sections will
receive an automatic invitation to the 2009 Georgia Junior
Invitational Scholastic Chess Championship:
-
Trophies will be given to the
TOP TEN individual finishers in each Rated section
and to all players in the rated sections scoring at least 3.5 points
-
Players in Non-rated
sections scoring at least 3.5 points will win a new one-year USCF
membership or have their current USCF membership extended by one
year
-
All players tied for
first-place will be considered co-winners, but trophies will be
awarded based upon the following tie-breaks:
-
Modified Median
-
Solkoff
-
Cumulative
-
Opponents Cumulative
-
Sonneborne-Berger
-
Percentage Score
|
|
