B - Rating Open

B - Open rating tournament with rating for FIDE

19th July - 28th July 2013

Right of participation: players with ELO FIDE 1800 min.

System of tournament: Swiss system of 9 rounds

Criteria used for ranking:
1. number of points
2. average ELO of rivals
3. median Buchholz
4. Buchholz
5. number of wins
prizes are distributed according to Hort system (among such number of players corresponding to number of advertised prizes)

Rate of game: 2 x 2 h + 30 s / move

Waiting time in case of late coming is 1 h

Tournament prize fund (financial prizes in CZK, payment in EUR possible, from prizes in excess of 10.000 15% tax will be deducted): 60.000 CZK altogether

1. 15.000
2. 10.000
3. 7.000
4. 5.000
5. 4.000
6. 3.000
7. 2.000
8. 1.500
9. 1.200
10. 1.000
11. 900
12. 800
13. 700
14. -18. 500

Special material prizes:
3 best women players will be granted 1.000, 500, 300
3 best seniors (born in 1953 and older) 1.000, 500, 300
3 best young players (born in 1997 and younger) 1.000, 500, 300

Fusion of special and other prizes is admissible

Notice: prizes are awarded only during solemn presentation of results

Starting fee is given in EUR (payments in CZK and USD possible):

ELO FIDE 1800 - 1999 71,0
ELO FIDE 2000 - 2199 50,0
ELO FIDE >= 2200 33,5

Discounts: young players up to 18 years of age, seniors over 65 years of age and women players have 25% discount, these discounts do not refer to additional charge for late registration and are not added up

Fees for rating of the tournament results for ELO charged according to the economic directive of the Chess Federation of the Czech Republic (2,5 EUR for a player) are not included in the starting fee and will be paid by participants during the registration.

Exceptions: The organizer reserves the right to set a player whose ELO does not meet requirements of that tournament on his own request. The starting fee will be in this case 142,0 EUR.

Late registrations: Those players whose application will be registered after 15th June 2013 will pay additional charge of 8,5 EUR.

Time schedule of the Tournament:

Thursday 18th July 10.00 - 22.00 registration
Friday 19th July 08.00 - 12.00 registration
Friday 19th July 15.00 1st round
Saturday 20th July 15.00 2nd round
Sunday 21st July 15.00 3rd round
Monday 22nd July 15.00 4th round
Tuesday 23rd July 15.00 5th round
Wednesday 24th July 15.00 6th round
Thursday 25th July 15.00 7th round
Friday 26th July 15.00 8th round
Saturday 27th July 15.00 9th round
Sunday 28th July 10.00 - 11.30 solemn presentation of results

Place: Registration, solemn presentation of results and all games will take place at the CEZ Arena