C - Rating Open

C - Open rating tournament with rating for FIDE

23rd July - 31st July 2011

Right of participation:
- players with ELO FIDE < 2200
- players without ELO FIDE or with ELO national >= 1800

System of tournament: Swiss system of 9 rounds

Criteria used for ranking:
1. number of points
2. median Buchholz
3. Buchholz
4. number of wins
prizes are distributed according to Hort system (among 12 top players)

Rating of tournament: 2x 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 or USD possible): 30.000 CZK altogether

1. 10.000
2. 6.000
3. 4.000
4. 3.000
5. 2.000
6. 1.200
7. 1.000
8. 700
9. 600
10. 500
11. 500
12. 500

Special material prizes:
3 best women players, 3 best seniors (born in 1951 and older) and 3 best young players (born in 1995 and younger)

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):

without ELO FIDE, but with ELO national >= 1800 63,5
ELO FIDE < 1800 54,5
ELO FIDE 1800 - 1999 45,4
ELO FIDE 2000 - 2199 36,5

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

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 127,5 EUR.

Late registrations: Those players whose application will be registered after 15th June 2011 will pay additional charge of 9,0 EUR.

Time schedule of the Tournament:

Thursday 21st July 10.00 - 22.00 registration
Friday 22nd July 08.00 - 22.00 registration
Saturday 23nd July 08.00 - 12.00 registration
Saturday 23rd July 15.00 1st round
Sunday 24th July 15.00 2nd round
Monday 25th July 08.00 3rd round
Monday 25th July 16.00 4th round
Tuesday 26th July 15.00 5th round
Wednesday 27th July 15.00 6th round
Thursday 28th July 15.00 7th round
Friday 29th July 15.00 8th round
Saturday 30th July 15.00 9th round
Sunday 31st 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