E - Amateur Open |
E - Open European Amateurs Championship with ELO < 1800
23rd July - 31st July 2011
Right of participation: players whose ELO (FIDE and national as well) is smaller than 1800 (in case they have neither ELO FIDE nor national, they may have max. II. EC)
European Amateurs Championship: European champions (man and woman) in category ELO < 1800 will become the best placed players (man and woman) who are members of chess federation belonging to ECU and whose ELO (FIDE and national as well) is smaller than 1800 (in case they have neither ELO FIDE nor national, they may have max. II. EC)
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 10 top players)
Rating of tournament: 40 moves per 2 hours, further 1 hour for each player to finish the game
Waiting time in case of late coming is 1 h
Tournament prize fund (financial prizes in CZK, payment in EUR or USD possible): 10.000 CZK altogether
| 1. | 3.000 |
| 2. | 2.000 |
| 3. | 1.500 |
| 4. | 1.000 |
| 5. | 700 |
| 6. | 500 |
| 7. | 400 |
| 8.-10. | 300 |
Special material prizes:
3 best women players, 3 best seniors (born in 1951 and older) and 3 best young players (born in 1999 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):
ECU member federations have the right to nominate 1 player and 1 woman player with corresponding ELO without paying starting fee till 15th June 2011.
| ELO FIDE < 1800 or ELO national < 1800 | 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
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 | 23rd 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
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