EVENING MATCHES FOR ALL

FIDE Rated Tournament
A NEW IDEA IN CHESS TOURANMENTS
All English players in FIDE sections must be current GOLD members.
Others must be at least Bronze -
or pay the non-Appropriate ECF membership fee in the pulldown menu.

You enter.  In doing so you choose how many of the 5 nights you wish to play - and state which nights you are registering for.  Nights you cannot play, you do not enter!  You can subsequently add further nights as circumstances allow you - as long as you are registered by 3pm on the day of any match.  We will list all bookings on the web site so you can see who is being paired on each evening.  After 3pm each day we will pair the field, but not as you would a conventional tournament!  In fact, the actual score of the player will not come into the pairing system used. 

ROUND 1:
We list all the players in descending order of playing strength.  We add a filler (wherever their rating puts them) if required to make an even number of players for the round.  A coin will be tossed to decide whether the top seed has black or white - and then the top 2 will be paired against each, then 2, the next 2 and so on, with all even numbered seeded players in the top half of the draw playing the same colour - and odd numbered seeds in the top half of the draw the other.

ROUND 2 and beyond:
We follow the same process as round 1, but completely ignore score.  We pair the players following a similar process but considering the colours played in the first round and ensuring nobody has a repeat opponent.  We hope that, if we have enough entries, everyone should get games against players of a similar standard in most, if not all of the rounds.

PRIZES:
There will be 3 prizes:
*   The best single individual rated performance for just 1 game (ie TPR) - so even someone playing 1 night can win something!
*   The highest aggregate traditional score over the 5 rounds (no byes can be scored)
*   The best TPR for players who have played at least 3 of the 5 rounds.