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Coulsdon Chess
Summer Cup Information
(Coulsdon Chess Summer Cup, All Play All and
Rapid Play)
OVERVIEW
The Coulsdon Chess Summer Cups take place over 7
rounds from the beginning of June.
It runs
consecutively every Monday evening from the 13th of June until the 25th of July.
It begins at 7.30pm and the time controls are standard play 90 mins and 30
second increment Fischer timing. Entries are taken on the basis of a player's
June FIDE Rating and their current ECF grading - and players must play in the
lowest section that their grade AND rating puts them - unless the players
eligible for the section above are happy to allow them to play in that higher
section (players cannot choose to pay in a higher section without such
permission being agreed by the vast majority of those players). However CCF reserves the right to move
a player up a section if they believe their FIDE Rating is too low in comparison
to their ECF grade or if they are too strong for the section they would end up
in. The Jim Hale trophy will be presented to the player that has
the highest FIDE Rating performance above their own rating (or ECF conversion/CCF
estimate).
LINK FOR Coulsdon Chess Summer Cup RULES but below are a few bullet points for you:
As we are running Swiss system events, players can enter at any time but must be registered by 9am on the Friday immediately preceding a round if they wish to be included in pairings for the next round.
BYES
If CCF is forced to give a scoring bye to anyone (we normally avoid this by
using fillers or cross-section matches), it will normally be given (if possible)
to a player who has not previously had a bye - and will be worth 3 points.
Requested byes must be booked prior to 9am on the Friday immediately preceding a
round. If a player requests a bye and it is their first bye of the event,
it is worth 2 points, although final round byes can only be worth 2 points if
booked before the start of the competition.. Any other or subsequent byes
which are booked by 9am on the Friday immediately preceding a round are worth 1
point. Any withdrawals/cancellations after 9am will be worth 0. If anyone fails to show for a match
or cancels after 5pm on the day, they will score -1.
TIME CONTROL:
90 minutes for all
moves + 30 seconds added per move Fischer timings from round 1.
FIXTURES
CCF will hopefully have someone on standby so generally
everyone available will play every week that they are available. To ensure everyone gets a game, CCF reserves to right to pair a player from a lower section with a player in a
higher section to balance numbers. Where this happens, the "higher"
player will be playing for the points in their section and the "lower"
player will receive a bye in theirs (unless the "higher" player is
eligible (according to CCF) to play in the lower section, in which case the game
shall count in BOTH sections.
There are very strict rules about postponements
and we state in the rules that players receiving the weekly email are considered
to have read, received and accepted any changes we make unless we hear from them
otherwise. You default otherwise. The obligation is on you to
contact us if you don't get the weekly email.
GENERAL POINTS
No sealed moves may be used - all matches must be completed on the evening they
start (this is now even more essential as we are running a Swiss event).
All players registered (or registering) with FIDE as English must be GOLD members of the ECF.
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