Name: CCC Under 1800 (FIDE) Open (Spring)
Dates: Saturday May 3rd, 2025
Sponsor: Calgary Chess Club (CCC)
Host: CCC at CCC’s premises
TD: Michael Anderson, 403-305-6689, NovaScotianBoy@gmail.com
Format: Swiss, 5-rounds, Classic 30/30 (game in 30 minutes plus 30 seconds/move),
CFC and FIDE rated, 1-Section (Open but Under 1800 FIDE)
Entry Fees: Regular Adult or Junior $29, includes an $8 admin fee.
If paid more than 24-hours ahead, (i.e., before 10:00 am on Friday May 2nd)
the admin fee is waived, making Earlybird Fee $21.
Eligibility: Current CFC (Canadian Chess Federation) and CCC memberships are both required.
Players arriving without current CFC and CCC membership will receive byes until paid.
All Entrants must be Under 1800 FIDE or unrated, otherwise FIDE will not
rate this tournament as Classic.
Entrants with FIDE of 1800 or above on the FIDE website on Saturday May 3rd,
will be disqualified without refund.
(Eligibility rules are harsh, but in a large fast cheap 1-day tournament we will
not have time to resolve these issues.)
Our inaugural tournament with this very succesful format in March had 38 entrants.
The limit for this tournament is 56.
DETAILS
Address: The Palma Centre, 3359 27 St NE, Suite 274, Calgary, AB T1Y 5E4.
Rounds: Round 1: Saturday 10:00 am, May 3rd, 2025
Round 2: Saturday 12:00 pm, May 3rd, 2025
Round 3: Saturday 02:30 pm, May 3rd, 2025
Round 4: Saturday 04:30 pm, May 3rd, 2025
Round 5: Saturday 06:30 pm, May 3rd, 2025
Head Arbiter/Organizer: Zeeshan Munir zeeshanchristy@gmail.com.
Contact Zee with concerns, suggestions, etc., for tournaments in general, and appeals.
Tournament Director (TD): Michael Anderson, 403-305-6689 , NovaScotianBoy@gmail.com.
Contact Michael with all questions related to this tournament, e.g., bye requests.
Club Manager: Michael Anderson, 403-305-6689 , NovaScotianBoy@gmail.com.
Contact Michael with all questions related to membership, teaching, and the club in general.
Treasurer: Gordon Campbell, Treasurer@CalgaryChess.com.
Contact Gordon with all questions related to payment issues and other money matters.
TD Rules and Procedures:
1. Neither the Treasurer nor the TD will accept promises !! of attendance or payment.
2. In a non-Open event, the TD reserves the right to promote a CFC-unrated Player to the Premier Section, e.g., if the Player holds an appropriate FIDE rating or a high chess.com (or equivalent) rating.
3.
To request a bye and receive a half-point (max twice but not in the last
round), notify the TD.
- For Weekend tournaments, notify the TD before the tournament starts.
- For Tuesday tournaments, notify the TD before the the draw is made
usually by Sunday 12:00
pm, or at TD discretion.
4. Clocks will be started at scheduled game time or immediately after announcements finish, whichever later. No-show default time is 30-minutes, but if a player contacts the TD, an extra 15 minutes may be allowed at TD discretion.
5. If no contact within 3-days, the TD will assume the Player has withdrawn and will not pair the player in subsequent rounds. No payments will be refunded after tournament has started.
6. TD has the right to eject any Player who violates CCC’s posted Zero Tolerance Policy.
Purchase of Entry Fees and/or CCC Membership: May be made:
preferably via the website https://CalgaryChess.com/CCC/Events, or
via Etransfer to Payments@CalgaryChess.com, password = Excellence, or
Cash
CFC Membership: Required, but CCC does not accept any payments for CFC. If necessary, join/renew CFC membership online at https://www.chess.ca/en/players/membership-join/. The annual fee is Adult $43, Junior $28. Alternatively, a CFC single-tournament membership is Adult $20, Junior $10.
If a Player joined or renewed at CFC in the previous 7 days, the TD may require proof (e.g., screenprint), as the CFC database updates weekly.
Prize Amount: will be the sum of entry fees less:
1. CFC rating fees of $5.60 or ACA fees of $10.00, per player.
2. TD fees.
3. CCC payment processing fees allowance of a fixed 4%.
4. CCC overhead charges of upto 6% to cover tea, coffee and paper supplies, etc.
5. CCC snacks (if any).
Notwithstanding, CCC guarantees the net prize pool for the Premier Section will be at least $200. The Future Masters prizes will be calculated accordingly. CCC rounds prizes to the nearest $5.00, and at Treasurer discretion, may donate extra to the prize pool or individual prizes for better optics or rarely to reduce anomolies caused by low attendance.
Prize Procedures:
1. Cash prizes for all events will always be split between the tied players, irrelevant of tie-break formulae.
2. No player may win more than one prize, and receives the highest.
3. CCC reserves the right to not award a ratings-based prize to a non-rated player. (e.g., could be highly rated elsewhere.)
Ties: For most tournaments, ties do not need need to be resolved. However, for some tournaments, usually involving a title, a trophy, a qualification to a later event, or a subsidy for future travel, ties must be resolved. These Tie Break procedures will determine a single winner.
1. Head-to-head (if
all those tied played each other).
2. Buchholz (sum of
all scores of opponents).
3. Buchholz cut 1 (sum
of all scores of opponents except the lowest point scorer).
4. Sonneborn-Berger
(sum
of all scores of opponents won against and half the scores of opponents drawn).
5. Most wins.
6. Most games with
Black.
7. Draw of Lots.
Overall: The above Terms and Conditions are for this tournament only, but may override any other general T&C's on our website.
