MaxoChess Fuerteventura 2006
On Saturday, June 10th, at 14:00 CEST, the MaxoChess Fuerteventura 2006
Tournament begins. The venue is the tournament room "Steinitz Stadion"
on the Playchess server. The tournament
is part of the activities of the III MaxoNet Festival (9th –
11the June 2006), which will take place in Gran Tarajal, in the Sport Pavillon
of the Instituto de Educación Secundaria “Vigán“.
The MaxoChess tournament is part of a campaign of the Government to promote
the use of new technologies by the younger inhabitants of Fuerteventura. It
is also to attract visitors to the island.
Chess tournaments from the Canary Islands are already a tradition on Playchess.
This time the tournament will be hosted on the beautiful island of Fuerteventura,
ready to receive chess players from all over the World through the Playchess
server. The prize fund is 10,000 Ducats, which is the equivalent of about 1,000
Euros.
The event will consist on a Preliminary and a Final – 20 rounds all
together of exciting chess played at the tremendously thrilling 3min + 1sec
rate of play.
Venue
This time the tournament will take place in the "Steinitz Stadion",
in the general tournament area of the Playchess server.
Starting fee
There is no starting fee for this tournament.
Playing modus
First of all there will be a Preliminary, open to everybody ranked pawn or
above. It will be played following the Swiss System, over 11 rounds.
Then the Final will follow. It will be played as a single round robin tournament,
with the first ten players qualified from the Preliminary.
The rate of play will be 3 min. + 1 sec. per move per player, in both stages
In case of tie-breaks, first of all the progressive score will be taken into
consideration, after that the Median-Buchholz score. Their calculation is automatically
done by the server, and they will be the decisive criteria for qualifying for
the Final and also to assign prizes.
The games will be rated and will affect the rating of the participants on
the server.
Schedule
Saturday, June 10th 2006
|
CEST (GMT + 2) |
|
13:30 h |
Starting of registration in the playing venue |
14:00 h |
Starting of the Preliminary Approx, length: 145 minutes |
17:00 h |
Starting of the Final Approx, length: 100 minutes |
Tournament director: Fernando M. Fernández
Prizes
|
Rank |
Prize in Ducats |
|
1st |
2,500 |
|
2nd |
1,500 |
|
3rd |
1,000 |
|
4th |
800 |
|
5th |
700 |
|
6th |
600 |
|
7th |
500 |
|
8th |
400 |
|
9th |
300 |
|
10th |
200 |
Tournament rules
In this tournament the server
rules for tournaments apply. In case of doubt the tournament director will
decide. His decision is final and there is no right of appeal.
Technical requirements
To participate in this tournament an active server account and the rank of
pawn or better is required. Besides the latest versions of ChessBase's commercial
programs, it is possible to play with the free client program that can be downloaded
here, which provides full functionality for 20 days.
Connection to the server
The players are responsible for ensuring a stable server connection. Frequent
or long lags (short disconnections) might be adjudicated by the tournament
director as a forfeit, or the player might be excluded from the tournament.
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