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Rapidplay 2011
2011 Rapidplay, De Vere Harben House
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4NCL Rapidplay Championships 15th-16th
October 2011 - Entry Guidelines
The 4NCL will be holding its second team
and individual rapidplay championships for
which entries are invited from all
interested teams and players.
Winners will hold the title of 4NCL Team and
Individual Rapidplay Champion respectively for
2011/2012.
Details are as follows:
1. The championships will take place on the
weekend of 15th-16th October 2011 at Harben
House, a De Vere venue. More details on the
venue can be found
here.
2. The tournament is open to any team,
whether or not a participant in the 4NCL itself.
As with the 4NCL, teams can be existing clubs,
new clubs, groups of friends etc.
3. The entry fees are:
£60.00 per team (to cover entry
to both team and individual championships)
£15.00 per individual (wishing to
play just on Sunday’s individual
championship)
Entry fees must be received by 30 September
2011. A £10.00 team/£2.50 individual discount
may be claimed if entry fees are received by 30
June 2011.
Please
send entry fee cheques made payable
to the 4NCL to:
Mike
Truran,
The Old Farmhouse,
7 Church Street, Ducklington,
Witney, Oxon OX29 7UA
or make a BACS transfer account to the 4NCL
bank account (for bank account details, please
contact Mike Truran). If paying by BACS
transfer, please include sufficient accompanying
narrative to allow the payment to be identified.
Entries will be accepted on a “first come
first served” basis.
4. Each match in the team championships will
comprise four players per team. A team may
nominate up to six players for the weekend.
Combined squad rule 2.1 of the current 4NCL
rules will NOT apply, so no nominated player may
play for more than one team over the weekend.
5. Team board order will be determined on the
following basis: (a) ECF or Chess Scotland
rapidplay grades (b) ECF, Chess Scotland or
Welsh Chess Union standard grades (c) FIDE
ratings. Chess Scotland and Welsh Chess Union
grades will be converted to ECF equivalent
grades using the formula Chess Scotland/Welsh
Chess Union grade - 180 divided by 10, and FIDE
ratings will be converted to ECF equivalent
grades using the formula FIDE rating - 650
divided by 8. Where there is a difference of
more than 10 ECF grading points between two
players in the same team, the higher rated
player must play on a higher board than the
lower rated player.
6. Team
lists incl. FIDE ratings/ECF grades
should be sent to:
Neville Belinfante,
10 Ostlers Court, Old Coach
Drive,
High Wycombe, Bucks HP11 1AR
or by email to
no later than 30 September 2011. ECF membership
is not required.
7. The time limit will be 10 minutes + 10
seconds per move.
8. The championships will consist of 7 rounds
on the Saturday (team championships) and 7
rounds on the Sunday (individual championships).
The schedule for the two days will be as
follows:
Saturday:
Round 1: 1.00 pm
Round 2: 2.00 pm
Round 3: 3.00 pm
Round 4: 4.00 pm
Round 5: 5.00 pm
Round 6: 6.00 pm
Round 7: 7.00 pm
Sunday:
Round 1: 9.30 am
Round 2: 10.30 am
Round 3: 11.30 am (incl. half hour lunch
break)
Round 4: 1.00 pm
Round 5: 2.00 pm
Round 6: 3.00 pm
Round 7: 4.00 pm
Prize-giving: 5.00 pm.
9. There will be a prize fund of £2,000,
allocated as follows:
Team
Individual
First
prize
£400
£240
Second
prize
£300
£180
Third
prize
£200
£120
Best
performance by team with average
ECF/individual with ECF less than or
equal to 175 (based on (a) in point 5
above, or (b)–(c) in point 5 above where
(a) not available)
£175
£105
Best performance by junior
team/junior individual (under 18 on 1
September 2011)
£175
£105
Placings will be decided on the following
basis:
Team championships: Total game points,
with ties being broken in the following
sequence: (a) total match points (b) sum of
opponents’ game points (c) sum of opponents’
match points (d) coin toss.
Individual championships: Total number
of points, with ties being broken in the
following sequence: (a) sum of progressive
scores (b) sum of opponents’ scores (c) coin
toss.
10. The tournament will be run under FIDE
rapidplay rules unless otherwise specified in
these entry guidelines and/or as announced by
the arbiters before start of play.
11. The event will be registered with the ECF
Game Fee Scheme and all games will be included
in the ECF rapidplay gradings. It is a condition
of entry that players agree to their grading
information being published on the ECF website.
12. Mobile phones and other electronic means
of communication should be switched off during
play. Should any such device make a sound during
play, the arbiters will issue a warning to the
player concerned to switch it off. Should the
player’s device make any further sound at any
time during play over the weekend the player
will lose the game during which the sound is
made.
13. Please refer to the 4NCL website
Hotels page for further
details on bedroom rates and how to book
bedrooms. We recommend that you book rooms early
on the basis that any unbooked rooms from our
allocation will be released by the venue some
weeks beforehand.
14. For further details email
or phone Mike Truran on 01993 708645.
