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Rapidplay Championships 2014

 

 
   

The 4NCL will be holding its fourth 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 2014-15.

 

Details are as follows:

 

1. The championships will take place on the weekend of 4-5 October 2014 at Daventry Court , a Hotel Collection venue.

 

2. The event is open to any team (Saturday) or individual (Sunday), 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. Both events will be submitted to the ECF for FIDE rapidplay rating and ECF rapidplay grading. Players in both events should be ECF members at Silver level or above. If they are not, a £6.00 charge per adult per day (£4.00 per junior per day) will apply to cover the ECF’s “pay to play” levy.

 

4. The entry fees are:

 

  • £30.00 per team (£50.00 for two teams, £60.00 for three teams) plus £6.00 “pay to play” fee per nominated player per day (£4.00 per nominated junior per day). The £6.00 per day (£4.00 junior per day) charge is waived for players with ECF membership at Silver level or above. This covers entry to both the team and the individual championships.

 

  • £15.00 per individual (£10.00 junior) plus £6.00 (£4.00 junior) “pay to play” fee. The £6.00 per day (£4.00 junior per day) charge is waived for players with ECF membership at Silver level or above. This covers entry for Sunday’s individual championship only.

 

5. Entry fees must be received by 20 September 2014.

 

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 (preferably) please 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.

 

 
   

6. The entry form at the end of this document should be emailed to Dave Thomas at  no later than 20 September 2014. Team lists should contain the following information for each player:

 

  • Full name

  • Date of birth (if not on ECF grading or membership lists)

  • Nationality (if not already FIDE rated)

  • ECF/Chess Scotland rapidplay grade

  • ECF/Chess Scotland/WCU standard grade

  • FIDE rapidplay rating

  • FIDE standardplay rating

  • FIDE code (if rated)

  • ECF grading code (if graded)

  • ECF membership number and level

  • Expiry date of ECF membership.

 

7. 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.

 

8. 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 rapidplay ratings (d) FIDE standard 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 following formulae: (a) adults: FIDE = (8 x ECF) + 600 (b) juniors: FIDE = (8 x ECF) + 550. 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.

 

9. The time limit will be 10 minutes +10 seconds per move.

 

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. It is a condition of entry that players agree to their grading information being published on the ECF website.

 

12. 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. lunch break)

Round 4: 1.00 pm

Round 5: 2.00 pm

Round 6: 3.00 pm

Round 7: 4.00 pm

 

13. There will be a guaranteed prize fund of £975, allocated as follows:

 

 

Team

Individual

First prize

£200

£100

Second prize

£150

£75

Third prize

£100

£50

Best score by team with average ECF/individual with ECF less than or equal to 175 (based on (a) in point 8 above, or (b)–(d)in point 8 above where (a) not available)

 

£100

£50

Best score by junior team/junior individual (under 18 on 1 September 2014)

£100

£50

 

Prizes will be paid by direct transfer within a week of the event on notification of the requisite bank account details to Mike Truran.

 

14. 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.

 

15. 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.

 

16. Please refer to the 4NCL website (“Hotels” link) 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.

 

17. For further details contact Mike Truran on .

 

1. Team entries

Team name:

..............................................

Team manager:

..............................................

Phone number:

..............................................

Email:

..............................................

 

Team members

 

(a)

(b)

(c)

(d)

(e)

(f)

(g)

(h)

(i)

(j)

(k)

1.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

3.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

4.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

5.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

6.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2. Individual entry (Sunday only):

 

(a)

(b)

(c)

(d)

(e)

(f)

(g)

(h)

(i)

(j)

(k)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Key:

 

(a) Full name

(b) Date of birth

(c) Nationality

(d) ECF/Chess Scotland rapidplay grade

(e) ECF/Chess Scotland/WCU standard grade

(f)  FIDE rapidplay rating

(g) FIDE standardplay rating

(h) FIDE code (if rated)

(i)  ECF grading code (if graded)

(j)  ECF membership number and level

(k) Expiry date of ECF membership

 

Team entry (£30 one team, £50 two teams, £60 three teams)

Fee per non-ECF Silver member (£6 per adult per day, £4 per junior per day)

Individual entry (£15 adult, £10 junior)

Fee per non-ECF Silver member (£6 adult, £4 junior)

Total entry fee enclosed

£…...……

 

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Teams Entered for 2014

A list of teams already entered for this year's event is here.

 

 

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