I Internet Chess Tournament
I HOW TO PARTICIPATE
Inscription
is free. The tournament will be played at the Internet Chess Club (ICC),
Internet’s
virtual chess club. a)
Free membership in ICC
If
you are not a member, you must join ICC to be able to participate. ICC is not a
free Club, but as a promotional offer provides a free one month membership to
the participants of the Ist Internet Chess Tournament "Ciudad de Dos
Hermanas"
who are not members of ICC. When
the month expires, you can either pay the ICC fee (and definitely become
a full ICC member) or not, in which case you will stop being a part-time member,
without any cost for you. The
procedure to become a member of ICC
is simple, and only requires a few minutes. To play at the ICC, a special
software is required (Blitzin 2.26);
to obtain it, go to the following link and carry out the instructions: http://www.chessclub.com (in
English) Once
you have downloaded and installed the software, you must register yourself in
ICC, carrying out the instructions that you will find in the program. We
recommend that you familiarize yourself with the ICC environment. For instance,
you should play a few friendly games before the tournament, in which you can
train yourself and at the same time get used to the ICC platform. b)
Inscriptions
Once
you have become an ICC member, you must fill in the registration form at the
official tournament page: http://www.doshermanas.net
; you will then receive an e-mail confirming your inscription. The
inscription deadline ends 24 hours before the start of each tournament.
Players can participate in any of the various classification tournaments as long
as the player makes his inscription in each of the tournaments. The players that
qualify for the final will not be able to play any more classification
tournaments. Once
you have made your inscription, you must confirm your participation in the
tournament a few minutes before it starts, writing in channel 227 "tell
pear players".
If your name appears in the list, everything is OK! For instructions
about the ICC tournament system, write "help
tomato". c)
Notes
The
Direction of the Tournament reserves the right of admitting participants in the
tournament. The
Organization reserves the right of changing the format of the tournament. II TOURNAMENT SCHEDULE
a)
Dates
The
tournament will be played from the 11th to the 19th of March 2000. b)
Time-table
From
the 11th to the 16th of March, qualification tournaments will be held using the
Swiss System; two tournaments will be played each day, from 20:00 to
23:00 (time-table for Europe) and from 02:00 to 05:00 (of the next
day) Spanish hour (GMT +1) (time-table for America). In each time
schedule, a tournament shall be played. The
finals will be played on Saturday, 18th of March (20.00 hours Spanish time) and
on Sunday, 19th of March (18.00 Spanish time), using the K.O. system. c) Tournament
table
III PLAYING SYSTEM
a) Tournament
system:
In
the qualifying stages, a seven (7) round Swiss system will be used. The final
will be a K.O. between the 32 qualifiers b) Game
rate:
The
playing rate will be 5/5
“Fischer System” (five minutes per game plus five seconds extra time
for each move played). In the Final stages, using K.O. system,
"mini-matches" of two games will be played (also using 5/5
“Fischer System”), and if a tie occurs, a third game will be played:
White with five minutes and Black with four minutes, without time increments,
with White obliged to win (“Sudden Death”). c) Tournament
development:
Twelve
Swiss tournaments are played in six days: after that a free day, and then at the
weekend the Finals are played, with the 12 winners of the Swiss qualifying
tournaments, and the 20 best players (non-winners). To decide these 20 places,
the following tie-breaks will be used: They
will be given to the players with the best score in a tournament,
In
case of a tie in the K.O. (those players eliminated in the KO who may obtain a
smaller prize), the same tie-break shall be used:
IV PRIZES
1º
1.000 Euros + special prize The special prize consists in participating in the
International Open “Dos Hermanas (Seville)” which will take place from the
7th to the 15th of April 2000, with free accommodation in the four star Hotel
“La Motilla (****) and free inscription. To obtain the full prize the
participation in the Open is compulsory. In the case that any of the first four
players cannot assist to the tournament, then they shall receive 50% of there
prize in cash (500,250,100 and 100 Euros respectively).
Note:
(1 Euro=166,386 pesetas; One year subscription to ICC aprox.= 8000 pesetas.) V TECHNICALITIES
a) Game
rules
In
general terms the valid rules of ICC will be used. The
game won: -
The game is won by the player who check-mates
his opponent using a legal move. This finishes the game immediately. -
The game is won by the player who’s opponent
resigns. In the interface of each player there will be an option that allows a
player to resign a game. -
The game will be lost by the player who has used
up all his time allowed for the game (loss by time), unless the game finishes
before by any other way, except in the case of point 5 of "The game drawn: lack
of material to win ". The
game drawn: -
By
mutual agreement by the players during the game.
In the interface of each player there will be an option that allows a player to
propose a draw. The requester must use this option before making a move, and
afterwards play his move. The opponent, in his interface, will have the option
to accept or reject the draw proposal. -
By
stalemate. When a player, in his turn, is not in check,
but doesn’t have any legal move to play, he is in stalemate. The stalemate
position is automatically detected by the interface.. -
By
a triple repetition of the same position.
When the same position is repeated for the third time (not necessarily
consecutively), with the same player playing and with the same moves being
possible to make (including castling and the en passant rule). The triple
repetition of the position is detected by the interface but is not automatically
decreed. You must write “draw” to ask for a draw. -
By
the 50 move rule: When 50 moves have been
played by each player without any pawn movement or piece capture. The 50 move
rule is determined but not automatically decreed by the interface. You must
write “draw” to ask for a draw. -
By
lack of material to win: When a player has used up
all his time (loss by time) but his opponent doesn’t have enough material to
win (when he can’t checkmate with any possible series of legal moves). A draw
by lack of material can also be decreed when, with enough material for each
player, checkmate can’t be achieved with any
possible series of legal moves, without awaiting the flag to fall. Lack
of material is determined and decreed automatically by the interface. b) Players
behaviour
The
best ethic and sportive behaviour is expected from the players. Reprehensible,
and therefore penalized conducts, are: 1.
Use
of computer programs: The playing interface has
adequate control mechanisms to detect the use of computer programs. If any of
ICC managers suspect (no specific proof is necessary) that a player is using a
computer program, then he is liable
to be banned from all future USCF (United States Chess Federation) events in
ICC, and can even lose his ICC membership. Read "help USCF barred" to
see the nicknames of all the players who have been banned from al future USCF
events in ICC because of computer program use. 2.
Assistance from other players:
No help from other chess players during the game is allowed: it is also
forbidden for other players to play in your name with your own account. Any
violation of these rules will mean expulsion from ICC. 3.
Non-sporting behaviour: The use of bad language messages (insults, etc…) in the Chat will be penalized. 4.
Messages in the Chat are
registered, which means that if your opponent claims, ICC managers can impose
penalizations which can include the loss of the game or even the expulsion from
the tournament. 5.
Withdrawal or unjustified absence: A player that, under ICC managers criteria, withdraws from a tournament affecting adversely third parties, can be
expelled from the following tournaments.. c) Technical
notes
This
section is very important: the correct development of the tournament depends on
it. Obviously not everyone has the same type and quality of Internet connection.
Because of that, if a user has a disconnection because of technical reasons, the
system will wait a pre-established time (5 minutes in normal circumstances) as a
security margin. If the user reconnects before the this time ends, the game will
continue from the same position as the one when the technical incident occurred.
If the user doesn’t reconnect, he will automatically lose the game. If this
happens 2 times during the tournament, the rules concerning withdrawal from the
tournament will be applied. In any case, it is categorically forbidden to
interrupt the connection with the object of using the time interval to analyse
the position. If this occurs, the player will lose the game. d) Technical
Direction and Competition Committee
The
Arbiter and Technical Director of the event will be Mr. John Fernandez, or the
person appointed by ICC to the same effect. The Competition Committee will be
composed by the persons appointed by ICC and EDAMI (Miguel Illescas’s Chess
School). Their decisions will not be open to appeal. For any other questions not
contemplated in these rules the general rules of the FIDE, the ICC rules and the
criteria of the Directots of the tournament will be used.
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