| Modbury Chess Club Burragah Recreation Centre 140 Kelly Road MODBURY SA 5092 Friday Nights at 7:30pm |
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| Modbury Chess Club Burragah Recreation Centre 140 Kelly Road MODBURY SA 5092 Friday Nights at 7:30pm |
Here are the definitions of what each tournament is, in alphabetic order.
For swiss tournaments, the club uses Vega to administrate each tournament and this program automatically decides pairings and colours. The swiss system does its best to match players with similar scores.
Round Robin tournaments are those tournaments where every player plays against every other player.
Quads are a tournament type, where players are ranked according to rating and divided up into groups of 4. They then play out a round robin within each set of 4.
Classic indicates that the time control will be 60 minutes plus an increment (long games).
This is the club's Annual General Meeting.
This meeting is kept as short as possible, usually around the half hour mark. Some other tournament will normally follow.
Rate of play: Either 3 minutes plus 2 seconds per move, or 5 minutes with no increment. The schedule should identify what the time control is.
The committe will determine if a round robin or swiss format is to be played, however wherever possible the round robin format will be preferred.
All games will be completed in one night.
Rate of play: 3 minutes plus 2 seconds per move.
The committe will determine if a round robin or swiss format is to be played, however wherever possible the round robin format will be preferred.
All games will be completed in one night.
Tied result will be decided by the Buchholz Tiebreak system in Vega.
Rate of Play: 60 minutes plus 10 seconds per move.
One game per night, held over 3 nights.
Rate of Play: 60 minutes plus 10 seconds per move.
One game per night, held over 3 nights.
Rate of play: 1 hour plus 30 seconds per move. 1 game per night.
The Club Championship is held each year. When determining the dates, we try to avoid scheduling a round on a long weekend or other significant events. Please check the schedule for the specific dates.
Rounds are scheduled consecutively, broken up by a "break week". This break is intended to help players schedule other things in that week instead of a championship round.
The tournament is typically a 9 round swiss, depending on the number of players. If there are 10 or fewer players, it can be played as a Round Robin.
The rounds are to be played on the scheduled night. If you cannot make it for any reason, you forfeit that round. Players cannot agree to play their round outside of the club because the games are rated and require an arbiter and a controlled environment.
The Club Champion will be requested to play everyone in a simulteneous match a few weeks after the Club Championship is completed. This is informal with no time limit.
Each executive member has one night where they alone get to choose what is played on their night.
It could be anything. What they choose goes!
If you want to have your choice, apply for a position in the club!
This is a chess variant. The pieces behind the pawns start off in random places, governed by some rules. The same arrangement applies to both sides. The staring position is usually determined on the night and the starting position can be reshuffled for each round.
The tournament committe will determine the number of rounds and rate of play based on the number of players.
A position is selected and players play from this position, which is themed to be after the opening has been completed.
There are three options of advising which position is to be played:
The tournament committee decides which position is used and when the position is announced.
The number of rounds and the time controls will be determined on the night, based upon how many people turn up.
An opening is selected and players play from a fixed starting point from that opening. The committee will determine which opening is to be played and at what move the play is to begin.
There are three options of advising which opening is to be played:
The tournament committee shall decide which option is used.
The number of rounds and the time controls will be determined on the night, based upon how many people turn up.
This is a friendly event. Players can simply play games with whoever they wish.
The tournament committe will only encourage people to mix it up a little to try to avoid playing the same player all night.
If the members on the night unanimously decide they want to play a blitz or rapid tournament, or something else, then that is what will be played.
The focus here is that the members choose what they want to play!
This type of tournament is rarely played.
Players are ranked according to ratings and then paired, so that as much as possible players of similar strength are playing against each other.
3 games played on the night:
The games are to be played in the order shown above, unless both players agree to a different order.
Players are to draw for colours in the first game and then alternate.
This is intended to be a learning experience with an experience player providing insight into some aspect of the game. The focus is on bringing in new insight to even the most experienced players in the club.
Friendly games for practice usually follow.
The tournament committe will determine the number of rounds and rate of play based on the number of players on the night.
Finances and availability of experienced players willing to teach may affect what happens on the night, up to and including changing the lecture to a standard tournament type.
I'm not tellin'. It's a secret.
The tournament committe may not even know!
If you have a suggestion for adding something to this mysterious night, please let us know!
Four separate competitions played over the four weeks of October. Each week an individual is awarded points based on their attendance (1 point) and performance (1st - 4 points, 2nd - 3 points, 3rd - 2 points, 4th - 1 point). Equal places will be awarded the same number of points (tiebreaks not applied). Final event placings will be determined by adding the points achieved by eack player for each week.
Week 1 - 20 minutes + 2 seconds increment, 3 rounds.
Week 2 - 15 minutes + 2 second increment, 4 rounds.
Week 3 - 10 minutes + 2 second increment, 6 rounds.
Week 4 - 3 minutes + 2 second increment, with the number of rounds being determined by the Director of Play based upon attendance, with a round robin preferred.
Rate of play: 25 minutes plus 10 seconds a move.
Depending on the number of players, it is played as either a Round Robin or a 6 round Swiss.
The aim is to play 2 rounds per night, but this is dependant upon the number of players.
6 Rounds played over 3 nights.
Rate of play: 20 minutes plus 10 seconds per move.
3 games on the night.
Depending upon the number of players, the division of players may not be 4 and the rate of play may be altered. For example if there were 10 players, there may be one group of 4 and one of 6. The group of 6 would have a faster rate of play.
A very popular format for play. There are several formats for this type of tournament:
Rate of play: 15 minutes plus 2 seconds per move.
4 Rounds played in the one night.
Rate of play: 10 minutes plus 2 seconds a move.
5 Rounds played in the one night.
Rate of play: 20 minutes plus 10 seconds a move.
6 Rounds played over two nights.
This is a simultaneous exhibition - one player (usually the newly appointed club champion) will play everyone at the same time.
No time controls are applied. This is an informal event and intended to be fun.
This is intended to be a learning experience with teaching beginners being the focus.
The content of what is being taught is at the discretion of the club member who is providing the content. It could be openings, tactics, middlegames, positional play, endgames or anything else the presenter chooses. Check the schedule for possible hints on what each workshop is likely to teach.
Any club member who is skilled in any given area of the game can present the material.