{"id":296,"date":"2020-02-02T15:47:53","date_gmt":"2020-02-02T15:47:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/albertachess.wordpress.com\/?page_id=296"},"modified":"2020-02-03T01:44:00","modified_gmt":"2020-02-03T01:44:00","slug":"2020-edmonton-youth-chess-championship-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.albertachess.org\/home\/2022-schedule-2\/2020-edmonton-youth-chess-championship-2\/","title":{"rendered":"2020 Edmonton Youth Chess Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Sponsored by the Alberta Chess Association and the Edmonton Chess Club<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Date: <\/strong>Saturday, February 22, 2020
Venue: <\/strong>Edmonton Chess Club
Address: <\/strong>#204 10840 124 Street, Edmonton (780)424-0283
Organizers:<\/strong> Cristian Ivanescu
Email: <\/strong>cristian.ivanescu@yahoo.ca
Tournament Directors:<\/strong> Richard Pua<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sections<\/strong>
U-8   (Born after Jan 1, 2012)   U-12 (Born after Jan 1, 2008)   U-16 (Born after Jan 1, 2004)
U-10 (Born after Jan 1, 2010)   U-14 (Born after Jan 1, 2006)   U-18 (Born after Jan 1, 2002) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Registration Form:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

Submit a form.<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n

Registration<\/strong>
Fill out the registration form above. Payment will be made on site by cash. Pre-registered players must show up by 9:45 am or they won\u2019t be paired.
Maximum capacity is 60 total participants. Players registering beyond that will be wait listed and only able to play in the event of no-shows.<\/em><\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tournament Format<\/strong>
The exact format of each section will depend on the number of participants but players should expect to play 4 games.
Time control: <\/strong> Game in 25 minutes with a 5-second increment. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Entry fee: <\/strong>$25 if pre-registered online by 10 PM, Thursday, February 20, $35 afterwards and on site. CFC rated. ACA junior membership required. <\/p>\n\n\n\n


Byes:\u00a0<\/strong>Up to two half-point byes in rounds 1-3 if requested prior to start of round 1

Approximate Schedule<\/strong>
On-Site Registration: 9:15 am \u2013 9:45 am
Rounds 1 and 2: 10:00 am \u2013 11:30 pm\u00a0
Lunch break: 11:30 am \u2013 12:00 pm
Rounds 3 and 4: 12:00 pm \u2013 1:30 pm
Tie-breaks (if necessary) and awards: immediately after the completion of the last round <\/p>\n\n\n\n


Prizes in each section<\/strong>
1st place: Free entry to the 2020 Alberta Youth Chess Championship (held on Apr 18-19 in Edmonton)
2nd place: Free entry to the 2020 Alberta Youth Championship
Top Girl \u2013 Medal.
Medals for top finishers! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tie-break procedure<\/strong>:
In case two or more players are tied for first place, the following tie-break procedure will apply:
1) Head to head result.  This will only apply if all the players in a tied group played each other.
2) Tie-break match. If two players are tied, they will play a two-game match with the time control of Game\/10
minutes + 5 seconds per move.
If more than two players are tied, they will play a round-robin tournament with the same time controls. If the tie is
still not broken, the procedure will be repeated; however, the time control will be:
Game\/3 minutes + 2 seconds\/move time control. 
Tie-breaks for all other places will be determined by the following criteria:
If Swiss system pairing system is used:
a) Buchholz (total scores of opponents)
b) Sonnenborn-Berger (total scores of opponents beaten plus half the scores of opponents drawn)
c) Most wins
d)Most games with the black pieces.
If the tournament is played in a Round-Robin format:
a)Sonnenborn-Berger (total scores of opponents beaten plus half the scores of opponents drawn).
b) Koya System (Only counting the scores of opponents who scored 50% or more).
c) Most wins
d)Most games with the black pieces. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sponsored by the Alberta Chess Association and the Edmonton Chess Club Date: Saturday, February 22, 2020Venue: Edmonton Chess ClubAddress: #204 10840 124 Street, Edmonton (780)424-0283Organizers: Cristian IvanescuEmail: cristian.ivanescu@yahoo.caTournament Directors: Richard Pua Sections U-8   (Born after Jan 1, 2012)   U-12 (Born after Jan 1, 2008)   U-16 (Born after Jan 1, 2004)U-10 (Born after Jan 1, 2010)   U-14 (Born after Jan 1, 2006)  … Continue Reading →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":34,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-296","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","clear"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.albertachess.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.albertachess.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.albertachess.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.albertachess.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.albertachess.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.albertachess.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1811,"href":"http:\/\/www.albertachess.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/296\/revisions\/1811"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.albertachess.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/34"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.albertachess.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}