Players Age 18 & below - BIG Tournament coming up!
Mechanics' Institute
presents
presents
The Pacific Regional Grade Level
Online Championship
Saturday, Nov 28 @ 9:30AM
5 rounds of G/25+5
US Chess Online Regular Rated Games
More information with list of registered players:
Register:
Format:
- 5 rounds of G/25+5: Game in 25 minutes with 5 second increment with every move
Sections:
- Kindergarten - Grade1
- Grade 2 - Grade 3
- Grade 4 - Grade 5
- Grade 6 - Grade 8 (Junior High)
- Grade 9 - Grade 12 (High School) -- on chess.com
Players are ordered in their sections based on OTB or ONL (whichever is the higher) November 2020 supplemental regular rating!
All games are played on ChessKid.com or on Chess.com.
Round Times:
Rounds are manually started at the pre-announced times:
Round 1 - 9:30AM PT
Round 2 - 11:00AM PT
Round 3 - 12:30PM PT
Round 4 - 2:00PM PT
Round 5 - 3:30PM PT
Estimated endtime: 5PM PT
Prizes:
Individual Prizes
Top 5 players for each grades in each sections:
Top 5 Kindergarteners & Top 5 Grade 1 in the K-Grade1 section.
Top 5 Grade 2 & Top 5 Grade 3 in the Grade 2-3 section.
Top 5 Grade 4 & Top 5 Grade 5 in the Grade 4-5 section.
Top 5 Grade 6, Top 5 Grade 7 & Top 5 Grade 8 in the Grade 6-8 section.
Top 3 Grade 9, Grade 10, Grade 11 and Grade 12 in the Grade 9-12 section.
Team prizes
Top 5 teams across all ES sections
Top 3 teams across all HS sections.
Entry Fee:
Mechanics' Institute members: $25
Non-members: $35 -- Student membership for the Mechanics' Institute is only $65 - Please consider joining here: www.milibrary.org/join and put Chess in your referred by.
Eligibility - Players must have:
- current US Chess Federation membership
- chesskid.com account that is part of Mechanics' Chess Group or chess.com (free account is perfectly sufficient)
General Tournament notes:
- pairing will be done manually using match command on chesskid.com or chess.com.
You'll need to be on https://www.chesskid.com/play/fastchess and wait for your game to pop up! or on chess.com/live.
- Games will be US Chess Online regular rated - tournament will be submitted 5-7 days after the tournament to allow all games to be screened for fair play.
- BYE: byes are allowed and possible! if you can't make one or more rounds, simply ask for a half point bye in advance! Round 5 byes must be requested before the start of the tournament. Byes for Round 1-4 must be requested 30 minutes before round start.
