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Description: Phoenix Chess League Fast Vote Chess Season #1 is a 1 day per move Vote Chess tournament. Clubs will play in groups of 8, in a round robin format. If 8 clubs or less registered in this event, all clubs will be playing in the same group; if 9 are more clubs had registered in this event, we will divide all clubs in 2 or more divisions, by their strengths (Division a, Division b etc.). For more detailed information, check Match Parameters below. Rules: Matches will be played with a time control of 24h per move. All matches will be played by 'Rounds', with pairings between each club. All rounds' pairings will be published on Fridays starting from 9th of August, and will continue for 4 weeks (Check the calendar below for each round's starting date). At each round, two match will be started for each club. Either club in an match can send the challenge immediately after the pairings are issued for a period of 7 days. Matches need to be accepted latest 7 days after a challenge has been received. If none of both clubs sent the challenge in time, match will be counted as lost for BOTH clubs; if a club did not receive the challenge 3 days after its opponent had send the challenge, match will be counted as lost to the club, who did not accept the challenge. To ensure a correct assessment of challenges creation and matches acceptation in time, challenges and matches must be reported in this topic before the end of the challenging and acceptation periods. Requirements of joining: None Calendar of pairings publications: (DD/MM) Round 1: 09/08Round 2: 23/08Round 3: 06/09Round 4: 20/09 Registrations will close on the 8th of August; pairings of first round will be announced on the 9th of August. We will update results frequently, and once all matches are decided, we will announce the results and the winners. The results of Phoenix Chess League Fast Vote Chess Season #1 will determine the placements for Season #2. Good luck to all teams!

Registration is closed for Phoenix Chess League Slow Chess Season #1. Description: Phoenix Chess League Slow Chess Season #1 is a 7 day per move tournament. Clubs will play in groups of 8, in a round robin format. If 8 clubs or less registered in this event, all clubs will be playing in the same group; if 9 are more clubs had registered in this event, we will divide all clubs in 2 or more divisions, by their strengths (Division a, Division b etc.). For more detailed information, check Match Parameters below. Rules: Matches will be played with a open rating range and 5+ players. All matches will be played by 'Rounds', with pairings between each club. All rounds will start on Saturdays. For each round's starting date, please check the calendar below. Either club in an match can send the challenge, latest 12 days before the starting date. Matches need to be accepted latest 9 days before the starting date. If none of both clubs sent the challenge in time, match will be counted as lost to BOTH clubs; if a club did not receive the challenge 3 days after its opponent had send the challenge, match will be counted as lost to the club, who did not accept the challenge. Requirements of joining:  Please provide a reference match, that has at least 5 players joining. Calendar: (DD/MM) Round 1: 03/08Round 2: 17/08Round 3: 31/08Round 4: 14/09Round 5: 28/09Round 6: 12/10Round 7: 26/10 Registrations will close on 18th July; pairings will be announced on 19th July. We will update results frequently, and once winners are known in all matches, we will announce the results and the winners. The results of Phoenix Chess League Slow Chess Season #1 will determine the placements for Phoenix Chess League Slow Chess Season #2. Good luck to all teams!

Hello everyone, we want now to collect feedback on the current on-going tournaments to prepare the next ones. 1- We will open the registration for the Thematic Endgames soon, and for that the feedback on the Thematic Openings will be of interest. As of now we plan on keeping the same model, but we are open for comments on that. For instance, there's some questions: Can we keep the Open/U1400 divisions? Is 5+/3+ players making sense, should we increase? Is it useful at all? Is the current frequency (one round every two weeks, alternated) convenient? We had one topic for both, should we split it, or can we keep it like this? Note that for the endgames the games should converge faster. 2- We will be working on the next Vote Chess competition, right now we want to have at some point a VC 960, and a Thematic VC. Those will not be fast-pace. We are welcoming expression of interest for the one or the other, or both, to see which one to prepare first. 3- We just finished the challenging part of the Fast VC S1. There were few teams only, we will try to recruit more for the next season. We are interested in any feedback from the teams that already took part. Is the frequency ok (one double round every two weeks), for instance? Don't hesitate to provide any other comment or feedback that will help us improve the league.

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