Registration has been closed (as per today Mar 29th) with 36 total participants.
We will play in Total 6 Rounds.
I will use An Accelerated pairing System, which is a variation of Swiss pairings in which the first two rounds are modified in such a way as to overcome the aforementioned weaknesses of the usual Swiss system, without compromising the reliability of the final rankings.
In usual Swiss tournaments with a wide range of playing strengths, the results of the first round(s) are usually quite predictable. In the first round, only a few percent of the games have a result other than "win to the stronger part". The same may happen again in round two.
While in the Accelerated method, the TD will do as follow:
Round 1:
Players are divided into four (roughly equally-sized) groups from highest ranking to lowest. Call them A1,A2,B1 and B2 from top to bottom. Group A1 plays Group A2 and Group B1 plays Group B2.
With normal pairings, A1 would be playing B1 and A2 would be playing B2. Thus the stronger players (in A1 and A2) will have tougher competition in the first round under accelerated pairings, the weaker players (B1 and B2) will have easier games. In effect, the first round pairings are more like typical second round pairings.
Round 2 - last round: back to usual Swiss.
To make it easier when negotiating date/time to play with your opponent (considering both sides might be at different continent), below I listed participants along with their location (that I found from what they wrote in their chess com profile).
1 @DHRUANSH (India)
2 @DreamLearnBe (Brazil)
3 @yxberra (Sweden)
4 @tan (Australia)
5 @TGUD (Sweden)
6 @Karpov1A (NY, USA)
7 @Pirate_1
8 @opto_007 (Canada)
9 @RookCrookRook (Florida, USA)
10 @fhunfi (Indonesia)
11 @Beach_lad (International)
12 @bshoot (NY, USA)
13 @geekvinod (USA)
14 @apples_and_oranges (UK)
15 @kpkrrish (India)
16 @garyTD (USA)
17 @jamesnyman (Austin, USA)
18 @StudentSteve (UK)
19 @davidthepawn (USA)
20 @buona_corona (Singapore)
21 @eight_x_eight (UK)
22 @nikos8109 (Athens)23 skiboi (USA)
24 @Withano (Illinois,USA)
25 @Slugman92 (Maryland,USA)
26 @mdgroof (Belgium)
27 @k-scope (UKS)
28 @gpetris (Arkansas,USA)
29 @manassasguy (Virginia,USA)
30 @greekindian (Athens)
31 @Power2Pawns (India)
32 @mongreltiger (USA)
33 @richardzt (Canada)
34 @RDW_24 (Ohio, USA)
35 @chavezo (USA)
36 @Proculus1 (Poland)
37 @ika52 (German)
Good website to calculate time conversion https://www.worldtimebuddy.com/
NOTE:
The 3rd cycle of Swiss Open 90m+30s (Total 5 Rounds) has ended successfully on Mar 28.
Report at Link: https://www.chess.com/clubs/forum/view/new-tourney-3rd-cycle-of-swiss-open-90m-30s-1-rd-every-2-weeks-start-on-jan-16
We have done 3 cycles so far, where each cycle is only getting better. The 3rd is best cycle so far.
I thank you all for the commitment and support. The number of withdraw / Forfeit game are very small, and you all are doing great in negotiating and scheduling the game with your opponent in promptly time. We have a small but solid community of Classical Time Control enthusiasts. I will try my best to conduct the regular tourneys continuously from time to time.
The next (4th) cycle of SWISS OPEN 90m+30s will start on Apr 01
Number of Rounds : 6
Rd-1 and Rd-2 will implement Accelerated Swiss.
Rd-3 till rest back to normal Swiss.
2 weeks span between a Round and next Round.
Schedule:
Round 1: Apr 01 - Apr 15
Round 2: Apr 16 - Apr 30
Round 3: May 01 - May 15
Round 4: May 16 - May 31
Round 5: Jun 01 - Jun 15
Round 6: Jun 16 - Jun 30
Date/time to play: considering the players are from various Continent, we will never use a fixed time, but instead: you will have 2 weeks time span, to negotiate with your opponent, to find the best time to play the game within that 2 weeks time span.
For anyone who's interested to join, please write your chess.com username in comment section (or you can also send me direct message via chess.com Inbox), then I will add you to the list of participants.
Registration will be closed on March 29th.
Best Regards,
Chien aka fhunfi