Basic members are allowed to register in one member-created tournament at a time.
Either through a bug or design, a basic member can register in another member-created tournament if between rounds of a tournament. Given the possible long periods between completing all their games and the completion of the last game of a round, a basic member might even be in more than two member-created tournaments at the same time.
This is not such a big exploit for Gold members since most people are not able to keep up with more than 10 tournaments. Of course this does not impact Diamond nor Platinum members.
Note: When a premium member does not renew their premium membership, they are not removed from tournaments.
Tournament Points awarded to tied players- Added 2012 01 29
When two players tie for first, the expectation would be they each receive a share of half of (first place plus second place) points.
List of known bugs:
Decreasing maximum size after round one - See 2 - Group size
There is a bug that resets the max group size for the current round of a tournament to the largest group in the prior round.
http://www.chess.com/tournaments/pairings.html?id=30495&round=3
The nominal size set by the Tournament Director was six.
The largest group in round 2 was five.
Six players advanced to round 3.
There should be a group of six players, instead there are two groups of three players.
Account closed: Who gets the medal? - See 4 - Advance per Group
There is a bug in awarding medals. The site attempts to bypass the closed account.
Display of pairings indicates second place gets gold http://www.chess.com/tournaments/pairings.html?id=28579&round=1
Actual result: Removed player gets gold http://www.chess.com/tournament/the-prestige-tournamant-2011
Maximum number of member tournaments allowed - See 18 - This is an Invite Only tournament
Basic members are allowed to register in one member-created tournament at a time.
Either through a bug or design, a basic member can register in another member-created tournament if between rounds of a tournament. Given the possible long periods between completing all their games and the completion of the last game of a round, a basic member might even be in more than two member-created tournaments at the same time.
This is not such a big exploit for Gold members since most people are not able to keep up with more than 10 tournaments. Of course this does not impact Diamond nor Platinum members.
Note: When a premium member does not renew their premium membership, they are not removed from tournaments.
Tournament Points awarded to tied players - Added 2012 01 29
When two players tie for first, the expectation would be they each receive a share of half of (first place plus second place) points.
Instead they both receive first place points.
http://www.chess.com/tournament/14th-chesscom-quick-knockouts-2001-2200
- First place is worth 198. Second place is worth 99.
- Each of the two players tied for first received 198 points.
Here three players tied for first and received 3 * 200 = 600 points of the 400 available.
http://www.chess.com/tournament/gruenfeld-defence
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