February Special Event

Mark your calendars for Saturday, February 27th.

This will be like the January event, with the exception it will be for rating only. This will be a manually ran event, utilizing the group forum and chat room in Live.

Time Control: 12|3
Rounds: 5
Sections: Open, U1400

Parings: Will be based on the most recent active (not published) USCF ratings, not chess.com. Ratings used will be in the following order (if you don't have a higher priority one, a  lower priority one will take precedence):

• Online Quick
• OTB Quick
• Online Blitz
• OTB Blitz
• Regular
• Unrated, Open section only, use Chess.com ratings for pairing (Standard, then blitz).

If you are completely unrated for the USCF, you will be placed in the Open, however, pairings will be done using your chess.com ratings, Live Standard if you have one, Live Blitz if not.

Pairings will be posted in a separate forum the day of the tourney.

Registration: Please pre-register with via the registration forum (https://www.chess.com/clubs/forum/view/february-27th-registration) by 11 AM Eastern, 8 AM Pacific on February 27th, to give me time to have all registered players placed in the paring software.

Rounds: I will try my best to hold to these times. Since this is the first time doing this, we may be a little off.

• Round 1:  9 AM Pacific, 12 PM Eastern
• Round 2:  9:50 AM Pacific, 12:50 PM Eastern
• Round 3:  10:40 AM Pacific, 1:40 PM Eastern
• Round 4:  11:30 AM Pacific, 2:30 PM Eastern
• Round 5:  12:20 PM Pacific, 3:20 PM Eastern

Byes: Other than, odd-player byes, One 1/2 point bye is available in any round if committed to in advance of the tourney (in the registration forum or via PM to me).  This will be for place purposes only and may not be reflected in the USCF crosstable.

Tie-breaks: We will use standard USCF tie-breaks for any ties, not the Chess.com standard Neustadtl score.

yay!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm so glad another tournament like this is happening. The first one was great.

I would attend, but i am going to Vietnam. Oh well, I will be there for the next one, I hope! 

P.S. For Round 5, one of your times, Pacific or Eastern is incorrect!

Joseph

I'm hoping I can do one in March. I think I have a weekend I can do it but we'll have to see.

As to the error, don't know what you are talking about

I remember someone mentioning that to me during the last tourney and I guess I forgot to fix it. So, when I did a copy/paste, I got to have it wrong again.

It is fixed now.

Thanks for the heads up.

wish i could join but i have a tournament on the 27th ):

Sign me up for the OPEN please

re: 

"Registration: Please pre-register with via the registration forum (https://www.chess.com/clubs/forum/view/february-27th-registration) by 11 AM Eastern, 8 AM Pacific on January 23rd, to give me time to have all registered players placed in the paring software."

I hope you meant February 23rd, right?

Yep, sorry. And the date was wrong too.  I did a copy/paste from the last event and missed that one. 

Thanks. 

So if I live in Texas, what time does it start where I am? Thanks!

If you are on Central time, you are an hour behind Eastern, and two hours ahead of Pacific.

OK. Thanks.

do we apply here?if so,i apply for open

There is a forum just for registering.