Registration has been closed (as per today Jan 12th), as we have reached the magical perfect number (32) of total participants.
We will play in Total 5 Rounds.
LIST of Participants
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:
Winners from A1 versus A2 play each other.
Non-winners from A1 vs A2 play winners from B1 vs B2.
Non-winners from B1 vs B2 are paired normally (draws play draws, losers play losers).
Accelerated pairings work to reduce the number of perfect scores faster than normal pairings if the non-winners from A1-A2 win most of their games against the B1-B2 winners.
Round 3 - last round: back to usual Swiss
Link for reading reference (refer to Standard Accelerated paragraph):
http://www.metrowestchess.org/community/Knowledge/pairing/pairing_wintd_accelerated_pairings.htm
The 2nd cycle of Swiss Open 90m+30s (Total 5 Rounds) has ended successfully on Dec 31 (Report's link https://www.chess.com/clubs/forum/view/2nd-cycle-of-swiss-open-90m-30s-1-rd-every-2-weeks-start-on-oct-16-new-tourney
The next (3rd) cycle of SWISS OPEN 90m+30s will start on Jan 16
Number of Rounds: 5
2 weeks span between a Round and next Round.
Schedule:
Round 1: Jan 16 - Jan 31
Round 2: Feb 01- Feb 15
Round 3: Feb16- Feb 28
Round 4: Mar 01 - Mar 15
Round 5: Mar 16 - Mar 31
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.
Kind Regards,
Chien aka fhunfi