PCL Thematic Openings S2

Registration is closed for the Phoenix Chess League Thematic Openings Season #2.

Description:

The Phoenix Chess League Thematic Openings Season #2 is a 3 day per move tournament. Clubs will play in groups of up to 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 groups, attempting to sort them by their strengths (Group A, Group B etc.). For more detailed information, check Match Parameters below.

Rules:

For the first season, the competition will be divided in two sections: open rating/5+players and U1400/3+ players.

All matches will be played by 'Rounds', with pairings between each club. At each round a different pre-set position extracted from the Opening Book positions will be used. All rounds will start on Saturdays, from 19th of April for U1400 and 26th of April for Open, and will continue for up to 7 rounds with four weeks between each (check the program below for each round's starting date).

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 accept 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.

As a general rule, common sense and best effort will be used. The content will be, when possible, chosen over the form and the effort will be going towards starting as many matches as possible rather than having forfeits for purely technical reasons.

Requirements of joining: 

For teams that didn't participate yet in a daily competition of the Phoenix Chess League, please provide a reference match, that has at least 3 (for U1400) or 5 (open) players.

Program (DD/MM/YYYY):

Registrations will close on 23rd of March, groups will be announced on the 25th of March and will be open for discussion until the 27th of March.

Groups will be created based on the results from the first season and the evaluated strength of new teams if any, with Group A being the strongest.

We will update results frequently, and once all matches are adjudicated, we will announce the results and the winners.

Good luck to all teams!

Match Parameters:

Match Name: PCL Thematic Openings S2 [U1400|Open] G☐ R☐: [Team A] vs [Team B] (blank checkboxes are to be filled in by round number, and group number if any.)

Quick Description: Choice of the club who is sending the challenge.

Game Type: Book Opening: check pairings

Days per Move: 3

Start Date: Check the Calendar above, or will be mentioned in pairings.

Start Time: Equivalent to 08:00 UTC, to be set up in your own time zone

Rating Range: Leave blank for minimum rating, leave maximum rating blank for open category and set to 1400 for U1400

Players Per Club: Minimum: 3 for U1400, 5 for open, Maximum: leave blank.

Concurrent Games per Player: 2

Rated: Yes

Autostart: Yes or No (irrelevant)

Minimum Games: 10

Registered teams:

Preliminary grouping:

OPEN:

U1400:

[reserved for results]

Pairings (pending publication):

Open:

1. https://www.chess.com/announcements/view/pairings-for-pcl-thematic-openings-s2-open-r1

U1400:

1. https://www.chess.com/announcements/view/pairings-for-pcl-thematic-openings-s2-u1400-r1
2. https://www.chess.com/announcements/view/pairings-for-pcl-thematic-openings-s2-u1400-r2

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Note 1: we are open to remarks regarding the chosen list of openings. We chose gambits for this season.

Note 2: unlike season 1 where only 2 weeks were separating each round, we are now having 4 weeks between each round.

Promote to King registers in both.

Beautiful Romania

https://www.chess.com/club/beautiful-romania

For both competitions.

Chess Champ https://www.chess.com/club/chess-champ U1400, Open

TCoC https://www.chess.com/club/the-cheetahs-of-chess-tcoc Open

Variants are the best https://www.chess.com/club/variants-are-the-best Open

ANT https://www.chess.com/club/america-national-team-ant Open

https://www.chess.com/club/a-r-c Open

https://www.chess.com/club/the-checkmate-collective  Open

https://www.chess.com/club/spartan-warriors Open

Thanks

Discovery One https://www.chess.com/club/discovery-one

Fortaleza Chess

Open

https://www.chess.com/club/fortaleza-chess

Please add Users Legends Club to the U1400 event. Thanks 👍 🏅 

https://www.chess.com/club/users-legends-club

Open, U1400 or both?

Chess Tanzania would like to register for U1400.

https://www.chess.com/club/chess-tanzania

Bad Players Club would like to enter both sections.

https://www.chess.com/club/bad-players-club

Africa Chess Group would like to enter both sections.

https://www.chess.com/club/africa-chess-group

https://www.chess.com/club/empire-bg imperia bg wants to participate in both games. please

Please register for both

U1400 and Open

Greek Arena

https://www.chess.com/club/greek-arena

Discovery One https://www.chess.com/club/discovery-one
Open and U1400

The Ge-Winner registers for both.

https://www.chess.com/club/the-ge-winner

Plese register Chess Team Europe in both sections. Thank you very much.

https://www.chess.com/club/chess-team-europe

- King Of The Hill Team - for both

https://www.chess.com/club/king-of-the-hill-team-1

- International Chess Friends - for U1400

https://www.chess.com/club/international-chess-friends-2

Knights of the Realm, would like to participate in the U1400.

https://www.chess.com/club/knights-of-the-realm