Regulations of the Archibaldchess Blitz Cup

Regulations of the Archibaldchess Blitz Cup:

1. Organizers:
"Archibaldchess" Ltd. (organized 5 live tournaments with total
prize fund 150000 Euro for the past year)  provides the guaranteed payment of the prize fund to the winners.

2. Playing zone:
"Chess.com", Club "Archibaldchess" (a player needs to join this club to follow the news and additional information regarding the tournament) https://www.chess.com/club/archibaldchess
At the time mentioned in the "Schedule" (see below) a player must 1) log in the Chess.com, 2) find the tournament with the name "Archibaldchess Blitz Cup" in the list of tournaments and 3) join it (better do it beforehand otherwise You risk to miss the last train - the game will start automatically.

3. Tournament:
8 weekly (regular) and 1 final tournament, time control - 3+0,
9 rounds, Swiss system.

4. Who can play:
- Players with current classic Elo rating under 2500, who
register in our facebook page https://www.facebook.com/Archibaldchess  and make a
repost of each regular and a final event on their facebook page.
- Players need to have their real names open (e.g., Ivan_Ivanov, John_Smith) in the account and have at least 50+ games played with 3+0 time control, otherwise he/she will be considered suspicious for cheating. The spelling of the player's name should match his/her name in the FIDE rating list.
- To play in the final tournament  and get a prize You need to play at least 6 regulars and complete all the abovementioned demands of the organizers.

5. Entry fee:
Free to all players with the required abovementioned criteria.

6. Prizes:
The prize fund of the 8 regulars is 200$, which is distributed as follows:
1. 50$
2. 40$
3. 25$
4. 20$
5. 15$
6. 10$
7. 10$
8. 10$
9. 10$
10. 10$

The prizes of the final tournament are doubled, as compared to the regular ( 1st - 100$, 2nd - 80$ and so on to the 10th - 20$).

All the payments for the prize-winners who fulfilled the demands for participation and out of cheating reports will be made directly after the final tournament to the their accounts (bank account, virtual money account).

7. Anticheating measures:
There will be created an appealing committee (further - "AC") in the face of:
GM Sergey Beshukov (RUS) - head of the "Archibaldchess"
GM Kirill Bryzgalin (RUS) - manager of the "Archibaldchess"
IM Sergiy Zavgorodniy (UKR) - coordinator of the Archibaldchess blitz Cup.

The "AC" will review the cases of unfair play and cheating. The "AC" leaves itself a right to ban a player found guilty with cheating and in case he/she takes a prize to give it to the next person according to the final table.

8. Schedule of tournament:
All the tournaments will start at 19:00 p.m. (+2 GMT)
1. 2nd February
2. 9th February
3. 16th February
4. 23rd February
5. 2nd March
6. 9th March
7. 16th March
8. 23rd March
9. 30th March (Final)

9. Pairings and final standings

are made and defined automatically by the "Chess.com".

Здравствуйте!Дело в том,что завожу страницу на фейсбуке,  специально для этих турниров, а проверка личности для создания  страницы на фейсбуке может занимать около месяц.Можно  ли будет участвовать в этих турнирах если фэйсбук не проверит мои данные к началу турниров? Фамилия ,имя  и Fide ID у меня на чесскоме реальные.

@K010mbo - Добрый день!

Да, присоединяйтесь. Серия турниров будет длиться чуть более 2 месяцев.

FB-страница нужна в первую очередь для оперативной коммуникации.

Can I know the strength of this tournament please? Will there be any IMs or GMs coming to play? Thanks, you guys are doing a great job!

How long do you expect the tournament to go on? And does 19:00 (+2 GMT) mean 22:30pm IST? Can you please confirm.

Hello, @vinniethepooh!

• Regarding time, you are right:

• Regarding duration:

There are 9 rounds, time control is 3+0

Next round starts immediately after finishing the last game of the round

So 9 rounds  х 6 minutes (plus 10 second pause) = 1 hour

• Regarding strength:

You can see in upper right corner a list of our members.

I believe most of them will participate.

There are a couple of GMs, lots of IMs, FMs, CMs

But we have an upper limit of FIDE rating <2500

Let`s play our first tournament of Saturday, 02/02/19 - and then we could see it for sure.

@vinniethepooh (Aditya Mittal)

Regarding real name issue

We are proud to see a famous Indian billionaire among us

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aditya_Mittal

But I have to notify, that players without real names (ideally confirmed by link to FB-page)

will be regarded as potential cheaters and deleted from the group by admins

Hey, not sure what you mean, first of all, my name is real- Aditya Mittal (January FIDE rating 2251) and I am chess player and not the famous Indian billionaire you are referring to....

OK, I see - https://ratings.fide.com/card.phtml?event=35042025

Please, accept my excuses! 

No problem!

Can you explain me what about the FB thing? First, we should register to your facebook page, right? and then repost what?

OK, there are a lot of questions regarding Facebook issue. We will make a special explanation soon!

Please give me the link once you do, in case I miss it.

The link to the tournament is in the clubs news and the link to facebook is in the Regulations.

Hi, my real name is Emin Ohanyan (it is the same in the FIDE rating list), but my chess.com account is OhanyanEmin3000, is it OK? 

@OhanyanEmin3000 - no problem!

Regarding real name issue, let me show you an example:

1. This profile is OK

2. That one - unfortunately, are not

Привет! а какие условия, кроме рейтинга до 2500 фиде, чтобы участвовать в турнире?

Привіт, Орест!

Приєднуйся до групи через ФБ -https://www.facebook.com/Archibaldchess - 

і вперед за призами!

Спасибо, Александр!