Tournament Schedule
Saturday, November 14 @ 12:00 USA ET (New-York Time);
Saturday, November 21 @ 12:00 USA ET (New-York Time);
Saturday, November 28 @ 12:00 USA ET (New-York Time);
Saturday, December 5 @ 12:00 USA ET (New-York Time);
Saturday, December 12 @ 12:00 USA ET (New-York Time);
May I join the tournament? It will be 8 pm in my time zone, so it's quite convenient for me. The only problem is that I'm from the Eastern hemysphere :)
@ thd3 -- Forget about Eastern / Western. I had to give this a name.
What counts is for you to play at a resonnable time.
12 PM?
Is there still a qualification tourney for newbies?
no more 90/30 tournaments for now?
Ok count me in
@ Tarkan -- There will be some 90|30 tournaments. They will be played on Sunday. Saturday will be 45|45, while 90|30 will be Sunday.
@ EricF1970 -- No. And there's no need with a fixed time tournament.
I'm a bit confused about the 12.00 pm thing, but if in Russia it's 8 pm in Italia should be 6. Great idea, I'm in.
I think that this is a great idea. Thanks for all of the hard work zugzwang67!
great!
Yes, thanks Sylvain for your great work, for me is very important, I live in an Island and very little of people plays chess. Slow chess almost nobody
Perhaps it would be better to run 3 turnaments around the globe with 8 hour offset between them instead of 2 tournaments with 12?
Running this at 5:00 AM UTC excludes most of the EMEA region (me included).
With 3 tournaments, the second (EMEA) could be run at 12:00 PM/UTC+3 and the third one (APIC) at 12:00 PM/UTC+11.
I think we would get a much higher number of participants this way.
@ nobody0wens -- Probably. However, splitting in 3 would require from me to make some instant pairings @ ± 3:00 USA ET, something that I could not manage. And having some «local» help is complicated. Look at how this works. The players check-in and the TD pair them within 10 minutes. Thirty seven hours after this group was created, I'm looking at the possible number of participants for this particular tournament and I see... 44! Obviously, the TD will need a software that handles SWISS pairings, which I have, as I also organize OTB for kids. But I can't ask anyone to buy a 150$ device just to volunteerly do some work here. So my issue remains: I'm still the only guy who has time and tools to run this.
Questions:
Thanks for organizing this!
All games to be played on Saturday @ 5:00PM UTC = 12:00PM USA ET. The players need to check-in for each round they wish to play. This must be accomplished by showing up in the tournament chat room in LIVE chess @ 4:35PM UTC = 11:35AM USA ET and posting a comment. Then the game may start anytime between 4:50PM UTC & 5:00PM UTC (11:50AM USA ET & 12:00PM USA ET). A link to the pairings will appear in the chat room.
Note that the game will not start by itself. You need to either send a game challenge to your opponent by right-clicking on his username or to accept his game challenge. The game must be rated. Don't forget to respect the color assignment and the time control.