Time Control
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This is a "No Vacation" tournament!
This is for players with ratings between 750 and 1275. In the August 2016 edition, there is a 40% advance rate with small-sized groups (5(2)->2) and so you'll begin with six simultaneous games... Only players with more than 50 games, less than an average of 6 hours per move, and less than a 3% time-out rate may join. There is no vacation time. I think that these fairly strict rules serve to improve the tournament in terms of fewer dropouts and less general wonkiness.
This tournament is scheduled to begin as soon as it is full, following midnight, chess.com time (Pacific US time, GMT-8) on August 15, 2016. There is no autostart in this tournament and it will not start earlier than the appointed time. Once the time comes around, I'll start the tournament if it's full (otherwise, I'll switch it to "start ASAP", which means it will go once it's full).
I'll remove players who look like they are "gaming" their score or whose score exceeds 1300, starting when the roster is full or a few days before the tournament starts. I've found that it's best to remove players when I see scores get too high, merely to keep the playing field reasonably even and give other players a chance to grab the spot.
I've put this up a few weeks in advance to keep the place and allow players to register ahead of time if they wish. You may visit the parallel tournament for ratings between 1275 and 1700 here.
Next month's (September 2016) tournament is dedicated to Mexico City, Mexico. You can visit the tournament home page and register from this link.
Щасти!
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This month's tournament and trophies pays homage to the city of Kiev, Ukraine. It's the capital city of the country.
A map showing Kiev's location in the Ukraine. (source: https://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/commonwealth/ukraine_rel93.jpg).
An aerial photograph of Kiev.
(source: By Dmitry A. Mottl - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=4911961).
Saint Volodymyr's Cathedral
(source: By touristclub - http://touristclub.kiev.ua/uploads/images/mod_sight_spr/11/volodymyrsky-cathedral514073235560.jpg, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=44810642)
A full resolution image of the tournament trophy, drawing from Kiev's city seal.
Winners
1st Place
1st Place
2nd Place
2nd Place
3rd Place
