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This is a "No Vacation" tournament!
This is for players with ratings between 1275 and 1700. In the November 2016 edition, there is a 50% advance rate with small-sized groups (4(2)->2) and so you'll begin with six simultaneous games... Only players with more than 100 games, less than an average of 6 hours per move, and less than a 3% time-out rate may join. This is also a premium-only tournament and 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 November 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 1725, 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.
You can visit the parallel tournament for players with ratings between 750 and 1275 from this link.
Next month's tournament is Hong Kong, China. You can visit the tournament home page from this link.
Bahati njema!
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I felt like I've been shortchanging Africa, so this month's tournament and trophies pays homage to the city of Nairobi, Kenya. Nairobi may be Africa's most modern world city.
An aerial photograph of Nairobi.
(source: By Africanmodern - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=48523304).
The Nairobi skyline set against the savannah.
(source: By The original uploader was Mkimemia at English Wikipedia - Transferred from en.wikipedia to Commons., CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=4022744)
A full resolution image of the tournament trophy, drawing from Nairobi's city seal.
