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This is a "No Vacation" tournament!
The October GeoChess; Rook Edition is for players with ratings under 1425. In this month's edition, there is a 33% advance rate with small-sized groups (3(2)->1) and so you'll begin with four simultaneous games per round. Only players with more than 100 games, less than an average of 12 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. Chess.com automatically boots players with ratings too high at the beginning of the tournament, and so I'll manually boot high ratings that are too high the day or so before the tournament begins in an attempt to get to a clean number (without two-player groups to start with)
One of the ideas behind this series is that these fairly strict rules serve to improve the tournament in terms of fewer dropouts and less general wonkiness; it worked fairly well in the past when I last ran these regularly (circa 2014~2016). I'm planning to set up a new tournament dedicated to a different country every month on the 15th.
This tournament will not start until October 15th, 2018. The tournament does not auto-start if it fills before then (so that players can plan on a starting date). I plan to start this one sometime on the 15th, but may wait a day or two if we need to fill it. If your rating is higher than 1400, you are welcome to register for the standard edition of the tournament (at this link).
Buena Suerte!
PS: Next month's (November) tournament will be India. You are welcome visit the tournament page and register from this link.
