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16 June 2007 : CYCC rules have been moved to: http://cocycc.pbwiki.com/cyccRules

 


2007 Canadian Open Rules and Regulations

 

JB 15 June.  The text needs to be finalized soon, like today maybe (update: no, the text needs to be finalized by Saturday evening, June 16), for the printed program, but without direction from the Committee on some issues. Well, here goes! JB 4 June.  Got a bit sidetracked on Saturday and Sunday.  From Peter Hum, this material is needed by "mid week", so Wednesday.  On Tuesday 5 June, the Committee will be making decisions which could affect these rules significantly. 2 June.  This is a STEALTH WIKI.  It is a work in progress.  It is not for public consumption and its contents may be changed before publication, perhaps radically.  I'll mark remarks that can be simply omitted from the published document with JB.  Going as much as possible from the general to the specific ...1 June 2007.  This is Jonathan Berry "logging in" for the first time.  Over the next day I intend to edit and add material.  Cheers!

 

As approved by the 2007 Organizing Committee

 


 

Fair Play in Chess

 

JB 16 June Fair Play is waaaay better than Intellectual Vigour.  4 June: Committee will make decisions on 5 June that may affect how the top games can be viewed.  I have suspended work on this section, which should be considered "null and void", pending the Committee's decisions.  2 June: A new section in this wiki.  Here will be all the concerns about cheating.  But we're starting off on the wrong foot if we use the c-word.  The phrase Intellectual Vigour is intentionally artificial and euphemistic.  But go ahead and change it!  As elsewhere in the document, I'll work from the general to the specific, so details might be filled in "later", say by Sunday.

 

  • No talking during the game. (A brief greeting early in the session is OK, but otherwise players who want to communicate should first seek a staff member to be a witness).
  • No cell phones, digital cameras, pagers or other electronics are allowed in the playing hall.  You may bring an ordinary wristwatch.
  • No bags or equipment in the playing hall.  (Bags can be checked, or not brought at all.  Chess sets and clocks for those who need them for the game, may enter the room, but not elaborate or bulky bags to contain them.)
  • For games in the Laurier Room (all the top boards), players with a game in progress may not leave the room.  There are washrooms *in* the Laurier Room.
  • Hats, voluminous clothing, anything that might conceal a device: all are subject to search or exclusion from the room.
  • If you don't need it for the game, don't bring it to the playing area!
  • Spectators may be excluded from the Laurier Room, which is the origin of the MonRoi broadcast games.

 

These rules are simple but sweeping.  Fair play is important to us.  Penalties even for a first offence can be as severe as loss of the game.  Since communication devices are not allowed in the playing hall, it goes without saying that we will enforce the normal FIDE penalty of loss of the game for a cell phone ringing.

 

Move Recording

- monroi

- all moves recorded with increment

- when moves must be recorded.

 

Draw Offers

 

No draw may be offered or agreed before 30 moves have been played.

 

Rounds

Round Date Time
Round 1 Saturday, July 7th, 2007 2:00pm EST
Round 2 Sunday, July 8th, 2007 10:00am EST
Round 3 Sunday, July 8th, 2007 5:00pm EST
Round 4 Monday, July 9th, 2007 6:00pm EST
Round 5 Tuesday, July 10th, 2007 6:00pm EST
Round 6 Wednesday, July 11th, 2007 6:00pm EST
Round 7 Thursday, July 12th, 2007 6:00pm EST
Round 8 Friday, July 13th, 2007 6:00pm EST
Round 9 Saturday, July 14th, 2007 2:00pm EST
Round 10 Sunday, July 15th, 2007 10:00 am EST

 

 

Time Control

 

Game/120 minutes with 30-second increments

 

Only if a digital clock is not available, an analogue clock may be used, with a  control

of: 40 moves in 2 hours, balance of game in 30 minutes.

 

Ratings

 

JB  As stated earlier, I'm going to change this to FIDE-precedence.

 

FIDE ratings will be used as the basis for pairings and prizes.

National ratings will be used with adjustment.  In general, we will use the rating under which the player competes most frequently.

 

Highest ???

 

CFC rating: up to 2199 at par; 2200-2240: 2200; 2241 and up, subtract 40 from CFC rating.

USCF rating: below 2300, add 10% of (2300 minus the USCF rating), up to a maximum of 50.

FQE rating: up to 2200, add 10% of (2200 minus the FQE rating), up to a maximum of 50.  Above 2299, subtract 40 from FQE rating.

 

We will use the most recent published (in print or internet) rating.

Other ratings may be accepted, on a case-by-case basis. We reserve the right to assign a rating, for example when a rating is old or based upon few games.   In general, a US player will use the adjusted USCF rating, other foreign players their FIDE rating.

 

Rules of Play

 

CFC rules of play, which are the same as FIDE's.  USA players should understand that FIDE rules are not always the same as USCF rules.

 

Appeals Committee

 

Five members. First three available who don't have conflicts. Appeal within 1 hour of game together with $25 fee which will be refunded if the Appeals Committee does not find the appeal

frivolous.

 

 

Pairings and Byes

 

Pairings

A wordy description of the pairing system to be supplied by Jonathan

 

Byes

 

JB I had suggested up to 1 half-point bye, but am OK with this.

 

Up to three (3) byes (½ point each) in any of the first 6 rounds if requested in advance (ie. before pairings are made for the first round).  Norm seekers should note that a norm is impossible with 3 byes and next to impossible with 2 byes.

 

Miscellaneous

 

Smoking

 

JB I have found references to Ottawa's and Ontario's no-smoking laws, but nothing about how they work "in practice".  So I need help.  I understand that smoking is banned in the playing hall (CFC and FIDE), in the public areas of the hotel (Ontario).  Is it also banned in open-air areas inside/outside the hotel?  For players who cannot leave the playing hall without accompaniment, this presents two challenges: 1. do we have staff to accompany the players to a smoking area?  2. if we prohibit communication of the player with other persons (including other players), are there enough isolated smoking areas to fill the need? Or do we simply settle on no smoking during the game? FWIW, foreign invitees are somewhat more likely to be smokers than Canadians are.

 

Smoking is not allowed in the playing area, nor, by law, in the public areas of the hotel.  Smoking is not allowed in washrooms.  A player in a room with MonRoi broadcast cannot leave the room, and thus cannot smoke during the game.

 

 

JB (remove this section:) Dress Code

 

JB If the Dress Code is a serious suggestion,  it needs to be elaborated.

I don't even own a pair of blue jeans!

There's also the question of Dress Code for players versus staff.  Staff, especially arbiters need to be easily identifiable.  Even in Kap, with only 140 players, we had referee vests.  With likely twice that turnout in Ottawa  ...

 

Blue blazer plus blue jeans (see Jerome's picture here)

 

Emergency Phone Number

 

JB  Place marker for a suggestion by Peter Hum.

 

 

 

Technical Information

Pairings, Canadian Open 2007, Ottawa

 

Pairings

 

Most tournaments are played in sections, but the Canadian Open has usually been a unitary event.  Anybody who enters may win the Canadian Open.  The main downsides of a traditionally-paired single-section tournament are that IM and GM norms become almost impossible to achieve, and the "yo-yo effect", whereby a player might meet an opponent 250 points higher, lose, and in the next round meet an opponent 240 points lower.

 

We will use Accelerated Pairings to make norms more likely.  After discussion, we have decided not to attack the yo-yo effect.

 

Accelerated Pairings: Système Suisse Accéléré Degréssif

 

The field will be divided in three, at about 2200 and 1800 rating points.  For pairing purposes only, everyone in the top group will receive 2 extra points, everyone in the middle group 1 extra point.  As the tournament progresses, the acceleration will gradually be nullified. For each 1½ points that a player scores, he will receive ½ extra point.  After round 8, all remaining extra points will be removed, so rounds 9 and 10 will be unaccelerated.   This style of acceleration is used at the annual Cappelle-la-Grande tournament in France.  Cappelle annually has some 600 players and in 2007 a record 18 norms (including 8 GM norms) were achieved.

 

Class Pairings

 

Pairings may be adjusted so that in round 10, and possibly also in round 9, contenders for class, gender, or age-group prizes may be paired against each other.

 

 

These rules are subject to change. See http://cocycc.pbwiki.com/CORules

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