Invitation

Overview

tournaments
Master Open	Thursday, October 3^rd until Saturday, October 11^th 2008
International Open	Thursday, October 3^rd until Saturday, October 11^th 2008
Youth open (U18)	Friday, October 3^rd until Monday, October 6^th 2008
Single blitz	Saturday, October 4^th 2008, 20:00h
Team blitz	Thursday, October 9^th 2008, 20:00h

Master Open

Ausschreibung des Meister-Opens in tabellarischer Form
Rules and time control	Open for all chess players with an Elo rating of 1900 and more 9 rounds Swiss-System, FIDE-rules 100 minutes for the first 40 moves followed by 50 minutes for the rest of the game, with 30 seconds added per move starting at move one
Rating	for FIDE Elo, for Swiss Elo and for DWZ (German Elo)
Entry fee	CHF 150, GM, WGM, IM and WIM free Players with 2300 and more Elo and Youth (U18) CHF 80
Prizes	1. CHF 2'500, 2. CHF 1'800, 3. CHF 1'200, 4. CHF 800, 5. CHF 700, 6. CHF 600, 7. CHF 500, 8. CHF 400 9./10. CHF 300 each, 11.-15. CHF 200 each Attributed according to Hort-System. Best female player, best junior (U18), best senior, best player up to 2300, 2200, 2100: CHF 150 Prize sum: CHF 11'000. Prizes are not to cumulate.
Attendance control	Friday, October 3^rd 2008, 14:00h until 15:30h

International Open

Ausschreibung des Internationalen Opens in tabellarischer Form
Rules and time control	Open for all chess players with an Elo rating of 2000 and less 9 rounds Swiss-System, FIDE-rules 100 minutes for the first 40 moves followed by 50 minutes for the rest of the game, with 30 seconds added per move starting at move one
Rating	for FIDE Elo, for Swiss Elo and for DWZ (German Elo)
Entry fee	CHF 150 CHF 80 for junior players (U18)
Prizes	1. CHF 1'000, 2. CHF 600, 3. CHF 400, 4. CHF 300, 5./6. CHF 200 each, 7.-10. CHF 100 each. Attributed according to Hort-System. Best female player, best junior player (U18), best senior player, best player with Elo up to 1600 and 1800: CHF 100 each Prize sum: CHF 3'600.
Attendance control	Friday, October 3^rd 2008, 14:00h until 15:30h

Youth open (U18)

Ausschreibung des Jugendopens in tabellarischer Form
Rules and time control	Open for all pupils until year of birth 1989 7 rounds Swiss-System, FIDE-rules 90 minutes plus 30 seconds per move
Rating	for Swiss Elo
Entry fee	CHF 40
Prizes	1. CHF 150, 2. CHF 100, 3. CHF 50 (according to Hort-System) Prizes in kind for all other players
Attendance control	Friday, October 3^rd 2008, 14:00h till 15:30h

Single blitz

Ausschreibung des Einzelblitzturniers in tabellarischer Form
Rules and time control	9 rounds Swiss-System 5 minutes per player and game
Entry fee	CHF 20
Prizes	1. price CHF 400, further price money The best player from Winterthur is town champion 2008.
Match application	Saturday, October 4^th 2008, 13:30h till 19:30h

Team blitz

Ausschreibung des Mannschaftsblitzturniers in tabellarischer Form
Rules and time control	A maximum of 11 rounds Swiss-System, 5 minutes per player and game, one team consists of four players. GM/IM and players with 2300 elo and more have to play on the first board.
Entry fee	CHF 20 per player (or CHF 80 per team)
Prizes	1. Price CHF 400, further price money
Match application	Thursday, October 9^th 2008, from 13:30h till 19:30h Single players will be formed to a team by the competition organiser.

© Winterthurer Schachverband 2008