Chess General Championship rules

Dates of Tournament - 1st and 2nd March 2023 (Saturday, Sunday)

Format - 15 min + 10 secs increment per move from move 1.
FIDE Rules hold.

Team Composition:
1) Team can be containing a maximum of 5 players with a playing 4.
2) Teams must submit the board orders on the day of the event.
3) Each Team must contain a fresher.
4) Each Team can’t contain more than 2 Inter IIT Players at maximum.

The events consist of two parts, the initial qualifier and the knockout part.

Qualifier :
1) This will be a Swiss Team Tournament consisting of 4 rounds.
2) This will happen on 1st April 2023.
3) The top 8 teams will qualify to the Knockout round.
4) This is to save time and justifiably remove the teams.

Knockout :
1) This will be a knockout round consisting of best of 2 for each round. To be more
clear, let’s say A is paired against B, Team A won 2 and Team B won 0 or any
majority will be announced a direct win. Incase of tie, we will have a armageddon
breakdown with player of board 1 of both the teams.
2) This will happen on 2nd April 2023.
3) Pairings will be as follows:

Standings after Qualifier:

1 Team 1

2 Team 2

3 Team 3

4 Team 4

5 Team 5

6 Team 6

7 Team 7

8 Team 8

Round 1:
 1 Team 1 Team 5

2 Team 2 Team 6

3 Team 3 Team 7

4 Team 4 Team 8
Round 2:

1 Winner of Board 1 Winner of Board 3

2 Winner of Board 2 Winner of Board 4

Round 3:

1 Winner of Board 1 Winner of Board 2

2 Loser of Board 1 Loser of Board 2

Round 4:

1 Loser of Board 1 Winner of Board 2

Standings :
1) Winner of Board 1 at Round 3
2) Winner of Board 1 at Round 4
3) Loser of Board 1 at Round 4

Winners shall also get free merchandises.

#NOTE: The tournament shall be extended by a day if in case of time constraints. We are
doing our best to have everything supervised. Hope you guys also do come and enjoy.

For further info, feel free to ping me at Dheekshith - 7358470242 (Please text, do not call.)