CHESS CLUB IITK AND CHESSIFY PRESENT

CHESS MASTERS PREMIER LEAGUE 2.0

23rd March - 31st March

RULEBOOK
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REGISTRATION
Only current College/University students and alumni are eligible to represent their
College/University team.

Every team player must mandatorily fill out the shared Google form.

The captain of every team has to ensure that all team members have active
chess.com accounts.

A chess.com will be considered active if at least 20 blitz games have been played.

It is the responsibility of the captain to complete all further registration

proceedings.
FORMAT
Teams will be divided into 8 pools of 8 teams each.

The qualifying stage will consist of two 8-team arenas: A 1-hour 3+0 arena and a
30-minute 1+0 arena.

The top 4 teams from each pool will qualify for the knockouts.

A knockout match will consist of a 1-hour 3+0 arena and a 30-minute 1+0 arena.

RO32: The 32 teams will be randomly divided into 8 groups of 4 teams each. The
top 2 teams from each group will qualify for the next round.

RO16: The 16 teams will be randomly divided into 4 groups of 4. The top 2 teams
from each group will qualify for the next round.
SFs: The 8 teams will be randomly divided into 2 groups of 4 teams each. The top 2
teams from each group will qualify for the Finals.

Finals: The top 4 teams will battle it out in the final arena for the winner title.

All matches will take place on chess.com through multi-club arenas.

SCORING PATTERN
The scoring will be the same as the chess.com scoring scheme.

The scores of the top 20 players of a team will be added to form the team score.
However, there’s no limit on the number of players per team.

In the qualifying stage, the scores of both the blitz and bullet arenas will be added in a
ratio of 1:1 to form the final team score.

In case of a tie in the qualifying stage, the team with the higher blitz score will be
ranked higher.

In case of a tie in a knockout game, the scores of the top 25 players of a team will be
added to form the new team score.
TENTATIVE SCHEDULE
Stage Date Time

Group Stage(A,B,C,D) 23rd March 6:00 PM to 11:00 PM

Group Stage(E,F,G,H) 24th March 6:00 PM to 11:00 PM

Ro32 (X1, X2, X3, X4) 25th March 6:00 PM to 11:00 PM

Ro32 (X5, X6, X7, X8) 26th March 6:00 PM to 11:00 PM

Ro16 (Y1, Y2, Y3, Y4) 27th March 6:00 PM to 11:00 PM

Semi-Finals 29th March 6:00 PM to 11:00 PM

Finals 30th March 6:00 PM to 11:00 PM

* All the mentioned timings are in GMT+05:30

STRUCTURE

A E
ROUND OF 32
B F
ROUND OF 16
C SEMI FINALS G

D FINALS
H

* Each pool comprises of 8 teams, the top 4 qualifies to the Knockouts (32 Teams)
FAIR PLAY POLICY
Any form of cheating, i.e. any use of external help during the competition, is prohibited. Players found
using such means will be banned from all future online tournaments and will be reported to
concerned authorities on chess.com.

If any accusations are leveled against a player/team, the organizers will manually review the games in
question before sending them to the chess.com moderators.

The scores of the players involved will be deducted from the team's score if the chess.com
moderators determine that cheating occurred in these games, and no replacement players' scores
will be added.

In addition, the team will be penalized 10% of their total score for that round. Multiple players found
cheating from a team in the same round would be counted as one instance of cheating for that team.

For any further instances, the penalty will be increased by 5% of total points for each successive
instance.
* In all cases, the decision taken by the Organizing team shall be Final.
MEET THE TEAM

ABHIJEET VERMA AYUSH YADAV

(8577860456) (8318778680)

NAVANKUR SHROTRIYA TEJAS GOYAL

(8178298430) (9810140720)
THANK YOU!!