Registration is open now for the NL Open 2024 being held at MUN Engineering Building (SJ Carew Building) EN4000 in St. John’s from Friday October 25-Sunday October 27th. Time control 120 minutes plus 30 second inc per move for all games.

Due to venue capacity constraints we will need to restrict the number of participants to a maximum of 60 if it comes to that.

Details on how to register are here: Google Form
Along with completing payment, we ask registrants to also fill out the questions on the bottom of the page of the form. This will allow us to gather important information in advance of the tournament.

Payment of $40 can be sent via EMT to williamhibbs0303@hotmail.com

Please also read a more complete document about the tournament here: Google Doc

The document includes tournament rules, some advice about etiquette and sportsmanship and more.

Important changes from last year:
Registration will close on Wednesday at 5pm NL time, October 23rd. Any registrations that come in after this time will receive a bye for round 1 and will join the tournament in round 2. Round one pairings will be published Thursday morning or before.
Last year, most of the money from registration went to the prize fund. This year it will only be 50%. We are short on chess sets and clocks and have to borrow from NLSCA. This tournament will also serve as a fundraiser for new sets and clocks.
In previous years, there was a registration discount for those who are buying their membership. Unfortunately, this will not be the case this year.

We look forward to seeing you in October! 🙂

If there are any questions or issues, please let us know. Thanks!

The NL Chess Facebook group also has regular updates about upcoming tournaments.
For League tournaments specifically there is another group: Greater St. John’s Chess League

NLCA Tiebreak Rules

The procedures below will be used for all NLCA events where prizes are not evenly split. The Tournament Organizer may choose to have a playoff tiebreak instead. A playoff tiebreak must be announced before the start of the tournament in order for it to take precedence over the tie-breaks below.

Swiss event:

1) Head to head (if all those tied played each other).

2) Buchholz (Sum of all scores of opponents).

3) Buchholz cut 1 (Sum of all scores of opponents except the lowest point scorer).

4) Sonneborn-Berger (Sum of all scores of opponents you won against and half the scores of opponents you drew).

5) Most wins.

6) Most games with black.

Round Robin event:

1) Head to head (if all those tied played each other).

2) Sonneborn-Berger (Sum of all scores of opponents you won against and half the scores of opponents you drew.)

3) Koya system (Total points scored against opponents who scored at least 50%).

4) Most wins.

5) Most games with black