Upcoming Events

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St. John's Spring Chess Festival

Friday, April 18 – Sunday, April 20

MUN University Engineering Building - Lounge and Conference Rooms
240 Prince Phillip Drive, St. John’s, NL A1B 3X5, Rooms EN4000 and EN4003

The chess festival will consist of three CFC-rated events and registration is now open!

Please click on the links below for full details and registration instructions.
Note: there are discount rates for early registration and registration for multiple events.

1) Open Championship: Apr 18 - 20 -- 5-round 90min + 30 classical
2) Rapid Championship: Friday, Apr 18, 1pm-6pm -- 5-round 20min + 5 rapid
3) Blitz Championship: Saturday, Apr 19, 7pm -- 5 double-round 3min + 2 blitz.

The tournament organizer and arbiter is Daniel Rokhvarger. You can email him at daniel.rokhvarger@yahoo.ca

Please come out and enjoy some or all of these great tournaments!
We look forward to seeing you there. :)

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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:

Head to head
If all those tied played each other.

Buchholz
Sum of all scores of opponents.

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

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

Most wins

Most games with black.

Round Robin event:

Head to head
If all those tied played each other.

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

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

Most wins.

Most games with black