Tournament in Poland 27-29.12.09 Krakow

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THE ORGANIZATIONAL ANNONCEMENT of the Ist CRACOW SHOGI TOURNAMENT

This tournament is during the biggest Polish chess tournament (it is in this same place)

ORGANIZERS· Malopolska Chess Association

· The Manggha Museum of Japanese Art and Technique

DATE & PLACE OF GAME

The tournament will take on 27 - 29 December 2009 y. as a part of the 20th International Chess Festival Cracovia'09, in Electrical Secondary School No. 1 Poland, Cracow, 49 Kamieńskiego st.

TOURNAMENT SYSTEM

· The tournament will be played according to the Swiss system on a distance of 9 rounds. In case of a smaller number of participants the organizers reserve for themselves the right to adapt the game system to the number of players, in it, to decrease the number of rounds.

· The competitors can not suggest and co-ordinate the draw, and in case of the draw according to general principles the party is not repeated.

· The order of places is established according to the number of scored points with an auxiliary classification as follows: middle Bucholz, full Bucholz, progression, a direct result.

· The game rate 45 min. + 30 sec., byo – yomi for each player.

· The registration fee amounts to 20 zl.

The participants of the Chess Festival Cracovia’09 who paid there the registration fee are released from it.

· The equipment is guaranteed by the organizer.

· The start list is based on the ranking in turn FESA, KURNIK on 22nd December, 2009. For persons without ranking 1000 points is assumed.

ROUND TIME TABLE

27.12.2009 15.00 – the opening and rounds I, II

28.12.2009 8.30 - rounds III, IV

28.12.2009 14.00 - rounds V, VI, VII

29.12.2009 9.00 - rounds VIII, IX, the end

Rounds II, IV, VI, VII, IX begin 15 minutes after the end of the previous round.

AWARDS

I place 500 zl and the cup

II place 300 zl

III place 200 zl

IV place 100 zl

APPLICATIONS & INFORMATION

e-mail - stmarius@kr.onet.pl

before the tournament - the list of the participants closes at

2 p.m.

More on

http://www.mzszach.l.pl/

Easy to go by plane

www.ryanair.com

From Airport to the venue

http://maps.google.pl/maps?f=d&source=s_d&hl=pl&geocode=&saddr=krak%C...

From Railway station to the venue

http://maps.google.pl/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=Z:+Plac+Kolejowy+1,+P...

Accomodation

http://www.cracowonline.com/

Preregistration would be on

http://shogipro.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=1502#1502

is anybody participating? Poland is next to my country, so i am considering it.