Regulations
PDF format)C – Open rating tournament with rating for FIDE and DWZ
26 July – 2 August 2025
Right of participation:
- players with ELO FIDE < 1800
- players without ELO FIDE
System of tournament: Swiss system of 9 rounds
Rate of game: 2x 1,5 h/40 + 30 min + 30 s / move
Waiting time in case of late coming is 1 h
Starting fee is given in EUR (payments in CZK and USD possible):
| Players accommodated through the organizer |
Other players | |
| ELO FIDE 1600 – 1799 | 62.5 | 83.5 |
| ELO FIDE < 1600 and without ELO FIDE | 83.5 | 104 |
Discounts: seniors over 65 years of age and women players have 25% discount, these discounts do not refer to additional charge for late registration and are not added up
Fees for rating of the tournament results for ELO charged according to the economic directive of the Chess Federation of the Czech Republic (2.5 EUR for a player) are included in the starting fee.
Late registrations: Those players whose application will be registered after 30th June 2025 will pay additional charge of 13 EUR.
Tournament prize fund (financial prizes in CZK, payment in EUR possible): 30 000 CZK altogether
| 1. | 10 000,- |
| 2. | 7 000,- |
| 3. | 5 000,- |
| 4. | 3 000,- |
| 5. | 2 000,- |
| 6. | 1 000,- |
| 7. | 1 000,- |
| 8. | 1 000,- |
Criteria used for ranking:
1. number of points
2. Buchholz Cut 1
3. Buchholz
4. Sonnenborn-Berger
5. the greater number of games played with black
prizes are distributed according to Hort system (among such number of players corresponding to number of advertised prizes) in overall ranking
Notice: prizes are awarded only during solemn conclusion
Time schedule of the Tournament:
| Wednesday | 23 July | 14.00 - 17.00 | registration |
| Thursday | 24 July | 14.00 - 21.00 | registration |
| Friday | 25 July | 9.00 - 20.00 | registration |
| Saturday | 26 July | 8.00 - 13.00 | registration |
| 15.00 | 1st round | ||
| Sunday | 27 July | 9.00 | 2nd round |
| 15.00 | 3rd round | ||
| Monday | 28 July | 15.00 | 4th round |
| Tuesday | 29 July | 15.00 | 5th round |
| Wednesday | 30 July | 15.00 | 6th round |
| Thursday | 31 July | 15.00 | 7th round |
| Friday | 1 August | 15.00 | 8th round |
| Saturday | 2 August | 15.00 | 9th round |
| Sunday | 3 August | 10.00 - 11.30 | solemn conclusion |
Complete your obligatory applications together with accommodation orders by 30th June 2025 on-line or send them by e-mail to ave-kontakt@outlook.cz.
All foreign players must have an assigned FIDE identification number (abbreviation FIDE ID or FID) at the time of the submission of the application form. If they do not have it, they have to apply their national chess federation for it.
Place: Registration, solemn conclusion and all games will take place at the IDEON congress centre