Czech Open 2025

G2 - Open rapid tournament with rating for rapid ELO FIDE

 

23–24 July 2025

 

Right of participation:
- players with rapid ELO FIDE < 2000 (or ELO FIDE< 2000 for those, who do not have rapid ELO FIDE)
- players without ELO FIDE and rapid ELO FIDE

System of tournament: Swiss system of 9 rounds

Rate of game: 2x 20 min + 10 s / move

Starting fee: 17 EUR

Discounts: seniors over 65 years of age and women 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 rapid ELO charged according to the economic directive of the Chess Federation of the Czech Republic (0.5 EUR for a player) are included in the starting fee.

Late registrations: Those players whose application will be registered after 30^th June 2025 will pay additional charge of 4 EUR.

Tournament prize fund (financial prizes in CZK, payment in EUR possible): 5 000 CZK altogether

1.	2 000,-
2.	1 500,-
3.	1 000,-
4.	500,-

 

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

Time schedule of the Tournament:

Wednesday	23 July	14.00 - 17.00	registration
		18.00 - 21.30	1st - 3rd round
Thursday	24 July	9.00 - 12.30	4th - 6th round
		13.30 - 17.00	7th - 9th round
		17.45 - 18.00	solemn conclusion

 

Complete your obligatory applications together with accommodation orders by 30^th 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