Regulations 1. Eligibility & Participation: 1.1 Each country may register any number of players to participate. Individuals may also register directly. The players who are entitled to participate should not have reached their relevant age as on 1st January 2008. 2. Schedule
3. Pairing In the last 2 rounds, where possible, players from the same country and who have more than 50% shall not be paired together. 4. Time Control 4.1 Standard Chess - The time control shall be 90 minutes with 30 seconds increment after each move starting from the first move. 4.2 Rapid Chess – Each player shall have 25 minutes to complete the game. 4.3 Blitz Chess – Each player shall have 5 minutes to complete the game. 5. Medals 5.1 Medals will be awarded to the top three positions in each event and category (see 5.3). Separate medals will be awarded to ASEAN players but only to the best 3 (after tiebreak) individual results. 5.2 Team Medals - will be awarded based on the total score of the top three players of a country. Countries with less than 2 players will not be eligible for a team award. In case of any tie, the tie-break scores of each player shall be considered (see 6.1). Separate medals will be awarded to ASEAN teams. 5.3 Individual Medals - Where there is a tie, not more than 3 players will receive the same colour medal. For each category, not more than 5 medals will be awarded. Examples - if 2 players tie for first and 2 players tie for third, then 2 Gold medals will be awarded, no Silver, but 2 Bronze medals will be awarded. If 3 players tie for first, then no Silver and Bronze medals will be awarded. If more than 3 players tie for first, then the 3 highest based on tie-break will receive the Gold medals and the Silver and Bronze medals will not be awarded. 5.4 For the Standard Chess events, FM/WFM titles are awarded to the respective winners (regardless of ASEAN or non-ASEAN players). In case of tie, after tie-break, only the top three will be awarded. CM/WCM titles are awarded, after tie-break, to silver and bronze medal winners – not more than one title will be awarded for each (2nd/3rd) position. 6. Tie-Break 6.1 Swiss-System : Buchholz, followed by Sonneborn-Berger; Number of Wins with the Black pieces. 6.2 Round-Robin : Sonneborn-Berger; Direct Encounter; Number of Wins with the Black pieces. 7. Appeals Committee The Appeals Committee will be decided during the technical meeting. An appeal, accompanied by a deposit of US$50, must be submitted within 15 minutes of the completion of the relevant playing session. 8. Entry Fee Event
9. Official Hotel & Venue 9.1 The Playing Venue is the Danang Indoor Stadium (directly opposite HAGL Plaza Hotel). Transport will be provided for those opting for Saigon Tourane Hotel (less than 5km away from the Stadium). 9.2 All players and accompanying persons shall have to be registered through the organisers at the two designated official hotels. There is no guarantee that rooms are available after the closing date. In this aspect, we urge federations and participants to register as soon as possible 9.3 The organisers shall provide free board and lodging to one official or coach per Federation on twin-sharing basis. The room rates (inclusive of 3 meals per day) shall apply to all players and accompanying persons:
9.4 For every 5 players registered through the Federation, board and lodging shall be waived for the 6th player. 10. Transportation The transport charge for all players and accompanying persons from Danang Airport and the hotels (two ways) is US$ 20.00. Details of Flight Arrival must be provided before 1st June 2008. 11. Entry Visas Participants must get their visas at the Vietnam Embassy in their respective countries. 12. Registration of Participants and Accompanying Persons Please send your registration and provide the Name, Sex, Date of Birth, FIDE Rating/ID Number (if any) and type of room to: 13. Payments All payments shall be made payable by 1st May 2008 to: | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||