Last Modified: January 3, 2020
These rules are subject to change at the administrator’s discretion. If rules should change, all captains will be notified accordingly.
The Handbook’s General Rules apply to all CEA games, please read them first!
Last Modified: January 3, 2020
These rules are subject to change at the administrator’s discretion. If rules should change, all captains will be notified accordingly.
The Handbook’s General Rules apply to all CEA games, please read them first!
Weekly Structure:
The format of Elimination is determined by the total amount of teams participating in this tournament.
Timeline TBD
Match format: A match between two teams is run in the Scheveningen system in which every player of one team players every player of the opposing team.
For Team A and Team B with each players 1-4 this results in following games in which the first named player will receive the white pieces:
Round 1: B4-A1 B3-A2 A3-B2 A4-B1
Round 2: A1-B3 A2-B4 B1-A3 B2-A4
Round 3: B2-A1 B1-A2 A3-B4 A4-B3
Round 4: A1-B1 A2-B2 B3-A3 B4-A4
The player with the white pieces is required to send their opponent a challenge (see VI.3 Match Challenge). Exception to this is if the match is part of the weekly broadcast. (see VI.4 Broadcast matches.
A team has a 15 min grace period from the scheduled match time to arrive for a match. If a team does not arrive within this grace period, the match will be counted as forfeited and the offending team will receive a warning.
Players are given a minimum break of 2 minutes and a maximum break of 5 minutes between games.
This section will grow with more technical information and FAQ until the start of the tournament.
Any national ratings will be converted by the Tournament Direction into USCF ratings which will be used as tournament ratings. Such ratings are only used for pairings and team order purposes. The tournament itself is not rated with FIDE or any national rating system.
USCF |
FIDE |
FQE (Quebec) |
DWZ/NCFP |
ECF (English) |
Chinese Rating |
>2300 |
>2250 |
>2060 |
>2180 |
>206 |
>1970 → USCF = Chinese Rating + 300 |
2250 |
2190-2249 |
2110-2179 |
198-205 |
1900-1970 → USCF = Chinese Rating + 270 |
|
2200 |
2130-2189 |
2040-2109 |
190-197 |
||
2150 |
2070-2129 |
1970-2039 |
182-189 |
1800-1899 → USCF = Chinese Rating + 210 |
|
2100 |
2000-2069 |
2020-2059 |
1900-1969 |
174-181 |
|
2050 |
1930-1999 |
1620 - 2019 |
1830-1899 |
166-173 |
|
2000 |
1860-1929 |
1750-1829 |
158-165 |
1700-1799 → USCF = Chinese Rating + 175 |
|
1950 |
1790-1859 |
1670-1749 |
150-157 |
||
1900 |
1720-1789 |
1590-1669 |
142-149 |
||
1850 |
1650-1719 |
1510-1589 |
134-141 |
1600-1699 |
|
1800 |
1580-1649 |
1430-1509 |
126-133 |
||
1750 |
1510-1579 |
1350-1429 |
118-125 |
||
1700 |
1440-1509 |
1270-1349 |
110-117 |
1500-1599 |
|
1650 |
1370-1439 |
1560-1619 |
1190-1269 |
102-109 |
|
1600 |
1300-1369 |
1500-1559 |
1110-1189 |
94-101 |
|
1550 |
1240-1299 |
1440-1499 |
1030-1109 |
86-93 |
|
1500 |
1180-1239 |
1380-1439 |
950-1029 |
78-85 |
1400-1499 |
1450 |
1120-1179 |
1320-1379 |
870-949 |
70-77 |
|
1400 |
1060-1119 |
1200-1319 |
800-869 |
56-69 |
<1400 |
<1350 |
<1060 → FIDE+300 |
<1200 → FQE+200 |
<800 |
30-55 |
|
<30 |
USCF |
Chess.com Blitz |
Lichess Blitz |
>2300 |
>2350 → USCF = chess.com - 120 |
>2300 → USCF = lichess - 120 |
2250 |
2150-2349 → USCF = chess.com - 75 |
|
2200 |
||
2150 |
2000-2300 → USCF = lichess - 70 |
|
2100 |
1800-2149 → USCF = chess.com - 50 |
|
2050 |
||
2000 |
||
1950 |
||
1900 |
1850-1999 → USCF = lichess -150 |
|
1850 |
||
1800 |
1500-1799 → USCF = chess.com |
|
1750 |
||
1700 |
||
1650 |
<1850 → USCF = lichess - 200 |
|
1600 |
||
1550 |
||
1500 |
1350-1499 → USCF = chess.com - 50 |
|
1450 |
||
1400 |
||
<1350 |
<1350 → USCF = chess.com - 100 |