General Regulations
PDF format)The World Chess Federation (FIDE)
The Czech Chess Federation
AVE-KONTAKT Pardubice agency
26th WORLD SENIOR CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP
50+ and 65+
Marianske Lazne (Marienbad), the Czech Republic
18st November – 1st December 2016
GENERAL REGULATIONS
1. Invitation
AVE-KONTAKT Pardubice agency (the organizer of Czech Open Chess Festival and Czech Tour Chess Festivals Series, the Czech Chess Federation and the World Chess Federation (FIDE) have the honour to invite all senior women and men throughout the world to participate in the 26th WORLD SENIOR CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP (50+ and 65+) organised in Marianske Lazne (Marienbad), the Czech Republic from 18th November (arrival) to 1st December (departure) 2016.
2. Participation
The World Senior Chess Championship is open to all players, regardless of rating and title, who reach their age of 50 and 65 by 31st December 2016 and represent National Chess Federations which are members of FIDE. There is no limit in the number of participants per federation.
According to the FIDE tournament rules, the Championship will be played in four categories: age 50+ and 65+ (Open and women).
The top 3 players in each category of the World Senior Championship 2015 as well as Continental Senior Championship 2015 are qualified with personal rights and will be accepted with free board and hotel accommodation.
3. Entry fees and registration fees
FIDE entry fee: Each player has to pay 70 EUR as FIDE entry fee.
Registration fee: Each player has to pay 80 EUR as registration fee for the event. It includes registration and accreditation.
FIDE entry fee and registration fee together with the payment for the hotel booking must be paid simultaneously with the application. The payment must be made by bank transfer. Invited players or their federations will also pay.
The registration period ends on 30th September 2016, after that the FIDE entry fee is 140 EUR.
4. Registration, bookings and payments
All players have to register before 30th September 2016 (registration deadline). The entry form should be filled out on the official website of the championship.
All players are obliged to be accommodated in one of the official hotels through the organizer.
Access to playing areas, venues and the hotel will be allowed only to people accredited by the organizer.
In addition to the written application, a personal registration before the beginning of the tournament is necessary. This will be done on 18th November, in the playing venue between 12.00 and 22.00. Players who are not registered cannot be included in the drawing of lots and entry fees will be forfeited.
At the time of registration the amount of 300 EUR (80 EUR registration fee + 70 EUR FIDE entry fee + 150 EUR hotel booking) must be transferred (free of bank charge) to the following bank account:
Address of the bank:
Komercni banka, a.s.
namesti Republiky 222
530 78 Pardubice
CZECH REPUBLIC
Account number: 107-1452020277/0100
IBAN: CZ0801000001071452020277
SWIFT: KOMBCZPPXXX
Address of our company:
AVE-KONTAKT s.r.o.
Strossova 239
530 03 Pardubice
CZECH REPUBLIC
Players with personal rights must pay only FIDE entry fee and registration fee (150 EUR together).
Accompanying people must pay only the hotel booking (150 EUR).
All the above-mentioned payments are non-refundable if the booking is cancelled.
5. Airport transfers
The organizer can arrange the transfer from the Prague airport to the hotel in Marianske Lazne (Marienbad) and back. Transfer on the first day (18th November) and the last day (1st December) will be charged 25 EUR per person one-way and 40 EUR per person both ways. The distance is 170 km (2h by bus).
6. Tournament halls
The tournament halls for 65+ open category are situated at the Monty hotel, Prikra 218 / 4, Marianske Lazne (first boards) and at the Continental hotel, Hlavni trida 230 / 88, Marianske Lazne (last boards).
The tournament halls for 50+ open category are situated at the Cristal palace hotel, Hlavni trida 61 /66, Marianske Lazne (first boards) and at the Continental hotel, Hlavni trida 230 / 88, Marianske Lazne (last boards).
The tournament hall for women categories 65+ and 50+ is situated at the Cristal palace hotel, Hlavni trida 61 /66, Marianske Lazne.
7. Lodging and boarding
Lodging and boarding will be provided with full board at following hotels:
Chateau Monty Spa resort ****, Prikra 218 / 4, Marianske Lazne
http://www.montymarienbad.com/
WiFi in a room and common areas, wellness, swimming pool with salt water and fitness free of charge
single room - 70 EUR / room and night
double room - 110 EUR / room and night
triple room - 135 EUR / room and night
four-bed room - 160 EUR / room and night
suite for 2 people – 140 EUR / suite and night
Cristal palace hotel ****, Hlavni trida 61 /66, Marianske Lazne
http://www.cristalpalace.cz/
WiFi in a room and common areas, wellness, swimming pool and sauna free of charge
single room - 70 EUR / room and night
double room - 110 EUR / room and night
triple room - 135 EUR / room and night
Continental hotel ****, Hlavni trida 230 / 88, Marianske Lazne
http://www.garzottohotels.cz/cs/hotel-continental-marianske-lazne/
WiFi in a room and common areas, wellness, swimming pool and sauna free of charge
single room - 70 EUR / room and night
double room - 110 EUR / room and night
triple room - 135 EUR / room and night
Orea Spa Bohemia hotel ****, Hlavni trida 100 / 40, Marianske Lazne
http://www.oreahotelbohemia.cz/
WiFi in a room and common areas, wellness, swimming pool with salt water and fitness at the Chateau Monty Spa resort free of charge
single room - 70 EUR / room and night
double room - 110 EUR / room and night
Players with personal rights will be accommodated with full board in single rooms. Free lodging and boarding will be provided for them from 18th November (dinner) to 1st December (lunch). Any additional overnights will be charged according to prices mentioned above.
8. Transport connection:
The nearest airports in the direction of Marianske Lazne are: Karlovy Vary (only charter flights) – distance 50 km and Prague (we will arrange transfer) 170 km in the Czech Republic and Nuremberg 180 km, Dresden 230 km, Munich 270 km, Frankfurt 400 km and Berlin 400 km in Germany. There is a good train connection from Prague, Nuremberg and Munich.
9. Tournament schedule
| Friday | 18th November | arrival | |
| Friday | 18th November | 12:00 - 20:00 | personal registration |
| Saturday | 19th November | 11:00 | Technical meeting, opening ceremony |
| Saturday | 19th November | 15:00 | 1st round |
| Sunday | 20th November | 15:00 | 2nd round |
| Monday | 21st November | 15:00 | 3rd round |
| Tuesday | 22nd November | 15:00 | 4th round |
| Wednesday | 23rd November | 15:00 | 5th round |
| Thursday | 24th November | 15:00 | 6th round |
| Friday | 25th November | free day - trip to Prague, rapid tournament | |
| Saturday | 26th November | 15:00 | 7th round |
| Sunday | 27th November | 15:00 | 8th round |
| Monday | 28th November | 15:00 | 9th round |
| Tuesday | 29th November | 15:00 | 10th round |
| Wednesday | 30th November | 13:00 | 11th round |
| Wednesday | 30th November | 20:00 | closing ceremony |
| Thursday | 1st December | departure |
10. Rules and regulations
The FIDE Tournament Rules should be followed.
The tournament will be played by a 11-rounds Swiss system. National ratings will not be taken into consideration for pairings. The time rate will be 90 minutes for the first 40 moves followed by 30 minutes for the rest of the game with an addition of 30 seconds per move starting from move one.
Default time for all 11 rounds is 30 minutes.
The women tournaments will be played separately if there are more than 10 participants in total from at least two continents. If there are less than 10 participants 65+, then there will be only one women tournament 50+ with separate prizes. If the women participants are less than 10 in total or from less than 2 continents, they will play in the open tournaments with separate prizes.
11. Anti-Cheating guidelines
The FIDE Anti-Cheating guidelines are valid for WSCC. During WSCC random AC inspections are possible.
12. Appeals procedure
A protest against the decision of an Arbiter must be submitted in writing to the Chief Arbiter, within 30min after the end of the game. A protest fee of 200 Euro shall be payable to FIDE which is refundable if the protest is upheld. The Appeals Committee may also decide to refund the fee if it considers the appeal was not frivolous.
13. Scoring and tie-breaking system
14.1. The score in each game is 1 for a win, ½ for a draw and 0 for a lost game.
14.2. Tie-breaking:
The order of players, that finish with the same number of points, shall be determined by application of the following tie-breaking procedures, beginning from (a) to (b) to (c) to (d) to (e) in sequence:
(a) Results of direct encounters between the tied players (it applies to the situation only if all tied players played with each other),
(b) Buchholz Cut 1,
(c) Buchholz,
(d) The greater number of games played with black,
(e) The Greater number of wins.
14. Arbiters and Appeals committee
The names of the Chief Arbiter and the Chairman of Appeals committee will be published no later than 1st September 2016. Names of other arbiters and members of the Appeals committee will be announced during the technical meeting.
15. Chess equipment
DGT 3000 and DGT XL clocks, 80 electronic boards and other FIDE standard chess sets.
16. Tournament bulletin
The tournament bulletin will be available on the website for all interested persons free of charge.
17. Visa information
The federations, players and accompanying people needing visas are requested to contact the organizer by 30th September 2016. The organizer will provide invitations for visas only after the necessary payments. Schengen visas are valid in the Czech Republic.
18. Awards and titles
The winner of the World Senior Chess Championship +50 receives the title “2016 World Senior Chess Champion +50“.
The winner of the World Senior Chess Championship +65 receives the title “2016 World Senior Chess Champion +65“.
The winner of the World Senior Women Chess Championship +50 receives the title “2016 World Senior Woman Chess Champion +50“.
The winner of the World Senior Women Chess Championship +65 receives the title “2016 World Senior Woman Chess Champion +65“.
The title of “International Grandmaster (GM)” will be awarded to the two winners of the 2016 FIDE World Senior Chess Championships 50+ and 65+ who will also receive trophies and gold medals. The player finished second will receive a silver medal and “International Master (IM)” title, while the third place will be awarded a bronze medal and also “International Master (IM)” title. The same applies to the respective Women titles.
19. Prizes (in EUR)
| Prize fund | WSCC Open | WSCC Open | WSCC Women | WSCC Women |
| Rank | Senior 50+ | Senior 65+ | Senior 50+ | Senior 65+ |
| 1 | 1 200 | 1 200 | 500 | 500 |
| 2 | 1 000 | 1 000 | 300 | 300 |
| 3 | 800 | 800 | 200 | 200 |
| 4 | 600 | 600 | ||
| 5 | 500 | 500 | ||
| 6 | 450 | 450 | ||
| 7 | 400 | 400 | ||
| 8 | 350 | 350 | ||
| 9 | 300 | 300 | ||
| 10 | 250 | 250 | ||
| 11 | 200 | 200 | ||
| 12 | 150 | 150 | ||
| 13 | 150 | 150 | ||
| 14 | 150 | 150 |
20. Parallel activities
Rapid and Blitz tournaments
Excursion to the capital of Prague
Excursion to the biggest spa in the Czech Republic Karlovy Vary (Carlsbad)
Excursion to the spa Frantiskovy Lazne (Franzensbad) and town of Cheb
Spa procedures
Concerts
21. Marianske Lazne (Marienbad)
Marianske Lazne spa belongs to the most beautiful and largest health resorts in the Czech Republic, offering rich social and sports facilities. Participants can spend their free time having the spa therapy, for example ailments of the respiratory system, movement mechanism, nerves, kidneys and urinary tract and urologic problems and female disorders are treated here. Marianske Lazne is located in the very west of the Czech Republic. Close to the border with Germany (15 km). Together with Karlovy Vary (43 km) and Frantiskovy Lazne (37 km) it forms the West Bohemian Spa Triangle.
Marianske Lazne town has 14 000 inhabitants and more than 3 000 hotel rooms.
There are more than 40 mineral springs in the town and more than other 60 springs in the surrounding area.
Altitude is 560 – 640 m above sea level.
Marianske Lazne was the favourite spa of the British King Edward VII (1841 - 1910) He visited the city nine times in total. In 1904 Edward VII met here the Austrian Emperor Franz Josef I. Marianske Lazne became an important political, social and cultural centre of Europe.
The names most frequently connected with Marianske Lazne are also the poet and scholar Johann Wolfgang Goethe (1749 - 1832) and the brilliant composer and pianist Fryderyk Chopin (1810 - 1849).
Other famous guests:
Dr.Benes, Eduard (1884 - 1948) Minister of Foreign Affairs and later President of Czechoslovakia
Dvorak, Antonin (1841 - 1904) composer
Edison, Thomas Alva (1847 - 1931) inventor, businessman
Ferdinand I (1793 - 1875) Austrian Emperor
Freud, Sigmund(1856 - 1939) doctor, psychologist
Friedrich Wilhelm IV (1795 - 1861) Prussian King
Kafka, Franz (1883 - 1924) writer
Kipling, Rudyard (1865 - 1936) writer
Kissinger, Henry (*1923) politician, US Secretary of State
Masaryk, Tomas Garrique (1850 - 1937) scholar, first President of Czechoslovakia
Muzaffar-ed-Din (1853 - 1907) Persian Shah
Nobel, Alfred (1933 - 1896) inventor, businessman
Nietzsche, Friedrich (1844 - 1900) philosopher
Patton, George Smith (1885 - 1945) WW2 general
Schweitzer, Albert (1875 - 1965) doctor, scholar, humanist
Tolstoi, Aleksei Nikolaevich (1883 - 1945) writer
Twain, Mark (1835 - 1910) writer, humourist
Wagner, Richard (1813 - 1883) composer
22. Marianske Lazne (Marienbad) and chess
Marianske Lazne has hosted many important chess events. Such as:
1925 - International tournament (Nimcovic, Rubinstein, Marshall, Torre, Reti, Tartakover, Spielman, Grünfeld, Sämisch etc. took part)
1948 – International tournament (Foltys, Barcza, Steiner, Vidmar, Pirc, Opocensky, Tartakover etc.)
1951, 1954 and 1961 – FIDE Zonal tournaments (Pachman, Filip, Olafsson etc.)
1962 – World Student Team Championship (Spassky,, Gufeld, Bagirov, Savon, Hort, Kavalek, Jansa etc.)
1962 and 1965 – International tournaments (Taymanov, Keres, Hort etc.) 1978 Czechoslovak Championship (Prandstetter, Smejkal, Ftacnik etc.)
2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011 Scheveningen matches Snowdrops versus Old-hands (Karpov, Hort, Uhlmann, Korchnoi, Timman, Portisch, Hübner, Gulko, Vaganyan, Cmilyte, Humpy, Muzycuk, Ushenina, Pogonina, Sachdev etc.)
2002 – 2016 Marienbad Open (Magnus Carlsen in 2002!)
23. Currency
The local currency is the Czech Crown (CZK), 1 EUR = about 27 CZK
24. Tournament office
AVE-KONTAKT s.r.o., Strossova 239, 530 03 Pardubice, Czech Republic
Chief organizer & Tournament Director: IO Dr. Jan Mazuch
Phone: +420 466 535 200, mobile phone + 420 608 203 007
E-mail: office@wscc2016.net, Official website (information and on line registration): http://www.wscc2016.net
You can write or call in English, Russian, German, Polish, Slovak & Czech languages.