The Presidents' Day Action Swiss Tournament (Online)

Monday, February 20th at 2 pm Eastern Time (1 pm CT, 12/noon MT, or 11 am PT)

This tournament will use Swiss pairings.

The time control will be game in 30 minutes with a 5-second increment. There will be four rounds. Rounds will be held at (Eastern Time): 2 pm, 3:20 pm, 4:40 pm, and 6 pm. The tournament will last for approximately 5 hours.

This event will be rated under the USCF online regular (slow) rating system. The tournament will be run on lichess.org.

This tournament is open to both children and adults of any age or rating.

Before signing up for the tournament, please register for a lichess.org account (it's free!) if you do not have an existing account. If you have any issues try watching this"> video we originally made for our scholastic tournaments about how to register an account on lichess: XTr_tAh7JeQ">

There will be two sections: Open and Under 1300. These sections are determined by over-the-board USCF-regular rating. For example, a player with a rating of 1200 would belong in the Under 1300 section, and a player rated 1500 would belong in the open section. Unrated players can play in any section. If you don't know which section you belong in, feel free to contact us.

All participants must be active members of the US Chess Federation.

Players can withdraw from the event at any time by pressing the "withdraw" button.

Prizes: Plaques for 1st, and trophies for 2nd and 3rd in both sections. All plaques and trophies will be inscribed with the winner's name. Tiebreaks are calculated based on the Sonneborn–Berger method, after which we use lichess performance ratings as a secondary tiebreak. 1st-place plaques are always awarded to players with a perfect score, even in the event of a tie.

After you register, you will receive an email from us with instructions on how to join the tournament online. If you don't receive the email, please check your spam folder by typing the word instructions into your spam or junk folder.

We encourage players to complete the registration process and join the tournament online before 1:45 pm ET. If you're late to the tournament you could end up missing round 1!

Players will not be required to join a Zoom call during the tournament, but we will monitor the games very closely to ensure fair play. Lichess has an excellent algorithm for detecting cheating, and we will also do a post-tournament fair-play inspection. If a participant's account is flagged for cheating by lichess, we have the prerogative to submit the player's games as losses for USCF-rating purposes, or (in rare cases) annul the games.

The entry fee is $20 by 11:59pm ET on Sunday 2/19/2023 and $25 on Monday 2/20/2023

Register here: https://caissachess.net/online-registration/index/2445