BASES

1. The tournament is open to all players who have a license from the Catalan Chess Federation, FEDA or FIDE, so it is approved for FCE, FEDA and FIDE, in the two groups and rules the obtention of norms MC, IM and GM in group A. The tournament belongs to the XXI Catalan Circuit of International Opens of the Catalan Chess Federation. The entire regulations of the Circuit can be consulted on the website http://www.escacscircuit.cat/
2. The Swiss rating-based system will be applied, using the Swiss Manager software, forming two groups: Group A will be players with a rating of 1950 Fide or higher on the FIDE rating list on August 1, and Group B will be players with a FIDE rating of 1949 or lower. Any player may request to play in Group A when they register. If the player do not say anything, the player will be registered in the corresponding FIDE group. Whoever voluntarily participates in group A, renounces to score in the three sections under 1,950 Fide, for the prizes of this tournament and for the XXI Catalan Circuit of International Opens.
3. 9 rounds will be played over nine consecutive days, from Tuesday 12 to Wednesday 20 August, both included. The playing hall venue will be the Fiveller Building, Calle Joan Fiveller nº 11, a 6-minute walk from the L2 Artigues-Sant Adrià Metro station. The premises are adapted for the physically disabled and have air conditioning.
4. The game sessions will start at 17:00 h. for the two groups. except for the last round. The session on Wednesday, August 20 will begin at 4:30 p.m. The time control will be for the two groups of 90 minutes to finish plus 30 seconds increment per move made. In both groups, all the moves will always have to be scored.

5. The registration fees will be:

There will be a discount of €10 if the registration fee is made to the CaixaBank account ES17 2100 0098 8002 0046 7947 before Sunday 3 August, indicating the name and surnames of the players.

For Sant Adria players, the registration fee will be €20.

 Players with a disability recognised by the FCE will have an extra €5 discount on what they had to pay. No more than one discount will be applied per player.

Players invited by the organization are excluded from the payment of the registration.

6. Registrations can be made until Sunday 10/08/2025 at 8:00 p.m., when registration will close, on the following phones:

Registration can also be done by sending an-email to the address clubescacssantadria@gmail.com where you will receive a confirmation email. The official tournament website will be  http://www.escacssantadria.net where the registrations, matches, pairings and rankings will be published.

Registrations will be considered effective once the payment has been made, sending the receipt of the transfer to clubescacssantadria@gmail.com.

The pairing from the first round will be official at 10:00 a.m. on the day on which this round is played. The registration limit is 200 players between the two groups. Unless the organization decides to extend this limit. Unjustified absence from any round will result in immediate withdrawal from the tournament without refund.

 The organization reserves the right to refuse admission or to cancel a registration.

7. The director of the Tournament will be Mr. Josep Lluís García Punzano. The referees will be Mr. Daniel Leiro Giralt (AF) as Chief Referee and Mr. Albert Pardina and Mr. Ricart Llerins as Deputy Referees, who belong to the FCE CTA.
8. A Competition Committee will be formed consisting of the tournament director and 3 players selected during the 1st round of play. Refereeing decisions may be appealed in writing to this Committee before the end of the daily session of play. Its decisions will be final and unappealable. In order to be able to claim, an official FCE complaint form will be available, which will provide the tournament address to players who want to use it.
9. There will be a total of € 3.280 in prizes distributed as follows:

   GROUP A   2200 €		GROUP B 600 €		SECTIONS  480€
   Champion	800 € + trophy	Champion	250 € trophy	1st ELO 2500-2400	50 €
   Runner-up	400 € +   trophy	Runner-up	150 € trophy	2nd ELO 2100-2249	30 €
   Third	300 € trophy	Third	100 € trophy	1st ELO 2100-2249	50 €
   Room	200 €	Room	50 €	2nd ELO 2100-2249	30 €
   Fifth	150 €	Fifth	50 €	1st ELO 1950-2099	50 €
   Sixth	125 €			2nd ELO 1950-2099	30 €
   Seventh	75 €			1st ELO 1800-1949	50 €
   Eighth	50 €			2nd ELO 1800-1949	30 €
   Ninth	50 €			1st ELO 1650-1799	50 €
   Tenth	50 €			2nd ELO 1650-1799	30 €
   				1st ELO <1649	50 €
   				2nd ELO <1649	30 €
   Best player group A		Trophy	Best player group B		Trophy
   1st C. E. Sant Adrià group A		Trophy	1st C. E. Sant Adrià group B		Trophy
   Best Veteran +65 years group A		Trophy	Best Veteran +65 years group B		Trophy
   Best U-18 Group A		Trophy	Best U-18 Group B		Trophy

It is mandatory for the winning players to attend the prize ceremony to collect the winner, which will be on Tuesday 20-08-2025 after the end of the last round. Prizes are not distributed or accumulated among those tied on points. It will not be possible to accumulate a prize from the general classification and one from the stage, nor two trophies. If a player has two incompatible matches, the tournament management will assign him the one with the highest economic value and if they are of the same economic value, he will assign the one of the general classifications. To determine the prizes of the brackets, FIDE or Catalan rating will be used if you do not have it.

 The prizes will be paid deducting the current legal withholding, presenting the identification documentation of each person: NIF, passport or similar.

9. The time to declare a game lost due to no-show will be one hour from the official start time of the tournament. The participants will transfer their image rights to the Organization and/or third parties for the dissemination of the chess open, the results of the tournament and the promotion of the game of chess.
10. Players who do not show up without just cause to a single round, or two in the following rounds without justification, will be eliminated from the open. The rest requested by the players will be scored with 0 points, being able to request a maximum of two, (the third rest will mean the withdrawal from the tournament).
11. To decide the final standings, ties on points will be resolved by the following tiebreakers (with the Fide Adjustment of a virtual player): Bucholz -1, Bucholz medium and the total Bucholz. Once the last round of the tournament is over, the order of the first three tiebreaks will be drawn. If the tie persists, the particular result will be applied. Ultimately, there will be solved by lottery.
12. The score sheets are the property of the organization. It is forbidden to smoke in the playing hall, also electronic cigarettes, as well as to make use of mobile phones and other electronic devices likely to help players, applying the FIDE regulations regarding this situation.
13. Any point not provided for in these rules will be resolved by applying the regulations of the FIDE, FEDA, FCE and the Catalan International Open Circuit. Participation in the tournament implies acceptance of these rules

There will be a rapid tournament on Thursday, August 15 in the playing hall, in the morning at 10:00 a.m. with three trophies as a prize.

Free registration for open players. €5 registration fee for the rest.