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Games
If you are looking for chess games played in the club, then please see the Events page, this page talks about games in general.
Players can play as many games as they want in the club. A maximum of 100 simultaneous games is a general setting to avoid overloading.
Many games run simultaneously by each player.
Games can be divided into three groups in the club. These are all standard chess games, all the rules apply, but some of their attributes are different according to which groups they belong to.
The following table shows the attributes of the games belonging to the three groups:
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Games from challenges |
Games from pairing |
Tournament games |
| Rating |
Rated
or friendly |
Rated |
Rated |
| Time Control |
Without time control, 10/30, 10/40, 10/50 or 5+1 |
10/30 |
10/30 |
| Opening |
Opening may be given by move list or given by FEN line. |
Start from the standard setup |
Start from the standard setup |
| Colour |
Challenger can choose, challenged player plays white by default |
Player with older pairing request plays white |
Colors are according to the tournament's rules |
| Variant |
Traditional or Fischer Random, as the challenger wants |
Traditional |
Traditional |
| Publicity |
Private |
Private |
Public |
| Deletion |
With the opponent's agreement |
With the opponent's agreement |
Can't be deleted |
External tournaments that do not conform to the club's Regulations are not rated in club level. The games of these tournaments may also run under different time control than 10/30.
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Scoring
In competitive chess, a player scores one point for a win, a half-point for a draw, and zero points for a loss. So the rankings at the end of a tournament are easy to calculate by simple addition.
In the early 19th century, when modern competitive play began, draws were ignored, and a match was won by the player who first scored an agreed number of wins, or who had the most wins after an agreed number of games. With the advent of all-play-all tournaments (the first international all-play-all was held in London in 1851) draws became more important. At first, rules were devised to discourage draws, which were very unpopular with the chess public, but gradually these were dropped and draws were counted as a half-point.
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Tournaments
There are chess tournaments in the club continuously.
Now single round-robin, class based tournaments run only. They are class based that ensures players in similar ratings play each other. The games run simultaneously in round-robin tournaments, so a seven player event means 6 games in one time.
There are single class tournaments, where players of each 200 points class play each other. These events are always for 7 players.
And there are multi-class tournaments also, where players from 3 neighbor classes can play in. These are always for 9 players.
Whenever a tournament fills up, another one starts with the same parameters.
To protect serious players, new members can enter for tournaments after they have finished 5 games in order, and if their reliability factor is not below the value of 5.
In more details on the Tournaments page.
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