11th Asian Continental Open and Women’s Chess Championships

11th Asian Continental Open and Women’s Chess Championships

The Vietnam Chess Federation, on behalf of the Asian Chess Federation and FIDE, invites your Federation to participate in the 11th Asian Continental/Individual Open and Women’s Chess Championships scheduled 4th to 14th May 2012 in Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam.

The Championships will be played in accordance with the following rules and regulations:

1. ELIGIBILITY & PARTICIPATION

1.1 Each Federation from FIDE Zones 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5 and 3.6 can enter one official player in the Open and one official player in the Women’s Division.

1.2 In addition, each Federation may send extra players rated 2300 and above for the Open, and 2000 and above for Women based on the March 2012 FIDE Rating List. Extra players will be responsible for the payment of their board and lodging at the official hotel. Exceptions for the rating floor may be made by the Continental President on request of national federations.

2. PLAYING CONDITIONS

The tournament shall be conducted as a Swiss System competition of 9 or 11 rounds depending on the number of players. If the players are 64 or less it will be organized in 9 rounds and if more than 64 players it will be in 11 Rounds.

Draw offer is not allowed before 30th move.

The Blitz competition will organize in 11 round Swiss System and only Players should have same conditions of Main Tournament; Time Control will be 3 Minutes and 2 Seconds Increment for each move.

Full information here: http://www.chessdom.com/11th-asian-continental-open-and-womens-chess-championships/