FIDE RATED Ulster Team Rapid Championships 2025

FIDE RATED Ulster Team Rapid Championships

Date: Saturday 29 March 2025

Venue: City of Bangor International Chess Club, 30 Main Street, Groomsport, County Down, BT19 6JR

10:15am to 4:15pm

Time control: 15+10 (games will last approximately 50 minutes)

Teams of 4. Clubs may enter multiple teams but squad lists must be submitted in advance to the Chief Arbiter to ensure all entrants have a FIDE ID and rating.

Entry fee: £20 per team (so £5 per player) payable in advance to secure place)

Round 1 at 10:15am

Round 2 at 11:05am

Round 3 at 11:55am

Lunch break 12:45pm to 1:45pm

Round 4 at 1:45pm

Round 5 at 2:35pm

Round 6 at 3:25pm

Prize-giving at 4:15pm

Players must be seated in rating order, within 99 rating points, so anyone 100 rating points or higher, must play above their team-mates. Players may be rotated every round (as long as the players rotating are under 100 points)

Example board order:

Player 1 - 1850

Player 2 - 1949

Player 3 - 1803

Player 4 - 1742

FIDE rapid ratings will be used to determine board order. Where a player has no FIDE rapid, their FIDE classic will be used. Players without a FIDE rapid or FIDE classic rating, will have their UCU rapid rating used. Players without any rating will be assigned a provisional rating by the Chief Arbiter.

Pairings will be made with Swiss Master 5.7 Build 8. Teams will be entered into software programme with the rating of their highest player. A match win = 1 point. A match draw = 0.5 points. A match loss = 0 points. Tie-break order: Buchholz, Progressive, TPR Mixed.

The team captain is responsible for filling out team sheets at the start of each round and must be submitted to the Chief Arbiter at end of each round to ensure all games get FIDE rated.

If a team appears as White in the pairings then that team has White on Boards 1 and 3, with Black on Boards 2 and 4. Vice-versa, a team that appears as Black has Black on Boards 1 and  3, with White on Boards 2 and 4.

Deadline to enter: 7pm on Saturday 22nd March 2025.

Entries and prepayments to FIDE Chief Arbiter Brendan Jamison at fidechessni@gmail.com