Organization
The Club Escacs Sant Josep de Badalona organizes the 37th "Ciutat de Badalona" International Chess Open, in collaboration with the Badalona City Hall and the Catalan and Spanish chess federations. It's open to every chess players with current license.
Tournament Director: Manel Triquell. Deputy Director: Carles Tosses.
Chief Arbiter: IA Josep Maria Salvans. Referees: Cristina Pérez, Josep Maria Benítez i Davide Vega.

The event is part of the VIII Catalan Chess Circuit Tournament Summer International Open (normative, prizes and calendar at http://www.escacs.cat/circuit2010/indexingles.html), organized by the Catalan Chess Federation (www.escacs.cat), classified as A category in the general standings and A special category in the rating standings section.

There will be 2 groups of players divided into:
Group A: players rated up to or 2000.
Group B: players rated under 2000.
The players rated between 1950-1999 will be able to choose which group to join (they must choose in the registration mail, if not, they will join group B; in fact, the only one to opt for a prize in the general standings of the Catalan Circuit). Exceptionally, the organization could entitle a player rated under 1950 to join the A Group.

The initial rankings are made according to the FIDE rating. For the players who have no FIDE rating, his initial ranking will be determined according to the Catalan rating and, secondly, to the Spanish rating. All other ratings (national or regional) will be validated by the sports commission of the FCE, according to the normative of the Catalan Circuit of Summer Opens.

Competition Commission
Any unexpected problem will be solved, firstly, by the Chief Arbiter or the Tournament Director (exclusively for non reglamentary subjects), and, secondly and asked for the interested player/s, by the Competition Commission. Their decision will be definitive as not to paralyze the tournament. The Competition Commission will be formed by the Tournament Director, and 3 players chosen by all the players in the first round. Any complaint presented to the Competition Commission must be presented written up to 1 hour after the current round ends.
Official reclamation forms will be available to all players to manage the problems during the tournament.

General Rules
This tournament is valid to obtain Catalan rating, FIDE and FEDA, and to obtain international and catalan titles.
The players arriving to the chessboard more than 1 hour after the scheduled start will lose the game.
The players missing first round or 2 rounds without justification, although not consecutives, will be eliminated. Those players missing 1 round will have to notify the arbiter during the former round. A player only can be no paired 2 rounds, the third one will imply the withdrawal.
Any player whose mobile phone rings during the game shall lose the game, and there's no possible appeal.
Any point not included in these rules will be solved according to the normative of the Catalan federation (FCE) and the Fide normative, with needed adaptations to the special features of the tournament.
Participate in this tournament implies the acceptation, by the player, of these rules.
The organization keeps the right of admission reserved. Complaint forms are available to all players.

The tournament will be hold daily from 1st to 9th of August, 2011, with Swiss System. The games will start at 16.30 h and the prizegiving will be on August 9th at 21.45 h in the playing venue.

 

	July 31st	22 h	Registration Deadline
Monday	August 1st	16.30 h	1st Round
Tuesday	August 2rd	16.30 h	2nd Round
Wednesday	August 3th	16.30 h	3rd Round
Thursday	August 4th	16.30 h	4th Round
Friday	August 5th	16.30 h	5th Round
Saturday	August 6th	16.30 h	6th Round
Sunday	August 7th	16.30 h	7th Round
Monday	August 8th	16.30 h	8th Round
Tuesday	August 9th	16.30 h	9th Round
	August 9th	21.45 h	Prizegiving

Indicative schedule and playoff system

TOURNAMENT SYSTEM
The tournament will be a Swiss System at 6 rounds. After 6th game, the 8 first players in the general standing will play a playoff (qualifying rounds) to clarify the final standings from 1st to 8th. The players winning a game qualify for next round (further information below). Meanwhile, all other players will continue the Swiss System to clarify the final standings from 9th ahead.

Time Control
90 minutes + 30 seconds cumulative increment for each move (all the game).

PLAY-OFF
It's the system to clarify the final standings (from 1st to 8th). The 8 best classifieds players after the 6th game will take part in the Play-Off, meanwhile the other players (from 9th to the last one) will be playing under the Swiss System till 9th round.

Tiebreak
After 6th round, the order of tiebreak systems will be chosen by drawing lots, to clarify the standings, between the following:
- Buchholz (-1) with FIDE corrections
- Sum of Progressive Scores
- Medium Buchholz with FIDE corrections

If the tie still persists the tiebreak systems applied will be (in the following order):
- Number of games won
- Drawing lots

Play-Off (Qualifying Rounds)
The players winning a game will gain the qualifying round. A maximum of 4 games will be played, and the 5th would be Armaggedon game (sudden death) to decide who wins the wualifying roung. Any stage (game) of the playoff will have the following (below listed) time control and colours. The first time, the best player placed in the open stadngings would have white pieces, swapping colour in any needed tiebreak game.

Session Game	Control	Color best Open standing	Color worst Open standing
1st 16.30 h	90(40)/30'+30/30'	White	Black
2nd 21 h	10m+10seg	Black	White
3rd 21.45 h	3m+5seg	White	Black
4th 22 h	3m+5seg	Black	White
5th 22.15 h	Armageddon*	Drawing Lots	Drawing Lots

* 6 minutes for white and 5 minutes for black to finish. If draws, black wins. Colours shall be determined by lot.

The rest of players continue playing the swiss tournament to decide the 9th position and over. The tiebreaks will be decided after 6th round.

Play-Off pairing
The general standing after 6th round shall determined the pairing (1v8, 2v7, 3v6 and 4v5). The winners will meet (1v8 against 4v5, and 2v7 against 3v6) for the places 1st to 4th, and so do the losers for the places 5th to 8th, as seen below.

A: 1 v 8

B : 4 v 5

C: 2 v 7

D: 3 v 6

E: A v B

F: C v D

The players rated under 2000 playing in the group A can apply for the prizes for rating section 2000-2149, but the result is not vallid for the Catalan Circuit Standings.

By email, click Club Escacs Sant Josep, noting name, surname, club, rating, code and birthday.

By phone :
638 417 866 Sr. Pablo Fernández (English only)
629 776 408 Sr. Jaume Triquell
677 109 802 Sr. Manel Triquell
686 006 407 Sr. Carlos Ortiz


Registration deadline: 31-07-11, 22h.

Players rated above 2350 elo FIDE: Free registration.

Players can pay registration fee the first raound at the playing venue.
Group A: 40 €
Group B: 35 €
Under 16 and over 60: 25 €

5 € discount registrations before July 26th
by money transfer to the account (La Caixa de Pensions)
2100-0186-53-0200476141
Please, write clearly your name, surname and club

CENTRE CÍVIC LA SALUT
Av. Marquès de Sant Mori s/n. Badalona (Barcelona)

Air conditioning. Adapted to people with restricted mobility.
From August 1st-9th, every day at 16.30 h.
Prizegiving: August 9th, 21.45 h.

Location (click on the map to enlarge)

HOW TO ARRIVE

BY BUS
B22 (from Barcelona - Sant Pau Hospital),
4 (from Badalona downtown)

BY UNDERGROUND
Gorg (Line 2)
La Salut (Line 10)

BY CAR
Highway C31 - off Sud (from Barcelona), off Sant Adrià (from Mataró)

Hostal Solimar.
Caritat,29. Telf. 933895003

Hostal Badaloní.
Baldomer Solà,57. Telf. 933888899

BARCELONA DREAM HOSTEL
AlfonsoXIII,28. Telf. 933991420 Badalona
http://www.barcelonadream.net/