- The playing room(s) is here, the rest room is there.
- No fire alarm practice is planned for today. If the fire alarm goes off, that means somewhere is on fire. Follow the green signs out onto the playground. Walk, don't run.
- You will be looked after by one of the control team in the playing rooms and by your parent or someone else in the rest room.
- If your section controller can't see you and your carer can't see you, you are not being looked after. Stay where someone can see you.
- You are allowed outside today as long as someone is outside with you and can see you.
- Walk through playing rooms (don't run) and as quietly as you can.
- Mums and Dads and other carers - not in the playing rooms please.
- Please don't leave the venue before the end without telling us. Players are expected to be here all day.
- Toilets: boys here, girls there; adults use the staff loos over there.
- Food and drink - food in rest room only please - drinks OK in playing rooms - food stall by the book stall.
- LUNCH: there is no lunch break, so eat when you can
- Look after this venue, please - we might want to come back!
- No litter except in bins, no muddy feet from outside, no swinging on chairs, put chairs and tables back where you found them at the end of the day.
- Look after each other, please - there might be some people here who haven't played in a tournament before, so help them out if they aren't sure what to do
- Local club representatives/leaflets are here/there.
- Please support the bookstall!
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- There will be (6/7) rounds. [Round times: (1) 9.45 (2) 11.00 (3) 12.15 (4) 1.30 (5) 2.45 (6) 4.00] The younger sections may finish earlier and we may have an earlier prizegiving for them.
- Everyone plays in every round. So don't leave if you lose, you will get another game. If you lose, you have a chance to catch up!
- Everyone plays a different person in every round. If you are paired with the same player twice, someone has made a mistake! Please let the controller know.
- Pairings will be done on the Swiss System, which means you will play people who have (about) the same number of wins as you.
- That should mean that, even if you lose the first two games, you will then be meeting players who are on the same sort of form as you.
- Find your board number on the pairing board -- left-hand player will be White -- and go and sit down.
- Check that the board is set up properly: white square on the right, ranks 1-2 white pieces and 7-8 black, Knights to the outside of Bishops, Queen on square of her own colour
- We will play using all the rules of chess - including: touch move, touch take, en passant and castling king first.
- If you have a problem, put your hand up straight away - don't wait until after the game, when it will be too late!
- After you have agreed a result, fill in and hand in a result slip.
- The slip is the result, so if you win, make sure it says that you win and not your opponent.
- After the game, please reset the pieces (and clocks) and then leave the playing room.
- Please start and finish the game with a handshake - the first handshake says that you're both going to be fair and follow all the rules, and the second handshake says that you both did and you accept the result.
- Please do not interfere in other games. It is up to the players to notice an illegal move, or a clock flag fall, or whether it's checkmate or not. Controllers can interrupt if they see something important.
- Three illegal moves lose the game (not just two, as in adult chess).
- BYES: If there is an odd number of players in your section, the player left over will not get a tournament game but they will be given a point. The bye is usually given to the player with the fewest points who has not yet had a bye. Don't go away though, because if we have a spare player in another tournament, we might put you together to have a friendly game.
- PHONES: If your phone or other device makes a noise during the game, you lose. Turn your phone off, or leave them in the rest room with your parent/carer. Or stamp them under your heel...
- TIME CONTROL -- UK Chess Challenge: There will be 7 rounds of 40 minutes each. We won't be using clocks, just one big clock to let us know when 40 minutes are up. After 40 minutes, if you haven't agreed a result, we'll come around and agree a result with you. You need to be at least a piece up - or 3 pawns ahead - to win.
- TIME CONTROL -- Other tournaments: we will be playing with chess clocks.
- Each player gets 30 minutes to complete all their moves (analogue clocks), or 20min + 10s extra per move completed (digital clocks).
- If your flag falls, you lose - even if you have five Queens and your opponent has only one!
- Press the clock after you move, using the same hand as you used to move your piece. (Because when you're short of time, and you try and use two hands, sometimes you press the clock first!)
- If there are players here who haven't used a clock before (hands up), and you are playing with them, look after them please - maybe remind them to press the clock a couple of times if they forget. You don't have to, though, and team players should remember!
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