Ikaros Chess Festival 2000
(11-23 July 2000, Agios Kyrikos, Ikaria island, GREECE)
Ikaros Chess Festival 2000
will take place in Agios Kyrikos, Ikaria island[1],
in Greece, from July 11th
until July 23rd 2000. This is the 22nd
consecutive Ikaros Chess Festival taking place in Ikaria. This
year Ikaros Festival includes seven (7) tournaments. The first three
tournaments offer accommodation privileges for the winners while the remaining
four offer cash prizes of total value one million drachmas (1.000.000).
In more detail, the following tournaments will take
place:
1.
International
Open Women’s Tournament.
It
will take place from July 11th until the July 14th. It
will be a 5 round Swiss tournament with thinking time two hours for each player
for the whole game.
Participation
is open to women chess players regardless of rating, title or age.
The
first 33% of the top players (classification depending on their score in this
tournament) will be accommodated for the duration of the festival.
2. Junior’s Tournament of
Agios Kyrikos.
It
will take place from July 11th until the July 14th. It
will be a 5 round Swiss tournament with thinking time two hours for each player
for the whole game.
Participation
is open to junior chess players (less than 20 years old) regardless of rating,
or title.
The
first 33% of the top players (classification depending on their score in this
tournament) will be accommodated for the duration of the festival.
3. Veteran’s Tournament of Agios Kyrikos
It
will take place from July 11th until the July 14th. It
will be a 5 round Swiss tournament with thinking time two hours for each player
for the whole game.
Participation
is open to veteran chess players (over 55 years old) regardless of rating or
title.
The
first 33% of the top players (classification depending on their score in this
tournament) will be accommodated for the duration of the festival.
4. “Rapid” Team Tournament.
It
will take place from July 11th until the July 14th. It
will be a 5 round Swiss tournament with thinking time twenty-five (25) minutes
for each player for the whole game.
Participation
is open to any four-player teams. (No restrictions for the order of the players
at the chessboards apply).
Accommodation
will be offered to the players of the 20% of the top teams.
5. “Blitz” International Tournament
This
tournament will take place on the 14th of July. It will be a seven
(7) round Swiss
tournament with thinking time limited to five (5) minutes for each player for
the whole game.
Participation
is again unrestricted and the prizes are 25,000 drs. for the first, 15,000 drs.
for the second and 10,000 drs.for the third.
6. Aegean Open Championship.
Aegean
Open Championship will be held from the 15th until the 22nd
of July. It will be a nine (9) rounds accelerated Swiss tournament.
Thinking time will be two (2) hours for the first forty (40) moves and one (1)
hour for the completion of the game for each player.
The
schedule of the tournament is as follows:
1st
Round: Saturday 15/7, 15.00
p.m.
2nd
Round: Sunday 16/7, 10.00 a.m.
3rd
Round: Sunday 16/7, 18.00 p.m.
4th
Round: Monday 17/7, 17.00 p.m.
5th
Round: Tuesday 18/7, 17.00 p.m.
6th
Round: Wednesday 19/7, 17.00 p.m.
7th
Round: Thursday 20/7, 17.00 p.m.
8th
Round: Friday 21/7, 15.00 p.m.
9th
Round: Saturday 22/7, 10.00 a.m.
The
prizes will be 450,000drs in total. The first one will receive 120,000 drs the
second 80,000 drs, the third 60,000 drs, the fourth 40,000 drs, the fifth
30,000 drs, the sixth 20,000 drs and the seventh 10,000 drs. The first female
player will receive 30,000drs, the second 20,000 drs and the third 10,000 drs.
The first veteran will receive 20,000drs and the second 10,000drs. The female
and veteran players that will assume one of the top seven positions receive both
prizes, one from the general classification and one from the specific. Cup
prizes and medals will be awarded to all of the winners in the tournament.
The
first four from the general, accumulative, score board in the Aegean Championship
(Ikaria), the Mitilini International Chess Tournament, (July 24th –
July 31st ,Lesvos island) and Chania “Battle of Crete”
International Tournament (August 2nd
– August 9th , Chania,Crete) will also share a cash prize of
450,000drs. Details concerning how the prize will be shared among the winners
will be announced later.
The first Greek chess player
– member of a chess society in the Aegean region- will be declared the Aegean
Champion.
7. International Tournament “Blindfold –
Rapid”
This
tournament will take place on the 22nd and 23rd of July
and is carried out without the use of chessboards. Thinking time is limited to
twenty-five minutes per player for the duration of the game.
Participation will be defined by invitation and the lay-out of the prizes will be 25,000 drs for first place, 15,000 drs for second and 10,000 drs for third.
During
the period between 11 and 23 of July classes and tournaments for young chess
players are offered as well as outdoor exhibitions of “simoultane” and
“handicap”. Furthermore many other athletic and cultural events will also take
place.
(All expenditure covers all of the
tournaments and the parallel events of “Ikaros Chess Festival 2000”)
ENTRY
FEES:
The
entry fees are 10,000 drs for the Aegean Championship and 2,000 drs for each of
the subsequent tournaments (these fees do not apply to holders of international
titles, chess-players that have already qualified, members of the Ikaria Chess
Club and Ikarian chess-players
regardless of the club they belong to).
CONTESTANTS
EXPENDITURES:
For
a limited number of contestants-the ones that have entered their participation
for the event by the 30th of June the latest- a special discount
price applies which includes ferry tickets, accommodation costs and entry fees.
This special price is set at 25,000 drs per person and applies from the 11th
until the 14th of July. From the 15th and until the 22nd
the price will be 60,000 and the costs for the entire event (11 – 22 July) is
set at 80,000 drs.
For families, four-member (at least)
teams, players under the age of 20 and natives the costs of participation will
be subsidized by the organizers up to 20% of the whole price. So the respective
price-list will be 20,000, 48,000 and 64,000.
For the chess-players that have qualified,
the IMs and GMs, travel (tourist class on commercial ferries) and accommodation
(two-bed en-suite room) costs will be covered by the committee. For GMs with an
ELO up to 2300 the organizers will contribute to board and basic day to day
costs. GMs and WGMs will receive 3,000 drs for every ten points above 2300 ELO.
The criteria for a ruling when faced with a situation of a score tie in any of the tournaments (unless there is a different clause stated in a complementary edition of the set rules) will be: 1) Buholtz 2) Median Buholtz 3) Victories 4) Sum of progressive standings. The tie-break conditions apply in all events and tournaments. However, the cash-prizes are divided equally between the players that hold the same final score.
For more information please contact Mr. Dimitris Skyrianoglou at:
Phone: +30 1 5311473
+30 1 5985370
+30 1 7275334
+30 93 7665853
E-mail: dimiski@di.uoa.gr
Alternatively
participation may be e-mailed at:
Ikaroschess@hotmail.com
or Ikaroschess@yahoo.com
For
possible updates and additional information concerning the Ikaros Chess
Festival 2000, and the island of Ikaria, you can also visit:
http://www.chess.gr/ikaros
[1] Ikaria is an island situated in the eastern Aegean Sea the name of which
was inspired by the myth of Ikaros, a young Greek that died in the region in an
attempt to fly on wings made from wax fleeing from the Cretan King Minos