FRCEC’s Annual Championship Tournament

The Fischer Cup!!!

Last Updated 02/13/07

FRCEC was founded on April 25, 2004. The Fischer Cup is an annual championship tournament to commemorate our anniversary, starting on April 25th of every year.

The top ranked players in the club the week before April 25th, with a minimum of 5 completed games, will receive an invitation to the tournament.

The first 11 players that accept their invitation first play in a single game round robin tournament. Each player will play 5 games as white and 5 games as black. A perfect score in the round robin will be 10 points.

The top 4 players in the round robin will play in the Fischer Cup's Playoff!

Tie breaker games might be necessary to determine the top 4 players of the Round Robin round.

In case of a 2-way or 3 way tie for 2^nd place, the 2^nd place winner will be selected as follows:

1. By the best result in the games between the tied players in the Round Robin.

2. By the individual result in the Round Robin against the player who finished 1^st over all.

3. By the highest rating of the tied players at the beginning of the tournament.

4. By a tie-breaker game

If clause number 1 above doesn’t determine the 2^nd place finisher, then clause 2 is used; if clause 2 is not enough to determine the 2^nd place finisher, then clause 3 is used, and so forth.

In case of a 3-way tie for 3^th place, the player with the best result in the games between the three players will finish 3^rd place overall, and the remaining two players will play a tie breaker game for the 4^th spot.

In case of a 2-way tie for 4^th place, a tie breaker game will be played to decide the 4^th place in the Round Robin round.

Tie breaker games will be played with opposite colors to the game played between the players in the Round Robin.

Every game in the Fischer Cup is meant to start with a different starting position (but a few repeated starting positions are possible).

The Fischer Cup’s playoff uses the Page Playoff System, described below:

Quarterfinal Round:

1st vs 2nd place match: Winner goes to Final, loser goes to Semi-Final

3rd vs 4th place match: Winner goes to Semi-Final, loser is eliminated

Semi-Final Match:

Loser of 1st-2nd vs Winner of 3rd-4th

Championship/Final Match:

Winner of 1st-2nd vs Winner of Semi-Final Match

The Page playoff system gives credit to the top two players in the round robin by giving them a 1 in 2 chance to play in the Final; while the 3rd and 4th place players have to fight off for a spot in the Semi-Final, therefore eliminating the possibility of a 3rd vs 4th Final game. One of the top two players in the round robin will always play for the Fischer Cup.

Every match in the playoffs will consist of 2 games, one as white and one as black. In case of a tie score (1-1) the lower rated player will advance, except for the Final match. In case of a tie in the Final a Tie-breaker game will be played, with the lower rated player playing white.

Games in the Round Robin and Playoffs will be played in all chess servers supported by FRCEC simultaneously (i.e. a player might play in the round robin 4 games in SchemingMind, 3 in E4EC, 1 in Chess Variants and 2 in BrainKing)

FRCEC - Fischer Cup I

Start Date: April 25, 2005

Round Robin Crosstable
Round Robin Crosstable
No.	Player Name	Rating	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	Score
1	S. Rosoft	1645	-	1	0	1	0	1	0	1	0	1	1	6
2	Eton Chin	1567	0	-	0	0	0	1/2	0	0	0	1	1	2.5
3	Martin Berger	1578	1	1	-	1	0	1	0	1	1	1	1	8
4	Raúl Eduardo Palacio	1524	0	1	0	-	0	1/2	0	1	0	1	1	4.5
5	Dennis Michael	1585	1	1	1	1	-	1	0	1	1/2	1	1	8.5
6	Jose Carrillo	1566	0	1/2	0	1/2	0	-	0	0	0	1	1	3
7	Daniel Weber	1547	1	1	1	1	1	1	-	1	1/2	1	1	9.5
8	Juan Carlos Izquierdo	1540	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	-	0	1	1	4
9	Geir Smith-Meyer	1532	1	1	0	1	1/2	1	1/2	1	-	1	1	8
10	bye		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	-	0	0
11	bye		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	-	0

Round Robin Standings
Round Robin Standings
Place	Player Name	Country	Rating	W-L-D	Score
1	Daniel Weber	Switzerland	1547	7-0-1	9.5
2	Dennis Michael	U.S.A.	1585	6-1-1	8.5
3	Martin Berger	Germany	1578	6-2-0	8
4	Geir Smith-Meyer	Norway	1532	5-1-2	8
5	S. Rosoft	U.S.A.	1645	4-4-0	6
6	Raúl Eduardo Palacio	Argentina	1524	2-5-1	4.5
7	Juan Carlos Izquierdo	Spain	1540	2-6-0	4
8	Jose Carrillo	Puerto Rico	1566	0-6-2	3
9	Eton Chin	Jamaica	1567	0-7-1	2.5
10	bye
11	bye

Fischer Cup I - Playoffs

Player #	Quarterfinals	Score		Semifinals	Score		Final	Score		Champion
1	Daniel Weber	1	1/2	Daniel Weber	Bye		Daniel Weber	1	1	Daniel Weber

2	Dennis Michael	1/2	0	Dennis Michael	0	1
							Martin Berger	0	0
3	Martin Berger	1	1	Martin Berger*	0	1
4	Geir Smith-Meyer	0	0

*Tied in the Semifinal round, but advanced to the next round based on his lower rating, as per tournament rules.

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