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FRCEC’s 2^nd Annual Championship Tournament

The Gligoric Cup!!!

Last Updated 02/13/07

FRCEC was founded on April 25, 2004. The Gligoric Cup is FRCEC’s 2^nd annual championship tournament to commemorate our anniversary, starting on April 25th of every year, running parallel to the Fischer Cup, our main event!

Svetozar Gligoric is the acclaimed journalist and Grandmaster, who wrote "Shall We Play Fischerandom Chess?", the first book ever published on FRC.

The Gligoric Cup is a tournament open to all FRCEC members (not playing in the Fischer Cup).

The first 11 players to register in the Gligoric Cup will 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 Gligoric 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 Gligoric Cup is meant to start with a different starting position (but a few repeated starting positions are possible).

The Gligoric Cup’s playoff will use 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 Gligoric 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 - Gligoric Cup I

Start Date: April 25, 2005

Round Robin Crosstable
No.	Player Name	Rating	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	Score
1	Paul Fromen	1476	-	1	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	3
2	Peter Leyva	1383	0	-	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	2
3	Abhay Kumar	1503	1	1	-	1/2	1	1	1	0	1	1/2	1/2	7.5
4	José Sanchez	1462	1	1	1/2	-	1	1	0	0	1	1	1/2	7
5	Alice Wood	1368	1	0	0	0	-	1	0	0	0	0	0	2
6	Bryan Jones	1500	0	0	0	0	0	-	0	0	0	0	0	0
7	Diego Sueiro	1506	1	1	0	1	1	1	-	0	1	0	0	6
8	Daniel Mendez	1401	0	1	1	1	1	1	1	-	1	0	0	7
9	Roscoe Ellis	1328	1	1	0	0	1	1	0	0	-	0	1/2	4.5
10	Joerg Nowak	1500	1	1	1/2	0	1	1	1	1	1	-	1	8.5
11	Marc Wakeham	1499	1	1	1/2	1/2	1	1	1	1	1/2	0	-	7.5

Round Robin Standings

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