The June Rapid Tournament #4 (DMV Open Grand Prix Event) – Sunday, June 28th at 2 pm Eastern Daylight Time (1 pm CT, 12/noon MDT, or 11 am PDT)
As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, this tournament will be held online rather than in person.
Since this event has been moved to online, it will be rated under the USCF online rapid rating system. Players will be competing for USCF online rapid points. The tournament will be run on lichess.org.
This tournament is open to both children and adults of any age or rating.
Before signing up for the tournament, please register for a lichess.org account (it's free!) if you do not have an existing account. If you have any issues try watching this video we originally made for our scholastic tournaments about how to register an account on lichess: https://www.
There will be four sections: Open, Under 1800, Under 1200, and Under 800. These sections are determined by USCF regular rating. For example, a player with a rating of 1400 would belong in the Under 1800 section, a player rated 900 would belong in the Under 1200 section, and so forth. Unrated players can play in any section. If you don't know which section you belong in, feel free to contact us.
All participants must be active members of the US Chess Federation.
The time control will be game in 15 minutes with a 3-second increment.
The tournament will be run using arena-style pairings (players play a new game as soon as their previous game ends). The tournament will last two hours (everyone plays as many games as possible).
Players can take a break from the tournament at any time by pressing the "pause" button, or withdraw from the event by pressing the "withdraw" button.
A trophy will be mailed to the winner of each section.
5 DMV Open Grand Prix points will be awarded for participation. 1 Grand Prix point will be awarded for each victory.
After you register, you will receive an email from Caissa Chess with instructions on how to join the tournament online. If you don't receive the email, please check your spam folder.
We're also implementing a new rule for this and all of our future USCF-online rated tournaments: if any of a player's lichess accounts have ever been marked as using chess computer assistance, we reserve the right to annul or submit as rated forfeit losses any of that player's games at our sole discretion. Our hope is that this stricter policy will further discourage cheating in our online events.
If you have any questions, don't hesitate to reach out to Josh Hiban at 703-415-6600 or tournaments@dmvchess.com