The 5th "Xingqiu Cup" International Draughts Open Tournament Rules and Regulation

1. Organizers: Chinese Draughts Association Sports Bureau People’s Government of Municipality 2. Hosts: Non-Olympic Sports Management Center of Zhejiang Province Lishui Sports Bureau Lishui Education Bureau Lishui Xingqiu Chess Institute 3. Co-hosts: Zhejiang Xingqiu Chess&Cards Co., Ltd. Lishui Municipal Children and Teens Amateur Sports School 4. Competition Dates and Place 4.1 Dates: November 16, 2017 (Thursday) - November 21, 2017 (Tuesday) 4.2 Venue: Huaqiao New Century Grand Hotel Lishui (five-star hotel, No.651, Liyang Street, Liandu , Lishui Municipality, Zhejiang Province, ) 5. Groups 5.1 Adult(10×10): Men and Women;

5.2 U14(10×10): Boys and Girls (was born from January 1st, 2004 to August 31st, 2011). 6. Competition system 6.1 The latest FMJD regulations shall be observed; 6.2 Swiss system is proposed to be adopted in this tournament. The actual rounds and competition system will depend on the final number of participants. 6.3 Time control is 80 minutes with an increment of 30 seconds per move. 6.4 Adult and U14 will be paired together but rank respectively. 6.5 Appeals Committee, Sportsmanship and Discipline Committee will be set in this tournament. Players may appeal any judge’s decision providing an application in writing to the Appeals Committee with the deposit of 500 (five hundreds) CNY. The deposit will be returned if the application is granted. 7. Registration 7.1 Players should register through national association in priority. The registration should be confirmed by Chinese Draughts Association. For the players whose association could not register, their registration will be confirmed based on first-come-first-reserve principal. For each country or region, 3 players (1 for adult men, 1 for adult women, 1 for U14) will be invited. The organizing committee will bear accommodation fees of invited players. Other players should pay the accommodation fees by themselves. The accommodation fee is 400CNY per person per day (five-star hotel). 7.2 Registration fee is 50 euros per player, including certification fees of international tournament. The deadline of registration is Oct 31st, 2017. 7.3 The transportation guide will be published one month ahead of the Open; players should go to Lishui by themselves. Because of the foreign policy, we can not provide the invitation letter for the tournament. 7.4 The technical meeting will be held at 20:00 on Nov 15th; additional notifications and final registration will be made on this meeting. 7.5 Players should live in the official hotel, the unified accommodation fees will be calculated by Organizing Committee. Please be aware that players who leave earlier than the schedule or who don’t have meals in the hotel will not get returns.Thanks in advance for your understanding. 8. Ranks and prize If the number of players is more than 50 in each group, 16 places of men and 12 places of women will be ranked. If the number of players is less than 50 in each group, 10 places of men and 8 places of women will be ranked. Diplomas and medals will be awarded to ranking players. If U14 players can enter the ranking place of Adults group, the player can only get Adults group’s prize money. Please see the details of the prize money in Appendix A. 9. FMJD rating shall be calculated.

Contact Person: Ms. Silvia (Sun Junnan)

Contact e-mail and phone: [email protected] +861087559174 Appendix A: Prize Prize Group Ranking Group Ranking (CNY, before tax) (CNY, before tax)

1st 30’000 1st 20’000 2nd 17’000 2nd 13’000 3rd 13’000 3rd 10’000 4th 11’000 4th 8’000 5th 10’000 5th 7’000

Adult 6th 8’000 Adult 6th 6’000 Men 7th 7’000 Women 7th 5’000 8th 6’000 8th 4’000 9th 5’000 9th 3’000 10th 4’000 10th 2’000

11th 3’000 11th 1’000 12th 2’000 12th 1’000 13th -16th 1’000 - - Prize Prize Group Ranking Group Ranking (CNY, before tax) (CNY, before tax)

1st 1’800 1st 1’500 2nd 1’500 2nd 1’000

U14 3rd 1’000 U14 3rd 800 Boys 4th 800 Girls 4th 600 5th 600 5th 500 6th 500 6th 400 7th-10th 300 7th-10th 300