Rules for Scintilla's Chess Tournament
Rules for Scintilla’s Chess Tournament The first 3 weeks of the tournament will consist of a group stage and the last 3 weeks takes the winner of each group to determine the winner of the tournament. Starting the week of the 13th of November, each participant will play 1 match each week. At the start of the week EE-Sports will announce which matches will be played.
Using the play schedule, you can contact your opponent and plan a time and date for your match. This way it is possible to find the most optimal time for the both of you! The match must be played before the Saturday of each week. At the end of the match BOTH participants should communicate the score to [email protected] clearly stating which match was played and what the result was. There are chessboards available in the Scintilla room. If you need one, ask the board! Game rules The normal chess rules are followed as set by FIDE (Fédération Internationale des Échecs). For clarity, some rules are explained in more detail here: Castling ‘Castling’ is allowed if the following rules are followed: • “The king and rook involved in castling must not have previously moved; • There must be no pieces between the king and the rook; • The king may not currently be in check, nor may the king pass through or end up in a square that is under attack by an enemy piece (though the rook is permitted to be under attack and to pass over an attacked square).” [1] Please note that when performing the castling manoeuvre, the king is touched first, before the rook.
En Passant Taking a pawn ‘en passant’ is only allowed if: “a pawn advances two squares from its original square and ends the turn adjacent to a pawn of the opponent's on the same rank, it may be captured by that pawn of the opponent's, as if it had moved only one square forward. This capture is only legal on the opponent's next move immediately following the first pawn's advance.”[1]
Touch-move rule Then there are some rules regarding the touching and moving of pieces. The rules regarding this are as follows: if a player touches a piece he or she should move that piece (if the piece can make a valid move). Where the piece is moved to can still be determined. A move must be made if a piece is released from the hand or if the player also touches an opponent’s piece (again only if this is a valid move).
Draw There a number of ways in which a match can end in a draw (both voluntarily or by accident). Please note that it must be clear that both players agree to a draw!
• “The game is automatically a draw if the player to move is not in check but has no legal move. This situation is called a stalemate. An example of such a position is shown in the adjacent diagram. • The game is immediately drawn when there is no possibility of checkmate for either side with any series of legal moves. This draw is often due to insufficient material, including the endgames • king against king; • king against king and bishop;
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rules_of_chess
• king against king and knight; • king and bishop against king and bishop, with both bishops on squares of the same colour; • Both players agree to a draw after one of the players makes such an offer.” [1]
Resigning At any point during the match a player can resign. This can be indicated verbally or by placing the king horizontally (not to be confused with tipping the king over!). Additional tournament rules also determine that if a player does not show up at the time that was agreed by both players he or she automatically resigns that match. Furthermore, if a player does not make any effort to schedule a match he or she automatically resigns that match. Final note Lastly, we as EE-Sports hope you will have a lot of fun during the tournament and may the most cunning and smart person win!
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rules_of_chess