Washington High School
Chess Association

2013 Washington State High School
State Team Championship
Friday & Saturday, February 8 & 9, 2013

Site

Interlake High School, 16245 NE 24th Street, Bellevue, WA 98008.    (See Google maps driving directions )

Register your team online online before Wednesday, February 28th at 8:00 pm.

Directions

From SR-520:

Allow plenty of time; these are very congested areas.

Take these directions with you on tournament day!

Format

5 round Swiss system tournament of 5 player teams with 2 optional reserves.

Pairing and placing is by team point system (one point per board, all board scores count!). Teams from the same league will not be paired in the early rounds whenever possible.

Pairing is by computer with hand adjustments.

Eligibility

Teams: Must place in top half plus one team in each league to be eligible. If an eligible team chooses not to participate, the next eligible team may replace it. Check with league director. Schools without a league available are "independent" and may enter.

Individuals on a team: The WHSCA website (www.whsca.org) has the complete team eligibility policy but here's a brief summary:

  1. Players must be registered for a majority of their program at the school they represent.
  2. A home schooled student or a student at a school without any chess program may appeal to WHSCA to play for the closest available public school
  3. Such school should be their resident public school (if one is explicitly stated in district policy) or, if not applicable, the closest public school with a program.
  4. Varsity team members must establish at least some record of participation with the team. If a player plays in at least two of his/her team's league matches the participation requirement will be considered met. A recent new registrant player at the school will be exempt from this requirement.

ALL APPEALS SHOULD BE MADE IN WRITING OR RECEIVED EMAIL AT LEAST 10 DAYS BEFORE THE STATE TEAM TOURNAMENT. Email your questions to Dave Ellinger at dellinger@seaprep.org.

Make sure your contact information is present on your entry form.

Special note: No school can enter this tournament without a full team (of five). Please do not show up without a full team or you will not be allowed to compete. Also, we will not typically allow varsity players to play in the JV Individual.

Board Order

Establish your team board order carefully when pre-registering. Your team must be ordered by playing strength, with your #1 player at first board down to your #5 player at fifth board. Absolutely no changes from this pre-registered order will be allowed at the tournament except for the use of alternates.

The variance on established ratings is 150 points. AGAIN, ABSOLUTELY NO CHANGE OF BOARD ORDER FROM YOUR PRE-REGISRATION, EXCEPT FOR ALTERNATES, WILL BE ALLOWED ON SITE AT CHECK-IN!! Call or email Randy Kaech the night before if you have changes!

RATINGS, SPECIAL NOTE: Players must play in order of playing strength. The ratings are a good approximation of reality but aren't perfect. Our rules allow a 150 point variance of ratings on team placement if coaches and captains feel a player is not correctly placed by the rating. Variances of order greater than 150 points should be explained carefully in the registration, and may be challenged by the Tournament Directors. Normally players with unusually high provisional ratings may play out of rating order.

Again, no change of board order from your pre-registration, except for alternates, will be allowed during check-in!
Call or email Randy Kaech the night before, if you require any changes.

Ratings

Northwest Scholastic Rating System, no membership is required. We will use the latest ratings from the NWSRS database available on Feb 28, 2023. NWSRS ratings are available online at www.ratingsnw.com.

Time Control

Round 1: Game/60 minutes with a five second delay.

Rounds 2-5: Game/90 minutes with a five second delay.

Recording of games is required except in the last 5 minutes on either player's clock.

Schedule

Friday:
  3:30 pm Check in no later than 3:30; verify team roster and JV Individual players.
    Teams not checked in by 3:30 will be fined clock time in round one. Plan to arrive early!
  3:40 pm All-Players' meeting at 3:40 pm is important!
  4:15 pm Round 1 (Game/60)
  7:00 pm Round 2
Saturday:
  9:00 am Round 3 clocks start.
  1:00 pm Round 4
  5:00 pm Round 5. Starting times will not be moved up.
  8:30 pm Awards
  9:00 pm End

Tie Breaks

If there is a tie for 1st Place there will be a speed chess team playoff (Game in 3 minutes with a 2 second delay), played with USCF touch-move rules.

The tie-breaks for all other ties for team trophies will be broken by the following tie-break system, in order:

  1. Head-to-Head:
    If two teams are tied and played each other, their head-to-head result will determine the top finisher. If more than two teams are tied, head-to-head will only apply if one of the tied teams beat all other teams in the tie.
  2. Modified Median: The sum of all your opponent's scores, save the worst-finishing opponent.
  3. Solkoff: The sum of all your opponent's scores.
  4. Cumulative Score: Add together the team's total score after each round.

Bring

Sets, boards, clocks, writing utensils. Score sheets provided. PLEASE COME EQUIPPED!! BRING CLOCKS & SETS!

Awards

Trophies to the top ten placing schools, plus the winning team also is awarded custody of the LaFreniere Cup (the Washington State High School Chess Team Championship rotating trophy).

Medals for members of the winning team.

Medals for All-Stars at each board.

Tournament Pairings

Dave Ellinger will manage the pairing and is the Tournament Director.
Randy Walther will lead the floor judging, supported by David Ellinger and our usual cast of helpful people.

Entry Fee

$75 per team. All entry fees are to be paid at check in. No Purchase Orders accepted. Cash or checks only.

All entries at a minimum must show:
• the full team, in proposed board order
• the NWSRS ID number for each player
• the grade for each player (for unrated players use the word "new" but grade must still be provided)

All entries must use the online registration page or be emailed to Randy Kaech at dellinger@seaprep.org by Wednesday, February 28th at 8:00 pm, NO EXCEPTIONS!!

Absolutely no entries on site! No standard mail or faxed entries will be accepted!

Please respect the fact that considerable work must be done with the entries prior to the tournament.

REGISTER ON TIME before Wednesday, February 28th at 8:00 pm!!!

Make Checks Payable To

WHSCA (Washington High School Chess Association) during check-in at the event.

Questions or Concerns

Email Randy Kaech at kaechster@gmail.com

Emergency phone number: At the tournament (if you are delayed), 206-458-9403 (Randy Kaech's cell phone)

2013 State JV Individual
Friday & Saturday, February 8 & 9, 2013

Date, Site, Ratings, Time Control, Schedule, Registration

All the same as for State Team, above.

Come equipped with sets, boards, clocks and pencils!

Format

Five round Swiss system individual tournament, computer paired, no limit on number of players from a school.

Eligible

Individuals are eligible if their school is fielding a team in State Team and if they have not played with their varsity team except as a sometime substitute. This is not an open event. This tournament is only for JV players accompanying their varsity teams.

Special note: Players (two alternates named in your registration) in this event may replace players on a varsity team and still receive a half point bye in the JV event. To do this, make sure the Tournament Director knows your intention before the conclusion of the previous round.

Awards

1st - 7th Place Trophies. Best Under 900 Trophy. Best Under 800 Trophy.

Medals to players that score 3.5 or better that don't receive a trophy.

No Team Trophies are awarded in the JV Section.

Entry Fee

$15 per player. 

A 100% pre-registered tournament.  No registrations accepted on site or after Wednesday, February 28th at 8:00 pm.

Please submit your list of players competing in the JV State Individual with your State Team Entry. Include first and last name, the NWSRS ID number (or indicate Unrated) and the grade for each player.