Coming Soon: Scholarship Open Tournament with Central NY Chess!

ChessKid is proud to announce that we are partnering with Central NY Chess in hosting the 2022 Scholarship Open Tournament! The event will take place at 9am PT/12pm ET on April 23rd, and is open to all chess players K-12!

The Scholarship Series offers college scholarship awards, free chess class awards, and will be live-streamed on the ChessKid Twitch and YouTube channels. Approximately half of all gross tournament proceeds will go to fund these scholarship awards. For more information about this event and how to sign up, please check out the Central NY page found here! 

Tournament Details

**This event will be US Chess Online Quick-Chess rated and is open to US Chess members registered as Youth (ages 15 & below) or Young Adults (ages 16-18). If you are not already a US Chess member, you can become a member at the same time as registering for this event by clicking here and adding the appropriate membership option to your shopping cart before checkout.**

Entry Fee: $60 if registered by April 2nd, 2022; $70 if registered between April 3rd-16th. No registrations will be accepted after 11:59pm ET, April 16th, 2022.

Format: Each section will play a seven round Swiss starting at 12pm EST with a time control of 15 minutes plus a 5 second increment.

Sections: This tournament will feature the following sections:

• Ages 10 and below- Rated U1000
• Ages 10 and below- Rated over 1000
• Ages 11-15- Rated U1000
• Ages 11-15- Rated over 1000
• Ages 16-18 Rated U1000
• Ages 16-18 Rated over 1000

    

 

Registration Information

For more details and registration information, please check out the official site here!

• The early registration fee will be $60 if received on or before April 2nd by 11:59pm ET.
• Registration from April 3rd-16th will be $70. There will be no registrations accepted after 11:59pm ET on April 16th. 
• ChessKid will create an unique username for user in this event.
• Everyone who registers by the early registration date of April 2nd will receive their username by Friday, April 15th and will be able to participate in a warm up event on April 16th. 
• Everyone who registers after April 2nd will receive their username in time to play in the main event on Saturday, April 23rd.

Prizes

 

Each section will offer prizes for 1st-8th place players including:

• 1st Place- College Scholarship Award, trophy, one semester (8 weeks) of online chess classes via Zoom, and one year of ChessKid Gold Membership
• 2nd Place- Trophy, one semester (8 weeks) of online chess classes via Zoom, and one year of ChessKid Gold Membership
• 3rd-4th Place- One semester (8 weeks) of online chess classes via Zoom, and one year of ChessKid Gold Membership
• 5th-8th Place- One year of ChessKid Gold Membership

Fair Play

ChessKid expects that all children and their families will abide by the rules governing fair play. Both the child and the parent/guardian will have to agree to our fair play policies when registering for the event.

This is what will be agreed to upon registering for the event:

• ChessKid will run this event with the highest level of integrity and ethics. All players must play fairly and use good sportsmanship.
• We strictly forbid cheating of all kinds. ChessKid will use its own algorithms to monitor games and also will manually analyze select games at its discretion.
• All of your moves must be your own. You will not get help from anyone or anything else, including coaches, friends, parents, chess engines, or any other software of any kind.
• You will also not have a phone, tablet, or any other electronic device in the same room.
• You are only allowed to have one browser tab open and no other programs running on your computer. Violating this rule is a “technical forfeiture” and you will be disqualified, with no chance at prizes.
• You agree that ChessKid will make the final determination on any fair play issue.
• If you violate the ChessKid Fair Play Policy, then ChessKid will close your account and label it as having violated the Fair Play Policy.
• If you are not willing to agree to the above policies, you will not be allowed to play in the event.

 

Technical Details

• All games will be played on ChessKid.com's live server. No account is needed and if you already have an account, you won't need that either. Special one-time use tournament accounts will be created for all players.
• Each section will be open for kids to 'join' the tournament about 30 minutes before the first round. Here's a video on how a child joins a live tournament on ChessKid. If you try to join after the starting time, you may not be able to play. It is required that you 'join' before the tournament starting time.
• ChessKid highly encourages playing on a laptop/desktop computer and not a tablet. Wifi is usually stronger and the site functions better. If you can plug in to an ethernet port, that is best. The reality of online play, even with the world champion, is that Wifi failures can impact an online tournament.
• If you must play on a tablet, the web site version is the only way (opening a browser on your device). The app will not work for this.
• Preferred browsers are Chrome, Firefox, or Safari.
• Clearing your browser's cache before the tournament is another great protective measure.
  If you experience issues in the middle of the game or the tournament, clicking 'refresh' on your browser is the first thing to do. If you 'refresh' in the middle of a game, it will never kick you out of the game and can only help.
• Two kids cannot play at the same time on the same device.
• If a family has any issues with logging in, playing, etc, there will be a live help desk on Slack that will open one hour before the first round.