Garden State Chess League
2013-2014 Season
Rules
- Play will run from October
1st thru June 30th.
- A round-robin format will be
used.
- Teams will play 1 match per
month.
- The time control will be
G/75;d5. Analog clocks are to be set at G/75.
- There will be 4 boards per
team.
- The visiting team will have
White on boards 1 and 3.
- A team’s 4-board average cannot
exceed 1925.0 in any match.
- Players rated <1000 will
be considered to have a 1000 rating.
- Provisional ratings will be
considered established or official. *
- Foreign players can be used
but their rating will be converted to the USCF equivalent. *
- If an unrated player is used,
the average of the other players in his/her lineup must be 1925.0 or less.
- The lineups must be in rating
order with unrateds at the bottom.
- The USCF’s September 2013
Golden Database will determine all player ratings for the season.
- A club may field more than 1
team.
- Once a player competes for a
team, he is bound to them for the season.
- The league's schedule-maker
sets the playing site and takes traveling distance into account. Teams can
request a day or venue change.
- Ties in the standings will be
broken as follows : 1. head to head result; 2. total game points; 3. games
won
- If a team does not play half
of its scheduled matches, its results will be nulled. Forfeited matches are
not considered played matches. *
* = new rule for 2013-14