Paul Keres Memorial - 2013

 

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TIME AND LOCATION
From January 11 to 13, 2013 at Sokos Hotel Viru (4 Viru Square, Tallinn, Estonia).
THE PRELIMINARY TOURNAMENT will be a Swiss system 7-round rapid chess (15+15 minutes + a 5-second increment) tournament in one group. Tie-breaking: Buchholz method (the sum of the final scores of the opponents). For further tie-breaking, the score of the weakiest opponent will be eliminated from the overall Buchholz score, after that the scores of the two weakiest opponents and so on. The preliminary tournament belongs to the yearly series of rapid chess events organized by the The Estonian Chess Support Organization.
THE MAIN TOURNAMENT will be a 9-round rapid chess (15+15 minutes + a 10-second increment) round-robin tournament. 5 participants will gain the entrance from the preliminary tournament, 3 will be personally invited from abroad and 2 from Estonia. Tie-breaking: Berger system.

 

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