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  NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL CHAMPS
Invitation Letter - Format- Reports- Zone1 and 2 Pairings-

2005/2006 NATIONAL SCHOOL CHESS CHAMPS REGULATIONS

FORMAT FOR THE 2005/2006 RBTT NATIONAL SCHOOLS CHESS CHAMPIONSHIPS

Entry Criteria

1. The Championship is open to teams from all secondary-level schools in Jamaica.

2. Teams shall consist of 4 players (male or female), with any amount of reserves.

3. A school may enter up to 5 teams. Where teams from one school are not of equal strength, the JCF will designate the strongest team as A, the second strongest as B, the third strongest as C, and so on. Where teams are of equal strength, the school shall determine which team is A, B, C etc. Team strength will be determined by the average JCF rating of the team members (excluding the reserves).

4. Eligibility of players
(a) Each team member must be a pupil of the school he represents.
(b) There is no age limit.\

5. No player may represent more than one team in the course of the season.

8 ZONES

Preliminaries –
Scheduled to begin Thursday October 28, 2004 at 3 P.M with play in Zones 1a and 1b at K.C. and continue each week during 2004 until Preliminaries are completed.

Zone 1a
#1 Ranked Team from Kingston
#3 Ranked Team from Kingston
#5 Ranked Team from Kingston
#7 Ranked Team from Kingston
#9 Ranked Team from Kingston

Zone 1b
#2 Ranked Team from Kingston
#4 Ranked Team from Kingston
#6 Ranked Team from Kingston
#8 Ranked Team from Kingston
#10 Ranked Team from Kingston

Zone 2a
#1 Ranked Team from St. Andrew
#3 Ranked Team from St. Andrew
#5 Ranked Team from St. Andrew
#7 Ranked Team from St. Andrew
#9 Ranked Team from St. Andrew

Zone 2b
#2 Ranked Team from St. Andrew
#4 Ranked Team from St. Andrew
#6 Ranked Team from St. Andrew
#8 Ranked Team from St. Andrew
#10 Ranked Team from St. Andrew

Zone 4a
#1 Ranked Team from Middlesex/Surrey
#3 Ranked Team from Middlesex/Surrey
#5 Ranked Team from Middlesex/Surrey
#7 Ranked Team from Middlesex/Surrey
#9 Ranked Team from Middlesex/Surrey

Zone 4b
#2 Ranked Team from Middlesex/Surrey
#4 Ranked Team from Middlesex/Surrey
#6 Ranked Team from Middlesex/Surrey
#8 Ranked Team from Middlesex/Surrey
#10 Ranked Team from Middlesex/Surrey

Zone 5a
#1 Ranked Team from Cornwall
#3 Ranked Team from Cornwall
#5 Ranked Team from Cornwall
#7 Ranked Team from Cornwall
#9 Ranked Team from Cornwall

Zone 5b
#2 Ranked Team from Cornwall
#4 Ranked Team from Cornwall
#6 Ranked Team from Cornwall
#8 Ranked Team from Cornwall
#10 Ranked Team from Cornwall

ZONING PROCEDURES

1. Surrey refers to teams in the County of Surrey, other than those from the Parishes of Kingston and St. Andrew.

2. Teams that submit an entry will be ranked by the Jamaica Chess Federation based on a number of factors, including but not limited to, placing in the last season and known Jamaica Chess Federation rating of players attending the school. Schools with little or no chess experience will be ranked in alphabetical order.

3. Schools with more than one team will have their teams in separate zones as far as possible (See table above for new Zone Setup). This will therefore supercede ranking where necessary.

4. Teams within each Zone will play a single round robin in the preliminaries against other teams in their Zone if there are four (4) or more teams in the Zone. If there are less than four (4) teams, a double round robin will be played

5. At the end of the preliminaries, the first placed team from each of the eight (8) Zones indicated above will go directly to the Round of 16, where they will be ranked again, this time based on their performance (percentage score) during the preliminaries, the strength of the opponents that they faced and the average JCF rating of their team. This Group of first placed teams will be called ‘Pool A’.

6. At the end of the preliminaries, all third placed teams from each Zone will play in a three (3) round Swiss tournament to identify the top two third place teams. This Group of third place teams will be called ‘Pool C’. This Tournament will be called the "POOL C" match and will be played on January 21, 2006 at the RBTT Headquarters in New Kingston starting at 10:00am.

7. Once the Pool C Swiss Tournament has been completed, the top two third place teams will join all the second place teams from each Zone to form ‘Pool B’. Pool B will engage in a one-day, four (4) round Swiss Tournament to identify the top 8 from this group, who will go on to face the Pool A teams in the Round of 16. This Tournament will be called the "POOL B MATCH" and will be played on January 28, 2006 starting at 10:00am, at the Montego Bay Community College.

ROUND OF 16 PAIRINGS february 4, 2006

8. The Round of 16(SCHEDULED FOR February 4, 2006 AT 11AM) is a knock-out format which will be paired as follows:

R16 Match #
1 #1 Team from Pool A vs #8 Team from Pool B
2 #2 Team from Pool A vs #7 Team from Pool B
3 #3 Team from Pool A vs #6 Team from Pool B
4 #4 Team from Pool A vs #5 Team from Pool B
5 #5 Team from Pool A vs #4 Team from Pool B
6 #6 Team from Pool A vs #3 Team from Pool B
7 #7 Team from Pool A vs #2 Team from Pool B
8 #8 Team from Pool A vs #1 Team from Pool B

QUARTER-FINAL PAIRINGS FEBRUARY 11, 2006

9. The eight (8) winners from the Round of 16 will move on to the Quarterfinals,

10. The Quarter Finals (scheduled for February 11, 2006 at 11 am) will be paired as follows:

Quarterfinal #
1 Winner R16 Match 1 vs Winner R16 Match 8
2 Winner R16 Match 2 vs Winner R16 Match 7
3 Winner R16 Match 3 vs Winner R16 Match 6
4 Winner R16 Match 4 vs Winner R16 Match 5

SEMI-FINAL PAIRINGS, FEBRUARY 18, 2006

11. The four (4) winners from the Quarterfinals will move on to the semifinals (scheduled for February 18, 2006 at 11 am) which will be paired as follows:

Semifinal #
1 Winner Q Match 1 vs Winner Q Match 4
2 Winner Q Match 2 vs Winner Q Match 3

FINALS SCHEDULED FEBRUARY 25, 2006
12. The finals will take place between the winner of each semifinal match.

13. Colours played by teams will be determined based on various factors, in particular traveling.