Team Day 2 - March 2nd 2024
A six round chess tournament with four boards per team.
All teams must be made up of players living in the City of Edinburgh, East Lothian, Midlothian, West Lothian or The Scottish Borders Council areas only.
Players can only play for clubs if their school isn't entering a team.
The tournament will have 6 rounds with swiss pairings, so as far as possible all teams will play all rounds. Time control: All moves in 25 minutes.
Please ensure your teams arrive at the venue by 9:15am for a 9:30am start, with prize giving ending around 4:30pm.
See the Additional Information below for details of team composition, board order etc.
ENTRIES Entry closes at midnight on Thursday 29th February.
Team entries are £25, if paid for before midnight on Wednesday 28th of February, £30 thereafter.
Teams can pay on the day by using the PAYONDAY code in the discount field.
You can enter a team without player details and amend your entry once the team is known. Player details must be provided by midnight Thursday 29th February.
Individual entries are £6, if paid for before the Wednesday 28th of February of November, £8 thereafter. Individuals must pay online only and must live in The Lothian and Borders Region. Individual entries will be assigned to a composite team. If you are not sure if your school or club is entering a team please get in touch and we can give you contact details if we have them.
Children who are in receipt of Free School Meals can enter for free
For team entries: please use the discount code FSM1, FSM2, FSM3 or FSM4 to indicate the number of children in receipt of free school meals in a team. For individual entries: please use the discount code FSM.
Refreshments A cafe will be available selling soup, rolls, hot and cold drinks, home baking and other snacks.
Tickets
Additional Information
Each team will play on four boards each of the six rounds (except in the case of byes and defaults), but you can bring up to six players and rotate who is playing throughout the day. In the event of a team of more than 4 players winning trophies we will ask for a contribution towards the cost of extra trophies.
Teams are expected to play in order of strength, and maintain that order throughout the day.
Players are only supervised in the playing hall so must have adult supervision for other times.
All games are Chess Scotland graded. All junior games are now graded according to the time control so all sections will be Allegro graded.
Please see the Lothian Junior Chess website for details of our policies and procedures.