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Warren County Consortium Chess Tournament The Warren County Consortium Chess Tournament will be held on Thursday February 26, 2015 ( snow date March 5th) at Rutherford Hall in Allamuchy. The tournament will begin at 10:00 AM and end by 1:30 PM. Each member school of the consortium may bring one chess team. One chess team includes four players and two alternates. The chess tournament is limited to the first ten teams that register. Each team will play each of the other teams once. Each team should rank their chess players according to their chess abilities. Your best chess player should be ranked number one. Second best ranked number two and so on. Your number one player may player against players that are ranked number one or are moved up to play in the number one spot for their team. A player ranked number one **may not be moved down** to play a player ranked lower than them. **Alternate player must play in at least two games. ** The coach may have alternates play at any rank.

Manual or digital chess clocks will be used to keep the games moving along. Each player will have ten minutes set on their side of the clock. So each games will last 20 minutes or less.

Scoring - Each player will earn points for their team by : CHECKMATE = 1 point STALEMATE = Half point for each team The team with the most points at the end of rounds will be declared the winner. First, Second and Third place trophies will be awarded to those teams.

__**Each team that registers must bring at least two chess clocks, two sets of chess pieces and two chess boards. **__

To register one team to participate in the Warren County Consortium Chess Tournament click on file above. If you have any questions concerning the chess tournament email me at fstaff52@gmail.com

HOPE TO SEE YOU AND YOUR TEAM AT THE CHESS TOURNAMENT !!