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GoldenTicket - Regulations

Latest update: November 6, 2017

 

The Golden Ticket is an exclusive format of tournaments created by Premium Chess. 

Tournaments formula

Each event will include two 9 rounds tournament with Swiss formula as follows:

Each player can participate in one or more tournaments.

Tournaments requirements

  1. own an Arena or Platinum Membership, valid at tournament registration time
  2. possess a minimum reliability value of 5 (1 golden star or above)

Further requirements may be specified in the dedicated page of a Golden Ticket.

Standings Criteria

Each tournament assigns a number of points to the first 15 players depending on the final standings, obtained after our anti-cheatings controls:

Players disqualified for cheating or incorrect conduct  won’t receive points in the tournament.

The Golden Ticket final ranking is defined as the sum of total points gained by each player in the tournaments. In case of draw, tiebreaks are: greater sum of performance and earlier date of registration in the Arena.

Prizes

First place: invitation to the final tournaments, free entry fee, free cost of accommodating for one.

From second to fifth place: invitation to final tournaments, free entry fee

Further prizes may be specified in the dedicated page of a Golden Ticket.

Prizes assignment

Winners must be entitled of the requirements to participate to the final over the board tournament and will be contacted by Premium Chess right after the final standings. Prizes will shift from the first place until one of the players accepts the full invitation to the tournament. The following three positions will have, with no more shiftings, a free entry fee for the tournament over the board. If one or more of winners don't accept their prize, they will be excluded from the successive Golden Ticket. In case of repeated withdrawals, the number of tournaments you'll be excluded from will progressively duplicate. In case a player declares that he accepts the prize and doesn't show up, in addition to the previous penalties, he will recieve a red card that will reset his reliability and ban him from the Arena for 24h.

General rules
The championships information, tournament rules and regulations, the required software to play and the anticheating rules and  controls are part of Premium Chess Terms and Conditions and published in the web site: www.premiumchess.net

Players

Premium Chess accepts no responsibility for any problems caused by the instability of a user’s Internet connection or originating from his or her computer. Our server continuously monitors each player’s connection and records any instability that occurs.

A player loses a game if they voluntarily disconnect their computer or log off while a game is in progress. If disconnection occurs involuntarily as a result of connection problems, the system will try to re-establish the connection with the player, who – if play resumes – loses the time taken to do this. After several unsuccessful reconnection attempts or the passing of an excessive amount of time without a connection, the player loses the game. No protest, claim, or game replay request will be accepted in the event a user has problems with his or her Internet connection or computer during the course of a game or tournament.

Players are not permitted to engage in any unfair game practices such as using software assistance, consulting other people while playing, allowing substitute players to share their. The sophisticated ACE-Guard™ anti-cheating system monitors every single game played between two full members and analyses all performance trend variations with extreme precision. Any evidence of cheating and suspicious performance alteration is automatically reported to the Organization, who then decides on the appropriate course of action or penalty.

All decisions and penalties regarding any breach of regulations are final and not subject to appeal or discussion.

To play online championships on Premium Chess players need a last generation computer  Windows or Mac that supports the following features:


PC

Operating System:

RAM: 512 MB 
Java: 6 Update10  and above

 

Mac:  Intel
Operating System:  Mac OS X 10.5
RAM:  512 MB 
Java:

 

Linux

RAM: 512 MB

Java: 6 Update10 and above

Browsers

Browser requirement : JavaScript e cookies enabled.world

 

Java: Version 1.6.0_10 and above.

 

Anticheating controls

At the end of each tournament the provisional ranking will be published. Ranking will be confirmed  as soon as exhaustive anticheating controls will be completed. Cheaters will be disqualified and removed from the final standing. Arbiters decisions will be final and cannot be discussed.

These regulations may be changed without notice the Organization reserves the right to supplement this Regulation with further changes to improve the performance of the event.


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