| Summary of Requirements |
For Title Tournaments |
For Rating
Tournaments |
| Games per player |
Minimum 9
(B.01-8.2) |
For unrated players, minimum vs. 4
rates
(B.02-6.42) |
| Numbers of participants not from one and
same fed. |
1/3 of
participants
(B.01-8.5) |
No restriction |
Number of federations
represented
(B.01- 8.6, 8.7, 8.8, 8.9)
(Women, B.01 - 8.8w) |
Minimum 3 (Exceptions: Scheveningen
tournaments; zonal
tournaments of one-federation zone; one national yearly
for men
and one for women; Swiss system sections with at least
20
FIDE-rated foreigners and 10 GMs or Ims. |
No restriction |
| Number of rated players |
Minimum 80%
(B.01-8.4) |
For round robin, minimum 4 or 1/3
(see
B.02-6.3) |
| Number of titled players |
Minimum 50%
(B.01-8.3) |
No restriction |
Type of tournament
(B.01 - 10.5,
10.6) |
No matches. At least one round robin
tournament or olympiad, or
at least 30 games otherwise.. |
Any type
(B.02-6,4m 6,41, 6.42, 6.43,
6.5) |
| |
In Swiss, Scheveningen or team
tournaments, a player and all his
opponents can be treated as round robin
event.
(B.01-9.2) |
Number or rounds per
day
(B.01-5.4) |
For IM result, maximum two
For GM
result, maximum two days with 2 round and not for last three
rounds. |
Maximum 3
(B.02-3.1) |
| Rate of play for each player |
Maximum 23 moves per
hour
(B.01-5.5)
One result with 40 in 2 hrs, followed by all moves in
one
hour |
Maximum 23 moves/hour
Option after 23
moves, (quick play finish) all remaining
moves in 1 hour
(B.02-9.3,
9.32) |
Duration of event
B.01,
5.6 |
Maximum 90 days
(Leagues exempted
B.01-5.61) |
Maximum 90
days
(B.02-4.1) |
| Adjudicated and forfeited games, games vs.
computers |
Not valid
(B.01-8.1, 8.11, 8.12,
8.13) |
Not valid
(B.02-5.1) |
| Valid Period |
Six Years (B.01,10.7) |
3 rating periods
(B.02-9.14c) |
