International Schools Online Chess League

Autumn Season
6:00 – 8:00 PM 30th October
6:00 – 8:00 PM 27th November

Spring Season
6:00 – 8:00 PM 26th March
6:00 – 8:00 PM 30th April
6:00 – 8:00 PM 28th May

Last Fridays of each month, after school time (2 hours), 6:00 – 8:00 pm

FORMAT
All the tournaments will be held online via the platform ChessKid.com on the dates and at the times listed above in the schedule section. Each tournament will last for roughly 2 hours.

Games will be played according to the FIDE Rules of Chess and the Swiss System pairings, with all the participants playing in the same group. There will be 5 rounds of games, every player will play 5 games regardless of the result of each game.

The time control for each game is 10 minutes for all the moves, with 5 seconds increment per move for each of the two players. One round will last a maximum of around 30 minutes. The next round starts immediately after the last game of the round is finished.

Each tournament is an individual competition with team standings based on the individual performance of each player on the team. Points scored by 4 players of each team are added up to a total team score.

In the event that two or more teams finish in a tournament with the same score, tie break scores will determine the final standings. A player’s tiebreak score is calculated by adding the sum of the points of players they have defeated to half the sum of the player’s points they have drawn against.

The organizer reserves the right to adjust the tournaments’ format based on the actual number of teams participating.

TEAMS
Each team will be formed from the top 4 players in the final standings of each tournament. Players must be currently enrolled students in 2020/21 academic year.

Schools are encouraged to nominate a captain for their team(s) to facilitate participation and timely communication. The captain should be an adult delegate from the school or a parent of one of the students who is also the school’s contact person for ISOCL. One captain can be shared by all the teams within the same school.

There is no requirement for minimum number of girls or boys on the team, but it’s recommended to make teams as balanced as possible.

SCA takes fair play in competition seriously and we actively monitor tournament games for any signs of unfair advantage – or cheating. SCA Chess Academy would like to inform all previous and future players who attend our online tournaments that all played games during the online tournaments are being monitored both by ChessKid and SCA Chess Academy. If any suspicious game is spotted that player’s account will be closed immediately and he or she will be banned from our online tournaments. Let’s play fair games and show good sportsmanship to each other!