Tournament Life Information forOrganizers, TDs, and Affiliates
Organizing a 2012 Grand Prix Event To qualify, an event must be USCF-
rated (regular or quick) and meet these criteria: • AllUSCF-rated players over 2199must be eligible to play in the top (or only) section.
• The prize fund for which all masters are eligible MUST: a) equal or exceed $300 guaranteed; $150 be guaranteed to first place; no more than one prize may count towards the Grand Prix (GP) total; and prizes below the maximum entry fee do not count towards the GP total.
• Class prizes for Under 2300 or a higher rating requirement qualify towards GP points, but if they exceed 25%of the total qualifyingGPmoney, they count as 25% of the total.
• Other than entry fees andUSCF dues, no charges over $25 are permitted.
• The tournament must be submitted for the Tournament Life section of Chess Life and designated by the submitter as a GP tournament.
• Only players who are USCF members during the tournament may earn GP points. Foreign grandmasters, interna- tional masters, women grandmasters, and women international masters can play without being members, but they will not obtain GP points unless they join.
• Conditions concerning USCF GP tourna- mentsare subject to reviewandadjustment by the USCF executive director. The top prizesmust be unconditionally
guaranteed (or if a GP event’s prize fund is based on entries, only the absolutely guaranteed minimum payout counts for point awards) and announced in Chess Life.
Guaranteed Grand Prix points awarded for: Top Prizes $300-$499 $500-$749 $750-$999
1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th 10th Tot 6
6
8 2 10 5
$1,000-$1,499 12 8 $1,500-$1,999 14 10 6 $2,000-$2,499 16 12 84 $2,500-$2,999 18 14 10 62 $3,000-$3,999 20 16 12 84 $4,000-$4,999 22 18 15 12 85 $5,000-$5,999 24 20 17 14 11 86 $6,000-$9,999 26 22 19 16 13 10 86
10 15 20 30 40 50 60 80
100 120
$10,000-$29,999 30 26 23 20 16 13 10 84 150 $30,000 & up 36 32 29 26 21 18 14 12 84 200 $ (Enhanced) 54 48 44 39 31 27 21 18 12 6 300
Points involved divided equally (rounded to two decimal points) among tied players.
48 Chess Life — January 2012 Even if prizes are raised at the tourna-
ment, no additional points can be award- ed because the bonus would be unfair to players whomay otherwise have entered. If you have questions about the Grand Prix, please contact Walter Brown at
wbrown@uschess.org or 931-787-1234 ext. 142.
Organizers, TDs and Affiliates To speed up the processing of rating reports, USCF now asks that wherever possible these reports have IDs for every player. If you collect a new membership, do not submit your rating report until your disk and paper reports include that player’s ID number. To assist tournament directors (TDs)
in doing this, we have made several enhancements to our web server which will speed up online membership pro- cessing and give TDs a quick way to obtain USCF IDs for new memberships. We also recommend that TDs use the
Member Services Area to check formem- ber IDs. The search capabilities of MSA have been enhanced to assist TDs in find- ing existing member IDs. Formore details, please check the USCF website:
www.uschess.org/rtgchange.php.
Professional Players Health and Benefits Fund Many GP tournament organizers will
USCFMembership Rates Premium(P) and Regular (R) (U.S., CANADA, MEXICO) Type
1 yr
Adult P Adult R
Senior (65+) 2yr
contribute $1 per player to the Profes- sional Health & Benefits Fund. All GP tournaments that participate in this pro- gram are entitled to be promoted to the next higher GP category—for example, a 6-point tournament would become a 10- point tournament. Points in the top category are promoted 50 percent.
No Tournaments in your area? Why not organize one?
It’s not much work to hold a small
tournament, and there is little risk if you use a low-cost site and avoid guaranteed prizes. You might even make a profit! Either a based-on Swiss with projected prizes up to $500, a quad format, or a tro- phy tournament will virtually guarantee taking in more in fees than you pay out in prizes. The affiliation fee is just $40 a year. You
will have access to the TD/Affiliate area of our website. Remember, you can both run and play
in a small event. Many of them wouldn’t be held if the organizer/TD couldn’t play. Want to knowmore? Contact Joan Du-
Bois at
joandubois@uschess.org. We’ll be glad to help you be part of the promotion of American chess!
Submissions If at all possible, please e-mail your TLAs. This will help to reduce errors.
tla@uschess.org fax: 931-787-1200
3yr
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Young Adult P (U25)* $33 $61 $88 Young Adult R (U25)* $26 $47 $67 Youth P (U16)* Youth R (U16)*
$28 $51 $73 $22 $40 $57
Scholastic P (U13)* $24 $43 $61 Scholastic R (U13)* $17 $30 $42
Premiummembership provides a printed copy of Chess Life (monthly) or Chess Life for Kids (bimonthly) plus all other benefits of regular membership. Regular membership provides online-only access to Chess Life and Chess Life for Kids; A tournament life announcement newsletterwill bemailed to adults bimonthly and to scholastic members three times per year. Youth provides bimonthly Chess Life, Scholastic bimonthly Chess Life for Kids, others listed above monthly Chess Life. See
www.us chess.org for othermembership cat- egories. Dues are not refundable andmay be changed without notice. *Ages at expiration
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