Accentus Biel Masters and GM Tournaments 2019 are held in Biel Congress Center in Biel, Switzerland between July 20 - 31, 2019.
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The masters tournament is a 9 rounds swiss, a part of Biel Chess Festival from 22th to 31th of July.
Rate of play: 90 minutes for the first 40 moves + 30 minutes for the rest of the game with an addition of 30 seconds per move starting from move one.
Schedule:
July 22-26, 2019: rd 1-5; 2 p.m.
July 27: Rest Day
July 28-30: rd 6-8; 2 p.m.
July 31: rd 9; 11 a.m.
Accentus GM tournament is held in Biel, Switzerland from 21th to 30th of July.
Tournament type
28 games as 3 sets of round robin:
- Classical: 7 games
- Rapid: 7 games (reversed colors)
- Blitz: 14 games (2-way)
Rate of play
Classical: 100 minutes for the first 40 moves + 50 minutes for the next 20 moves + 15 minutes for the rest of the game with an addition of 30 seconds per move starting from move one.
Rapid: 15 minutes + 5 seconds increment per move.
Blitz: 3 minutes + 2 seconds increment per move.
Tiebreaks for the 1st place : 2 chess960 Rapid games followed by a normal Armageddon if needed.
Schedule:
July 21: Rapid; 7 Rapid games starting at 11:00 UTC
July 22-25: Classical rd 1-4; 12:00 UTC
July 26: Rest Day
July 27: Blitz; 14 blitz games (double round robin); 12:00 UTC
July 28-30: Classical rd 5-7; ; 12:00 UTC
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