BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4.2//EN TZID:Africa/Johannesburg X-WR-TIMEZONE:Africa/Johannesburg BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1421@chesshub.org.za DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg;VALUE=DATE:20230427 DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg;VALUE=DATE:20230502 DTSTAMP:20230417T071501Z URL:https://chesshub.org.za/events/mzansi-open-2023/ SUMMARY:Mzansi Open 2023 DESCRIPTION:CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD BROCHURE\nDate: 27 April to 1 May 2023\n \nVenue: BRYANSTON GEMEENTE\nCnr Grosvenor and Main road\nBryanston\n\n \ n\n\n\nSection\nCriteria\nFormat\nPlayers\nEntry fee\nRegistration link\n\ n\nPrestige\nChess SA or Fide rating 1700>\;\n6 rounds Swiss:\n\n90min + 30s increment from move 1 + 30min after 40 completed moves\n50\nR600\n \ n\n\nAdvanced\nChess SA or Fide rating    <\;1700\n6 rounds Swiss -\n \n90min + 30s  increment\n50\nR600\n \n\n\nIntermediate\nChess SA rating        <\;1300\n\n \n6 rounds Swiss -\n\n90min + 30s increment\n5 0\nR600\n \n\n\nBlitz\nOpen to all\n9 rounds 3min + 2s increment\n150\nR1 50\n https://chesshub.org.za/events/mzansi-open-blitz-2023/\n\n\n\n\n**Aca demy members pay R400 entrance and receive a free Mzansi shirt and cap\n\n  \;\n\n\n\nPrize Money\n\n\nPrestige\n1st: R10 000\n\n2nd: R5000\n\n3r d: R3000\n\n4th: R2000\n\n5th: R1500\n\n\nAdvanced\n1st: R2000\n\n2nd: R15 00 \n\n3rd: R1000 \n\n4th: R750\n\n5th: R600\n\n\nIntermediate\n\n \;\ n1st:Trophy\, \n\n2nd – 5th Medals and \n\nCaps\n\n\nPlaying schedule\n\ n\nPrestige\, \n\nAdvanced and Intermediate\nThursday 27 April       09:00  –  Round 1\n\nThursday 27 April       16:00  –  Rou nd 2\n\nFriday 28 April           16:00  -  Round 3\n\nSaturda y 29 April      09:00  - Round 4\n\nSaturday 29 April      15:0 0  -  BLITZ EVENT(3min+2s inc)\n\nSunday 30 April         13:00   -  Round 5\nMonday 01 May         09:00 – Round 6\n\n\n\n \n\n \n\n \;\n\nLOC contact details\n\n\nTournament Director\nMatthew Jonke r\n\nCell: 072 370 4930\n\n \n\n\nChief Arbiter\nMichael Bornheim\n\nCel l: 082 651 3630\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\nTournament rules:\n\nClosing date for entries: Tuesday 25th of April at 9pm\n\nNo draw offers before move 35\n\n Top 8 boards in the prestige and the top 2 in the advanced section will be electronic boards.\n\nNotation required. Notation pads will be provided.\ n\nFinal arrangements and rules will be communicated on the day.\n\nPlease join the following whatsapp groups for communication:\n\n Prestige: http s://chat.whatsapp.com/JsvLbOXLvniD1noq0tMXIq\n Advanced: https://chat.wha tsapp.com/EX3X5r0qhlJA8xov5DsgyJ\n Intermediate: https://chat.whatsapp.co m/CKn3LdDD4v33on4H0uPqpE\n\nRegistration links:\n\n Prestige: https://che sshub.org.za/events/mzansi-open-2023/#em-event-booking-form\n Advanced:ht tps://chesshub.org.za/events/mzansi-open-2023/#em-event-booking-form\n In termediate:https://chesshub.org.za/events/mzansi-open-2023/#em-event-booki ng-form\n\n \;\n\nGeneral rules\n\n Right of admission reserved\n La test FIDE rules will apply. All Sections will be rated by CHESS SA.\n The Prestige and advance section will be FIDE rated.\n It is the responsibil ity of the player to ensure that he/she is entered into the correct sectio n.\n The Organiser reserves the right to move a player to the appropriate section in accordance with the latest national rating\; the player will b e held liable for any additional portion of the entry fee which might aris e due to the move between sections.\n The Organiser has the right to move unrated players between sections at his/her own discretion and to combine or split sections to maintain the integrity of the tournament.\n Only pl ayers with confirmed payments will be added to the draw as published on ch ess-results.com\n No cell phones will be allowed in the playing area exce pt for the TD\, Chief Arbiter\, Arbiters and PC personnel.\n The Organise r of the tournament and other tournament officials are not responsible for the safety or property of players or spectators.\n The player/parent/gua rdian gives consent for the player’s name\, surname\, gender\, race\, da te of birth to be submitted to the rating agencies for the purposes of rat ing the tournament and the rating agencies displaying it on their respecti ve websites.\nThe player/parent/guardian gives consent for photo's to be t aken of the players during the tournament and to be published on our Socia l Media pages.\nShould consent not be given please notify us before the to urnament so that we can notify our photographers.\n Tournament organisers reserve the right to move players from entered sections at their discreti on – players so moved will be notified prior to the commencement of the tournament.\n The tournament organisers reserve the right to cancel the t ournament. Players will have their entry fee refunded\n\n \;\n\n \ ;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\nChess Hub Entry Procedures:\n\nWe are using the South African Chess Hub website to administer our booking and payment adm inistration for the tournaments.\n\nIn order to facilitate the entry proce dures in joining Chesshub we ask you to carefully follow the steps describ ed below:\n\nHow to book on South African Chess Hub: \n\n Go to https://c hesshub.org.za/\n\n \;\n\n Log into your account or register a new pr ofile.\n\n \;\n\n Go to the event on the event calendar: https://ches shub.org.za/events-calendar/   and click on the event link for your tour nament:\n\n \;\n\n Read the event description and scroll down to Book ing details:\n\n\n Select the number of “Spaces” (i.e. number of atte ndees). This is applicable where a family has more than one child that wil l be entering. It is only necessary to register one profile with Chesshub. It is not required to register a profile for each child\, unless you want to.\n\n \;\n\n Where there are two children\, select 2 “spaces”\ , you will then enter the information for each child separately as “atte ndee 1” and “attendee 2”\n Complete the attendee(s) information and then click on  “REGISTER FOR EVENT”\n\n \;\n\n This will take y ou to the Payfast secure payment page. Complete the payment.\n\n \;\n\ n You will receive a booking confirmation email a short while after compl eting payment.\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://chesshub.org.za/wp-content/uploads/2023/ 04/Mzansi-Chess-logo.jpg CATEGORIES:FIDE rated LOCATION:https://chesshub.org.za/events/mzansi-open-2023/\, Bryanston Gemee nte\, Cnr of Grosvenor and Main road \, Bryanston\, Johannesburg\, 2170\, Johannesburg Metro\, South Africa X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Cnr of Grosvenor and Main r oad \, Bryanston\, Johannesburg\, 2170\, Johannesburg Metro\, South Africa ;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Bryanston Gemeente:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Africa/Johannesburg X-LIC-LOCATION:Africa/Johannesburg BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20220427T000000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:SAST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR