BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4.0.1//EN TZID:Africa/Johannesburg X-WR-TIMEZONE:Africa/Johannesburg BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1172@chesshub.org.za DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg;VALUE=DATE:20220903 DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg;VALUE=DATE:20220904 DTSTAMP:20220901T101015Z URL:https://chesshub.org.za/events/mzansi-spring-open-2022/ SUMMARY:Mzansi Spring Open 2022 DESCRIPTION:CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD TOURNAMENT BROCHURE\n \n\nTHE MZANSI Sp ring\nOPEN\n\nChess SA rated\n\nDate: 3 September 2022\n\nVenue: IPS Offic es\, Ground Floor\, Riverview House\, Constantia Office Park\,Weltevreden Park\n\n \n\n\n\nSection\nCriteria\nFormat\nPlayers\nEntry fee\nRegistrat ion link\n\n\nPrestige\nChess SA rating \n\n1400+\n5 rounds Swiss:\n\n55mi n + 5s \n25\nR250\n \n\n\nAdvanced\nChess SA rating    1050– 1399\n\ nIncl: Unrated adults \n5 rounds Swiss -\n\n55min + 5s \n25\nR250\n \n\n\ n*Young masters\nChess SA rating           0 – 1049 *\n\n \n5 rounds Swiss -55min + 5s \n25\nR200\n \n\n\nu8 \nBorn in 2015 or later \ n5 rounds Swiss -55min + 5s\n20\nR200\n \n\n\n\n*onlyplayers 18 and young er allowed*\nAcademy members receive 50% off registration fee\n\n \;\n \n\n\nPrize Money\n\n\nPrestige\n1st: R2\,250\n\n2nd: R1\,500\n\n3rd: R750 \n\n\nAdvanced\n1st: R750\n\n2nd: R500\n\n3rd: R300\n\n\nYoung masters\nTr ophy &\; Medals \n\n\nU8\nTrophy &\; Medals\n\n\nPlaying schedule\n\ n\nPrestige\, advanced &\;\n\nYoung masters\nSaturday 03 September     08:00  –  Round 1\n\nRound 2 - 5  will start 15 minutes upon comple tion of the last round\n\n \;\n\n\nU8\nSaturday 03 September    09: 00  –  Round 1\n\nRound 2 - 5  will start 15 minutes upon completion of the last round\n\n \;\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nLOC contact details\n\n\nTou rnament Director\nMatthew Jonker\n\nCell: 072 370 4930\n\n \n\n\nChief A rbiter\nMichael Bornheim\n\nCell: 082 651 3630\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\nTournam ent rules:\n\nClosing date for entries: Thursday 1st of Septmeber at 9pm\n \nNo draw offers before move 35\n\nFinal arrangements and rules will be co mmunicated on the day\n\nPlease join the following whatsapp groups for com munication:\n\n Prestige:\n Advanced:\n Young masters:\n U8:\n\nRegist ration links:\n\n Prestige:\n Advanced:\n Young masters:\n U8:\n\nGene ral rules\n\n Right of admission reserved\n Latest FIDE rules will apply . All Sections will be rated by CHESS SA.\n All sections will be Chessa r ated.\n It is the responsibility of the player to ensure that he/she is e ntered into the correct section.\n The Organiser reserves the right to mo ve a player to the appropriate section in accordance with the latest natio nal rating\; the player will be held liable for any additional portion of the entry fee which might arise due to the move between sections.\n The O rganiser 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 players with confirmed payments will be added to the draw as published on chess-results.com\n No cell phones will be al lowed in the playing area except for the TD\, Chief Arbiter\, Arbiters and PC personnel.\n The Organiser of the tournament and other tournament off icials are not responsible for the safety or property of players or specta tors.\n The player/parent/guardian gives consent for the player’s name\ , surname\, gender\, race\, date of birth to be submitted to the rating ag encies for the purposes of rating the tournament and the rating agencies d isplaying it on their respective websites.\nThe player/parent/guardian giv es consent for photo's to be taken of the players during the tournament an d to be published on our Social Media pages.\nShould consent not be given please notify us before the tournament so that we can notify our photograp hers.\n Tournament organisers reserve the right to move players from ente red sections at their discretion – players so moved will be notified pri or to the commencement of the tournament.\n The tournament organisers res erve the right to cancel the tournament. Players will have their entry fee refunded\n\nChess Hub Entry Procedures:\n\nWe are using the South African Chess Hub website to administer our booking and payment administration fo r the tournaments.\n\nIn order to facilitate the entry procedures in joini ng Chesshub we ask you to carefully follow the steps described below:\n\nH ow to book on South African Chess Hub: \n\n Go to https://chesshub.org.za /\n Log into your account or register a new profile.\n Go to the event o n the event calendar: https://chesshub.org.za/events-calendar/   and cli ck on the event link for your tournament:\n Read the event description an d scroll down to Booking details:\n Select the number of “Spaces” (i. e. number of attendees). This is applicable where a family has more than o ne child that will be entering. It is only necessary to register one profi le with Chesshub. It is not required to register a profile for each child\ , unless you want to.\n Where there are two children\, select 2 “spaces ”\, you will then enter the information for each child separately as “ attendee 1” and “attendee 2”\n Complete the attendee(s) information and then click on  “REGISTER FOR EVENT”\n At “Payment and Confirm ation” select your method of payment. If you select to pay by EFT\,\nyou will receive an email with the banking details for payment. The Account i s in the name of\n“Promoting Pawns NPC”. If you pay by EFT your entry will only reflect once payment is\nreceived.\n This will take you to the Payfast secure payment page. Complete the payment.\n You will receive a b ooking confirmation email a short while after completing payment.\n\n  \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://chesshub.org.za/wp-content/uploads/2022/ 08/WhatsApp-Image-2022-08-22-at-7.23.12-PM-1.jpeg CATEGORIES:Over-the-Board,Rated by Chess SA LOCATION:https://chesshub.org.za/events/mzansi-spring-open-2022/\, IPS Offi ces\, Ground Floor\, Riverview House\, Constantia Office Park\, Weltevrede n Park\, Roodepoort\, Johannesburg\, South Africa X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Ground Floor\, Riverview Ho use\, Constantia Office Park\, Weltevreden Park\, Roodepoort\, Johannesbur g\, South Africa;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=IPS Offices:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Africa/Johannesburg X-LIC-LOCATION:Africa/Johannesburg BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20210903T000000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:SAST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR