Calendar of Tournaments

On this page you can find the list of tournaments which will be organized on e-dama.net

You can also add your tournament, at least 6 months in advance (in exceptional situations this period can be reduced to three months). The purpose of this is to allow our playrers to make a plan and decide on which tournaments they will take part.

Please include for every tournament the following data:

• Tournament Name
• Organizer
• Date of tournament start
• Tempo
• Name of tournament administrator (contact person)
• Name of tournament judge
• Tournament fee (if there is any)
• Who is allowed to register
• Prizes

WCDA Tournaments

To enter a tournament you must be a member of the WCDA. That means that you pay every year a membership fee. Members will receive the WCDA Magazine. The final schedule (dates) will follow later.

Open Dutch championship every year

• Start date 1 January every year

WCDA Cup every year

• Start date 1 September every year.

WCDA World Championship every year

• Start date 1 May every year

Ongoing tournaments of 10 players

• Start Every time 10 players have paid the inscription fee.

Tournaments organized by e-dama

Second e-dama Team Championship

• Start: 15 November 2012
• Contact person: Goran Igaly (goran.igaly@e-dama.net)
• Arbiter: Goran Igaly
• Tournament Fee: 5 Euros per team (to be confirmed)
• Description: Every team consists of four players.... etc

Second e-dama Open Championship

• Planned start date: 15 September 2012

• This tournament will be organized every two years

• Participation - 5 Euros per player. The money collected will be used for site maintenance and development. Players with more than 100 game finished on e-dama.net can play for free if they want. But, their donation will be accepted. If 5 euros is too much for you to pay, you can ask organizers to play for free.

• If more than 12 players will be registered for the tornament, players will be divided into groups according to nmber of games finished on e-dama.net. Players with most games finished will play in the first group etc.

Here is the table of how players will be divided into groups in case of more than 12 players: 8+5, 8+6, 8+7, 9+7, 10+7, 10+8, 11+8, 11+9, 12+9, 9+7+6, 10+7+6, 10+8+6, 11+8+6, 11+9+6, 11+9+7, 12+9+7, 9+7+7+6, 10+7+7+6, 10+8+7+6, 11+8+7+6, 11+9+7+6, 11+9+7+7, 11+9+8+7, 11+10+8+7, 11+10+9+7, 12+10+9+7, 12+10+9+8, 12+11+10+8, 12+12+10+8, 12+10+8+6+6, 12+10+8+7+6, 12+10+9+7+6, 12+10+8+8+6, etc...

If we find sponsors, there will be prizes for the first three places. If you want to be a sponsor, please contact Dr. Goran Igaly at the email address goran.igaly@e-dama.net

e-dama "unplugged"

• Description: This is the tournament where participants take obligation not to use any kind of help or assistance (computer or human) i.e. they can only use board for analysis.
• Tempo - standard tempo, but we will consider the possibility of measuring real time spent for thinking, to make game more real. In this case, we will limit the time allowed for thinking to one or two hours (to be confirmed)
• Planned time for start - 15 May 2012
• Details about e-dama "unplugged" tournaments

General rules (non-official proposal)

• Tempo: If not indicated differently tempo for playing is 120 days for 50 moves + 50 days for end of game
• Player who will not finish more than half games in tournament without explanation must pay additional fee for the next tournament in amount of 3 euros
• Every player can take a leave of 30 days and it can be used in two parts.
• Player who will not make a move in 6 weeks (42 days) will automatically lose the game.
• Mini and Midi tournaments are opened for all players, free of charge
• On national tournaments with at least 8 domestic players, all players from this country can play without registration fee, and registration fee for other players is 2 Euros