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, if possible at least 6 months in advance. In exceptional situations this period can be reduced to three months or less. The purpose of this is to allow our players 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 arbiter
• Tournament fee (if there is any)
• Who is allowed to register
• Prizes (if any)

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

• Organizer: WCDA
• Recurrence: every year
• Start date: 1 January every year
• Tempo: standard (see below)

WCDA World Championship

• Recurrence: every year
• Start date 1 May every year

WCDA Cup every year

• Recurrence: every year
• Start date 1 September every year.

Ongoing tournaments of 8 players

• Start Every time 8 players have paid the inscription fee.

Players play 2 games with every other player, with black and white

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 tournament, 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 Rating Tournaments

• Rating tournaments will be organized every year or every two years and will begin in summer (end of July) as an introduction to new tournament season. Players will be divided in groups of approximately 10 players, according to their position on the e-dama rating list in the moment of tournament announcement - one month before start. All players from A-rating list can play for free

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 - to be confirmed)

• 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
• Mini tournaments will be opened for registration all the time
• Midi tournament will be organized in periods when no other tournaments with 8 players or more will not be available for registration in near future
• On national tournaments with at least 6 domestic players, all players from this country can play without registration fee, and registration fee for other players (players from other countries) is 2 Euros

Time control and warnings

System for playing on e-dama.net will send automatically players who will play slower than expected. Warnings will be sent to the email address used on registration. Warnings will be sent at following times:

• 1st warning - if player do not make at least 10 moves in first 48 days
• 2nd warning - if player do not make at least 20 moves in first 81 days
• 3rd warning - if player do not make at least 30 moves in first 104 days
• 4th warning - if player do not make at least 40 moves in first 117 days
• 5th warning - if player do not make at least 45 moves in first 119 days

If player spend 121 days and do not make 50 moves, he will automatically lose the game without right to complain. In the case of losing 6 games in such a way in period of one year, this player will not be able to register to the tournaments (except mini tournaments). In case of losing 15 or more games, player will not be able to register to mini tournaments. This prohibition will be in force until there will be no game lost in such a way in period of one year. Player who is not able to play regularly can take regular leave, and in case of serious illness or something similar, he can inform tournament administrators or site administrators and he will be allowed to use more time for finishing his games - without any consequences.

Continuity of MINI tournaments

Aim of Mini tournaments is to enable players on e-dama continuous participation on smaller tournaments and to be in contact with other players. Everybody can take part in these tournaments. Our present experience shows that some players never start to play their games or they move few moves and stop responding. To avoid such situations and to provide other players with interesting competition with 5 players, from 1 June 2012 we are introducing the rule by which every participant on Mini tournament must make at least 2 moves in all his games during his first 20 days. If he do not make 2 moves in any of the games, he will be removed from this tournament. Such player will be replaced with one of the players from the "pool of permanent reserve players on e-dama". Members of such poll will be players who want to help us in providing nice experience to all players. We invite all our serious players to help us building such a pool. We will try to replace missing player with the player from the pool with rating which is close to average rating of other players on the tournament.

If you want to be the member of "pool of permanent reserve players on e-dama", please contact me at the email address goran.igaly@e-dama.net