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FICGS chess cup championship is a 2 stages round-robin tournament. As a reminder, the use of chess engines (Stockfish, Komodo, Houdini, Chessbase engines...), databases & tablebases is allowed and encouraged in these chess tournaments.

Round-robin tournaments are groups of 5 to 13 players, according to the registered players. There will be double round-robin tournaments in case of groups of less than 7 players. Groups are built grading all players by rating and distributing them to obtain similar elo averages. The highest rated player will be seed 1 and placed in group 1, second highest rated player will be seed 2 and placed in group 2 and so forth for seed 3, seed 4, etc. till all players have been allocated to their respective groups. The winner(s) of each group is (are) qualified for the next stage, or declared cup champion at stage 2. In case of equality, players with the highest number of points are all qualified for next stage. There won't be any replacement of forfeiting players in these tournaments.

In the case of a withdrawal, the games won't be rated if a player warns the referee before the tournament starts and at most 15 days after a new stage started but the first one.

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