Participants of the World Cup 21 semi-finals

Basic information

Preliminaries of this World Cup started on 2015-10-01 with 928 players in 72 server sections and ended on 2017-05-01. All qualifiers are known.

Deadline to submit player’s willingness to join the semi-finals was 2017-05-30. Entries were verified and there is 143 participants (see below).

Summary:

• entries = 143,
• countries = 32
• players = 131
• titled players = 33 (5*GM, 10*SIM, 18*IM)
• highest rating = 2492

Top 5 countries with most entries  are:

• Germany 34,
• Russia 20,
• USA 12,
• Poland 7,
• Netherlands 7.

There will be 11 sections 13 players each (11*13=143). Final pairings will be completed soon.

Allocation of players to the semi-final sections will be made as random as possible; however, geographical distribution as well as an achievement of reasonable equality of the average rating will be considered.

The start date for all semi-final sections is 2017-06-30 with closing date of 2019-04-01.

Any unfinished games are called for adjudication. The players involved shall submit their claim (with the required result – win or draw) and supporting analysis. The adjudication will be organized in such a way that all qualified players will be known by 2019-05-15.

The final is expected to start on 2019-09-01 at the latest.

Prizes

Prizes will be awarded to winners of the Semi-final Sections (such prizes will be in the form of books or other chess material or vouchers, each to the value of approximately 25 EUR, with tie-breaks to be applied if necessary to determine section winners). When all sections finish play TO will sent list of winners to ICCF Finance director who then will arrange prizes distribution.

In the Final medals and certificates will be awarded to the top 3 players (if necessary tie-breaks will be applied to determine the top 3 places). Also in the Final cash prizes of 1,000 EUR, 600 EUR, 300 EUR and 100 EUR will be awarded to the top 4 players. Tie-breaks will not be applied in respect of these cash prizes and instead those players scoring equal points will equally share any prize money due.

Qualifications

Only semi-final section winner (ties to be decided by points evaluation) will qualify for a 13-15 player World Cup final.

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