Our Tournaments

Chess For Trees is a nonprofit.

Overview

The tournament will consist of an Open section and a K-12 section. There will be cash prizes for the open section and trophy prizes for the K-12 section. The format of the tournament will be 5 Round Swiss - 15 minutes with 2 second increment. The tournament will be hosted on chess.com. You will need a chess.com account to play the tournament. Instructions on how to create an account can be found on: https://support.chess.com/article/671-how-do-i-create-an-account

The tournament is not USCF rated. Everyone is eligible to play!

Registration Fee: $15 - To pay go to the bottom of this page and click "Buy Now"

Registration closes on July 22
Register through: https://forms.gle/9DrqAYqYLegHqxnd7

Prizes

Prizes: $500 guaranteed in prizes plus 50% of the combined registration fee. For example if 20 people register then 500$ plus 50% of the total registration fees of (15x20 = 300) would make a total prize fund of $650.

Open Section

1st Place: 50% of total prize fund (Based of 0 entries $250)

2nd Place: 30% of total prize fund (Based of 0 entries $150)

3rd Place: 20% of total prize fund (Based of 0 entries $100)

K-12 Section

Top 3 get trophies. Note: It may take time for trophies to be delivered. 

Fair Play

Tournament results will be finalized after 1-2 weeks in order to give chess.com time to do a fair play analysis. If chess.com determines you have cheated then you will not be eligible for any prizes and your chess.com account might be closed. Chess.com's decision is final.

Technical Difficulties

Unfortunately due to the nature of virtual tournaments nothing can be done if you lose a match or face any other difficulties due to internet issues and other technical difficulties. Note: You will not be refunded for any loss due to technical difficulties.

More Instructions

Once you have registered and paid the registration fee of 15$ please join the "Chess For Trees" club on chess.com. 

Note: Only people who have paid the registration fee will be admitted in the club.

On the day of the tournament sign into your chess.com account and go to https://www.chess.com/live and then on the tournaments tab you should see our tournament. Please join the tournament and wait for the rounds to start. The next round will start after all games are finished. The whole tournament will last for no more than 3-4 hours.

Please only join the tournament for your section, as if you fail to do this then you will end up playing the wrong section, and will not be counted for prizes.

If you're playing the open section then join the July Rapid - Open Section tournament, and if you're playing in the K-12 section join the July Rapid - K-12 tournament.

Please note:

The K-12 section will start at 11 AM CST on July 24.

The Open section will start at 4 PM CST on July 24.

Refund Policy

If the tournament is cancelled for any reason then everyone will get a 100% refund. If you decide to withdraw you will get refunded as long as you let us know by emailing us by July 22.

Warm Up Tournament

There will be a warm up tournament on Friday, July 23 at 4 PM CST. There will be one section for all players. The tournament will be called:

Chess For Trees July Warm up. The warm up is optional.

If you have any questions please contact us.