90 30 Chess Tournaments

"90m30s.org" provides competition to internet chess players who like slow time controls,
on the premier place to play chess on the net, the Internet Chess Club  (ICC). 

Season 5 - started 19 September 2023

Entries for Season 5 are now open. For anyone who would like to join, please send ICC message to "fhunfi" with text
"Please add me to Individual Open Swiss system 90m+30s (Sep 19, 2023 - Nov 13, 2023)"

To see list of participants so far, for Season 5, click on "Participants" link on the left

The archive of past seasons (Season 1 to 4) is under the Archive menu on left sidebar

• ABOUT

• 90m30s.org is the club for players at ICC who would like to practice and feel the atmosphere of the Classical 90m+30s time control chess game.
• We are affiliated with TEAM 45 45 team4545league.org (who also use ICC)
• We will regularly organize an Individual Open Swiss system tournament, during the period of intermission (6 weeks) between the end of Rd-6 of the current Team 4545 season and the beginning of Rd-1 of the next Team 4545 season.

• TOURNAMENT RULES

• Date/ Time to play in each Round is : by negotiation between the two players (similar to Team 4545). ICC messaging is used for this.
• The Tourney will be 4 rounds, with a time span of 2 weeks for each Round, so you will have 14 days to negotiate the date/time and play the game with your opponent in any particular Round.
• Depending on the number of participants, we might have 1 Section only, or divide it into 2 Sections (or possible 3 Sections) based on Rating Category.
• Considering that September 19th will be the end date of Round-6 of the current Team4545 season (T97) and November 7th will be the start date of Rd-1 of next Team4545 season (T98),
  Season 5 of 90m+30s will start on Sep 19, 2023 and will end on Nov 13, 2023.  
  
• Schedule:
  Round 1 : Sep 19 - Oct 02
  Round 2 : Oct 03 - Oct 16
  Round 3 : Oct 17 - Oct 30
  Round 4 : Oct 31 - Nov 13
  
• For anyone who would like to join, please send ICC message to "fhunfi" with text
  "Please add me to Individual Open Swiss system 90m+30s (Sep 19, 2023 - Nov 13, 2023)"
• then we will add you to the list of participants & will send you further announcement after The pairing of Rd-1 is generated.

• PRIZE DISTRIBUTION

• Upper Section Winner: Video Series
  https://store.chessclub.com/videos/prize-winner - $129.95 Value
• Lower Section Winner: Video Series
  https://store.chessclub.com/videos/prize-winner - $129.95 Value

1 winner in each section  (better Tie-Break score will be used if needed)

• TOURNAMENT 'BYE's

• Anyone can ASK / REQUEST BYE in any round, and 0.5 points will be given ( for 1 time only).
  - For next ASK / REQUEST BYE, it is 0 point.
  - For ASK / REQUEST BYE in last round, it is 0 point.
• It is very much Preferable & Suggested to ASK / REQUEST BYE before a new round pairing is generated, instead of a forfeit lose.
• When pairings are odd, 1 point BYE will be given to a player selected by System.
• Anyone can LATE_JOIN at Rd-2 and will be given a 0.5 starting point.
  For Rd-3 and Rd-4 LATE_JOIN there will be no 0.5 starting point given.

• PLAYING THE 90 30 CHESS GAME

• In a Classical 90m+30s chess game, both players start with 90 minutes each at the beginning of the chess game, and then, each time a player moves, that player gets an additional 30 seconds added on to their time (this is called an 'increment')
• Note : In 90m+30s time control game, you must be ready to allocate 4 hours of time, assuming that both players use almost all their time, plus 30s increment.