THE EASTER MONDAY

RAPID PLAY

ORGANISED BY PAUL BUSWELL

by courtesy of THE CHAIRMAN AND COMMITTEE

OF HASTINGS & ST LEONARDS CHESS CLUB

TO BE HELD ON

MONDAY 18 APRIL 2022

CLOCKS START 2:00 p.m.

(arrive and check in by 1:45 p.m.)

7 Round Swiss of 10 minutes per game plus 5 seconds per move.

Results will be submitted for English Chess Federation rapidplay grading.

Also please note facemask rule below

ENTRIES FROM CLUB MEMBERS ONLY

Many modest (sometimes silly) prizes to be won by players at all levels.

Prize giving is expected to be finished by 6:30 p.m.

Entrance numbers strictly limited to 22 utter absolute tops

and people will be turned away after that number is reached,

so advance booking is strongly recommended.

Entry fee: £3* before 11 April; £6 for later entry.

* or free for any player who has not played face-to-face since before the pandemic!

Book by contacting Paul Buswell, on e-mail paulbuswellchess@aol.com or ‘phone 01424 444321.

No tournament if fewer than 12 entries by Monday 11 April.

Haphazard tea time refreshments (self-service) provided.

Visitors’ parking vouchers (cheaper than street parking) available from Jim Wheeler,

07875 712005 or james.wheeler9@btinternet.com

COVID: Facemasks and hand sanitiser will be available. No other specific COVID precautions will be taken, but please use your common sense, and especially do not attend if you have COVID symptoms or have recently tested positive. And please be sensitive to others’ approaches to COVID risk, which might not be the same as yours.

ETIQUETTE: in time of COVID failing to shake hands will not be thought discourteous.

LOCAL FACEMASK RULE for this event. If your opponent is wearing a facemask at the board, and if at the start of the game they ask you to wear one too, you must do so for that game.