DE5A Tournament: Semifinales Results and Finale Annoucement
Thursday, February 27, 2014: Outcome of the 7 semifinal groups and rules governing the Finale about to start
Launched by an
Official Announcement on November 24th, 2010, the
Direct Entry 5th Webserver Anniversary Tournament (DE5A) was meant to celebrate the first 5 years of the Direct Entry (DE) programme, which started on April 5th, 2006.
SEMIFINALE STAGE RESULTS
Gathering 485 players from 50 countries at its Preliminary Stage, the event is now coming to its final stage. The semifinale stage was expected to be played from October 1st, 2012 to March 31, 2014 (playing period 18 months). Even though some games are still on-going and might even be so by the end of March, the results of the 7 semifinal groups cannot be changed now.
Congratulations to the following players for their first place!
They have won 3 free entries in any Direct Entry tournament of their choice (valid for 2 years, to be used before March 31, 2016) :
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181193 FRA IM Broudin, Melissa - DE5A semifinal 01
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390491 POR SIM Pessoa, Francisco Azevedo - DE5A semifinal 02
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141826 RUS IM Terekhov, Andrey Andreevich- DE5A semifinal 03
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100129 SUI IM Terreaux, Gilles - DE5A semifinal 04
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142089 RUS Beilin, Sergey Mikhailovich - DE5A semifinal 05
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371050 NED SIM Westera, Bert - DE5A semifinal 06
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380073 NZL GM Noble, Mark F. - DE5A semifinal 07
IM norms have been achieved by:
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RUS Chamaev, Aleksandr Viktorovich (sf01);
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FRA Broudin, Melissa (sf01);
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RUS Nizky, Roman Yakovlevich (sf02);
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RUS Trofimov, Vladimir Markovich (sf03);
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RUS Terekhov, Andrey Andreevich (sf03);
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SUI Terreaux, Gilles (sf04);
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RUS Beilin, Sergey Mikhailovich (sf05)
LGM norm achieved by: FRA Broudin, Melissa
LIM norm achieved by: FRA Broudin, Melissa
FINALE ANNOUCEMENT
The Finale is opened to the 1st and 2nd places of the semifinale groups.
The Finale might be completed by the best 3rd places in order to have a 15-player tournament. According to the current rating of the potential entrants, the Finale should be classified into category 8, with title norms possible.
Qualified players will be contacted by TO Jean-Christophe Chazalette by e-mail. TO will wait formal consents from players until March 10th, 2014 included.
As declared in the 2010 Official Announcement, the Finale will be directed by Dr. Michael Millstone, SIM, IA, current ICCF General Secretary and former Direct Entry Commissioner.
2. Finale Planning:
The Finale will start on April 5th, 2014 and end on April 5th, 2016 (playing period 24 months), date of the 10th anniversary of the Direct Entry programme.
3. Time Control
Time control will be set at 10 moves/30 days with conditional moves available.
4. Qualifications
Tie breaking with the default Baumbach rule.
Unfinished games by April 5th, 2016 will be called in for adjudication. The adjudicator’s decision is to be final,
without appeal.
5. Prizes
As provided in the Tournament rules, the DE5A Winner will be awarded the DE 5th Anniversary Tournament trophy, plus 450 € payable through Paypal (250 € - the equivalent of 7 % of the entry fees collected for the event - and another 200,00 € granted by the ICCF)
The Second place will be paid 330 € through Paypal (180 € - the equivalent of 5 % of the fees collected for the event - and another 150,00 € granted by the ICCF).
The Third place will paid 220 € through Paypal (120 € - the equivalent of 3 % of the fees collected for the event - and another 100,00 € granted by the ICCF).
The DE5A Trophy will be awarded at the 2016 ICCF Congress.
AMICI SUMUS!
Jean-Christophe Chazalette
Former Direct Entry Commissioner, TO