Themed Chess Tournament - Sicilian

Event Details

This club is picking up pace and the meetups are getting more interesting by the weekend thanks to all of you. This coming weekend, we will have a themed tournament. We will play the Sicilian Opening. 1.e4 c5

Agenda

1. 4:00 PM : We meet at the plaza.

2. 4:00 PM to 4:30 PM : We have a brief discussion over the openings.

3. 4:30 PM to 6:00 PM We play a Swiss System Tournament among ourselves.

Pre Requisites

1. Please bring a chess board and a chess clock if you have one.
2. We will manage with chess clock app if there is shortage of clocks and if there are more people coming. So please download the same.
3. Please be familiar with fide tournament rules like touch move and wrong move loss. And the rules of chess like En-passant, castling long and short, etc

Tournament will be 10 min Blitz games with no increment. The tournament will start by 4.00 pm in the plaza in freedom park.

See you guys next Sunday and let's bring our A-game to the Centre of Bengaluru city.

Reading

P.S. Here is a headstart for all you guys who are not familiar with Ruy Lopez and Sicilian openings. I hope you read up on the same before coming. Cheers

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sicilian_Defence
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzydxPgPKzs