Indiana Online Open
USCF-Online-Rated

Date: Saturday, June 1, 9:00 A.M. ET
Location: Played online via chess.com

Format: 4-round Swiss

Time Control: G/15+10

Schedule: 

Round 1 - 9:00 A.M. ET (8:00 CT, 7:00 MT, 6:00 PT)

Rounds 2 through 4: As soon as the previous round finishes.
 

Rating: USCF membership required. Tournament will be USCF-online-rated in the quick category. Over-the-board ratings will not be affected. Tournament will also affect chess.com ratings, and pairings will be made according to chess.com ratings.

Entry fee: $7/ISCA member, $10/non-member. (Join ISCA) Registration ends 15 minutes before round 1. Follow directions below.

Prizes: The tournament will have place prizes, the number of which will be half the number of participants, rounded down, up to a maximum of 25 prizes. The prize fund will be 80% of entry fee revenue and will be divided among these place prizes in a geometric sequence such that each prize is 1.25 times the amount of the prize below it.

Example 1: If there are 10 players and the revenue is $85, then the prize fund will be $68 and there will be five prizes: 1st $20.23, 2nd $16.18, 3rd $12.95, 4th $10.36, and 5th $8.29.

Example 2: If there are 19 players and the revenue is $163, then the prize fund will be $130.40 and there will be nine prizes: 1st $30.12, 2nd $24.10, 3rd $19.28, 4th $15.42, 5th $12.34, 6th $9.87, 7th $7.90, 8th $6.32, and 9th $5.05.

The rest of the entry fee revenue is used to pay rating fees, transaction fees, labor costs, and other expenses.

Payouts: All prizes will be paid via PayPal, with no exceptions. Payment will be sent to the email address the player used when registering. If this email corresponds to a PayPal account, the payment will be deposited immediately. If it doesn’t, then PayPal will send an email with instructions for obtaining the funds. A player who refuses to create a PayPal account agrees not to receive a prize. Payouts will not occur until the fair play review has been completed, which typically takes less than a week.

VIEW PREREGISTRATIONS

How to participate:

Step 1: READ. Read our primer on ISCA online tournaments. As a participant, you agree to abide by all our policies and fair play procedures.

Read Primer

Step 2: REGISTER. Register for the tournament at the link below. The hard deadline is 15 minutes before round 1.

Register Now

Step 3: JOIN. Using your chess.com account, request to join the “ISCA Virtual Tournament Hall” club on chess.com at the link below, which is our special staging area for our USCF-rated online events. You will not be admitted unless and until you are registered and your USCF membership is current.

Go to ISCA Virtual Tournament Hall

Step 4: CHECK IN. On the day of the tournament, up to one hour before the first round, click the button below to go to the tournament's page and check in by clicking the big, green "Join" button. Your game will start automatically when the tournament begins. If you have not checked in, you will not be paired.

Go to Tournament Page

Questions?
Please send questions to John Herr at johnherr13@hotmail.com
Directors: John Herr, Nikhil Murugan, Bethany Herr