Draughts

General organization

1. The organization of the World Championship Women 2015 has been allotted by FMJD to the Chinese Draughts Association and will take place from May 11th (arriving day), till May 24th (departure day) in Wuhan.

2. The sixteen participants are nominated according to a schema and rules accepted by the FMJD General Assembly:

Explanation of Titles: GMIF - Grand Maître International Féminin, MIF - Maître International Féminin, MFF - Maître Fédération Féminin. 

3. The tournament will be supervised by main referee ir Henri Macaux (France).

4. A Jury d’Appel (appeal board) has been composed by the CD of FMJD.

Chairman: Johan Demasure (Belgium), members: Jan Zioltkowski (Germany), Jacek Pawlicki (Poland). The protest must be accompanied with the sum of 50 euros, as a deposit from the signatory. The deposit must be handed to the main referee. If the appeal is granted, the sum shall be returned immediately. If the appeal is refused, the deposit is forfeited to FMJD. The appeal has to be lodged by the player within 1 hour after the main referee decision and before the next game. The decisions of the Jury d'Appel are final.

Reserve players

5. For reserve players the general limit – maximum 2 players from one country for places 6- 16 is still valid.

6. Before the end of March 2015 → if a qualified athlete informs FMJD that she cannot participate or she did not confirm her acceptance of the conditions for the event, she is replaced by an athlete from the tournament from which she was qualified.

7. From April 1st 2015 → athletes will be taken from the reserve list defined by the Executive Board of FMJD based on the FMJD women’s rating list and the final results of the qualification tournaments (according to Annex XII, article 7):

Format of the tournament

8. The tournament will be played as a round-robin, so 15 rounds in total.

9. The official rules of FMJD will be used. Use of clocks and recording games is compulsory during the whole game. The games will be played in the official FMJD time rate of the Fischer system with 1 hour and 20 minutes for the game plus 1 minute per move. In accordance with FMJD regulations, players are not allowed to agree on a draw before they both made 40 moves. If they do so nevertheless, the referee is obliged to decide on a 0-0 result.

10. The final classification will be based on the total points obtained. The first place gives right to the title of ‘World Champion International Draughts Women 2015'.

11. If two or more players share the same place the following factors will be used to define the places occupied:

1. the largest number of victories
2. the best results between the tied players
3. the best results obtained in order of the classification

12.If the criteria from the previous point will not decide about final order:

1. for the places 1, 2 or 3 - a deciding tie-break will be played:

One tie-break with system Lehmann-Georgiev (15 minutes and 2 seconds added per move for an unlimited number of games). If more players shared place then round robin tournament with G-L games (10 minutes and 2 seconds). The number of minutes to start with may be changed by the main referee depending on the number of players ending ex-aequo and the time available, if necessary after consultation with the Tournament Director FMJD and the organization.

2. for the places 4- ... the places will be shared (prizes will be divided)

Accommodation

13. Official hotel and playing venue: Hubei Zhonghe International Hotel (No 1, Phoenix Road, Phoenix Development Zone, Caidian, Wuhan, Hubei) Web site: http://www.zhonghehotel.cn.

14.Hospitality costs for the players from May 11st until May 24 is for free 15.Hospitality for accompanying persons and extra days for the players:

1. The price of single room: 428CNY each day including breakfast

2. The price of double room: 428CNY each day including breakfast

3. It is the same price for accompanying person and for additional days for players.

4. The price of lunch and dinner is 200CNY per person per day during the Championship.

5. Please note that participants who arrive before the offcial arrival day and departure late shall be responsible for their own meals.

6. The hotel accept only Chinese yuan by cash. So please notify participants to exchange money at airport or local bank in Wuhan.

Finances

16. The national federations presenting players have to pay the registration fee of their players to the representative of the FMJD or directly to FMJD bank account (details: http://fmjd.org/fmjd.html) , according to the regulation of the General Assembly. A player for whom the registration fee is not paid before the first round, is not allowed to participate in the tournament. This amount is 100€

17. Prize money – total amount is € 20,000 and will be divided as follows:

Others

18. Rights from this World Championship for the title match 2016 and Championship 2017

1. If the titleholder keeps the title, the number two will be Challenger.
2. If the titleholder loses the title, she will be the Challenger.
3. The new world champion and the challenger are qualified for the World Championship 2017.

19. The players finishing in the first three places will receive a medal and an official diploma. 20.It is forbidden to smoke in the playing hall.

21. The player has to be at her board at the scheduled starting time of the game. The consequences will be an official warning who where not present for the first time and a second time a fine of 100 Euro and a third time the game will be declared in a loss for her.

22. In the case of lack of clarity in the FMJD regulations or in these regulations, or in unforeseen circumstances, the matter at hand will be decided by the main referee in consultation with Jury’dAppel.

Schedule