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3rd Big Slick International 22nd - 30th June 2013

There will be at least one GM norm all-play-all section and either IM norm rated all-play-alls or possibly a small open alongside.

The venue will be the Big Slick poker club: Unit 10, Royal Oak Centre, Brighton Road, Purley, Surrey CR8 2BG and games will take place approximately between 12:30 and 17:30 before the evening poker starts.

I'll be publishing further details after Christmas but for now I'd like to hear from anyone interested in playing in the event and any feedback on the type of tournament they would favour playing in.

Best wishes,
Lawrence Cooper
Tournament co-organiser.

Potentially interested as player or arbiter. No real feeling for type of event preferred (although an Open would be more interesting from an arbiting point of view).

how about having a Scheveningen or a Schiller?

James Pratt wrote:how about having a .. Schiller?

What's that, other than, I assume, a system invented by Eric Schiller?

James Pratt wrote:how about having a Scheveningen or a Schiller?

You have to have genuine teams to have a scheveningen event ie men vs women or country vs country etc as opposed to two line ups of norm seekers as was previously allowed

News to me Lawrence. So, OK then, what's a Schiller?

James Pratt wrote:News to me Lawrence. So, OK then, what's a Schiller?

Google finds this
http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1366057 and in the comments

This event, which I organized, introduced the "Schiller" Pairing system (according to Stewart Reuben). The idea was that 4 teams of 3 players each played each member of the other teams, generating 9 rounds of norm-qualifying play.

I can recall Hastings running something along those lines back in the days when the Congress extended to a third week.

FIDE decreed that team events arranged purely for Norm seeking purposes wouldn't be allowed for them. I'm not sure when, but I suspect some years ago.