The Belize Championship Circuit will consist of tournaments throughout Belize, which will serve as a qualification path for the Belize National Chess Championship. Players will receive points based on their performance and the strength of the tournament. A player's final Circuit score will be the sum of their seven best results of the year.

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Circuit points obtained by a player from a tournament will be calculated as follows:

P=B×k×w

where:

• P - Points obtained by player from the tournament

• B - Basic points

• k - Tournament strength factor, calculated as k=(TAR−1350)/100

• w - Tournament weighting

  • 2.0 - Standard classical tournaments

  • 1.6 - Belize Grand Swiss / Belizean Crown Cup

  • 1.0 - National Blitz Championship

  • 1.0 - Rapid tournaments

  • 0.8 - Mixed Rapid & Blitz tournaments

  • 0.8 - Blitz tournaments

Basic points

Points will be awarded as follows:

1st - 11

2nd - 8

3rd - 7

4th - 6

5th - 5

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• If the tournament was won outright, basic points for 1st place would be 11 points. Otherwise, 10 basic points would be used for calculation.

• For tied positions, points will be distributed based on computer tiebreaks unless a blitz tiebreak is held.

• Tournament is required to have minimum of 8 players to be counted towards Circuit.

• TAR Will be based on top 8 players in the event.

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