• The tournaments are homologated FSI and FIDE. The organisation guarantees that enough titled players will play in the Master Open to permit IM and GM norms.

• Master Open: players of all nationalities with Elo Fide and Italian players with Elo Italia higher than 1899 and all equivalent levels.

• First category: Italian players with Elo Italia between 1700 and 1899 and all equivalent levels.

• Second category: Italian players with Elo Italia between 1500 and 1699 and all equivalent levels.

• Third category and beginners: third category, club levels and non-classified Italian players and all equivalent levels.

• The tournament promotes you to second category if you score a minimum of 6 points out of 8 games and third category with 4 and a half points.
  

• The Master Open will see the presence of numerous Grand Masters, including former World Champion Vassily Smyslov.

• International Arbiters: Lanfranco Bombelli and Michele Cordara.

Master Open

Registration closes Sunday December 8 at 4 p.m.
1st round Sunday December 8, 5 p.m.
2nd round Monday December 9, 5 p.m.
3rd round Tuesday December 10, 10 a.m.
4th round Tuesday December 10, 5 p.m.
5th round Wednesday December 11, 5 p.m.
6th round Thursday December 12, 5 p.m.
7th round Friday December 13, 5 p.m.
8th round Saturday December 14, 5 p.m.
9th round Sunday December 15, 10 a.m.
Prize ceremony Sunday December 15, 5 p.m.

Other categories

Registration closes Sunday December 8, at 4 p.m.
1st round Sunday December 8, 6 p.m.
2nd round Monday December 9, 7.30 p.m.
3rd round Tuesday December 10, 7.30 p.m.
4th round Wednesday December 11, 7.30 p.m.
5th round Thursday December 12, 7.30 p.m.
6th round Friday December 13, 7.30 p.m.
7th round Saturday December 14, 7.30 p.m.
8th round Sunday December 15, 10 a.m.
Prize ceremony Sunday December 15, 5 a.m.

Time controls

Master open: 40 in two hours and one hour to finish.
Other categories: 20 in one hour and an hour to finish.

Master Open

1st prize: 2 million + 500 thousand in chess material
2nd prize: 1,5 million + 400 thousand in chess material
3rd prize: 1,2 million + 300 thousand in chess material
4th prize: 1 million + 200 thousand in chess material
5th prize: 800 thousand + 100 thousand in chess material
6th prize: 600 thousand + 100 thousand in chess material
7th prize: 500 thousand + 100 thousand in chess material
8th prize: 400 thousand + 100 thousand in chess material
9th prize: 350 thousand + 100 thousand in chess material
10th prize: 300 thousand + 100 thousand in chess material
11th prize: 250 thousand in chess material
12th prize: 230 thousand in chess material
13th prize: 200 thousand in chess material
14th prize: 150 thousand in chess material
15th prize: 100 thousand in chess material

Other Master Open prizes

First Italian with Elo Italia between 2000 and 2150: 300 thousand in chess material
Second Italian with Elo Italia between 2000 and 2150: 250 thousand in chess material
Third Italian with Elo Italia between 2000 and 2150: 200 thousand in chess material
First Italian with Elo Italia below 2000: 250 thousand in chess material
Second Italian with Elo Italia below 2000: 200 thousand in chess material
Third Italian with Elo Italia below 2000: 150 thousand in chess material

First category

1st prize: 400 thousand + 400 thousand in chess material
2nd prize: 250 thousand + 250 thousand in chess material
3rd prize: 150 thousand + 150 thousand in chess material
4th prize: 100 thousand + 100 thousand in chess material
5th/10th prize: 100 thousand in chess material

Second category

1st prize: 300 thousand + 300 thousand in chess material
2nd prize: 200 thousand + 200 thousand in chess material
3rd prize: 150 thousand + 150 thousand in chess material
4th prize: 100 thousand + 100 thousand in chess material
5th/10th prize: 100 thousand in chess material

Mixed third category and beginners

1st prize: 300 thousand + 300 thousand in chess material
2nd prize: 200 thousand + 200 thousand in chess material
3rd prize: 150 thousand + 150 thousand in chess material
4th prize: 100 thousand + 100 thousand in chess material
5th/10th prize: 100 thousand in chess material

Beginners not in the above prize list

1st prize: 300 thousand in chess material
2nd prize: 200 thousand in chess material
3rd prize: 150 thousand in chess material
4th prize: 100 thousand in chess material
5th/10th prize: 50 thousand in chess material

Prizes are not cumulative, Bucholz system. The chess material consists of electronic chess boards, chess sets, tournament size chess boards, tournament clocks, board games, electronic games.

Master Open: 100 thousand lire; other categories: 90 thousand lire.
Free registration in case of Elo higher than 2350.

Notes

Italians need the 1996 Fsi membership card; if you don't have it you can subscribe during the tournament and it'll also be valid for 1997.

The organisation may make any modifications it thinks fit to improve the event.

Information: Società Scacchistica Torinese, Via Goito 13. Tel and fax: ++39-11-657072. Internet: sst/index.htm

It is possible to make registration also thru Internet, simply fill in this form.

The International Training Center ILO (BIT) is in corso Unità d'Italia 125 Turin (entrance: Via Maestri del Lavoro).
The venue has a bar, a self-service restaurant and a normal restaurant.
Access for the public by ticket only.

Sunday December 8 - Palazzetto dello sport - Parco Ruffini.
Preliminary rounds: 2 p.m.

Sunday December 15 - ILO (BIT)
Finals: 10 a.m.
Tournament between finalists and electronic chess games: 3 p.m.
Prize ceremony: 5 p.m.