{"id":1309,"date":"2015-12-17T10:49:03","date_gmt":"2015-12-17T02:49:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hkcfl.com\/?p=1309"},"modified":"2015-12-23T17:26:58","modified_gmt":"2015-12-23T09:26:58","slug":"hong-kong-chess-championships-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hkcfl.com\/tw\/hong-kong-chess-championships-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong Chess Championships 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Hong Kong Preliminaries and Finals are combined into one tournament for 2016. This will shorten the time needed to select the team for the Chess Olympiad in Baku, Azerbaijian (17<sup>th<\/sup> to 30<sup>th<\/sup> September 2016).<\/p>\n<p>The top 3 finishers shall be entitled to represent HKG in this Olympiad. There is a subsidy from the organizers for the airfares. Accommodation has been promised to be at least 4 stars hotel and we can expect a truly memorable experience.<\/p>\n<p>The Hong Kong Chess Championships 2016 will be played over 11 rounds from 4<sup>th<\/sup> Jan through to 21<sup>st<\/sup> Mar on Mondays except for the Chinese New Year on 8<sup>th<\/sup> Feb.<\/p>\n<p>Time control is 75 minutes plus 30 seconds increment per move. All games shall start at 18:30 sharp. (see regulations)<\/p>\n<p><strong>IMPORTANT NOTICE: exclusively for HKG players only.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #339966;\"><a style=\"color: #339966;\" href=\"http:\/\/hkcfl.com\/online-registrations-for-hkcc-2016\/\">Click here to register online<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #339966;\"><a style=\"color: #339966;\" href=\"http:\/\/hkcfl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Regulations-HKCC.pdf\" rel=\"\">Regulations &#8211; HKCC<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #339966;\"><a style=\"color: #339966;\" href=\"https:\/\/calendar.google.com\/calendar\/embed?src=3citlpu20smvtq85ivo7h5nha0%40group.calendar.google.com&amp;ctz=Asia\/Hong_Kong\">HKCF Calendar here<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #339966;\"><a style=\"color: #339966;\" href=\"http:\/\/chess-results.com\/tnr201211.aspx?lan=1&amp;art=0&amp;turdet=YES&amp;wi=821\">List of registered players<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #ff99cc;\"><strong>Baku Olympiad Women Team Selection<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Selection for a women\u2019s team shall follow the same schedule as the HKCC. There are 10 entries in a round robin tournament with the top three finishers gaining the automatic places in the Hong Kong Women\u2019s Team. Drawing of lots shall be performed on Monday 4<sup>th<\/sup> Jan 2016 and round 1 starts immediately afterwards.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #339966;\"><a style=\"color: #339966;\" href=\"http:\/\/chess-results.com\/tnr200220.aspx?lan=1&amp;art=3&amp;turdet=YES&amp;wi=821\">Click here to view list of players<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #339966;\"><a style=\"color: #339966;\" href=\"http:\/\/hkcfl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Regulations-Olympiad-Selection-for-Women.pdf\" rel=\"\">Regulations &#8211; Olympiad Selection for Women<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #339966;\"><a style=\"color: #339966;\" href=\"https:\/\/calendar.google.com\/calendar\/embed?src=3citlpu20smvtq85ivo7h5nha0%40group.calendar.google.com&amp;ctz=Asia\/Hong_Kong\">HKCF Calendar here<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hong Kong Preliminaries and Finals are combined into one tournament for 2016. This will shorten the time needed to select the team for the Chess Olympiad in Baku, Azerbaijian (17th to 30th September 2016). The top 3 finishers shall be entitled to represent HKG in this Olympiad. There is a subsidy from the organizers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[32,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","category-tournament"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.2","language":"tw","enabled_languages":["en","tw"],"languages":{"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"tw":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false}}},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p82l3J-l7","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hkcfl.com\/tw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hkcfl.com\/tw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hkcfl.com\/tw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hkcfl.com\/tw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hkcfl.com\/tw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1309"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/hkcfl.com\/tw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1333,"href":"https:\/\/hkcfl.com\/tw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1309\/revisions\/1333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hkcfl.com\/tw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hkcfl.com\/tw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hkcfl.com\/tw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}