Canadian Open Chess Championship

Sports Name: Chess

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Updated On : 06 May, 2019

Full Name
Canadian Open Chess Championship

Type
international

Location
Canada

Disabled
No

Conducted
Annually

Gender
Both

Trivia

A total of 648 players competed at the Championship in 1974 which was held in Montreal. It was marked as the largest attendance of players at the championship.

The Canadian Open Chess Championship is an international level chess competition, held in Canada, each year. Organized by the Chess Federation of Canada, every year, the first tournament was held in the year 1956 in Montreal, won by Larry Evans and William Lombardy. From 1956 to 1970, the tournament was held biannually. The competition follows the Swiss system. It has nine or ten rounds that are performed in a span of 9 days. Players around the world from beginners to Grandmasters can compete in the competition.

Competition Format

The Canadian Open Chess Championship follows the Swiss system. It features a particular number of rounds, lesser than in round-robin tournament.
It is a non-eliminating competition format. The Swiss system is used where the number of players or participants is large and round-robin format cannot be implemented.
In this format of competition, not every participant or player meets every other competitor. Participants meet each other one-on-one and are paired using a particular rule or ranking system.
Each player is pitted against another player of the same running score, but they don’t play each other for more than once.
The player with the highest scores gained in total (in all the rounds) is declared as the winner. In the Swiss system, every player plays in every round, unless the total number of players is odd.
If, at the last round, the scores are tied, then Buchholz chess rating system can be used to determine the winner.