Cappelle-la-Grande Open

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Updated On : 06 May, 2019

Full Name
Cappelle-la-Grande Open

Type
international

Location
France

Disabled
No

Conducted
Annually

Gender
Both

Trivia

At the 26th Cappelle-la-Grande Open (held in 2010), around 652 participants (with 61 International Masters and 82 Grandmasters) from 57 countries competed.

The Cappelle-la-Grande Open is an international level chess competition, held at the Cappelle-la-Grande in France. It stands as one of the biggest chess open tournaments of the world. It is annually organized by L'Echiquier Cappello (chess club) and is usually played in the second half of February. The competition was inaugurated and first played in the year 1985 in which 68 players participated. Waldemar Hanasz of Poland won the first tournament held in 1985.

Competition Format

It follows the Swiss-system format of nine rounds which is a non-eliminating format which features a particular number of competitions but not as many as the round-robin tournament.
In the Swiss-system, every player doesn’t play against or compete with every player.
Competitors face each other one-on-one in each round. The players are selected using a system or format wherein an opponent with a similar score is selected but they do not face the same opponent more than once.
The player with the highest aggregate points that he/she earned in all the rounds is declared as the winner.
In the Swiss-system, every player competes in every round unless the total number of players in the competition is an odd number. This system is used when the number of competitors is large.
The first round is drawn at random or following the ratings or previous years’ performances. Then the winners are selected to compete with the winners and the losers play the losers.
The system has a fixed number of rounds. At the end of the last round, the players are ranked according to their scores.