Minsk shogi club is pleased to invite you to the open XIV Minsk Shogi Cup, that is being held on 17th and 18th December (Sat-Sun) in Minsk. Last year 117 players participated in the competition (http://shogi.by/tournaments/126/). The event consists of two competitions: the main (all players are welcome) and junior (under 12) tournaments. Tournaments will be run on the mix of knock-out (with the final match) and McMahon system (see details below).

Venue: Chess school #11, ul. Rakovskaya 24.

Registration fee: 20 BYR ~ 10 EUR.

The winner will be will be determined in the knock-out tournament with 7 rounds (including the best-of-3 final) for the top 32 (64 for the junior tournament) rated players. Each participant who completes his or her way in the knock-out tournament, continues to play for the 3rd place in the base tournament (keeping the points scored). The base tournament will be run on the McMahon system with two groups:

Thinking time: 30 minutes + 30 seconds byoyomi.

Schedule:
Saturday, December 17th
- 15:00 registration
- 15:30 round 1
- 17:00 round 2
- 18:30 round 3

Sunday, December 18th
- 10:00 round 4
- 11:30 round 5
- 13:00 lunch break
- 13:30 round 6
- 15:00 round 7
- 16:30 pricegiving (winner, the best: lady, girl U18, U18, U16, U14)

Thinking time: 20 minutes + 40 seconds byoyomi.

Schedule:
Saturday, December 17th
- 15:00 registration
- 15:30 round 1
- 16:30 round 2
- 17:30 round 3
- 18:30 round 4

Sunday, December 18th
- 11:00 round 5
- 12:00 round 6
- 13:00 lunch break
- 13:30 round 7
- 14:30 round 8
- 15:30 pricegiving (winner, the best: girl, U11, U10, U9, U8, U7, U6)

Please note, that most foreigners visiting Belarus require a visa. The list of Belarusian embassies can be found here: http://belarusfacts.by/belembassy/index_eng.html.But if there is no Belarusian representative office in your country you can receive a visa in the Minsk Airport directly. We can provide you with the visa support document, please contact us if you need it. You can find more information regarding visa here: http://www.belarus.by/en/travel/travel-visas

Contact: andrei.lysenka or sergei.lysenka (at gmail)