Internet College Chess League

Overview:

Weekly team games are coordinated for the Fall, Winter, and Spring semesters.
During official tournaments sponsored by the USCF College Chess Committee, teams are required to meet together in a campus computer lab for games. However, there will be relaxed rules tournaments where you can self schedule.
Games are played mainly on an honor system, with team captains ensuring that the rules are enforced.
No outside help is allowed from opening books, fellow players, or computers. The team captains must ensure that these rules are followed.
No outside help is allowed from opening books, fellow players, or computers. The team captains must ensure that these rules are followed.
Other than positive publicity, no prizes will be rewarded. It’s all for fun!
All work done is strictly volunteer. No one will profit from this league.

Game Format:

All official games are held on FICS (freechess.org) or on internet chess club (ICC). There may be special summer events held on other servers.
Colors are decided by the CCL tournament directors beforehand.
For most tournaments, recommended time controls are 90 minutes/game + 30 second increment.
Time controls can be shortened for the whole team if both sides agree, but must be reasonable and not blitz. Game length shouldn’t increase.
Board order is decided by club team ladder. If none exists, then by USCF rating. However, it is strongly encouraged to have a club ladder to promote competition within the clubs, but it is not required.
Ladder position shifts based on team policy.

Tournament Structure:

Winter 2005/6

Four round Team Swiss.
A team consists of 4 boards. Up to 8 players per team may be registered with 4 alternate players
Any college team in the Americas (North, South, and Central) are eligible to play.
You must be a student to participate in official games. Faculty and alumni are not allowed to participate in official games this event, but both teams can allow faculty and alumni to play on the 5th board.
The team captains will be responsible for setting up the time of the games, and ensuring that all rules are enforced.
Both teams must report their individual results to the tournament director after the games are played. Full game scores are recommended.
Free ICC accounts are available for your team-members if needed.
Detailed Winter Tournament rules are available.

Scheduling:

Teams are given two work weeks to complete a round at their convenience.
If a date cannot be resolved, the CCL tournament director must be notified by both parties.
Teams must respect holidays and work through scheduling conflicts.
If a date cannot be resolved, the CCL tournament director must be notified by both parties.
The director will try to resolve conflict and has the power to reschedule a match during the make-up week, or forfeit one or both teams.
Each team will have the option to opt-out of one round without penalty to accommodate midterms. Directors must be notified at least one week before hand.
Any team that is consistently tardy, or does not show up to the events without prior communiction, will be dropped from the league.
We will avoid scheduling teams in different time zones.

Eligible Players:

While this is mainly for students, we’re just looking to get schools involved.
We’ll allow one alumnus per team to play an unoffial game on the 5th board.
). The College Chess Eligibility Requirements as listed at http://chessweb.utdallas.edu/uscf-ccc.html apply to students being enrolled, etc., and taking college courses this spring semester.

Contacts:

All communication from the CCL to teams will be done through their team captains.
Team captains or alternate contacts can be requested if necessary.
Communications with the CCL and tournament directors can take place through email or through online forms. This is available at the Contact Page.

We would like to thank some of our sponsors: