2020-2021 Santa Fe Mayor's Cup

After very successful editions in 2014-2019 the Mayor's Cup returns in 2020, but in online format!

Overview

The Santa Fe Mayor's Cup is a city-wide competition for any student up to and including the last year of high school. In 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we will hold it in an online format on Sunday December 20 at 3:30pm. To sign up just send email to mark@galassi.org

Announcement and info

(pass this around to families with kids who play chess!)

Dear Santa Fe chess families,

Among the many sad things about covid, one of them has been that we

could not have our protracted Mayor's Cup round robin tournament.

But I have come up with a formula for having it, and that is to host a

single online swiss system tournament.

We will have it on Sunday, at 3:30pm, in our online chess system at

https://lichess.org/ and it will be available to any K-12 student who

lives in Santa Fe, or goes to school here.

You should write me to sign up, letting me know your name and lichess

handle. I will then send you the password to get in.

I expect the entire tournament to last between 1.3 hours and 2.5 hours

(that upper limit is quite unlikely), depending on how long the games

last. The "feel" of the swiss tournament will be quite different from

teh arena tournaments we have seen most of the time during lockdown.

The link for the tourament is:

https://lichess.org/swiss/z8BI5SSR

but remember that you have to write to let me know you are going to be

in. That way I can also let you know if we add a second section or if

the link changes.