Fun Cup is a tournament series to complement our club social evenings. They will take place during the Zürich school holidays. We’ll play fun chess variants. This is separate from the club cup. Winner of the Fun Cup is the person who has accumulated the most points by end of the 4 events. Best 3 of 4 rounds are counted and only Letzi members collect points.
Fun Cup 2019/20
The Schachclub Letzi Fun Cup is a four-tournament series of fast chess played during the Zurich school holidays, one tournament per night at our playing venue in Zurich.
Structure
4 tournaments – round-robin tournament or Swiss pairing
Participants
Members of Schachclub Letzi and guests
Time Control
Time control is per player per game
1 tournament is Armageddon 5 min. white, 4 min. black
1 tournament is hourglass chess 1 min.
1 tournament is bughouse 5 min.
1 tournament is gong chess 10 sec. per move
Tournament Plan
Attendance check: every tournament, 19:15
Round 1: Tuesday, February 11, 2020 at 19:30
Round 2: Tuesday, February 18, 2020 at 19:30
Round 3: Tuesday, April 7, 2020 at 19:30
Round 4: Tuesday, April 28, 2020 at 19:30
Fun Cup 2018/19
Standings:
Rank | Name | R1 | R2 | Sum |
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1. | Roland Löhr | 20 | 18 | 38 |
2. | Dimitrios Leventeas | 14 | 16 | 30 |
3. | Ian Cary | 25 | 25 |
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4. | Michal Svagerka | 25 | (25) |
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5. | Willi Frech | 20 | 20 |
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6. | Werner Brunner | 18 | 18 |
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7. | Roger Loup | 8 | 9 | 17 |
8. | Franco Rocco | 16 | 16 |
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9. | Oswald Odermatt | 14 | 14 |
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10. | Julien Cretin | 12 | 12 |
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11. | Vladimir Kokarau | 11 | 11 |
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12. | Daniel Muster | 11 | 11 |
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13. | Kurt Glatzfelder | 10 | 10 |
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14. | Thomas Güldenapfel | 9 | 9 |
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15. | Samuel Beatty | 8 | (8) |
Fun Cup 2017/18
The Schachclub Letzi Fun Cup is a four-tournament series of fast chess played during the Zurich school holidays, one tournament per night at our playing venue in Zurich.
Structure
4 tournaments – round-robin tournament
Participants
Members of Schachclub Letzi
Time Control
Time control is per player per game
1 tournament is Armageddon 5 min. white, 4 min. black
1 tournament is bughouse 5 min.
1 tournament is hourglass chess 1 min.
1 tournament is gong chess 10 sec. per move
Tournament Plan
Attendance check: every tournament, 19:15
Round 1: Tuesday, July 25, 2017 at 19:30
Round 2: Tuesday, August 8, 2017 at 19:30
Round 3: Tuesday, February 13, 2018 at 19:30
Round 4: Tuesday, February 20, 2018 at 19:30
Playing Locale
Pflegezentrum Bachwiesen
Flurstrasse 130
CH-8047 Zurich
Prize
1st Place: 50 SFr
2nd Place: 30 SFr
3rd Place: 20 SFr
Rating (SSB/FIDE)
none
Championship Standing
The Fun Cup champion will be a member of SC Letzi who collects with the most points in the championship over the season. The best 3 of 4 results count. Points will be distributed according to the overall result of the respective tournament. Points are awarded to the top sixteen classified finishers in every tournament, using the following structure:
Points Distribution:
| Platz | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 |
| Punkte | 25 | 20 | 18 | 16 | 14 | 12 | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
Standings:
| Pos. | Name | R1 | R2 | R3 | R4 | Points |
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| 1 | Werner Brunner | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 70 |
| 2 | Franco Rocco | 7 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 46 |
| 3 | Thomas Lutz | 6 | 6 | 3 | 42 | |
| 4= | Georg Kradolfer | 1 | 4 | 41 | ||
| 4= | Roland Löhr | 4 | 1 | 41 | ||
| 6 | Roger Loup | 9 | 5 | 3 | 40 | |
| 7 | Kurt Glatzfelder | 5 | 2 | 34 | ||
| 8 | Ian Cary | 3 | 4 | 33 | ||
| 9 | Dimitros Leventeas | 8 | 6 | 21 | ||
| 10 | Lukasz Wojciechowski | 3 | 18 | |||
| 11 | Patric Müller | 4 | 15 | |||
| 12 | Thomas Güldenapfel | 6 | 14 | |||
| 13 | Magdy Megeid | 5* | ||||
| 14 | Thomas Leone | 7* |
Tournament Results:
Round 1 Blitz Armageddon
Round 2 Bughouse
Round 3 Hourglass
Round 4 Gong Chess