Declining entries

[Alex McFarlane]

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For a game to be rated each player must have the following minimum periods in which to complete all the moves, assuming the game lasts 60 moves.

I have highlighted an important change in the regulations.  The previous wording was  ... For a tournament to be rated.

It is now possible to have a tournament partially rated.  In an Open tournament with a 3 hour playing session games where both players are under 2200 would be rated but any other games would not.  I'm not sure organisers would want to run such a tournament but it is possible