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      Permanent Members:  DaveTheRook (chair), BosqueVerde, chesskix, rgadoury
      General Members: bmw2002, fledermaus, Invicta-knight, Kingofknights, RedAttack, tsia68

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      rgadoury (chair), chesskix, Invicta-Knight, RedAttack

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     bmw2002 (chair), chesskix, DaveTheRook, fledermaus, rgadoury

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Item 1.  T56 Tournament Parameters - Approved

Item 2. Use "forfeit" to describe the penalty in 10.G.i.b (game not rescheduled) - Approved

Item 3. Playoff seedings

Item 1. T56 tournament parameters

T56 January 22 to May 7, 2013

Time Control: 45 45
Sections: 6 (U1200, U1400, U1600, U1800, U2000, U2200)
Rounds: 6 - (possibly 7) followed by Playoffs

Jan. 22 Ratings “fixed” and Profiles Open
Jan. 29 Team entries open
Feb. 12 Team entries close
Feb. 19 Round 1 starts
May 7   End of Playoff 4

Count of team RR reductions (if any) precedes board removal tiebreak.
Tiebreak board removal rules start with board 4 this tournament

Playoff rounds may be delayed, section by section, for late finishing games and outstanding appeals.

No Adjournment week during playoffs.

Note.—Per Administrative Rule 13, all Tuesday (and Sunday) deadlines are 17:00 ICC time.

Approved 8-0, 1 abstain. 17 January 2013

Item 2. - Editorial Revision

Under our editorial revision policy, unless a SC member wishes to bring it up for further debate, this change will be incorporated into the Statutes in one week.

SC T55-56 Agenda Item 2 - Editorial revision of Section 10.G.i.b.

A rules committee member has suggested that Section 10.G.i.b be reworded to show the penalty (forfeit) for failure to reschedule a game instead of the consequence of the forfeit (RR reduction).

“If no rescheduled time is reached, resulting in the game not played, a [Reliability Rating Point must be deducted from] forfeit must be charged to the player who originally asked to reschedule.” Remove brackets, insert underlined.

4 March 2013

One concern expressed about not mentioning the RR reduction, but that is covered in 10.G.iii

Approved and posted 11 March 2013

Submitted by Rules Subcommittee

Item 3. T56 Playoff team seeds

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