The Chandler’s Ford Chess Club Ladder Tournament 2023-24 is organised by Rob Sims.

Players may challenge up to 4 places above their own step. The time control for the games is 80 minutes plus 10 seconds per move for each player. The decision as to who plays white is made at the start of the game by one of the players choosing a black or white pawn from a closed hand. For the full Rules, see below.

The game results are rated for ECF grading, and can be found on the Ladder’s LMS (League Management System) page:

The latest Ladder positions are shown in the table below.

Ladder Tournament Final Ladder of 2023-24 Season, 4th September 2024

Position	Player
1	Peter Przybycin
2	Christian Westbrook
3	Theo Horne
4	Dick Meredith
5	John Pellegrini
6	Alan Weaver
7	John Kooner
8	Rose Saunders
9	Steve Dunleavy
10	Alikhan Mentseitov
11	Rob Sims
12	Steve Saunders
13	Patrick Pavey
14	Rob Strachan
15	Geoff Parish
16	James Gray
17	Philip Tarrant-Edwards
18	Keven Lamb
19	Isaac Yip
20	Peter Eales
21	Lee Mundy
22	Nobby George
23	Daniel Phillips
24	Andy Mills
25	John Davis
26	Frazer Burlinson
27	Connor Frost
28	Sam Murphy
29	Cary Xie
30	Eric Jones
31	Keith Gregory

The chess Ladder will run until 3rd September 2024.

Rules

• Initial positions on the ladder are determined in order of grade.
• All games to be played on the clock, which will be set at 80 minutes each with 10 second increments per move.
• You may challenge anyone who is one, two, three, or four places above you on the Ladder.
• A challenge cannot be made more than 7 days ahead of a game. Once a challenge is accepted neither the challenger nor the player being challenged may make or accept another challenge.
• The decision as to who plays white is made at the start of the game by one of the players choosing a black or white pawn from a closed hand.
• You can email challenges to your eligible opponents in advance, but it won’t count as a loss if your opponent is unable to play for any reason. 
• If the lower ranked player wins, the lower ranked player takes the higher ranked player’s position on the Ladder, and the higher ranked player moves down one place.
• If the higher ranked player wins, there is no change in the players’ rankings.
  If the game ends in a draw, the lower ranked player takes the position just below the higher ranked player.
• After a Ladder game is played, at least one of the players must play a Ladder game against someone else before they can play each other again.
• Please report all results of games to me and I will  submit them to ECF for grading purposes.
• The top three players on Tuesday 3rd September 2024 will play off to decide the eventual winner. Players in second and third place play each other and the winner plays the player in first place.

Rob Sims October 2023