The ECF is pleased to announce that we will be running a British Online Chess Championships 2020/2021 over the Christmas holiday period. The Championships will take place over two weeks, from 18th December 2020 to 3rd January 2021, on the Chess.com platform. There will be separate Championships for Open, Women’s, Junior, Senior and Rating Limited player categories. The format is based on one week of qualifying events, followed by a week of finals for each Championship. Each Championship will consist of a number of events at different time controls as follows —

Championship Time control

Main Standard, Rapid, Blitz, Bullet

Women’s Standard, Rapid, Blitz

Junior Standard, Rapid, Blitz, Bullet

Senior Standard, Rapid

Rating Limited Standard, Rapid

All Standardplay events will be based on a game per day, with 7 rounds of qualifiers and 7 rounds of finals each in Swiss format. Standardplay games will be based on direct challenge matches on Chess.com, started by an arbiter. Faster time controls (Rapidplay Blitz and Bullet) will be run as platform Swiss tournaments. Further details can be found in the Tournament Summary and Schedule

https://www.englishchess.org.uk/british-online-chess-championships/