2025 Intermountain Collegiate Tournament

2025 Intermountain Intercollegiate Chess TournamentLocation: Student Center, Salt Lake Community College(~4550 S, ~1900 W, off of Redwood Rd in Taylorsville, center of campus)Date: Saturday, 1 March 2025Time: 1st round starts at 10:00 am. Please check in by 9:30 if possible ortext me at 801-560-0498.Lunch: Pizza lunch provided at noon.Registration: Send list of those constituting your 3-man team to GrantHodson, grantbhodson@gmail.com. All other club members mayparticipate in the individual section which has separate prizes. (Adjustmentsto your list of participants, including who is on boards 1,2 and 3 may be made the dayprior to the tournament by 6 pm. If there are an odd number of teams, an additionalteam may be made up of those from different schools, or the host school may add a Bteam, if required. Therefore, if you have less than three players from your school, wecan create a team from two or even three colleges.)Eligibility: Consistent with previous years, all participants are to becurrently enrolled students or at least have taken classes in the 2024-2025academic school year. You may be required to show a valid student IDcard.Entry Fee: Gratis, but donations are welcome to help offset cost oftrophies and lunch.Rounds/Time Control: In the team section there will be 3 rounds with clocks set at Game/60plus a 5 second increment, unless there are more than 8 teams inwhich case it will be 4 rounds at game in 45 minutes plus 5 secondincrement. In the individual section there will be 4 rounds with game in 45 plus 5second increment, unless there are more than 24 participants inwhich case it changes to 5 rounds at G/30 +5.Specific round times will be emailed and posted as soon as we know thenumber of participants, but expect to finish by 5:30 for the award ceremony.

Trophies: Team first place, second place and third place Individual first and second place for boards 1, 2 and 3 (You couldcome home with a trophy or plaque even if your team doesn’t.) First and second place in the individual open section and first woman……………………………………………………………………………………….Lodging: The Microtel Inn at 61 North Tommy Thompson Road near the Salt Lake City airport which has shuttle between the SLC airport & Microtel, Friday and/or Saturday night has double queen beds available at $89 plus sales tax per room plus a $50 room deposit. (limited one per room roll away bed available for an extra $10 per night) Please call 801-236-2800 and ask for the 2025 Intermountain Intercollegiate Chess Tournament room rate. It is recommended room reservations are made as soon as possible (24 hour reservation cancellation required) otherwise rooms may not be available.