The Geneva Bughouse Gathering 2007
 
Geneva, Switzerland, August 17-20, 2007

1. The program

Friday, August 17th

• From 7 PM on: welcome barbecue hosted by Rodolphe Francey.

Saturday, August 18th

• From 1 PM on : welcome drinks and friendly bughouse at Echecs-Club Bois-Gentil.
• 3 PM : start of the eighth International Swiss Bughouse Championship.
• 7 PM : end of the tournament, friendly bughouse.

Sunday, August 19th

• From 1 PM on : outdoor friendly bughouse and bughouse on giant boards at the Parc des Bastions.
• 4 PM : multi-bughouse, ping-pong, bughouse, bughouse and bughouse.

Monday, August 20st

• From 1 PM and all the day long: outdoor bughouse at the Parc des Bastions.

2. The places

• Friday: At Rodolphe Francey's place, chemin de Montesquiou 9, 1213 Onex.
  
• Saturday: Echecs-Club Bois-Gentil, c/o Club des Aînés "Les Cèdres", 9 rue du Grand-Pré.
  A comfortable indoor place close to the main railway station.
  
• From Sunday on: Parc des Bastions, entrance by the Place Neuve.
  In this classical outdoor meeting place of Geneva chessplayers, there are three big tables, many giant chessboards and ping-pong tables. Of course there will be plenty of classical boards and clocks as well.

In case of continuous rain we will not play in the park, but Sunday at the Echecs-Club Bois-Gentil (address above) and Monday at the secondary place of the same club, 58 Cité Villars.
 
 

3. The International Swiss Bughouse Championship

• Date: August 18th, 3 PM
   
• Place: Club des Aînés "les Cèdres", 9, rue du Grand-Pré, Genève.
   
• Entry: free, limited to 20 teams.
   
• Form: 4-fold round robin (depending of the number of participants), with a final between the two first teams. Eventual ties will be decided by a qualification match.
   
• Time control: 3 minutes.
   
• Subscription: teams can be arranged on the spot.

4. The organisation

• Free accomodation for the first 12 participants from abroad will be possible at the places of some Geneva players.
• Enough chessboards and digital clocks will be provided by Echecs-Club Bois-Gentil  
• Stuff to make sandwiches and (relatively cold) drinks will be at the free disposal of players during the whole gathering.
• For subscriptions and/or more details, you can mail Rodolphe Francey at , or even better use this message board !

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