| The Department of Youth of the City of Alguazas collaborates in this initiative | We present the I Online Chess Tournament for schoolchildren in Alguazas, which has the collaboration of the Youth Department of the Alguazas City Council.It will take place next Tuesday, April 21, 2020, from 11:00 a.m.
to 12:30 p.m., online (from your computer, mobile phone, tablet ...).Two parallel tournaments will be played: school category (for schoolchildren born in 2008 and later) and senior category (for schoolchildren born in 2007 and earlier).Enrollment is FREE.
The registration period ends on Monday, April 20 at 10:00 p.m.HOW TO REGISTER AND START PLAYING?1) Enter www.chess.com and create your user (if you haven't already done so).
It is advisable to do it several hours before the tournament to have it ready.2) Send an email to chessfacil2@gmail.com with the following information: full participant date of birth, tournament you want to play and indicate the username with which you have registered in the chess.com application.3) After you have registered and logged in, you will have to click on the dropdown on the top left if you are with the computer, click on the bullet (bubble) next to where it says "play, learn", etc ...
and give it to clubs.
In clubs, put CHESSFACIL and ask to join.
You can do all this right now.4) One hour before the tournament (on Tuesday, April 21 at 10:00 am) we will pass you the link of the tournament.
Click on that link and you can join (don't forget to log in with your profile).
In other words, you have to ask to join twice, once at AJEDREZFACIL clubs and once at the tournament.5) HAVE FUN!In the words of Victoria Cuello, Youth Councilor of the Alguazas City Council, «we seek to promote the practice of this sport from home, taking advantage of new technologies, so that our schoolchildren exercise concentration, impulse control, creativity, reasoning, decision-making and respect in these moments when we cannot leave home ».
Source: Ayuntamiento de Alguazas