Chess League - Downtown Ocean Springs

Hosted at  MOSAIC from 5:30pm - 8:30pm

20 players max.

All ages and skill sets.

PLEASE SHOW UP BY 5:30pm to draw your starting position on the bracket.

Games WILL start at 5:45pm

If you're not present when games start you risk forfeiting you spot on the bracket.

$5 BUY IN.

Single eimination with Losers and Winners Bracket.

1st Place $70 - 2nd Place $20 - Losers Bracket Winner $10

Sign up now below. Spots First Come First Serve.

Bing Your Own Chess Set Allowed. If you dont have your own Chess set a set will be supplied.

Current Rules. Based on Player Feed-back. 

1) The touch-move rule. If a player deliberately touches a piece on the board when it is their turn to move, then they must move or capture that piece if it is legal to do so. 

2) Must use a chess clock.

15 min Person 2 second Incremants. You can download one for free here

Iphone Download https://apps.apple.com/us/app/chess-clock-by-chess-com/id858039162

Android Download https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.chess.clock&hl=en_US&gl=US

3) En Passant is allowed.

En passant is a special rule that allows pawns to capture pawns on adjacent tiles under special circumstances. According to FIDE, the governing body of chess, the rule goes like this:

“A pawn attacking a square crossed by an opponent’s pawn which has advanced two squares in one move from its original square may capture this opponent’s pawn as though the latter had been moved only one square. This capture is only legal on the move following this advance and is called an ‘en passant’ capture.”