Events can span over multiple days. Projections will be graded at the end of each event.
Match Projections
All grading will be based on the website of the official governing body, or chess.com.
Opening Move ‘X’: Projection will grade based on White’s first move only.
Points of Captured Material: Pawn (1 point), Knight (3 points), Bishop (3 points), Rook (5 points), and Queen (9 points)
Total Moves: A move is regarded to be played as soon as White has made a move.
Game Accuracy: Graded according to chess.com accuracy scores.
Promoted Pawns: Graded on Number of Pawns that reach the promotion square regardless of what they are promoted to.
Full Tournament Projections
Score
A player’s score is calculated from their match results over the course of all of their matches across an event. Players get 1 point for a win, a ½ point for a draw, and 0 points for a loss.
For example: If Hikaru Nakamura plays 14 matches in an event and wins 8, draws 4, and loses 2, his score would be 10.0.
Accuracy
Determined by Chess dot com review engine.
Finishing Position
To first be determined by host of event (i.e FIDE, Chess dot com, etc).
Round Robin Ranking
Finishing position in the Round Robin stage. Grading to be determined by host of event. If host does not provide finishing position results, then determined by final player scores from an event. For example, if Hikaru Nakamura has a finishing projection of 3.5 and he finishes in second place, people that selected "lower" would win those selections because 2 is lower than 3.5.
Tiebreaker games
In the event tiebreaker games are played to determine finishing position, finishing position will be graded upon the conclusion of the tiebreakers.
In the event of a tie in finishing position between two players and no tiebreaking games are played, the default tiebreaking priorities will be:
Number of matches played in the event. If both players played the same amount of matches, then
Head-to-head record. If both players either did not play each other or tied in head to head record, then both players will be graded with the same finishing position.
Participation requirement
A player must compete in at least 49% of their scheduled matches in a tournament or else they will be marked as out.
So, if a player plays five of twelve scheduled matches and then withdraws from the event without playing the rest of their games, they will be marked as out.