There are a couple of reasons why a team in a match might have an average rating above 2400.75. They are:

1. Each team is allowed to use any rating list from September of the previous year through August of the current year. The ratings shown on this page will all be from August though - sometimes resulting in a seemingly higher rating average than would legally be allowed.

2. When a team uses a player rated above 2590, that player only counts as 2600 when determining a lineup's legality. However what is shown on this page will be the actual average which of course might be higher.

There are a couple of reasons why a team in a match might have an average rating above 2400.75. They are:

1. Each team is allowed to use any rating list from January through August of the current year. The ratings shown on this page will all be from August though - sometimes resulting in a seemingly higher rating average than would legally be allowed.

2. When a team uses a player rated above 2600, that player only counts as 2600 when determining a lineup's legality. However what is shown on this page will be the actual average which of course might be higher.

If there is a tie during the regular season as to the finishing order for playoff positioning, the following rules will be used (for instance if two teams are tied for second place with seven match points each). Tiebreak #1 is of course the first tiebreak with the lower ones being used only if all the above tiebreak procedures also result in a tie.

1. Total Team Game Points. Thus winning a match 4 - 0 will give you more tiebreak points than winning a match 3 - 1.

2. Average rating of opponents throughout the season, using the August rating list of that season.

3. Head to Head Results. If you have beaten the opposing team 1.5 - 0.5 during the regular season, you will get the higher seeding.

4. Total Match Points versus Divisional Teams. Thus if Team A went 4.0 - 2.0 in Divisional Matches while Team B went 3.5 - 2.5 then Team A would have the better tiebreaks.

5. Total Game Points versus Divisional Teams

6. Total Game Points from Board 1

7. Total Game Points from Board 2

8. Total Game Points from Board 3

9. Total number of team wins. Thus if one team has a total of twenty five points, with twenty of these points being from wins, whereas another team has a total of twenty five points with only nineteen being from wins, the team with twenty wins has the better tiebreaks.

10. An Armageddon blitz game between chosen members of the teams

If there is a tie between three teams in both match points and game points, we will use the above rules to decide the order amongst the teams. The last resort will be an online blitz game between chosen members of the teams.

If there is a tie during the regular season as to the finishing order for playoff positioning, the following rules will be used (for instance if two teams are tied for second place with seven match points each). Tiebreak #1 is of course the first tiebreak with the lower ones being used only if all the above tiebreak procedures also result in a tie.

1. Total Team Game Points. Thus winning a match 4 - 0 will give you more tiebreak points than winning a match 3 - 1.

2. Strength of Schedule; the team whose opponents have the highest combined record wins the tiebreak.

3. Average rating of opponents throughout the season, using the August rating list of that season.

4. Head to Head Results. If you have beaten the opposing team 1.5 - 0.5 during the regular season, you will get the higher seeding.

5. Total Match Points versus Divisional Teams. Thus if Team A went 5.0 - 3.0 in Divisional Matches while Team B went 4.5 - 3.5 then Team A would have the better tiebreaks.

6. Total Game Points versus Divisional Teams

7. Total Game Points from Board 1

8. Total Game Points from Board 2

9. Total Game Points from Board 3

10. Total number of team wins. Thus if one team has a total of twenty five points, with twenty of these points being from wins, whereas another team has a total of twenty five points with only nineteen being from wins, the team with twenty wins has the better tiebreaks.

11. An Armageddon blitz game between chosen members of the teams

If there is a tie between three teams in both match points and game points, we will use the above rules to decide the order amongst the teams. The last resort will be an online blitz game between chosen members of the teams.

If the regulation match is tied 2 - 2, the following tiebreak procedures will be take place after a ten minute break:

1. The fourth boards from each team will play each other. The team that won on the highest board during the original match will choose their color for the first game. If all regulation games were drawn, the lower rated team gets to choose colors for the first tiebreak game. The time control will be three minutes with a three second increment. The loser of this game will be eliminated, and the winner then faces Board Three of the opposing team.

2. This process continues with the next higher board on each team continually replacing any player of their team who gets eliminated.

3. If a game ends in a draw, both players are eliminated, except if at least one team is using its Board One in which case there is no elimination on a draw, instead colors reverse, and the game is replayed until there is a decisive result.

4. Colors will switch every game for the teams in all circumstances.

5. This process repeats itself until all four players from one team have been eliminated. Thus in order for your opponents to win the match, every one of your team members must be eliminated.

2009 Player Register

(sorted by August 2009 rating)

GM Giorgi Kacheishvili — 2666
IM Jay Bonin — 2358
GM Pascal Charbonneau — 2560
GM John Fedorowicz — 2544
IM Irina Krush — 2478
NM Yaacov Norowitz — 2354
NM Matt Herman — 2275
NM Evan Rosenberg — 2185
NM Raven Sturt — 2201
IM Bryan Smith — 2528
GM Sergey Kudrin — 2602
FM Tom Bartell — 2411
IM Alex Lenderman — 2638
NM Michael Katz — 2183
WGM Jennifer Shahade — 2301
IM Richard Costigan — 2288
Rahul Swaminathan — 2135
Kavinayan Sivakumar — 2048
GM Yury Shulman — 2712
GM Nikola Mitkov — 2554
IM Jan van de Mortel — 2456
IM Mehmed Pasalic — 2346
IM Angelo Young — 2325
FM Florin Felecan — 2430
NM Eric Rosen — 2164
Trevor Magness — 2138
GM Alex Stripunsky — 2628
IM Eli Vovsha — 2539
IM Dmitry Schneider — 2510
IM Lev Milman — 2510
IM Yury Lapshun — 2504
Benjamin Katz — 2139
FM Andrei Zaremba — 2398
WFM Elizabeth Vicary — 2106
Shaun Smith — 2038
GM Hikaru Nakamura — 2759
FM John Readey — 2273
GM Gregory Serper — 2592
FM Slava Mikhailuk — 2437
FM Marcel Milat — 2354
WGM Katerina Rohonyan — 2331
NM Joshua Sinanan — 2284
FM Michael Lee — 2384
NM Howard Chen — 2195
GM Larry Christiansen — 2662
SM Jorge Sammour-Hasbun — 2603
GM Eugene Perelshteyn — 2588
SM Denys Shmelov — 2474
SM Marc Esserman — 2461
WGM Anya Corke — 2304
NM Vadim Martirosov — 2235
NM Ilya Krasik — 2252
Andrew Wang — 2136
GM Julio Becerra — 2615
FM Bruci Lopez — 2480
NM Eric Rodriguez — 2290
FM Marcel Martinez — 2475
IM Blas Lugo — 2351
IM Alejandro Moreno Roman — 2331
NM Ernesto Alvarez — 2200
Miguel Recio — 2164
GM Patrick Wolff — 2623
GM Josh Friedel — 2612
GM Jesse Kraai — 2552
GM Vinay Bhat — 2504
IM John Donaldson — 2408
IM Sam Shankland — 2564
NM Yian Liou — 2149
FM Daniel Naroditsky — 2371
GM Joel Benjamin — 2641
GM Boris Gulko — 2609
SM Mackenzie Molner — 2446
IM Dean Ippolito — 2535
NM Andrew Ng — 2182
NM Victor Shen — 2305
Arthur Shen — 2107
Sean Finn — 2114
Anna Matlin — 2003
IM Rogelio Barcenilla — 2583
IM Dionisio Aldama — 2473
IM Levon Altounian — 2538
FM Daniel Rensch — 2434
GM Alejandro Ramirez — 2601
FM Robby Adamson — 2340
David Adelberg — 2160
NM Leo Martinez — 2230
Amanda Mateer — 1986
IM Jacek Stopa — 2565
IM John Bartholomew — 2499
IM Salvijus Bercys — 2503
IM Daniel Ludwig — 2543
IM Daniel Fernandez — 2468
FM Keaton Kiewra — 2365
FM Darwin Yang — 2348
WFM Bayaraa Zorigt — 2270
Adarsh Jayakumar — 2173
GM Sergey Erenburg — 2616
GM Larry Kaufman — 2444
IM Tegshsuren Enkhbat — 2430
WGM Sabina Foisor — 2390
FM Ralph Zimmer — 2282
FM Shinsaku Uesugi — 2354
GM Leonid Kritz — 2654
WIM Tsagaan Battsetseg — 2265
Jared Defibaugh — 2155
NM Carlito Agner — 2220
IM Jonathan Schroer — 2429
NM Udayan Bapat — 2214
FM Ron Simpson — 2290
FM Mike Klein — 2304
FM Oleg Zaikov — 2388
NM Craig Jones — 2275
NM Chris Mabe — 2265
GM Jaan Ehlvest — 2697
GM Alex Shabalov — 2624
IM Ron Burnett — 2380
FM Todd Andrews — 2360
FM Peter Bereolos — 2329
FM John Bick — 2260
Gerald Larson — 2140
David Justice — 2087

Alternates

John Timmel — 2121
David High — 1902
Ian Harris — 2172
IM Ray Kaufman — 2297
NM Nelson Lopez — 2218
NM Chaitanya Vaidya — 2324
NM Joel Johnson — 2202
IM Mark Ginsburg — 2427
IM David Pruess — 2418
NM Gregory Young — 2242
FM Aviv Friedman — 2407
IM Albert Kapengut — 2379
IM David Vigorito — 2482
Stuart Finney — 2100
Matan Prilleltensky — 2103
Alejandro Allen — 1922
Fritz Gaspard — 2113
Jeff Kelleher — 2070
NM Curt Collyer — 2304
NM Elvin Wilson — 2240
FM Michael Shahade — 2231
NM Jon Burgess — 2237
Jeremy Kane — 2168
SM Igor Sorkin — 2426
SM Gregory Braylovsky — 2434
Frank Ashmun — 1990
NM Jim Al-Shamma — 2122

Players who have played games in 2009 and are no longer on a roster

IM Marko Zivanic — 2551
IM Eric Tangborn — 2455
Gerald Roberts — 1885

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