# New Grand Prix Rules **URL:** \ **Category:** Running Chess Tournaments\ **Created:** [November 30, 2010, 3:50am UTC](https://forum.uschess.org/t/new-grand-prix-rules/13929 "2010-11-30T03:50:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Steve\_Immitt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8c91f0/32.png) [@Steve\_Immitt](https://forum.uschess.org/u/Steve_Immitt)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2010, 3:50am UTC](https://forum.uschess.org/t/new-grand-prix-rules/13929/1 "2010-11-30T03:50:11Z")
The recently changed rules for the Grand Prix now also require that “no more than one prize under $100 may count towards the Grand Prix Point total.” ``` Does this mean that no prize advertised under $100 is supposed to count towards the Grand Prix, or that no [i]guaranteed[/i] prize less than $100 may count towards the Grand Prix? Many tournaments use a combination of guaranteed and based-on prizes, and especially common are tournaments which advertise a based-on prize fund with a minimum percentage guaranteed. For example, would a TLA which advertises a prize fund in the Open Section of $500-250-150-100 based on 40 entries, with half of each prize guaranteed, be 10 Grand Prix Points (half of $1,000 is $500, which is 10 Grand Prix Points), or would it be 6 Grand Prix Points, because the $900 top three prizes count towards the Grand Prix, half of which is guaranteed, which is $450 and 6 Grand Prix Points? The $150 and $100 prizes are only half-guaranteed, which makes them each under $100 guaranteed, so only one of them counts (presumably the $150 one). As the new rules are effective with this month's TLAs, this should probably be clarified. ``` ---
**Author:** ![nolan](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.uschess.org/nolan/32/174_2.png) [@nolan](https://forum.uschess.org/u/nolan)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2010, 4:15am UTC](https://forum.uschess.org/t/new-grand-prix-rules/13929/2 "2010-11-30T04:15:30Z")
Good questions, Steve. I don’t know what the Board’s intent was, and I did pose several questions to them regarding interpretation when this policy was brought up and revised at your instigation in August. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_Immitt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8c91f0/32.png) [@Steve\_Immitt](https://forum.uschess.org/u/Steve_Immitt)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2010, 4:25am UTC](https://forum.uschess.org/t/new-grand-prix-rules/13929/3 "2010-11-30T04:25:33Z")
> [@nolan](#): > > Good questions, Steve. I don’t know what the Board’s intent was, and I did pose several questions to them regarding interpretation when this policy was brought up and revised at your instigation in August. Did I really instigate this, too? It’s true that when I was I kid my parents did refer to me as “The Instigator.” ---
**Author:** ![Allen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bbce88/32.png) [@Allen](https://forum.uschess.org/u/Allen)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2010, 4:38am UTC](https://forum.uschess.org/t/new-grand-prix-rules/13929/4 "2010-12-01T04:38:06Z")
> [@Steve\_Immitt](#): > > > [@nolan](#): > > > > Good questions, Steve. I don’t know what the Board’s intent was, and I did pose several questions to them regarding interpretation when this policy was brought up and revised at your instigation in August. > > Did I really instigate this, too? It’s true that when I was I kid my parents did refer to me as “The Instigator.” Yep you did ---
**Author:** ![system](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.uschess.org/system/32/2_2.png) [@system](https://forum.uschess.org/u/system)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2024, 8:40am UTC](https://forum.uschess.org/t/new-grand-prix-rules/13929/5 "2024-04-22T08:40:25Z")