Guelph Fall Pro-Am November 7-8, 2015

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  • Guelph Fall Pro-Am November 7-8, 2015

    In order to streamline registration and hopefully start on time, please note the prepayment options.

    Guelph Fall Pro-Am
    November 7-8, 2015
    Room 442, Guelph University Centre
    5 Round Swiss

    4 SECTIONS: FIDE Rated Pro, FIDE Rated U2000, U1600 and
    NEW Amateur Section: 40 Plus. Open to players aged 40 years or older.

    Players may play up one section if current rating is within 100 points of rating floor.
    Extra cost is $20, proceeds to the Olympic Fund.

    Round Times: Saturday 10:00am, 2:00pm, 6:30pm, Sunday 10:00am, 2:30pm
    Time Control: All rounds G/90 + 30 sec
    Entry Fees: Pro Section $60, others $40. Late Fee: $10.00 on site
    Single Half Point Byes: in rounds 1-4 may be requested in advance
    Prizes: $55 per Pro player returned as prizes.
    Trophies awarded in other sections.

    Registration: Prepayment required to avoid the onsite late fee.
    For Paypal, the payee is chess@uoguelph.ca.
    For E-transfers, send to halbond@sympatico.ca
    Or mail cheques payable to Hal Bond,
    205 – 105 Conroy Crescent, Guelph, ON N1G 2V5

    Players registering on site after 9:30 Saturday may not receive
    a swiss pairing in first round.

    Equipment, snacks and refreshments provided by organizer

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    Re: Guelph Fall Pro-Am November 7-8, 2015

    There goes any chance of a southern Ontario presence at the Sudbury Ch :P.

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    • #3
      Re: Guelph Fall Pro-Am November 7-8, 2015

      Both Sudbury and Guelph are the same weekend as the Varennes tournament near Montreal, which has been on the schedule for months. $10k in prizes.

      http://www.echecsvarennes.ca/resourc...5_English2.pdf

      58 advance entries including 3 Canadian GM's.

      http://www.echecsvarennes.ca/resourc...20varennes.pdf

      Tournament history:

      2011: 54 entries.
      2012: 64 entries.
      2013: 95 entries.
      2014: 105 entries.

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      • #4
        Re: Guelph Fall Pro-Am November 7-8, 2015

        It seems the organizers are slow to learn. They only hurt each other with conflicting schedules. This has been going on for decades!

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        • #5
          Re: Guelph Fall Pro-Am November 7-8, 2015

          Hal's early-November tournament in Guelph has been going on for a lot of years (two decades? more?). I don't think it's fair to fault Hal for any wrongdoing. And these tournaments are geographically far enough apart that it's unlikely, imo, that one will negatively impact the others.
          "We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office." - Aesop
          "Only the dead have seen the end of war." - Plato
          "If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination." - Thomas De Quincey

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          • #6
            Re: Guelph Fall Pro-Am November 7-8, 2015

            Thanks Peter.

            I posted this on August 14 here on Chess Talk. The CFC forum got the same post around the same time.

            The Guelph Pro-Am dates have been secured for the upcoming year. Unfortunately I could not escape a conflict in January with Ottawa. Good luck with your tournament Halldor!!

            November 7-8, 2015
            January 9-10, 2016
            April 2-3, 2016
            June 18-19, 2016

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            • #7
              Re: Guelph Fall Pro-Am November 7-8, 2015

              Some weeks ago I updated chessontario.com (OCA) with tournament dates:
              www.chessontario.com/index.php/events

              chess.ca has a calendar too.

              Use it or loose it LOL

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              • #8
                Re: Guelph Fall Pro-Am November 7-8, 2015

                Originally posted by Egidijus Zeromskis View Post
                Some weeks ago I updated chessontario.com (OCA) with tournament dates:
                www.chessontario.com/index.php/events

                chess.ca has a calendar too.

                Use it or loose it LOL
                Great. Please add Campbellville Open - Nov 28-29
                http://www.miltonchess.ca/images/cfc/camp2015.pdf

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                • #9
                  Re: Guelph Fall Pro-Am November 7-8, 2015

                  The (sometimes approximate) dates of major Quebec tournaments can be found at:

                  http://www.fqechecs.qc.ca/cms/tourno...tour-du-quebec

                  You could probably contact the FQE for exact dates if the list hasn't been updated.

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                  • #10
                    Re: Guelph Fall Pro-Am November 7-8, 2015

                    Update October 27 2015.:)

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                    • #11
                      Re: Guelph Fall Pro-Am November 7-8, 2015

                      Originally posted by Egidijus Zeromskis View Post
                      Some weeks ago I updated chessontario.com (OCA) with tournament dates:
                      www.chessontario.com/index.php/events

                      chess.ca has a calendar too.

                      Use it or loose it LOL
                      I noticed you missed Niagara Falls Open 2016

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                      • #12
                        Re: Guelph Fall Pro-Am November 7-8, 2015

                        Hello Chess Talkers

                        I am Arbiting right now at the Friendship Games in Dearborn Michigan, and will return home on Monday, November 1. The Friendship Games is a very strong norm tournament. We are playing 2 games per day so I have had precious little time for anything else. The registrations for the Guelph Fall Pro-Am are coming in and I will post an advance reg list as soon as I can.

                        In the meantime, here are the pairings for round 4 in Dearborn. We have a few Cannucks playing.

                        Pairings for Round 4. Friendship Games: Open
                        Bd Res White Res Black
                        1 GM Isan Ortiz Suarez (3.0) GM Gata Kamsky (3.0)
                        2 GM Yuniesky Quesada Perez (2.0) IM Ruifeng Li (2.0)
                        3 GM Jeffery Xiong (2.0) IM Kaiqi Yang (2.0)
                        4 GM Reynaldo Vera Gonzalez-Quevedo (2.0) GM Carlos Hevia (2.0)
                        5 GM Fidel Corrales Jimenez (2.0) WGM Lisandra Ordaz Valdes (2.0)
                        6 FM Seth Homa (2.0) GM Sandro Pozo Vera (2.0)
                        7 FM Victor Plotkin (2.0) GM Roberto Mogranzini (1.5)
                        8 FM Yuanchen Zhang (1.5) GM Alex Shimanov (1.5)
                        9 Benjamin Bar Moon (1.5) GM Ashwin Jayaram (1.5)
                        10 FM Edward Song (1.0) FM Guannan Terry Song (1.0)
                        11 Surya Parasuraman (1.0) Ben Li (1.0)
                        12 James A Mills (1.0) Julian Proleiko (1.0)
                        13 Rohan Talukdar (1.0) Alaa-addin Moussa (0.5)
                        14 Pinyi Hu (0.0) Brandon O'Neil (0.0)

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                        • #13
                          Re: Guelph Fall Pro-Am November 7-8, 2015

                          Is there a pre-registered list coming? The tournament is coming up soon!

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                          • #14
                            Re: Guelph Fall Pro-Am November 7-8, 2015

                            Originally posted by Vlad Dobrich View Post
                            It seems the organizers are slow to learn. They only hurt each other with conflicting schedules. This has been going on for decades!
                            Hi Vlad,

                            Yes and no. Some of us organizers in the GTA and surrounding smaller cities do exchange e-mails in advance when scheduling events. Frankly, others don't, and then you have a great point.
                            As for what is happening in a city 500 kms away, honestly... we can't plan according to that. If Ottawa decides to have a tournament same time as Toronto, will it really affect any of us? NO! A maximum of 5 players would (maybe!) make the commute, at best. If you consider a successful tournament to have 75-100 players or more, 5 players is not significant enough to run through hoops to find a sub-optimal date for a chess tournament.

                            The other point I'd like to make is... there are a LOT of tournaments. Which is fantastic! -- Finding an 'available' weekend is becoming quite challenging these days, where it won't conflict with something happening within a 500 kms radius. Especially in SW Ontario.


                            Alex F.

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