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Unified link/website in Canada for all tournaments smiilar to www.chesstour.com in US
Unified link/website in Canada for all tournaments smiilar to www.chesstour.com in US
Just wonder ( personally I don't think this exist ) if there is any website which shows all the tournaments in Canada ? In this way, maybe we will have avoided the problem where Kitchener and Toronto are going to have the same tournament at the same time.
If we have this website, I think more people will know about the tournaments in advance ( months ahead before the tournaments ) and they will be able to plan ahead on which tournaments that they can play. Pre-register list can be available through forum and this will continue to attract more entries.
Hope the organizers in Canada will take notice of this.
If USA can do it, I am sure Canada do it better !!!
By the way, do we have a list of tournaments for 2014 ?:)...I know 2013 is not over yet....but 2014 is on the way
Re: Unified link/website in Canada for all tournaments smiilar to www.chesstour.com i
Gary, we do have a website for all tournament listings in Canada, the CFC website (Quebec organizers prefer to advertise on the FQE site for obvious language reasons). Some years ago, with the old website problems, organizers stopped posting there, but we have a new website. Please, organizers use it. It's free.
KW Labour day tournament is advertised there, but Toronto Labour Day guys didn't bother. We advertised Mississauga Open there, as will we do the Campbellville Active. I sent it in yesterday, you enter it online yourself, then it takes 1-3 days for the office to upload it to website.
Re : Re: Unified link/website in Canada for all tournaments smiilar to www.chesstour.
ChessTour.com doesn't list all the tournaments ; they only list the tournaments organized by the Continental Chess Association (only a fraction of US tournaments, but big ones).
Re: Unified link/website in Canada for all tournaments smiilar to www.chesstour.com i
Hi Bob,
I was thinking more of having a website where you register for it and then every now and then, the website will remind you of a tournament coming up, one week/two weeks or maybe one month ahead. Same time, the list of tournaments are for months ahead and it will be easier for players to plan ahead. Can the CFC website act like chesstour.com ? with this age of technology, we should make use of it as more people uses smart phones/internet. so far I can only see probably one or two tournaments ahead and that will be probably one month ahead.
ChessTour.com doesn't list all the tournaments ; they only list the tournaments organized by the Continental Chess Association (only a fraction of US tournaments, but big ones).
Can we not have an association like CCA ? that will be great !
Re : Re: Unified link/website in Canada for all tournaments smiilar to www.chesstour.
Well, we have provincial organizations.
As Bob pointed out, the FQE advertize Quebec tournaments (pretty much every tournament that is organized) on its own website (I'm not sure how much the CFC website is used for CFC-rated tournaments). The Quebec Tour (which is pretty much the same thing as ChessTour, but obviously a bit smaller) also has its own page on which the tournaments are advertized.
Other associations (BC, Alberta, Eastern Ontario...) also have their website. The only difference is that there's no nation-wide association. Obviously, there's the CFC, and I find extremely surprising that people don't send their tournament info...
Re: Unified link/website in Canada for all tournaments smiilar to www.chesstour.com i
Hi Gary,
It is real simple...ChessTour is Continental Chess Association which is Bill Goichberg....so on their site they advertise their events. On the USCF site they advertise events that are USCF rated...on the CFC site they advertise CFC rated events...on the Chess'n Math site, we advertise events that are rated by the CMA and on the FQE site, they advertise events rated by them, and on the FIDE site they advertise events rated by them.
Obviously, there's the CFC, and I find extremely surprising that people don't send their tournament info...
Surprising?
So let's say I'm a TD from Newfoundland. Not sure my top priority is to make sure that guys from BC are aware I'm organizing a tournament... Just saying.
That's an extreme example, but you get the point. I think local organizers sometimes have other priorities than nationwide 'exposure'.
Re: Re : Re: Unified link/website in Canada for all tournaments smiilar to www.chesst
Hi Mathieu:
But I think the goal is to make the website tournament list so extensive, that "local" players get used to regularly going there to see about tournaments in their OWN region!
The main purpose will become to advertise to your own local players, via the CFC website. National exposure of chess activity in your region will in fact be only secondary.
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