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The RA Club Championship begins Thursday, January 9 and runs for 7 weeks. Games are the RA centre on Thursdays and begin at 19:30. If you wish to play, please come to the RA Centre around 19:00 on the 9th.
And there is no additional registration fee of any type for members to register - all inclusive in the membership package? (this is how it is at our Scarborough CC).
The RA Chess club is part of the RA Sports Centre, a complex offering a range of activities for members, including hockey, curling, bridge, judo, squash, and many others. Members pay an annual fee to join the RA center, and individual fees for each club they join. Fees are annual, and differ based on whether you are an adult or junior, and wether or not you are an employee of the Federal Government. Full membership details can be found here http://www.racentre.com/.
We do charge a $3 fee for each rated tournament we run. These tournaments run on Thursday evenings, which is when most members play. On occasion we run theme tournaments, Fischer-random tournaments, and speed tournaments, and all these are unrated and incurr no additional fee. You can find our complete schedule here http://ottawarachessclub.pbworks.com...20-%20Homepage
If I'm not mistaken, the RA (the association - not the chess club) was originally open to civil servants only, but at some point (does anyone know when?) they allowed anyone to join (at a slightly higher membership fee).
I am afraid that is incorrect, Bill. That is only for OPEN events. The Club Championship is restricted strictly to members as indicated on the website.
DWall Chart. RA championship 2014: open
# Name/Rtng/ID Rd 1
1 David Gordon B 20
2264 106629 (2182) (2602431) 1.0
2 Stijn De Kerpel W 21
2240 102011 (2233) (2606950) 1.0
3 Robert Gelblum B 22
2236 104272 (2081) (2617480) 1.0
4 Vasil Khachidze W 23
2221 154486 (2618664) 1.0
5 Kevin Pacey B 24
2214 103715 (2183) (2600455) 1.0
6 Qiyu Zhou W 25
2187 151707 (1969) (505161) 1.0
7 Dusan Simic B 27
2175 109808 (2268) (908150) 1.0
8 Adam Adriaanse W 28
2127 152504 (1915) (2617838) 1.0
9 William G Doubleday bye
2096 103754 (2037) (2682419) 0.5
10 Halldor Peter Palsson B 29
2042 106856 (1976) (2603136) 1.0
11 Yuxuan Qin W 30
2038 156367 (2620677) 1.0
12 John Dykes B 31
2004 156675 1.0
13 Amos Kuttner W 32
1943 151235 (1902) (2615738) 1.0
14 David Fei B 33
1914 154794 1.0
15 Gordon Ritchie W 34
1854 110972 (2000) (2608529) 1.0
16 Frank Guizhen Yang B 35
1811 151154 1.0
17 Anthony Ivanenko W 36
1806 141306 1.0
18 Dan Kearnan B 37
1794 137473 1.0
19 Jiehan Zhou W 38
1789 152984 (2616823) 1.0
20 Alex Danilov W 1
1726 101895 (1850) (2603926) 0.0
21 Herb Langer B 2
1688 100319 (2617536) 0.0
22 Gerard Felderhof W 3
1678 104191 0.0
23 Ben Kellar B 4
1664 148170 0.0
24 Konstantin Vlasenko W 5
1649 154795 0.0
25 Romy Peters B 6
1644 135706 (2605589) 0.0
26 Simon Perkins bye
1639 107582 (2618737) 0.5
27 Garland Best W 7
1623 103050 (2603241) 0.0
28 Keven Eyre B 8
1563 135113 (2604205) 0.0
29 Paul St Pierre W 10
1472 107439 0.0
30 Tony Chen B 11
1396 151444 0.0
31 Romain Charette W 12
1389 141911 0.0
32 Lawrence [larry] Ju B 13
1371 151370 0.0
33 Terrence [terry] Ju W 14
1352 151396 0.0
34 Sam Marin B 15
1266 156145 0.0
35 Andrew Zhan W 16
1113 152506 0.0
36 David Gan B 17
1034 155487 0.0
37 Victoria Amirshadova W 18
1029 148747 (2609940) 0.0
38 Yaorui Xu B 19
885 155473 0.0
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