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Hamilton Summer Open 2014
The Hamilton City Chess Club Presents a 5 Round Swiss August 23-24
Emmanuel United Church
871 upper Ottawa Street
Hamilton Ontario
Schedule
Please Confirm your registration Saturday August 23 at 9:00am
Those arriving after 9:20am may not be paired
Game Times
Saturday - 9:30am, 2:00pm and 6:30pm
Sunday – 11:00am, 4:00pm
Sections and Prizes
Top Guns, U2000 and U1600
Top Guns and U2000 will play for cash prizes. U1600 will play for trophies
To play in the Top Guns Section You must be 1900 or higher
To play in the U2000 section you must be 1500 or higher
Please note: Unrated players are not eligible for the U2000 prize.
Fees
Top Guns and U2000 $45.00 U1600 $25.00 Cash Only
Email us by Aug 22 to receive a $5.00 discount
Titled players who commit to playing by August 17 will receive a major discount
CFC Membership required
Time Control
All games 90 minutes with a 30 second increment
Rules and Equipment
Please Bring Chess sets, Boards and Digital Clocks
Players are responsible for providing their chess equipment
Please Turn off your cell phones
TD Rulings based on CFC/FIDE handbooks are final
Questions, Concerns and Pre-Registration
Email us at: chesshamilton@gmail.com
Follow this thread for discussions and info about this event!
Last edited by Garvin Nunes; Sunday, 10th August, 2014, 01:20 PM.
Reason: Corrected Error
Top Guns
Razvan Preotu FM
Adam Cormier
Doug Bailey FM
Ilya Ozerov
Eugene Hua
Daniel Abrahams
Jesse Wang
FM Michael Humphreys
Yuanchen Zhang
Richard Chen
Patrick Huang
Garvin Nunes (floater)
Jeffrey Xu
Jonathan Yu
NM Geordie Derraugh
Nicholas Vettese
Mike Ivanov
Wajdy Shebetah
Wenlu Yu
Joey Zhong
Jason Cai
Tom Bark
U2000
Alex Friedman
Stanley Wu
Daniel Liu
Constance Wang
Lan Qian
Sophie Wang
Harmony Zhu
Nicholas Wu
Stanley Wu
Sean Lei
Benito Surya
Joe T Ellis
Robert Gillanders (floater)
Daniel DenBok
Mario Moran-Venegas
Janet Peng
Manxuan Zhang
Richard Feng
Ferdinand Supsup
U1600
Bobby Mao
Mike Farley
David Atanasov
Anthony atanasov
Joshua Du
Peter Boushy
Declan Boushy
James Williamson
Grant Chen
Monika Wood
Michel Vasquez (floater)
Sophie Wang
William Ratelband
Kai Gauer
Deparse Cottrell
Austin Xie
Think your name should be here but don't see it?
It will probably be up soon, but feel free to email us at chesshamilton@gmail.com
to be sure
Last edited by Garvin Nunes; Friday, 22nd August, 2014, 10:19 PM.
Reason: Update
For some reason hotels are getting booked fairly fast for the Aug 23-24 weekend. So if you need to stay overnight in the Hamilton area I recommend you book soon!
Motel 6
$76.00
4345 North Service Road Burlington
1-866-295-5578
Super 8 Mt Hope
$86.00
2975 Homestead Drive, Mount Hope, ON
1-866-295-5816
Days Inn Hamilton
$95.00
210 Main Street East, Hamilton, ON
1-866-295-9117
Comfort Inn Hamilton
$120.00
183 Centennial Pky N, Hamilton ON
1-866-299-2488
Staybridge Suites Hamilton Downtown
$162.00
20 Caroline St S, Hamilton ON
1-866-296-8217
ca.kayak.com seemed to do the best job at searching for a wide variety of hotel rates in the Hamilton area.
Taking the bus from Hamilton Go Station To Emmanuel United Church:
-Walk to James and Hunter
-Catch Bus 22 "Upper Ottawa"
-Go to Upper Ottawa and Reno
-Walk to 871 Upper Ottawa (It looks like a big church..)
-If you catch the bus at 8:21 Saturday morning, it should take about 19 minutes
Using google maps you would be going from:
Hamilton GO Centre At Hunter St, 36 Hunter St E, Hamilton, ON L8N 3W1, Canada
to
871 Upper Ottawa St, Hamilton, ON L8T 3V4, Canada)
Driving
-Cross the Skyway bridge and then take the Red Hill Expressway.
-Take the Dartnall Road exit
-Turn Right on StoneChurch
-Turn Right on Upper Ottawa
We are still deciding whether or not to have the event FIDE rated. What is your preference? Also, anyone who has an opinion on this should state their preference.
Cant find the info on club website. Is it just me?
This thread is the "website" of the tournament. If you have any particular question about the event you can ask it here or email me at chesshamilton@gmail.com
We are still deciding whether or not to have the event FIDE rated. What is your preference? Also, anyone who has an opinion on this should state their preference.
Try create a poll and I would think most people especially top juniors would want it to be FIDE rated. If most of the tournaments are not FIDE rated for the top sections, then this will create a lot of under rated FIDE rated players ( their CFC rating very high compared to their FIDE rating ). Not that I qualify for the top sections !!! This is more for juniors
We are still deciding whether or not to have the event FIDE rated. What is your preference? Also, anyone who has an opinion on this should state their preference.
I would like it to be FIDE rated, in fact for future reference I will always prefer a tournament to be FIDE rated rather than not.
I would like it to be FIDE rated, in fact for future reference I will always prefer a tournament to be FIDE rated rather than not.
I have decided the FIDE rate the top section...however I am not sure we will continue this after this event. This doesn't always seem to be an attractive feature to top players for some reason. (But top players, please let me know if you feel otherwise).
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