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You could do what I have experienced in some tournaments - on-site registration is permitted BUT:
1) All pre-registrants are "pre-paired" and the tournament begins on time. Pairings are posted on the Internet in advance, and in more than one place in the tournament hall.
2) Late registration is taken care of by someone who is not involved in starting the tournament on time.
3) After the tournament has started, the late registrants are paired together, and time is deducted from their clocks (the difference since the scheduled starting time) - a penalty they pay for registering late. Sometimes they are put in a seperate room so as not to disturb the other players with their late start.
Why not create a PAYPAL account just like the other organizers did for online pre-registration to eliminate the hazzle?
There is a BIG DIFFERENCE between on site registration and paid on-line registration.
Paid on-line registration (for convenience) guarantees that 90% of the time, a player is serious to play in a tournament and there is a binding agreement and guarantees pairing unless their is a change of plan wherein, it will be the player's responsibility to inform the organizer of a withdrawal to obtain a refund otherwise payment/game will be forfeited.
Yes, thanks to Brian Fiedler, this is the best Open Chess Tournament we have seen in Toronto in a long time! Brian is a low key kinda guy. He is working hard to offer a quality event and he assumes the message is obvious...well...I am less low key so...
HEY TORONTO - LET'S MAKE THIS TOURNAMENT INTO A CHESS HAPPENING!
For the first time out I would expect somewhere over the 200 mark in terms of participation...anything less would be a total disappointment.
Players can register at Strategy Games in Toronto, Montreal and Ottawa...anyone who does so in person before April 1, 2009 will receive a chess key chain free of charge (value is $5 including tax) from our shops if you mention this post when registering.
Strategy Games will be on-site with lots of cool stuff :)
Hi Larry,
Thank you for your personal invitation to the PWc Toronto Open. I'm still thinking about it. However there are some obsticles on my side and I'm not sure if I will manage to play this time too. I've been quite busy at work for a long time and it is not that easy for me to get rid of that "rust". I can promise to come and be just a spectator, - that for sure. Thank you once again for your words of encouragement.
Best regards,
Caesar
GM Hikaru Nakamura 2757 BC GM Alexander Shabalov 2630 USA GM Eugene Perelshteyn 2601 USA GM Bator Sambuev 2584 ON GM Joshua Friedel 2537 USA IM Leonid Gerzhoy 2528 ON IM Nikolay Noritsyn 2503 ON IM Brian Hartman 2434 ON IM Ron Livshits 2427 ON FM Robert Hamilton 2384 ON David (Yu) Peng 2375 ON FM Michael Barron 2344 ON FM Goran Milicevic 2340 ON Roman Sapozhnikov 2327 ON IM Lawrence Day 2322 ON Victor Plotkin 2322 ON
and all list:
Open Section
GM Hikaru Nakamura 2757 BC
GM Alexander Shabalov 2630 USA
GM Eugene Perelshteyn 2601 USA
GM Bator Sambuev 2584 ON
GM Joshua Friedel 2537 USA
IM Leonid Gerzhoy 2528 ON
IM Nikolay Noritsyn 2503 ON
IM Brian Hartman 2434 ON
IM Ron Livshits 2427 ON
FM Robert Hamilton 2384 ON
David (Yu) Peng 2375 ON
FM Michael Barron 2344 ON
FM Goran Milicevic 2340 ON
Roman Sapozhnikov 2327 ON
IM Lawrence Day 2322 ON
Victor Plotkin 2322 ON
Eddie Urquhart 2289 ON
Alexander Martchenko 2272 ON
FM Michael Dougherty 2268 ON
WIM Natalia Khoudgarian 2252 ON
Keith MacKinnon 2250 SK
David Filipovich 2241 ON
Hugues Mase 2234 QC
Wajdi Shbaita 2230 ON
Joshua Guo 2220 ON
David Lavin 2219 ON
Ilia Bluvshtein 2200 ON
Hugh Siddeley 2171 ON
FM Hans Jung 2170 ON
Felix Barrios 2161 ON
Aman Hambleton 2160 ON
Ted Kret 2158 ON
Mikhail Egorov 2127 ON
Fredrico Austria 2117 ON
Andrew Picana 2057 ON
Ralph Gregorz 2053 ON
Vladimir Drkulec 2052 ON
Jessie Wang 2046 ON
Julia Lacaurodean 2035 ON
Vladimir Semyonov 2031 ON
Kyle Jolliffe 2026 ON
Anthony Cheron 2025 ON
Daniel Abrahams 2007 ON
Andre Zybura 1959 ON
Dalia Kagramanov 1943 ON
John Chidley-Hill 1903 ON
Simon Gladstone 1820 ON
Robert Armstrong 1803 ON
Pino Verde 1712 ON
Under 2000 Section
Robert Gillanders 1974 ON
Manuel Balboa 1968 ON
Mickey Stein 1965 ON
Raymond Singh 1954 ON
Garvin Nunes 1945 ON
Robert Bzikot 1929 ON
Ross Richardson 1922 ON
Robert Gashgarian 1919 ON
Olya Chichkina 1904 ON
Eric Van Dusen 1871 ON
Pepin Manalo 1863 ON
David Bowers 1831 ON
Bill Kim 1826 ON
David Itkin 1810 ON
Laurent Allard 1802 QC
Victor Itkin 1789 ON
Bruce Dowling 1771 ON
Pacifico Cortez 1760 ON
Steven H. Liu 1760 ON
Joe Bellomo 1755 ON
Florian Bergeron 1754 ON
David Gunapalan 1749 ON
Jose Cabioc 1717 ON
Richard Wing 1716 ON
Mario Moran-Venegas 1712 ON
Mark Patton 1705 ON
Alan Power 1700 ON
Kevin Zhou 1690 ON
Genadi Medvedev 1680 ON
Jose Belzunce 1664 ON
Ken Kurkowski 1644 ON
John Brown 1627 ON
Ferdinand Supsup 1626 ON
Drake Lalonde 1624 ON
Jason Nguyen 1620 ON
Under 1600 Section
Mike Vasovic 1580 ON
Mei Chen Lee 1578 ON
Andre Siegel 1540 ON
Mark Plotkin 1534 ON
Joseph Bellissimo 1446 ON
Adam Cormier 1442 ON
Michael Rogers 1389 ON
Dinesh Dattani 1374 ON
Daniel Zotkin 1340 ON
Joey Orozco 1309 ON
Brett Gugel 1308 ON
Ernesto Villaluz 1293 ON
Jeffrey Pancer 1250 ON
Shafkat Ali Unrated ON
Abzal Kumar Unrated ON
Keith Denning Unrated ON
Bruce MacInnis Unrated ON
Jeffrey Nool Unrated ON
Over 100 players and growing. Why aren't there more from Quebec? Are there any posts on the French Board about the tournament (en francais, mais oui) and about the fact there are no on site registrations?
Just a thought and my french is too weak to try and translate
Several possible reasons for lack of Quebec players:
1) The recent event in Trois-Rivieres.
2) Some Montreal players are considering going to the Foxwoods event in Connecticut.
3) Quebec players have the habit of registering at the last minute (which you can't do at this event). 20 to 25 percent of the Trois-Rivieres players registered on-site.
4) The extra costs for CFC membership.
I will be in Toronto the weekend of the event (for other non-chess activities), and hope to drop by on Friday night.
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