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I know no one asked me, but here is how I would structure the Canadian Closed.
14 players round-robin over two weeks with at least one rest day in the middle.
Players accepted solely by rating with no special allowance for champions of Yukon, Nunavut, Vancouver Island
top Junior from Windsor etc etc.
Entry fee of $1,000 with no free entry for anyone! Each entrant invited to seek their own sponsorship for entry fee & travel - they need to find out how difficult it is. The $14,000 from entry fees to constitute the prize fund. - Prizes: $8,000, $4,000, $2,000
The CFC or any general sponsor to pay for accommodation & meals.
The organizers pay for TD and other staffing costs, venue rental, equipment and all else.
If I qualified I would happily play in a tournament with this format, assuming the 14 players were the 14 "highest rated" (however that is determined) players who entered.
"Tom is a well known racist, and like most of them he won't admit it, possibly even to himself." - Ed Seedhouse, October 4, 2020.
Unfortunately, the problem with staging a Canadian Closed in the GTA is the lack of a suitable venue. The cost of renting a hotel meeting room for example would be prohibitively expensive.
Unfortunately, the problem with staging a Canadian Closed in the GTA is the lack of a suitable venue. The cost of renting a hotel meeting room for example would be prohibitively expensive.
I don't think a hotel room in most other Canadian cities would be that much less expensive.
Unfortunately, the problem with staging a Canadian Closed in the GTA is the lack of a suitable venue. The cost of renting a hotel meeting room for example would be prohibitively expensive.
Chess & Math did not go under after hosting the Junior championship in Toronto :)
Because you'll have only 1-2 spectaculars, no need for a big scene too.
According to the CFC Handbook, the organizer must :
1) Provide free accomodation + meals for the champion and the runner-up (GMs Sambuev and Kovalyov)
2) Provide free accomodation for all other GMs (most likely only GM Hansen)
In addition to that, the GMs will probably ask for an appearance fee as in the past years.
The free meals are a FIDE rule for zonals. But wouldn't players prefer to be given cash prizes?
The financials of that proposal would be quite challenging to the players, organizers and the CFC.
I think Dobrich is on to a new, better system. Have provincial and local chess organizations fundraise to send their Champion to the national Championships. The local champion may have to give fundraising lectures and simults and press interviews, but not pay for their trip.May be easier to fundraiser locally rather than nationally.
Raising expense money from the players perspective could be done in a way I have used in backgammon tournaments and no doubt has been done in poker events such as the WSOP where the entry fee is $10,000.
The formula I have used is as follows >>>>>>
Calculate total expenses of say Entry fee $1,000, Travel $500, Hotel $800 for a total of $2,300
Divide the total by 5 .................... $460
Sell five shares at $460 each to raise the $2,300
Each share holder's share is worth 10% of the winnings - If the prize won is $8,000, then each shareholder gets $800 for a profit of $340. But of course the share buyers usually do not buy in with hopes of showing a profit - they just want to back a winner.
Now in the case of a Canadian Closed Chess Championship, if the player has no expectation of winning one of the prizes listed in my initial post then perhaps that player should not venture into the tournament in the first place :) But then in the case of top chess players, they usually tend to optimism and their friends and kin consider them the greatest player since Capablanca!
For someone who has apparently zero history or any type of association with Canadian chess you do have an inversely correlated and persistent interest in this subject matter if I may say so.
If I may be so bold why hath thou queried so much about this?
I started paying attention to chess again as my young one is finally getting older and work is finally settling down (I'm getting in a rhythm). I am like Wayne Komer - I like to follow top events, notably Canadian Chess.
I started paying attention to chess again as my young one is finally getting older and work is finally settling down (I'm getting in a rhythm). I am like Wayne Komer - I like to follow top events, notably Canadian Chess.
I am glad I never got involved financially with the 2012 Zonal Championships as I was on the brisk of making a major financial donation. This ordeal seems to be a fiasco. I just came back from a lengthy stay in the Maldives. The semi-retired life is a match made in heaven.
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