66 players so far for Canadian Open, Edmonton

[Micah Hughey]

We've received 20 entries in the past 48 hours, and I know that quite a few will arrive in the mail this afternoon. If you don't see your name on the list yet, it's probably because your entry is still in the mail.

Canadian Open, July 11-19th in Edmonton, Alberta.

Official website:
www.edchess.ca

66 players have joined so far.

Put your registration in the mail before April 15th and save $40. Fully refundable until June 1st.



Registered players (updated April 14th)

GM Shirov Alexei 2745
GM Adams Michael 2703
GM Mikhalevski Victor 2625
GM Ganguly Surya 2625
GM Kovalyov Anton 2571
GM Bluvshtein Mark 2558
IM/WGM Krush Irina 2452
IM Porper Edward 2435
FM Hansen Eric 2428
IM Bradford Joseph 2419
FM Barron Michael 2344
FM Pechenkin Vladimir 2321
Henry Liam 2278
FM Gentes Kevin 2273
Martchenko Alexander 2272
FM Haessel Dale 2270
MacKinnon Keith 2250
Hughey Micah 2202
Perron Sean 2134
Gluckie Jamin 2093
Purewal Sardul 2081
Yearwood Roy 2062
Pedersen Rick 2057
Manley Jason 2038
Abrahams Daniel 2007
Tang Edward 1990
Steele Len 1984
Tot Nandor 1975
Sequillion Aaron 1973
Hill Rod 1972
Brodie Hugh 1968
Kuczaj Chris 1947
McKay Arnold 1893
Kong Dezheng 1888
Miller Brian 1866
Zeggelaar Mike 1857
Green Aaron 1838
Du Jasmine 1830
Razzaq Ali 1824
Caughlin Wade 1814
Dejong Walter 1812
MacLeod Damon 1801
Dejong Werner 1800
Kalaydina Nicka 1798
Green Jim 1788
Caron Harvey 1784
Thompson Peter 1778
MacFie Bob 1774
Wong Ford 1774
Seehagen Terry 1678
Marshall Jim 1658
Robertson Trevor 1656
Purewal Pal 1631
Danner Jason 1626
Sekuloff Michael 1624
Nolan Pat 1579
Vejdani Vahid 1551
Magnusson Saul 1540
MacFie Mathew Unr.
Miller Amber Unr.
Baron Desmond 1472
Johnson Ron 1433
Mccullough David 1336
Sillador Rory 1312
Green Leah 1200
McCullough Ian 577



If we made the pairings today, the top boards in round one would be:

GM Alexei Shirov 2748 vs Dejeng Kong 1888
GM Michael Adams 2712 vs Brian Miller 1866


By Mail Send Entry to:

Edmonton Chess Club
#204, 10840 124 st
Edmonton, AB
T5M 0H3

Or register online at
http://monroi.com/2009-canadian-open...-register.html
(Be careful to specify the quantity of entries you want. Online registration with Monroi is in U.S. dollars, but equivalent to to the Canadian dollars price).


ENTRY FEE:

$120 before April 15th

$140 between April 15th and June 1st

$160 after June 1st and at the door

Free for GM, IM, WGM, WIM
$30 discount for juniors <18, FM, WFM (only one discount/player)

[Erik Malmsten]

Thanks for the flyer

Thanks for the flyer I received in the mail today in Toronto. In the absence of a CFC magazine, mailing is an excellent way to reach the majority of players. I hope you can get some inactive players back in action as well as upcoming juniors.

[Caesar Posylek]

Re: 66 players so far for Canadian Open, Edmonton

Thanks for the flyer as well. I'm still undecided, due to my work employment problems (layoffs on the way).

[Christopher Mallon]

Re: 66 players so far for Canadian Open, Edmonton

The flyer looks great! I do hope to be able to afford to play in a Canadian Open one of these years :) Probably not this year though, unless I manage to get hired full-time before then.

[Micah Hughey]

74 players now

Some entries are still in the mail. I'll update the list again tomorrow at www.edchess.ca

74 entries received so far:

GM Shirov Alexei 2745
GM Adams Michael 2703
GM Mikhalevski Victor 2625
GM Ganguly Surya 2625
GM Kovalyov Anton 2571
GM Bluvshtein Mark 2558
IM/WGM Krush Irina 2452
IM Porper Edward 2435
FM Hansen Eric 2428
IM Bradford Joseph 2419
FM Barron Michael 2344
FM Pechenkin Vladimir 2321
Henry Liam 2278
FM Gentes Kevin 2273
Martchenko Alexander 2272
FM Haessel Dale 2270
MacKinnon Keith 2250
Hughey Micah 2202
Perron Sean 2134
Gluckie Jamin 2093
Purewal Sardul 2081
Willis Bradley 2072
Yearwood Roy 2062
Pedersen Rick 2057
Manley Jason 2038
Abrahams Daniel 2007
Wang Richard 1998
Tang Edward 1990
Steele Len 1984
Tot Nandor 1975
Sequillion Aaron 1973
Hill Rod 1972
Brodie Hugh 1968
Araullo Mark Paulo 1967
Longo Tyler 1956
Kuczaj Chris 1947
McKay Arnold 1893
Kong Dezheng 1888
Miller Brian 1866
Zeggelaar Mike 1857
Green Aaron 1838
Du Jasmine 1830
Razzaq Ali 1824
Caughlin Wade 1814
Dejong Walter 1812
Armstrong Robert 1803
MacLeod Damon 1801
Dejong Werner 1800
Kalaydina Nicka 1798
Green Jim 1788
Caron Harvey 1784
Thompson Peter 1778
MacFie Bob 1774
Wong Ford 1774
Seehagen Terry 1678
Marshall Jim 1658
Robertson Trevor 1656
Purewal Pal 1631
Danner Jason 1626
Sekuloff Michael 1624
Araullo Marlon 1596
Nolan Pat 1579
Du Howard 1562
Vejdani Vahid 1551
Magnusson Saul 1540
MacFie Mathew Unr.
Miller Amber Unr.
Baron Desmond 1472
Johnson Ron 1433
Huang Zhonglin 1381
Mccullough David 1336
Sillador Rory 1312
Green Leah 1200
McCullough Ian 577

[Egidijus Zeromskis]

Re: 74 players now

Magnusson Saul 1540
MacFie Mathew Unr.
Miller Amber Unr.
Baron Desmond 1472

An interesting sorting criteria used here :D
Please include countries as well. It supposed to be an International event, isn't? even more - provinces&states too.

[Gary Ruben]

Re: 74 players now

An interesting sorting criteria used here :D
Please include countries as well. It supposed to be an International event, isn't? even more - provinces&states too.

An old man once told me to look at who is playing in an event and decide what I thought my chances of winning a prize is. If I didn't think I could win enough to pay for my expenses and my time to pass on the event.

Back then I was a kid. He was a silly old man. I never should have listened to him. :)

[Egidijus Zeromskis]

Re: 74 players now

An old man once told me to look at who is playing in an event and decide what I thought my chances of winning a prize is. If I didn't think I could win enough to pay for my expenses and my time to pass on the event.

Back then I was a kid. He was a silly old man. I never should have listened to him. :)

Was it the reason you dropped from OTB chess competitions?

[Gary Ruben]

Re: 74 players now

Was it the reason you dropped from OTB chess competitions?

No. The reason I dropped out of OTB chess competitions was because I started organizing correspondence chess. In those times, mid 70's to 80's everything was by mail so all my weekends and many evenings were busy. I simply didn't have the time for OTB.

We build the CCCA up to around 700 members and it was all by regular mail. The 1970's to 1989 was the golden age of chess in Canada. Jonathan Berry in OTB chess was dynamic and charismatic. His CFC bulletins a pleasure to read. At least this is my opinion. Don't tell him I told you this.

[Micah Hughey]

Re: 74 players now

An interesting sorting criteria used here :D
Please include countries as well. It supposed to be an International event, isn't? even more - provinces&states too.

Ah, but I sorted them that way on purpose :) In Alberta, it is traditional to pair unrated players at 1500. They will only be eligible for open prizes, and maybe a special prize just for Unrated players, if we add one.

Off topic: I once played an unrated player with the last name "Bronstein"!! Despite my fear, I won the game.

[Ben Daswani]

Re: 66 players so far for Canadian Open, Edmonton

I put my cheque in the mail. Get it? Checkin' the male? How many reco-

Anyway, are registrations for the bughouse and blitz going to be done at the site? Noam and I already have our costumes.

[Vlad Rekhson]

Re: 66 players so far for Canadian Open, Edmonton

I put my cheque in the mail. Get it? Checkin' the male? How many reco-

Anyway, are registrations for the bughouse and blitz going to be done at the site? Noam and I already have our costumes.

The registration for all side events will be done on-site.
Also, we are planning to have the Adams simul on Sunday morning and because the max for that is 25 boards we expect that there will be more people interested than 25, so like in 2005 for the Ivanchuk simul we will probably have a draw done on Saturday night. For those that don't get in we will probably have another simul going on at the same time.