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Date: August 29-30, 2015
Location: Erindale United Church, 1444 Dundas Crescent
City: Mississauga
Province: Ontario
Number of Rounds: 5
Type: Swiss
Round Times: Sat - 10am, 2pm, 6pm Sun - 12pm, 4pm
Time Control: 90 minutes + 30 second increment
Sections: Open, U2000, U1600, U1200, 50+
Prizes: Based on entries.
Registration Instructions:
To preregister, send email to waterdownchess@yahoo.ca
Please arrive between 9am-9:45am to confirm registration
CFC membership required.
Last edited by Bob Gillanders; Tuesday, 4th August, 2015, 09:47 AM.
Update. Flyer with further details soon.
Gary Hua will be handling the registrations. Thanks Gary! :)
To register, send email to waterdownchess@yahoo.ca
When: August 29-30, 2015
Where: Erindale United Church,
1444 Dundas Crescent, Mississauga, Ontario
Format
Type: 5 Round Swiss. CFC rated. CFC membership is required. Sections: Open, U2000, U1600, U1200, Seniors (born 1964 or earlier)
Round Times: Saturday 10am, 2pm, 6pm, Sunday 12pm, 4pm.
Time Control: 90 minutes + 30 second increment
Byes: max. 2 half-point byes available for round 1-4
Chief Arbiter: Garvin Nunes
Chief Organizer: Robert Gillanders
Fees & Prizes
Entry fee: $60 Open, $50 (U2000, U1600, Seniors), $40 U1200
Late fee: $10 after August 25. Walk-ins after 9:30am will not be paired for round 1. IM/GM: Free entry. Open section will be FIDE rated.
To play up: $10 fee if you are within 200 points of rating floor. Prizes: Total cash prizes $2000 (guaranteed), Trophies
Registration
Send email to Gary Hua at waterdownchess@yahoo.ca
Please help us start on time: Check in and pay entry fee by 9:30am
Other Stuff
Coffee and water provided. Chess equipment provided.
1. David Atanasov
2. Anthony Atanasov
3. Rahul Gangolli
4. Eugene Hua
5. Lee Hendon
6. Rob Gashgarian
7. Adam Cormier
8. Joshua Du
9. Federico Austria
10. Ferdinand Suspsup
11. Harvnder Kanwal
12. Harkeerat Kanwal
13. Sergey Noritsyn
14. Ivan Noritsyn
15. Simapreet Singh
16. Austin Xie
17. Arthava Srinivas
We have 17 on the list now. If you have sent me an email earlier and your name is not in the above list, please email to me again at waterdownchess@yahoo.ca. This is the premier event of Mississauga and we hope to grow this event to be one of the biggest in Canada in the future. We have about 100 players in last year event.
Gary Hua
Last edited by Gary Hua; Tuesday, 4th August, 2015, 06:49 PM.
1. David Atanasov
2. Anthony Atanasov
3. Rahul Gangolli
4. Eugene Hua
5. Lee Hendon
6. Rob Gashgarian
7. Adam Cormier
8. Joshua Du
9. Federico Austria
10. Ferdinand Suspsup
We have 10 on the list now. If you have sent me an email earlier and your name is not in the above list, please email to me again at waterdownchess@yahoo.ca. This is the premier event of Mississauga and we hope to grow this event to be one of the biggest in Canada in the future. We have about 100 players in last year event.
Gary Hua
Hi Gary:
It might help for Torontonians, if it can be confirmed that there is not going to be any Toronto Labour Day Open this year on the first weekend of September.
The reason I wonder this is that neither the key organizer, Randy Moysoski, nor the usual arbiter, Bryan Lamb, have made any post to my knowledge that it is going to happen this year. I have checked the CFC Calendar and GTCL calendar, and it is NOT there (at least not yet, with only about a month to go). Can you confirm whether it is NOT happening??
I was wondering playing 3 games on the same day with the time control of 90/30 is that too tough ?
Here in Quebec we dont see that we have our ''traditional '' week-end tournament beginning friday night but this formula saturday, sunday i think must be try someday in quebec.
Another idea will be to start on friday night ,play 3 games on saturday , and 2 on sunday for 6 rounds ,what do you think of the formula.
I was wondering playing 3 games on the same day with the time control of 90/30 is that too tough ?
Three games a day can be challenging, for the players sure, but for the organizers as well. One year, we had round 1 games and round 2 games go very long on the increment. Round 3 thus started very late. As I recall, it was after 7pm. Many parents of younger players were very restless, “why don’t you at least get the U1600 section started”. Well, that is very problematic for the TD’s, getting rounds started while some games still in progress. Anyway, we eventually got thru it, and I vowed never again. Well, here we are again.
I have toyed with the concept of a smaller increment. But lots of you think I’m nuts. But I have another brainstorm for your consideration. How about adjourned games?
You should notice that we have a late start on sunday. Round 4 is at noon. That’s so that we are not fighting for parking spaces with the church people attending sunday service. Church service ends at 11:30am, so noon should be okay. But this also gives us an opportunity. Instead of playing out long endgames on saturday, and delaying the rounds, we adjourn games, seal a move, and resume the games sunday morning. Thoughts?
Most Ottawa tournaments used to be 3 games Saturday; 2 games Sunday. I think so many people were taking byes in round 3 (including me) that they changed it to one game on Friday night; then 2+2.
Most Ottawa tournaments used to be 3 games Saturday; 2 games Sunday. I think so many people were taking byes in round 3 (including me) that they changed it to one game on Friday night; then 2+2.
Well, the opposite is true in some other locations. It used to be 1-2-2, but it became 0-3-2, since many people took byes for friday nights, including myself. Now there are a substantial number of byes on saturday. So what do you do?
Of course - those Ottawa events were mostly in the days before sudden-death time controls, so round 3 could drag on to (or after) midnight - with a 10 am (sometimes 9 am) start the next day.
It is a FIDE rating requirement to have no more than 12 hours of play in one day. If one player is over 2200 then each player must have 120 minutes to make 60 moves. This calculation is based on games that last 60 moves, although games played using increments may last longer.
Bottom line is that 90 minutes + 30 seconds per move is the fastest FIDE time control allowed and 3 rounds in a day will probably exceed 12 hours of play.
It is a FIDE rating requirement to have no more than 12 hours of play in one day. If one player is over 2200 then each player must have 120 minutes to make 60 moves. This calculation is based on games that last 60 moves, although games played using increments may last longer.
Bottom line is that 90 minutes + 30 seconds per move is the fastest FIDE time control allowed and 3 rounds in a day will probably exceed 12 hours of play.
So, my proposal of adjourned games played out sunday morning, limiting saturday games to 4 hours each, thus not exceeding the 12 hour daily maximum, is sheer genius. :)
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