Hart House Summer Open

[Alex Ferreira]

Hello all,


The Hart House Chess Club, at University of Toronto, is organizing another tournament, in the first weekend of July. We had a terrific turn-out at the last Canada Day Summer Open with 115 players coming out!

A few new things from our previous events:
- 5 playing sections instead of 3
- Open section to be FIDE rated
- Team Prize (check website)

When: July 3rd, 4th, 5th (Fri, Sat, Sun)
Where: Debates & Music Rooms, 2nd Floor, Hart House, University of Toronto
7 Hart House Circle, Toronto

Style: 5 round Swiss in 5 sections: Open (FIDE Rated), U2200, U2000, U1800 & U1600 (w/U1400 prizes and UNR)
Rounds: Friday 6pm, Saturday 10am & 4pm, Sunday 10am & 4pm
Time Control: 30/90, SD/60

Entry Fees: $60 in advance, $70 cash only on site. Extra $10 to play up each section.
Registration: 5pm – 5:30pm on Friday, July 3rd
Registrants after 5:30pm are not guaranteed to be paired by 6pm
In advance (arrival by July 2nd) by mail to:
Hart House Chess Club – 7 Hart House Circle, Toronto, ON M5S 3H3
Make cheque payable to Hart House Chess Club. No postdated cheques please.
Email registration to alex.ferreira@utoronto.ca (by July 2nd) Email registrants must arrive onsite by 5:30pm to pay or will be charged onsite fee.

Tournament Director: Bryan Lamb
Organizer: Hart House Chess Club

Please bring sets and clocks.
No smoking. No computers. No cellphones (on).

For all the detailed information, including:
- Printable flyer with all the above information
- Access/Maps & parking info
- Prize fund projection
- Pre-Registered list of players

Visit our website at:
http://hhchess.sa.utoronto.ca/hhopen


Hope to see you all there,


Alex Ferreira
Hart House Chess Club

[Egidijus Zeromskis]

Re: Hart House Summer Open

Alex, when should players form teams?

"We'll also be featuring a Team Prize of $400 for the first time.
Teams must be made up of 4 players from 3 (or 4) different sections.
All individuals scores from the team participants will be added up to decide the winning team."

[Alex Ferreira]

Re: Hart House Summer Open

Hi Egis,

Of course the ideal scenario would be to e-mail the info in advance ;-)
Seems fair to allow people to do it on-site at the latest, by registration. We'd like to have high participation and many people may only find team mates the day of.

Alex F.

[Egidijus Zeromskis]

bump up

just to remind about this tournament.

[Alex Ferreira]

Re: Change in Time Control (FIDE)

Hello all,


We've found a problem with our original intention to have the time control of 90/30, 60/SD. Although this works fine for CFC-rated events, the same is not so for FIDE events.

From the "Rate of Play" Section of FIDE documents, we recently found:

1.3 Where a certain number of moves is specified in the first time control, it shall be 40 moves. Players benefit from uniformity here.

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In light of this, we're being forced to change the time control for the top section in order to rate it with FIDE. Since we have enough digital clocks for the top boards, and wanted to keep the total length of the game to approximately 5 hours, the time control will be changed to 120 minutes for the whole game, with 30 seconds increment per move from the beginning.

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The other sections (2200, U2000, U1800 & U1600) will remain with the originally advertised time control of 90 minutes for the first 30 moves and 1 hour Sudden Death.

We apologize for only announcing this change 3 weeks before the tournament, but hopefully digital clocks with increments will provide the opportunity for higher quality chess.


Alex Ferreira
Hart House Chess Club

[Alex Ferreira]

Re: 50 entries so far !

Hello,

The Hart House Summer Open will take place in 3 weeks and we've just broken 50 entries

IM Leonid Gerzhoy and IM Nikolay Noritsyn lead the field of advance registrations.

We may just break last Summer's record of 115 :)


Alex Ferreira
Hart House Chess Club

[Kai G. Gauer]

Re: 50 entries so far !

Hi Alex,

Is there a capacity in each of the sections or rooms? Guessing that seat entries are 1st come, 1st served - or that if necessary, extra rooms are available.

Kai

[Alex Ferreira]

Re: 50 entries so far !

Hi Alex,

Is there a capacity in each of the sections or rooms? Guessing that seat entries are 1st come, 1st served - or that if necessary, extra rooms are available.

Kai

Hi Kai,


We have two rooms, with a combined capacity to accommodate approximately 180 people comfortably. Registering earlier rather than later is ideal. :)


Alex Ferreira
Hart House Chess Club

[Alex Ferreira]

Re: 70 entries

Hello all,

The Summer Open at Hart House is only 8 days away.
70 people have signed up, so it's looking to be a promising event!

A reminder that there's a team prize and you may want to start thinking about who to team up with. 4 players per team from 3 different sections.
You may register your teams on-site before round 1.

All details below:
http://hhchess.sa.utoronto.ca/hhopen


Alex Ferreira
Hart House Chess Club

[Egidijus Zeromskis]

Re: 70 entries

Team - [O-O-O] aka [Long castle]

1. Roman Sapozhnikov (Open, cfc 2358, fide 2153)
2. Egidijus Zeromskis (Open; cfc 2210; fide 2144 )
3.
4.

You may contact me here or send a Private Message. Thnx.
First come, first enter. Now only from these sections U2200, U2000, U1800 & U1600.

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Alex, will the TD try to avoid pairing team members?

[Alex Ferreira]

Re: 70 entries

Alex, will the TD try to avoid pairing team members?

Hi Egis,

I don't know to what extent that's viable. Bryan deals with the pairings and all the technical details but I'll ask him about that and we can clarify that at the start of the tournament.

Alex F.

[Alex Ferreira]

Re: 100!

Woot !


We've broken 100 pre-registrations for the Hart House Summer Open.
Looks like we're on track to break last year's record of 115 and meet our goal to pass 120. GM Sambuev, IM Noritsyn and FM Bekefi are at the top of the table, with players all the way to what looks like it'll be a very competitive U1600 section, consisting of almost half of all the entries.

All details at:
http://hhchess.sa.utoronto.ca/hhopen

On an important note, Omar Shah will be at the tournament site selling some used chess books from his vast collection at very reasonable prices. He will also bring some of the newest books on behalf of Strategy Games and will be selling them at regular retail price. If there's any specific item you're looking for and would like Omar to bring, do e-mail him at oshah316@yahoo.com
Omar will also give a book prize from his collection in the lower section of the tournament.

See you all Friday,


Alex Ferreira
Hart House Chess Club

[Bob Armstrong]

Re: 100!

Hi Alex:

Looks like a great tournament shaping up - hate to have to miss it. Good luck.

Bob

[Caesar Posylek]

Re: Hart House Summer Open

And ... what is the final number of players?
:)

[Egidijus Zeromskis]

Re: Hart House Summer Open

And ... what is the final number of players?

At the bottom of the page http://hhchess.sa.utoronto.ca/hhopen...egistered.html is written - "Total entries as of July 2nd at 14h13: 112 "

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Team - [O-O-O] aka [Long castle]

1. Roman Sapozhnikov (Open, cfc 2358, fide 2153) Headhunters want to buy him. Please sponsor out team or play yourself :D
2. Egidijus Zeromskis (Open; cfc 2210; fide 2144 )
3. Jonathan Farine (U2000; cfc 1894)
4.

You may contact me here or send a Private Message. Thnx.
First come, first enter. Now only from these sections Open, U2200, U1800 & U1600.