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Guelph Fall Pro-Am
November 7-8, 2015
Room 442, Guelph University Centre
5 Round Swiss
4 SECTIONS: FIDE Rated Pro, FIDE Rated U2000, U1600 and
NEW Amateur Section: 40 Plus. Open to players aged 40 years or older.
Players may play up one section if current rating is within 100 points of rating floor.
Extra cost is $20, proceeds to the Olympic Fund.
Round Times: Saturday 10:00am, 2:00pm, 6:30pm, Sunday 10:00am, 2:30pm
Time Control: All rounds G/90 + 30 sec
Entry Fees: Pro Section $60, others $40. Late Fee: $10.00 on site
Single Half Point Byes: in rounds 1-4 may be requested in advance
Prizes: $55 per Pro player returned as prizes.
Trophies awarded in other sections.
Registration: Prepayment required to avoid the onsite late fee.
For Paypal, the payee is chess@uoguelph.ca.
For E-transfers, send to halbond@sympatico.ca
Or mail cheques payable to Hal Bond,
205 – 105 Conroy Crescent, Guelph, ON N1G 2V5
Players registering on site after 9:30 Saturday may not receive
a swiss pairing in first round.
Equipment, snacks and refreshments provided by organizer
Hal's early-November tournament in Guelph has been going on for a lot of years (two decades? more?). I don't think it's fair to fault Hal for any wrongdoing. And these tournaments are geographically far enough apart that it's unlikely, imo, that one will negatively impact the others.
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I posted this on August 14 here on Chess Talk. The CFC forum got the same post around the same time.
The Guelph Pro-Am dates have been secured for the upcoming year. Unfortunately I could not escape a conflict in January with Ottawa. Good luck with your tournament Halldor!!
November 7-8, 2015
January 9-10, 2016
April 2-3, 2016
June 18-19, 2016
I am Arbiting right now at the Friendship Games in Dearborn Michigan, and will return home on Monday, November 1. The Friendship Games is a very strong norm tournament. We are playing 2 games per day so I have had precious little time for anything else. The registrations for the Guelph Fall Pro-Am are coming in and I will post an advance reg list as soon as I can.
In the meantime, here are the pairings for round 4 in Dearborn. We have a few Cannucks playing.
Pairings for Round 4. Friendship Games: Open
Bd Res White Res Black
1 GM Isan Ortiz Suarez (3.0) GM Gata Kamsky (3.0)
2 GM Yuniesky Quesada Perez (2.0) IM Ruifeng Li (2.0)
3 GM Jeffery Xiong (2.0) IM Kaiqi Yang (2.0)
4 GM Reynaldo Vera Gonzalez-Quevedo (2.0) GM Carlos Hevia (2.0)
5 GM Fidel Corrales Jimenez (2.0) WGM Lisandra Ordaz Valdes (2.0)
6 FM Seth Homa (2.0) GM Sandro Pozo Vera (2.0)
7 FM Victor Plotkin (2.0) GM Roberto Mogranzini (1.5)
8 FM Yuanchen Zhang (1.5) GM Alex Shimanov (1.5)
9 Benjamin Bar Moon (1.5) GM Ashwin Jayaram (1.5)
10 FM Edward Song (1.0) FM Guannan Terry Song (1.0)
11 Surya Parasuraman (1.0) Ben Li (1.0)
12 James A Mills (1.0) Julian Proleiko (1.0)
13 Rohan Talukdar (1.0) Alaa-addin Moussa (0.5)
14 Pinyi Hu (0.0) Brandon O'Neil (0.0)
It seems the organizers are slow to learn. They only hurt each other with conflicting schedules. This has been going on for decades!
Hi Vlad,
Yes and no. Some of us organizers in the GTA and surrounding smaller cities do exchange e-mails in advance when scheduling events. Frankly, others don't, and then you have a great point.
As for what is happening in a city 500 kms away, honestly... we can't plan according to that. If Ottawa decides to have a tournament same time as Toronto, will it really affect any of us? NO! A maximum of 5 players would (maybe!) make the commute, at best. If you consider a successful tournament to have 75-100 players or more, 5 players is not significant enough to run through hoops to find a sub-optimal date for a chess tournament.
The other point I'd like to make is... there are a LOT of tournaments. Which is fantastic! -- Finding an 'available' weekend is becoming quite challenging these days, where it won't conflict with something happening within a 500 kms radius. Especially in SW Ontario.
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