Hart House Holidays Open

**John Brown** · Thursday, 12th November, 2015, 06:08 AM

Re: Hart House Holidays Open

Thanks Alex;
I should be able to play as I have that whole weekend available.

**Alex Ferreira** · Thursday, 26th November, 2015, 12:36 AM

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Pre-Reg moved to original thread post.
Alex F.
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**Alex Ferreira** · Saturday, 28th November, 2015, 08:15 PM

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Hi all,

I was just reminded about the team prize! Yes, we will have one.
Teams will be composed of 4 players, representing 3 (or 4) different playing sections.
Players' individual scores will be compiled and the team with most total points will get an additional prize, to be distributed among the 4 players. I will not be taking advance registration of teams, this will only be done on-site, and we will probably allow until the beginning of Round 2 to accept team compositions.

I will post updates of the pre-registration list on the post attached to this thread. Canadian Champion IM Tomas Krnan and IM Peter Vavrak just joined the race!

Alex Ferreira

**Caesar Posylek** · Sunday, 29th November, 2015, 03:33 PM

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Their titles are missing on the list: IM.Tomas KRNAN and IM.Peter VAVRAK.

**Alex Ferreira** · Tuesday, 1st December, 2015, 12:08 PM

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Hi,

Our website is still down :(
Send registrations & questions to hhtournaments(at)gmail(dot)com
Pre-registered list here keeps growing, I am just editing the one list, now noted the applicable discounts.

Alex F.

**Michael Barron** · Sunday, 6th December, 2015, 09:37 PM

GTCL Cup awards ceremony

Dear chess friends,

We will have a short GTCL Cup awards ceremony on Saturday, December 19, just before Round 3 of Hart House Holidays Open - at 3:50 pm approximately.

2015 GTCL Cup took place at Annex Chess Club in June, and winners are:

Hart House A team:

Peter Vavrak
Geordie Derraugh
Mike Ivanov
Jonathan Yu
Jack Ding

Under 1800 winner - Vi The North team:

Vinorth Vigneswaramoorthy
Daniele Pirri
Marko Stevelic
Michael Saltat

I would like to invite all these players to participate at Hart House Holidays Open or at least to be present at the awards ceremony.

See you then!

Thanks,
Michael Barron

**Alex Ferreira** · Monday, 7th December, 2015, 09:53 AM

Re: GTCL Cup awards ceremony

Registration Details moved to original thread post.
Alex F.
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**Alex Ferreira** · Tuesday, 8th December, 2015, 07:46 PM

Re: GTCL Cup awards ceremony

*bump* Now 60 players on advance entries.

**Mark Biong** · Friday, 11th December, 2015, 09:12 AM

Re: Hart House Holidays Open

Originally posted by Alex Ferreira View Post

Hi everybody,

Another season of Hart House tournaments is with us :)

Holidays Open

When: December 18-20
Where: Great Hall, Hart House, University of Toronto
Rounds: Friday 6pm, Saturday 10am & 4pm, Sunday 10am & 4pm
Sections: Crown, U2200, U1900 & U1600
Time Control: 120 minutes + 30 seconds increment for all sections.
Entry Fee: $70 in advance

Registration: by cheque, or by e-mail
Organizer: Alex Ferreira at hhtournaments(at)gmail(dot)com
Arbiter: Tyler Longo

Website: http://vur.ca/harthousechess/portfol...holidays-open/
- all details about the tournament & registration / discounts
- flyer for reference / download
- parking info
- pre-registered list (soon)

Note: Please Bring Sets & Clocks

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For the sake of simplification, as per reasonable request, I decided to condense all in one post.

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More Flyer Info, since website is still down.

Registration:

• Email registrations must be completed by December 16th, or else considered late.
• After pre-registering by email, please bring cash payment to the playing site before 5:30pm on December 18th, or mail a cheque which arrives by December 16th. If online registrants paying in cash arrive after 5:30pm on December 18th, they cannot be guaranteed a pairing in Round 1. No cheques on site.
• To register in advance by mailing a cheque (arrival by December 16th, 2015), make cheque payable to Hart House Chess Club, at 7 Hart House Circle, Toronto ON, M5S 3H3. No postdated cheques.
• Registrants after December 16th, 2015 are not guaranteed to be paired in Round 1, and must pay onsite entry fee ($90).
• Players taking a bye in Round 1 can pay the entry fee twenty minutes before the start of Round 2.

Entry Fee: $70 in advance, $90 cash only on site. Extra $20 to play up a section. Playing up is allowed only for players within 100 rating points of the section’s minimum rating. For example: a player in the Under 1600 section who wants to play up in the Under 1900 section must have a rating no lower than 1500.
Discounts: $20 less for juniors (born after Dec. 18th, 1997), seniors (born before Dec. 18th, 1955), women, and University of Toronto students. One discount per player. Free entry for IMs and WIMs if registered by December 11th.
Special Discount: Free entry for players who have never played in any CFC or FIDE rated tournament. Chess Federation of Canada (CFC) membership purchase still required for $48, and entrants will not be eligible for prize money.

Other Info: Please bring chess sets and clocks. Registrants must be current CFC members or bring payment prior to playing - http://chess.ca/membership-rates.

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Pre-registered list:

IM - International Master
j - junior
s - senior
w - woman
ut - University of Toronto student

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2607 - Preotu, Razvan - IM
2578 - Noritsyn, Nikolay - IM
2562 - Krnan, Tomas - IM
2546 - Samsonkin, Artiom - IM
2520 - Vavrak, Peter - IM
2427 - Plotkin, Victor
2342 - Humphreys, Michael
2317 - Ivanov, Mike -ut
2268 - Plotkin, Mark - j
2260 - Bellissimo, Joseph - j
2228 - Li, Yinshi - j
2205 - Yu, Wenlu - j
2200 - Cai, Jason - j
2198 - Hua, Eugene - j
2158 - Filipovich, David
2094 - Talukdar, Rohan - j **

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2198 - Tonakanian, Stephan
2192 - Southam, David
2151 - Agbabishvili, Lali - w
2128 - Efemuai, Martins Oteri
2041 - Wiebe, Daniel
2015 - Ding, Jack - ut
2007 - Maulucci, Anthony - j
1958 - Zhao, Harry - j
1927 - Frilles, Ruperto - s
1848 - Wang, Constance - j

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**** - Ranola, Alberto
1753 - Moran-Venegas, Mario
1746 - Nakagawa, Seiji - ut
1733 - Tan, Kylie - j
1704 - O'Neill, Brandon
1629 - MacKay, Akki *
1624 - Rusonik, Max - j
1617 - Gillis, Doug - s
1602 - Zhu, Jiarong - j
1577 - Sharpe, Michael D. - s
1570 - Armstrong, Robert J. - s
**** - Borysenko, Andrii - j

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1534 - Brown, John R. - s
1528 - Hua, Gary
1490 - Ali, Shafkat
1486 - Grayson, Henry - s
**** - Borysenko, Khrystyna - j
1399 - Venner, John - ut
1396 - Mao, Bobby Renji - ut
1297 - Pishdad, M. Hassan - s
1290 - Chen, Harry (Siqi) - j
1277 - Tan, James
1270 - Guo, Haotong Hazel - j
1268 - Xie, Austin - j
1262 - He, Emma - j
1239 - Qiao, Joey - j
1236 - Lu, Leo - j
1201 - Vera, Jesus - s
1182 - Cameron, Brian - s
1180 - Dinatolo, Zack - j
1120 - Zhang, Henry XianRui - j
1032 - Liu, Henry - j
1017 - Finkelstein, Michael
1017 - Gangolli, Rahul
985 - Srinivas, Atharva - j
965 - Peng, Chen - j
907 - Li, Alan - j
854 - Guo, Roger - j
UNR - Lee, Jimmy - ut

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* FQE Rating
** Active, established USCF 2100+
**** May shift section

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Edit: Dec 9 - 22h15 - Current Total: 65 - Added Players: Sharpe, Armstrong, Peng, Rusonik, Frilles

Alex Ferreira
Hart House Chess Club

Since you're Website: [/B]http://vur.ca/harthousechess/portfol...holidays-open/ is down, can you please post the complete details of the tournament?

**Alex Ferreira** · Friday, 11th December, 2015, 12:34 PM

Re: Hart House Holidays Open

Hi Mark,

The original post has just about everything (after the website went down). If you wish to know anything more specific please send me an e-mail. I can provide some additional links about parking / accessibility, etc...
hhtournaments(at)gmail(dot)com

Alex F.

**Alex Ferreira** · Tuesday, 15th December, 2015, 03:31 AM

Re: Hart House Holidays Open

Note that last day to register early is Wednesday, by 11:59pm. Send me an email at hhtournaments(at)gmail(dot)com

**Alex Ferreira** · Thursday, 17th December, 2015, 04:10 AM

Re: Hart House Holidays Open

Advance Entries complete. If there are cheques on-site I will check during Thursday and add to list. I will check everyone's updated ratings (and membership status) and adjust the list by Thursday night.
Alex F.

**Tyler Longo** · Saturday, 19th December, 2015, 01:26 PM

Re: Hart House Holidays Open

Pairings/Results are posted on chess-results. Round 2 is currently underway, round 3 is at 4:00 PM:

Crown: http://www.chess-results.com/tnr200542.aspx?lan=1
U2200: http://www.chess-results.com/tnr200543.aspx?lan=1
U1900: http://www.chess-results.com/tnr200544.aspx?lan=1
U1600: http://www.chess-results.com/tnr200545.aspx?lan=1

**John Upper** · Monday, 21st December, 2015, 08:02 PM

2015 HHHO - photos

I've posted some of the photos I took on Sunday during rds. 4-5 here:

https://plus.google.com/photos/10980...42780604154385

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