2009 Ontario Open: please bring your sets and clocks

[Aris Marghetis]

VERY IMPORTANT LAST-MINUTE NEWS: The OCA executive is advising me that they are having trouble retrieving their sets and clocks from the previous borrowers, last weekend. So, please bring your sets and clocks! I cannot emphasize this enough, as I can personally populate only the top 4 boards! ;)

Please find the list of almost 65 players who are already registered near the end of this posting. Even with more than a few players registered as Amateur, the prize fund is already approaching $4K, and which will grow faster now, as all fixed expenses have been covered. I plan to re-post this list of registered players by late Friday evening. Please note that I will be offline as of 8am Saturday morning, and then I will be onsite late Saturday morning, by 1130am.

Regardless of when you prefer to register and pay, please feel free to email me your intent, as that will save everyone precious time onsite. In addition, please note that no discounts are available onsite for players who do not register ahead of time by email, and arrive on Saturday to both register and pay.

Friday evening, recommended rather than Saturday! ;)
- I expect to be in the playing rooms from 530pm onwards

Saturday morning, this should be your last choice! ;)
- I will be in the playing rooms from 1130am to 12noon
- Swiss pairings are planned to be done right at 12noon
- players paying after will be added to pairings as feasible
- by the way, please renew CFC memberships ahead of time (and ask the CFC office to copy me on the email receipt)

--------- original event announcement ---------

The Eastern Ontario Chess Association (EOCA) is proud to be hosting the 2009 Ontario Open, to be held on the traditional Victoria Day long weekend.

This event will be 6 rounds, with flexible bye and Amateur options. Our schedule also features starting and ending round times to encourage travelling to and from Ottawa. In addition, lodging options include nearby Carleton University residences, with much lower room rates, and breakfast buffet included!

We will have multiple sections, and class prizes for every 200 rating points from 2200 to 1400. Every player will be submitted for both CFC and FIDE rating.

For complete details for this event, and a great webpage for all of the events in the 2008-2009 EOCA Grand Prix & Active Series, bookmark this weblink:
http://www.eoca.org/htm/tournaments%202008-09.html

Aris Marghetis, Organizer/TD
EOCA President, OCA/CFC Governor

--------- May 14th registrations ---------

Please find below the list of players who have already registered for this event :
(everyone's CFC and FIDE ratings will be re-confirmed sometime this Friday)

rating name FIDE# CFC#

Top Class
2622 GM Sambuev, Bator 4128290 146462
2548 IM Samsonkin, Artiom 13503111 146305
2506 IM Noritsyn, Nikolay 2604922 132534 (needs a ride)
2344 FM Barron, Michael 2605120 134840
2342 Sapozhnikov, Roman 2601842 138609
2316 Pacey, Kevin 2600455 103715
2310 Martchenko, Alexander 2601036 132495 (needs a ride)
2248 Gordon, David 2602431 106629
2233 FM Davies, Alex 2603284 110120
2221 Torres, Aleksandr 149090
2220 Kirby, Patrick 2609754 107850

U2200 Class
2171 Xiong, Jerry 2606844 133928
2166 Doubleday, William 2682419 103754
2134 Whissel, Mavros 2609460 112769
2098 Upper, John 2606437 101925
2094 Palsson, Halldor 2603136 106856
2065 Ferreira, Alex 2606763 127516
2040 Wight, Keith 2602075 102934
2032 Abrahams, Daniel 2606879 134333

U2000 Class
1997 Desjardins, Michel 2601427 131936
1972 Longo, Tyler 2607034 135360
1935 Danilov, Alex 2603926 101895
1933 Couture, Philippe 111820 (CFC membership renewal)
1933 Gee, Kar-Fai 149112
1929 Bossy, John 104567
1894 Li, Ruokai 2604965 134898
1871 Erickson, John 103011
1830 Donev, Danail 2604094 143574
1827 Kalra, Agastya 2604744 137927
1819 MacNeill, Danny 125677
1816 Laszlo, Robert 2604892 104270 (bye 4)

U1800 Class
1788 Renaud, Joshua 2609177 134845
1780 Laurin, Marcel 2604906 100337
1780 Ritchie, Gordon 2608529 110972
1764 Thibault, Mario 2610620 102205
1756 Mallon, Christopher 2607620 109034
1717 Liu, Dan 2610060 147351
1688 Hunt, Murray 104858
1676 Gillis, Doug 2604361 111022
1676 Hendon, Lee 105731
1672 Xiong, Wei 2610213 136037 (floater)
1650 Luo, Fangyi 2610078 146597
1642 Brown, John 102882

U1600 Class
1594 Powell, Samantha 2609800 137961
1582 Lalonde, Drake 146414 (CFC membership renewal)
1576 Peristy, Luke 2605481 140412
1563 DeCal, Alex 149506
1536 MacIsaac, Alexandre 2610094 148874
1490 Zhang, Kevin 147276
1479 Perriard, Real 2605562 143126 (byes 1 & 3)
1416 Jarmyn, Tom 2604698 145247

U1400 Class
1399 Sachs, Daniel 148220
1374 Powell, Ashley 2608316 138889
1346 Buss, Andreas 2609983 146449
1344 Liiban, Farah 2610019 148746
1316 Wan, Kevin 2610191 147460
1268 Pancer, Jeff 107543
1196 Svensson, Andrew 143414
1192 Zhang, David 2609525 147277
1188 Luo, Tony 2610086 146598
1155 Zhang, Jeff 2610639 148924
1116 McArthur, Ricky 144021
1031 Latta, Jeremy 2610027 148520

--------- some final points ---------

My thanks to Chris Mallon, Bill Doubleday, Frank Dixon, and Eric Van Dusen, who have graciously offered their help in the playing and skittles rooms.

FYI, the skittles (postgame analysis) room will be the Laurentian Room, which is in the the other (West) wing of the RA Centre, and up on the 2nd floor.

[Gordon Ritchie]

Re: 2009 Ontario Open: please bring your sets and clocks

This is really quite outrageous. The OCA cannot supply the Ontario Open with the sets we have all paid for! There must be serious question about whether there is any value in continuing to be associated with such an incompetent (at best) outfit. Perhaps Northern Ontario had the right idea in affiliating directly with the CFC. At least the CFC shows some signs of getting its act together.

[Christopher Mallon]

Re: 2009 Ontario Open: please bring your sets and clocks

... perhaps instead of making stuff up, you could have merely asked what exactly the problem was.

[Bob Gillanders]

Re: 2009 Ontario Open: please bring your sets and clocks

... perhaps instead of making stuff up, you could have merely asked what exactly the problem was.

....perhaps instead of the attitude, you could have explained what the problem was. From an earlier post, you said the equipment had been lent out and not yet returned? To whom, and did you get a deposit from them?

please explain your reference to "making stuff up".?? Gordon is quite correct to question the legitimacy of the OCA when it can't deliver on a simple promise. I hope your apology to Aris was sincere.

Please announce again the annual meeting for the OCA. I have noted in my calendar, May 23rd in Kitchener. But exactly where and when please, and why it is not posted on the OCA website ?

[John Coleman]

Re: 2009 Ontario Open: please bring your sets and clocks

Please announce again the annual meeting for the OCA. I have noted in my calendar, May 23rd in Kitchener. But exactly where and when please, and why it is not posted on the OCA website ?

In a different thread, I asked the time of the annual meeting, but received no reply. The location is Kitchener City Hall.

[Egidijus Zeromskis]

Re: 2009 Ontario Open: please bring your sets and clocks

.Please announce again the annual meeting for the OCA. I have noted in my calendar, May 23rd in Kitchener. But exactly where and when please, and why it is not posted on the OCA website ?

Ontario Chess Association 2009 Annual General Meeting
Will be held at Kitchener City Hall in Kitchener, ON
On Saturday May 23, 2009, starting at 10:00 am.

Bob, it was posted at http://www.chesscanada.info/forum/showthread.php?t=382
And you have read it as you replied ;)

[Christopher Mallon]

Re: 2009 Ontario Open: please bring your sets and clocks

We did finally get the sets and clocks back today, although we had to start talking about going to the police for that to happen, apparently.

We will have a formal rental policy for the equipment up for discussion at the AGM.

I'm not sure why the AGM announcement isn't on the OCA website, but I can't access it from up here in Ottawa (on my laptop) to change it. I'll do that tomorrow night.