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4 more days to go before early bird dateline ends. We are expecting another 40 players or so to make it 100.
Premier section - It is so disappointing to see that not even a 2300 rated player sign up. This has been a trend for the past 1-2 years and very good players only come out and play in tournaments like Hart House and Guelph thus denying juniors a chance to play against them in smaller tournaments. Remember that you were at that stage before ( below 2300 ) and you should do your part in letting them to have a chance to play against you now.
Last edited by Gary Hua; Saturday, 15th October, 2016, 11:16 AM.
I am still thinking about whether to play or not in your tournament next week. While I like Mississauga tournaments in general, I would like to provide some thoughts on the format of this tournament with the hope to make it even better –
1. Happy with location and organizers
2. Very happy with the intention to start on time
3. Glad to have one-day tournament rather than two-day tournament
4. Not happy about time control (one hour/SD). SD makes no sense to me. Anything between 25 and 50 minutes + 10 seconds would make sense to me. I strongly believe in increments (even 2 seconds are better than nothing).
5. One-hour break between SD rounds does not appeal to me. One-hour break would be appropriate for lunch only (let’s say between Rd2 & Rd3).
6. The entire day (from registration to prizes) looks like almost 12-hour commitment which is a way too much for average player (if SD, Rounds at 10, 12:15, 3, 5:15 would be better option)
7. Prize distribution between sections should be disclosed in advance. I noticed that some players are very sensitive to this matter. Some adults in lower sections may not like the idea to disproportionally support GM/IM. Fair or reasonable distribution of prizes between sections can be provided in advance based on, let’s say, 100 players.
8. I personally don’t mind free rides (no entry fees) for GM/IM
9. I don’t believe in lecturing about moral obligations for professional players - GM/IM/FM/2300 (e.g., ‘do your part…’) – on which tournaments to play
Whether I play your tournament or not (depending on my other commitments, not money distribution), I wish you best of the luck as Mississauga organizers are doing fantastic job in promoting chess in the GTA area and experimenting with different formats.
Thanks Yury for your support all this few years in attending Mississauga tournaments and your comments.
9. I don’t believe in lecturing about moral obligations for professional players - GM/IM/FM/2300 (e.g., ‘do your part…’) – on which tournaments to play
>> It's just happening in most tournaments in GTA for the last 1-2 years. Probably the tournament organizers did not do a good job in having attractive prize money funds ( my guess ) as Hart House and Guelph could attract these players. Well too bad then for the rising juniors in the smaller tournaments
What I can say is that being a chess tournament organizers are not easy in GTA area. ( my view ). Others may not agree....
The other points will be left to Bob Gillanders to ponder ....and to improve for next tournament
We are approaching 70 players now as of this morning with our first CFC 2300 player registered, NM Geordie Derraugh. He has been actively promoting chess in Toronto on Wednesday at the chess pub and not playing chess actively in tournament proper. Thanks to him we have our first NM rating above 2300.
Hope more higher rated players will join the fun and hopefully by end of the day today we will reach 80 players. We have 34 players in U-1200 which currently forms half of the total number of players now.
3 more days to go before Oct 18th, 2016 if you don't want to pay the late fee.
Cheers
Gary Hua
Last edited by Gary Hua; Sunday, 16th October, 2016, 04:52 AM.
>> Thanks for your inputs. To answer your questions. Of course, I care. This is the main objectives being an tournament organizer or even as a person in charge of registration. If you have few players attending, what is the point of hosting a tournament ? There are cost involved as well in hosting a tournament
Why are you worrying what others say or think?
>> We care to hear input/feedback from players or parents to ensure future tournaments are better organized.
You are running a tournament with conditions and you offer a site with prizes.
>>There are a number of reasons why a tournament is successful and we need to make sure we fulfill most of them
What more can any chess player need?
>>Seems like the players in GTA are pretty demanding these days. Look at comments below :
No wonder Tournament organizers are stepping out of providing events. There are too many nitpickers out there.
>> It is not easy to be an organizer what more in Canada where the most organizer are willing to prepare all the chess equipment unlike in USA Someone in the past must have started this tradition. In USA, after every round, all the tables will be clean and clear. Having said that, MCC strives to host a good tournament with a good turnout and a good tournament for all to remember. If I undertake to do something, I will make sure I do the best for the organizers and the players as well
Last edited by Gary Hua; Sunday, 16th October, 2016, 10:45 AM.
If your name is not on the list above and you have registered, please send me an email again as I may have missed it.
4 more days to go before early bird dateline ends. We are expecting another 40 players or so to make it 100.
Premier section - It is so disappointing to see that not even a 2300 rated player sign up. This has been a trend for the past 1-2 years and very good players only come out and play in tournaments like Hart House and Guelph thus denying juniors a chance to play against them in smaller tournaments. Remember that you were at that stage before ( below 2300 ) and you should do your part in letting them to have a chance to play against you now.
Gary, you have convinced me to play. My daughter Julia will play also (U1200).
Gary, you have convinced me to play. My daughter Julia will play also (U1200).
Hi Victor,
Thanks so much for your registrations. I will include both of you in. Open section now looks much better with you and Geordie in the list. Richard Chen just registered as well.
And yes. Thanks to you as Captain of the Olympiad team, Canada almost made it to the podium. It was so interesting to follow the Olympiad team. May the next team in 2018 perform better and who knows, we may be at the podium then with our newly GM Razvan Preotu ( probably in the team )
Cheers
Gary Hua
Last edited by Gary Hua; Sunday, 16th October, 2016, 01:02 PM.
Pre-registration as at Oct 19, 2016 ( 105 at the moment )
Premier section
1. Eugene Hua
2. Constance Wang
3. Anthony Maulucci
4. Arhant Washimkar
5. Sergey Noritsyn
6. Jelvis Calvelo
7. Stephan Tonakanian
8. Dorian Kang
9. Thomas Bark
10. Geordie Derraugh ( CFC 2336 )
11. FM Victor Plotkin
12. Richard Chen
13. Joseph Lentini
14. GM Razvan Preotu
15. Lanting Qian
16. Colin Dale
17. Shiva Chakkoli
18. Federico Austria
19. Dmitry Chernik
20. Daniel Zotkin
U-2000 section
1. Joey Qiao
2. Manpal Modgill
3. Joseph Liao
4. Trifelino T. Miaco
5. Ferdinand Supsup (floater )
6. Robert James Beaubien
7. Austin Xie
8. Alexander Friedman ( round 1 bye )
9. Eric Ning
10. Ruperto Frilles
11. Alan Li
12. Sviatoslav Pylypchuk
13. Ronnie Nino Caloyloy
14. Armand Jess Mendoza
15. Sergi Loiko ( new )
16. Alberto Ranola
17. Ranel Lauron
U-1600 section
1. Henry Liu
2. Gary Hua
3. James Tan
4. Vincent Greeson
5. Brett Yang
6. Doug Gillis
7. Elena Yang
8. Cheney Chen
9. William ( Zhimao ) Gao
10. Harry Liu
11. Lucas ( Yunkun ) Lu
12. Raymond Franke ( round 1 bye )
13. Robert Jinyu Du
14. John Sprague
15. Sophie Wang
16. Eric Wang
17. Vilas Karmalkar
18. Greta Xu
19. Zack Dinatolo
20. Nevin Deshpande
21. Henry Xianrui Zhang
22. Bhargava Guntoori
23. Jose Cabioc
U-1200
1. Pranoy Mukherjee
2. Evgeny Kalmanson
3. Andrew Wang
4. Jodie Liao
5. Jinrong ( Winnie ) Zhuang
6. Leo Zhuang
7. Leo Dong
8. Benjamin Liu
9. Sharooz Ghasemi
10. Simarpreet Singh
11. Kareem Nehdi
12. Daniel ( Zhixing ) Wang
13. Arthur ( Xiuqi ) Wang
14. Riley Brownsdon
15. Emma Castagner (round 1 bye )
16. Raymond Gao
17. Lucy Gao
18. Derek Chen
19. Eric Feng ( New )
20. Helen Lin
21. Ethan Zhang
22. Ivan Noritsyn
23. Maanav Khurana
24. Michael Hickson
25. Adam Cheng
26. Eric Li
27. Hao Chao ( Henry ) Yuan
28. Kesavar Kabilar
29. BenJohn Libardo ( round 1 bye )
30. Nicholas Pinto
31. Kevin Wang
32. Lihui Wang
33. Steve Vettese ( round 1 bye )
34. Yilin Liao
35. Julia Plotkin
36. Rohit Skumar ( new )
37. Caden Zhang
38. Larissa Soushko
39. Anirud Chakkoli
40. Tejas Prakash
41. Rayyan Lodhi (round 2 bye )
42. Kevin Sun
43. Richard Huang
44. Junyi Song ( new )
45. Aditya Guntoori
1 day to go before the early bird dateline ( Oct 19 ). FM Victor Plotkin just registered. Thanks to him and Geordie D that the Premier section looks so much better now. We have 105 players now.
Cheers !!!
Gary Hua
Last edited by Gary Hua; Wednesday, 19th October, 2016, 07:00 AM.
Finally we have reached our target of 100 players registered.
Dateline for early bird is tonight. If I dont receive your e mail by mid-night, there will be a late fee. I will update the latest list tomorrow morning taking into account of tonight's registration. Those who email me tomorrow will be updated in BOLD
Thanks to all those who has registered so far.
Tournament date is this Saturday Oct 22, 2016.
Cheers to Chess in Mississauga.
I am pretty sure the prize funds will be a good one.
Last edited by Gary Hua; Tuesday, 18th October, 2016, 07:26 PM.
Pre-registration as at Oct 20, 2016 ( 109 at the moment )
Premier section
1. Eugene Hua
2. Constance Wang
3. Anthony Maulucci
4. Arhant Washimkar
5. Sergey Noritsyn
6. Jelvis Calvelo
7. Stephan Tonakanian
8. Dorian Kang
9. Thomas Bark
10. Geordie Derraugh ( CFC 2336 )
11. FM Victor Plotkin
12. Richard Chen
13. Joseph Lentini
14. GM Razvan Preotu
15. Lanting Qian
16. Colin Dale
17. Shiva Chakkoli
18. Federico Austria
19. Dmitry Chernik
20. Daniel Zotkin
21. Jagpreet Singh
U-2000 section
1. Joey Qiao
2. Manpal Modgill
3. Joseph Liao
4. Trifelino T. Miaco
5. Ferdinand Supsup (floater )
6. Robert James Beaubien
7. Austin Xie
8. Alexander Friedman ( round 1 bye )
9. Eric Ning
10. Ruperto Frilles
11. Alan Li
12. Sviatoslav Pylypchuk
13. Ronnie Nino Caloyloy
14. Armand Jess Mendoza
15. Sergi Loiko ( new )
16. Alberto Ranola
17. Ranel Lauron
18. John Jordan
19. Malhar Singh
U-1600 section
1. Henry Liu
2. Gary Hua
3. James Tan - withdraw
4. Vincent Greeson
5. Brett Yang
6. Doug Gillis
7. Elena Yang - withdraw
8. Cheney Chen
9. William ( Zhimao ) Gao
10. Harry Liu
11. Lucas ( Yunkun ) Lu
12. Raymond Franke ( round 1 bye )
13. Robert Jinyu Du
14. John Sprague
15. Sophie Wang
16. Eric Wang
17. Vilas Karmalkar
18. Greta Xu
19. Zack Dinatolo
20. Nevin Deshpande
21. Henry Xianrui Zhang
22. Bhargava Guntoori
23. Jose Cabioc
24. William J. Mollison
25. Jeffrey Renfei Zhao
U-1200
1. Pranoy Mukherjee
2. Evgeny Kalmanson
3. Andrew Wang
4. Jodie Liao
5. Jinrong ( Winnie ) Zhuang
6. Leo Zhuang
7. Leo Dong
8. Benjamin Liu
9. Sharooz Ghasemi
10. Simarpreet Singh
11. Kareem Nehdi
12. Daniel ( Zhixing ) Wang
13. Arthur ( Xiuqi ) Wang
14. Riley Brownsdon
15. Emma Castagner (round 1 bye )
16. Raymond Gao
17. Lucy Gao
18. Derek Chen
19. Eric Feng ( New )
20. Helen Lin
21. Ethan Zhang
22. Ivan Noritsyn
23. Maanav Khurana
24. Michael Hickson
25. Adam Cheng
26. Eric Li
27. Hao Chao ( Henry ) Yuan
28. Kesavar Kabilar
29. BenJohn Libardo ( round 1 bye )
30. Nicholas Pinto
31. Kevin Wang
32. Lihui Wang
33. Steve Vettese ( round 1 bye )
34. Yilin Liao
35. Julia Plotkin
36. Rohit Skumar ( new )
37. Caden Zhang
38. Larissa Soushko
39. Anirud Chakkoli
40. Tejas Prakash
41. Rayyan Lodhi (round 2 bye )
42. Kevin Sun
43. Richard Huang
44. Junyi Song ( new )
45. Aditya Guntoori
46. Harpreet Singh
All players added today onwards will be in BOLD
Cheers !!!
Gary Hua
Last edited by Gary Hua; Friday, 21st October, 2016, 06:22 AM.
Few announcements to make ( What Bob Gillanders mentioned earlier )
1. I am talking about changing the registration procedures to ensure round 1 starts on time.
The first round is scheduled to start at 10am. I am making this the top priority for 2016. If you arrive late, you don’t play round 1. This will come as a shock to those who wander in late and assume chess tournaments never start on time. So, be warned.
The procedures are:
For those who pre-register, you must arrive on site by 9:45am. If you don’t pre-register, you must arrive on site by 9:30am.
To check in, you must hand in your registration card in person. The registration cards will be on a table by the entrance. We will not be collecting any fees before round 1. Everyone is responsible for paying entry fees and CFC dues before round 2.
2. This is an adult tournament. All players must be CFC current members. Junior players have to be CFC members as well. The cost of CFC membership is $ 32 and $48 for adults.
Thanks to all who has pre-registered and wish you all Good luck and have fun in the tournament.
The tournament is this Saturday - 2 days from today.
Please check to see that you are registered correctly.
I moved all unrated players to U1200 section for now.
If you wish to play up you need to demonstrate you belong there.
There will be separate prizes for unrated players in the U1200 section.
Please report any errors or problems via email to Gary.
Thanks.
ps. some edits corrections to players list done at 3pm.
If you haven't already checked, please click on link above to verify you are registered correctly.
Bob
Last edited by Bob Gillanders; Friday, 21st October, 2016, 03:04 PM.
CFC memberships are due (new or renewals) for the following:
Shiva Chakkoli
Thomas Bark
Jagpreet Singh
Joseph Lentini
Federico Austria
Ruperto Frilles
Alexander Friedman
Malhar Singh
Ronnie Nino Caloyloy
Cheney Chen
William [Zhimao] Gao
Nicholas Pinto
Kevin Sun
Kesavar Kabilar
Simarpreet Singh
Derek Chen
Ivan Noritsyn
Benjamin Liu
Leo Dong
Maanav Khurana
Raymond Gao
Kareem Nehdi
Helen Lin
Lucy Gao
Jodie Liao
Eric Feng
Richard Huang
Tejas Prakash
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