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Willowdale Chess Club presents Greater Toronto Chess League 2017 starting on January 17:
This will be round-robin team tournament.
Each team shall consist of 4 players with unlimited number of reserve players.
The deadline for team entries will be December 31, 2016, by email to
Tournament Coordinator Sasha Starr <alexander.starr AT gmail.com>
The event will be CFC rated, and the rating fees will be paid by the GTCL.
CFC membership is required.
Schedule:
Games will be played on consecutive Tuesdays at 7pm at the Willowdale Chess Club starting on January 17
(Earl Bales Community Centre at the Earl Bales Park near Bathurst and Sheppard intersection, 4169 Bathurst St.)
Time control:
60 minutes for the game with 10 seconds per move increment.
Entry fee: FREE
PRIZES: Trophy for all players of the winning team.
Chess sets and boards are provided by the Willowdale Chess Club.
Please bring your chess clock (2 per team).
I am not putting it together for Hart House this year, but we'll be there!
Haizhou Xu, Jonathan Yu, Leon Perelman, Ben Hahn, and more. Official registration will be done by e-mail through the proper channel.
We have 9 teams registered for 2017 GTCL League team competition (in the order of starting numbers after random drawing):
1) Toronto Dragons - captain Glenn Giffen
2) Willowdale Chess Club - captain Dmitry Chernik
3) North York Beavers - captain Yury Cheryachukin
4) Hart House Chess Club - captain Leon Perelman
5) Aurora Chess Club - captain Egidijus Zeromskis
6) Pinoy Chess Club - captain Ruperto Frilles
7) Chess Stars - captain Michael Barron
8) Annex Chess Club - captain Michael Humphreys
9) Juniors - captain William Li
I already emailed Sasha Starr my team information. I can list it here too.
Name of team: Drawmasters
First board: William Li (2176)
Second board: Hairan Liang (2130)
Third board: Harry Zhao (2163)
Fourth board: Sean Lei (2106)
1st Reserve: Arhant Washimkar
2nd Reserve: Salim Belcadi
Re: Is the CFC members database on CFC website up to date?
I can confirm that those ratings seem to be out of date. On my team, Konstantin, Liza and Matthew's are correct, but Jason Cai should be 2237, Nicholas Vettese should be 2228, Wajdy Shebetah is 2022, and I'm 1563. It seems in particular that the Hart House Holiday Open results have not been included.
Sergey Noritsyn is now 2253, and Tigran Ghazarian is now 1900. Sergi Loiko on your team was given a provisional rating of 1915 after Mississauga.
It strikes me that we were seeing the same kind of lag from Swiss Manager in some other tournaments.
Last edited by Glenn Giffen; Sunday, 1st January, 2017, 10:12 PM.
Round 1 on 2017/01/17 at 19:00
No. Team Team Res. : Res.
1 Willowdale Chess Club Drawmasters :
2 North York Beavers Annex Chess Club :
3 Hart House Chess Club Chess Stars :
4 Aurora Chess Club Pinoy Chess Club :
5 Toronto Dragons bye :
Chess sets are provided by Willowdale Chess Club.
Please bring digital clocks (2 per team).
Time control is 1 hour for the game plus 10 seconds per move increment.
I would like to share great news - we got a sponsor!
Chess Supersite Corp., an owner and operator of the www.chessstars.com is pleased to offer the following prizes in the upcoming 2017 GTCL Team Championship:
One year Club Membership to all the Members of the 2017 GTCL Champion Team (6 maximum)
One year Club Membership to each Board winner (6 games minimum) and 1 substitute (3 games minimum)
ALL Participants (including arbiters): 25% off your First Year Membership!
Chess Stars is a home of the “Choose Your Moves and Win” contests, where there is no cheating, everyone has a chance to win and $600.00 in Prizes on each contest are available.
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