2017 International Chess Festival St-Denis

[Larry Bevand]

Re: 2017 International Chess Festival St-Denis

Registration is now open for this event

For details and registration:

https://chess-math.org/event/2017-in...tival-st-denis

[Vadim Tsypin]

Re: 2017 International Chess Festival St-Denis

...the official section names that will be registered with FIDE [...]

All four sections are now registered. Many thanks to Bob Gillanders.

[Vadim Tsypin]

Re: 2017 International Chess Festival St-Denis

We have just made this big announcement with Mr. Bernard Labadie, the FQE President, for the players who are taking part in the CMA Futurity # 02. There is a lot of interest and several people have already placed their names on the registration list.

Here are the official section names that will be registered with FIDE:
"Section Square St-Louis (GM)"
"Section Quartier Latin (IM)"
"Section Mont Royal (Open Swiss)"
"Section Rue Sherbrooke (U-1800 Swiss)"

[Larry Bevand]

Re: 2017 International Chess Festival St-Denis

More details available now:

From July 22 - 30 2017

Location: Chess'n Math, 3423 St-Denis, Montreal

All sections: One round per day - All sections are FIDE-CFC-FQE rated

Top section - GM norm available - 10 player round robin by Invitation only
2nd section - IM norm available - 10 player round robin by Invitation only

3rd section - Open to all - 9 round swiss - 1 game per day
4th section - Under 1800 - 9 round swiss - 1 game per day

Swiss event limited to the first 50 players who register provided your rating is over 1400 CFC or FQE or you have a valid FIDE rating
Total Guaranteed Prize Fund for Sections 3 & 4 is $5,000 including class prizes.

Highest of your FIDE CFC or FQE on July 1, 2017 will be used for prizes and section eligibility

Rounds are at 6:30pm each day except the last day (Sunday July 30, 2017) when the round starts at 11am.

Time control: 90'/40 + 30'/end with 30 sec/move starting from move 1.

Forfeit Time: 30 minutes. All FIDE rules will be used.

We will be setting up a web page and the possibility to enter on-line sometime this week.

[Larry Bevand]

Re: 2017 International Chess Festival St-Denis

There is interest out there!

I have already been notified by 3 players that they would be interested in participating. I have not followed the FIDE scene in a decade if not more, so I am slowly getting up to speed. Thanks to Hal Bond, Bob Gillanders and Vlad Rekhson for helping out. From what I understand from Vlad Rekhson, '' for a GM norm tournament you need at least 3 GM's 4 foreigners from at least 2 different countries, 6 titles players which includes GM IM FM WGM WIM and WFM.

You also need the average rating of opponents of the highest rated title seeker to be at least 2380 although then they need to score 7/9 so ideally the average for highest rated title seeker should be: 2434 as then they need 6.5/9 which allows for more draws and most prefer that. ''

Here are the players who have contacted me so far:

2601079 Duong, Thanh Nha IM CAN 2153
2604493 Panjwani, Raja IM CAN 2400
2605058 Thavandiran, Shiyam FM CAN 2367

Raja and Shiyam have both taken part in the Canadian Chess Challenge which will help them in our selection process. I hope to determine the list of participants in the top 2 sections by the end of April and I hope to be able to supply final details on the event by mid-March.

If you would like to take part in this event please send me an e-mail... bevand at chess-math dot org. At this stage I don't expect a committment on your part.

[Larry Bevand]

From July 22 - 30 2017

10 player round-robin sections FIDE rated
Top section GM norms possible
2nd section IM norms possible
A minimum of 4 other 10 player FIDE rated sections
1 round per day.

Location: Chess'n Math, 3423 St-Denis, Montreal

Details to follow


Larry Bevand
Executive Director
Chess'n Math Association