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Golden Horseshoe Chess Championship - June 2-3, 2018
Golden Horseshoe Chess Championship - June 2-3, 2018
Elevate My Chess Canada Inc is going to organize our second major tournament and this time is Mississauga.
Location : Sandman Signature Mississauga Hotel
We are experimenting with the placed based prize money this time with an unconditionally guaranteed prize money of more than $ 7,000 ( about $ 7,500 ).
7 sections this time. I think this will be the biggest guaranteed placed based prize money and biggest number of sections in Ontario.
We are here to elevate your chess experience so come and join us for the fun and $$$
Tournament venue is a big ball room and will ensure comfort for all. It is near 401 ( Dixie Rd and Matherson Blvd E ) and have lots of restaurant nearby. Free parking for all.
We already have more 10 players signed up. Pre-registration list coming up soon.
Why are you calling it the Golden Horseshoe? Mississauga is in GTA.
Mississauga is strategically located at the heart of the
Greater Golden Horseshoe - one of the largest and
fastest growing urbanized regions in North America.
Okay Gary If that is what you say. Google says Golden Horseshoe goes from Burlington to Hamilton. No Mention of Mississauga.
hmm, my google says it bigger than that :)
"The Golden Horseshoe is a secondary region of Southern Ontario, Canada, which lies at the western end of Lake Ontario with outer boundaries stretching south from Lake Erie and north to Lake Scugog."
Okay Gary If that is what you say. Google says Golden Horseshoe goes from Burlington to Hamilton. No Mention of Mississauga.
Rubbish! That's not what google says at all. The original "horse shoe" wrapped around the western end of Lake Ontario, stretching from Niagara Falls to Oshawa (to complete the horseshoe). Recently governments have extended the "definition" much more broadly, to what effect is not entirely clear.
I think it is called Greater Golden Horseshoe these days.
The "Golden Horseshoe", in what little is left of my mind, has always been Niagara around through Hamilton to Toronto. Wikipedia seems to agree although it extends it out the east to the Shwa. The "Greater" definition seems to go east to Peterborough, north to Barrie, and west to KW.
Arguments as to where the "middle" of the horseshoe is, well, I'm sure they could occupy many threads on this forum.
Re: Golden Horseshoe Chess Championship - June 2-3, 2018
Tourist books relate to the Golden Horseshoe as
around Niagara Falls (Reference Horseshoe Falls).. Toronto has it's own Tourist Guide. Someone coming from say Quebec or Nova Scotia may not find Mississauga in many tourist attractions books. That was my main discussion point. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mississauga
I see no reference to Golden Horseshoe. I do see reference to Greater Toronto Area.
Last edited by John Brown; Wednesday, 14th March, 2018, 05:46 AM.
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