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ZONAL & Easter Sectionals - updated registration list
On a slightly different note, we'll be using FIDE ratings to PAIR the Zonal section (REGARDLESS of what the FIDE rating is)
However, in order to be ELIGIBLE to join the Zonal section, each player MUST have at least one rating (FIDE/CFC/FQE) above 2199.
There's no way around that, so please don't ask me for special treatment. That's right, we're protecting the STRENGTH of the Zonal section!
Hi Aris,
This is totally unfair. My great-aunt's poodle's sister's owner's mother-in-law's 3rd-degree-cousin's fiance's grandfather, lives down the street from a Grandmaster in an undisclosed European city. I feel that this qualifies me for an exception and be allowed to play in the zonal.
This is totally unfair. My great-aunt's poodle's sister's owner's mother-in-law's 3rd-degree-cousin's fiance's grandfather, lives down the street from a Grandmaster in an undisclosed European city. I feel that this qualifies me for an exception and be allowed to play in the zonal.
Alex F.
That's pretty funny!
Funnier than the pleading emails and PHONE CALLS lol
On a slightly different note, we'll be using FIDE ratings to PAIR the Zonal section (REGARDLESS of what the FIDE rating is)
However, in order to be ELIGIBLE to join the Zonal section, each player MUST have at least one rating (FIDE/CFC/FQE) above 2199.
There's no way around that, so please don't ask me for special treatment. That's right, we're protecting the STRENGTH of the Zonal section!
The purpose of this tournament is to determine the Canadian Champion, not to give lessons to rising juniors. This used to be a 16-player event, too few. When it became a Swiss a 2100 rating floor was tried and had over 64 entries. And having so many weaker players affected the path to first place, as some leaders had much more easier pairings. Around 36 players with an average over 2300 is a good size for fair pairings.
There could be exceptions to the 2199 minimum for players who have IM/IWM titles, been over 2200 and recently dropped, or are donating big bucks to the event.
Kids on their way up will have motivation to get their ratings up to enter in the future.
I've sent everyone staying their hotel confirmation numbers. Some of you have called the hotel to make sure. That's of course totally fine, but note that some of their front desk staff are not aware of the free breakfasts feature. That's because it will be an exclusive thing in a big conference room, separate from other hotel guests.
The free parking on the other hand, they should already be able to see that in your reservation. I'll be sending out loads of details by Monday, including check-in stuff.
Thanks and regards, arismarghetis at rogers dot com (VERY FEW rooms left!)
The purpose of this tournament is to determine the Canadian Champion, not to give lessons to rising juniors. This used to be a 16-player event, too few. When it became a Swiss a 2100 rating floor was tried and had over 64 entries. And having so many weaker players affected the path to first place, as some leaders had much more easier pairings. Around 36 players with an average over 2300 is a good size for fair pairings.
There could be exceptions to the 2199 minimum for players who have IM/IWM titles, been over 2200 and recently dropped, or are donating big bucks to the event.
Kids on their way up will have motivation to get their ratings up to enter in the future.
Thank you Eric for taking the time to write about this. I can't tell you the number of higher-rated players who express appreciation when their section is protected from lower-rated players, whose inclusion entails multiple problematic twists, as you described in your post. I've actually had parents say to me this week "we must NEVER be paired down". How can that work for ALL OF US?!
Anyway, I'm ready to move up anyone who SHOULD be moved up, especially due to RECENT rating history. But otherwise, like I said before, we WILL protect EACH section's ELIGIBILITY!
Congratulations on your numbers ! I am impressed!!
I was one who would have bet that you would not get 100 players!...ohh I have been wrong so often, so I will simply add this one to my list :).
Bareev has put out a new book which I hope to get from Thinkers Press next week...if I do, I will contact you and see what we can do :)
Larry
Larry, thanks for the kind words! And yes, we would LOVE to have those books, Evgeny could autograph, etc. We'll have an energy-shots health-bars vendor there, and they could easily stack and sell them. I'll be driving through Toronto on the 17th, so maybe that would help logistics? Just please note that on the 17th, please call/text me vs. email, as I'll be driving all day starting in Indiana.
Quick note that the discounted hotel room program has now closed. However, registrations are still welcome. Please email me ASAP. Here quickly is our 95 so far.
Thanks and regards, arismarghetis at rogers dot com
section title surname, name (CAN)
Zonal GM Bareev, Evgeny
Zonal CM Chen, Max
Zonal FM Chen, Richard
Zonal FM Chiku-Ratte, Olivier Kenta
Zonal WFM Demchenko, Svitlana
Zonal Desforges, Jean
Zonal CM Doknjas, Joshua
Zonal Dukic, Zachary
Zonal FM Findlay, Ian
Zonal FM Gentes, Kevin
Zonal CM Gordon, David
Zonal GM Hambleton, Aman
Zonal FM Hua, Eugene
Zonal FM Huang, Qiuyu
Zonal CM Kang, Dorian
Zonal Li, William
Zonal Masse, Hugues
Zonal FM Munro, Allan (TTO)
Zonal IM Noritsyn, Nikolay
Zonal Noritsyn, Sergey
Zonal FM Plotkin, Mark
Zonal FM Plotkin, Victor
Zonal FM Rodrigue-Lemieux, Shawn
Zonal Rusonik, Max
Zonal Saha, Ananda
Zonal IM Samsonkin, Artiom
Zonal Tanaka, Tyler
Zonal IM Thavandiran, Shiyam
Zonal Tremblay, Rejean
Zonal FM Vettese, Nicholas
Zonal Wiebe, Isaac
Zonal GM Yang, Kaiqi
Zonal Yao, Houji
Zonal CM Zhong, Kevin
Zonal WGM Zhou, Qiyu
U2200 Donev, Danail
U2200 Doubleday, Bill
U2200 England, Max
U2200 Han, Johnathan
U2200 Joseph Benher, Savio
U2200 Latreille, Etienne
U2200 Mercure, Gilbert
U2200 Van Rooy, Jake
U2200 Xu, Daniel
U2200 Xu, Ruoying
U2200 Zhao, Jeffrey Renfei
U2200 Zhu, Matthew
U1900 Balasooriya, Randika
U1900 Bond, Hal
U1900 Dickson, Kirk Johannes
U1900 Dickson, Raymond
U1900 Dong, Yiwei
U1900 Dupont-Mageau, Nicolas
U1900 Durhan, Batuhan (TUR)
U1900 Frangakis, Evan
U1900 Groot-Lipman, Jeff
U1900 Hsu, Ted
U1900 Hua, Michelle
U1900 Krolczyk, Jacob
U1900 Kuryliw, Ray
U1900 Landstrom, William
U1900 Laurin, Marcel
U1900 Lemieux, Richard
U1900 Lesage, Pierre
U1900 Masse-Garneau, Anthony
U1900 Page, Dany
U1900 Perkins, Simon
U1900 Ramesh, Sanjay
U1900 Samuel, Victor
U1900 Sharma, Vishruth
U1900 Srinivas, Atharva
U1900 Stopic, Alexander
U1900 Xiao, Edward
U1900 Xie, Austin
U1600 Azroy, Arman
U1600 Bilodeau-Savaria, Carl-William
U1600 Bilodeau-Savaria, Sandy-Rose
U1600 Chau, Jonathan
U1600 Chau, Matthew
U1600 Chocina, Adam
U1600 de Leon, Raf Adrik
U1600 de Leon, Rut Jurry
U1600 Douglas, Steven
U1600 Gougeon, Patrick
U1600 Guillemette, Hugo
U1600 Hay, John
U1600 Hua, Gary
U1600 Lee, Ji Won
U1600 Li, Allen
U1600 Liao, Austin
U1600 Mai, DeRen
U1600 Paulsen, Lorenz
U1600 Sztuka, Jeremy
U1600 Wang, Derek
U1600 Wang, Rachel Zihan
LOTS of registration emails yesterday and today! But I am with family in the States. I'll catch up all email after 830pm tonight. Please be ready to pay by e-transfer THIS EVENING.
TODAY IS THE LAST POSSIBLE DAY TO REGISTER!
THERE WILL BE **NO** ONSITE REGISTRATIONS!
Send me your email and e-transfer by 1159pm tonight.
The only options left are:
- $300 for the Zonal section
- $200 for U2200/U1900/U1600
Thank you, best regards, arismarghetis at rogers dot com
section title surname, name (CAN)
Zonal GM Bareev, Evgeny
Zonal CM Chen, Max
Zonal FM Chen, Richard
Zonal FM Chiku-Ratte, Olivier Kenta
Zonal WFM Demchenko, Svitlana
Zonal Desforges, Jean
Zonal CM Doknjas, Joshua
Zonal Dukic, Zachary
Zonal FM Findlay, Ian
Zonal FM Gentes, Kevin
Zonal CM Gordon, David
Zonal GM Hambleton, Aman
Zonal FM Hua, Eugene
Zonal FM Huang, Qiuyu
Zonal Javidfard, Amirsalar
Zonal CM Kang, Dorian
Zonal Li, William
Zonal Masse, Hugues
Zonal FM Munro, Allan (TTO)
Zonal IM Noritsyn, Nikolay
Zonal Noritsyn, Sergey
Zonal FM Plotkin, Mark
Zonal FM Plotkin, Victor
Zonal FM Rodrigue-Lemieux, Shawn
Zonal Rusonik, Max
Zonal Saha, Ananda
Zonal IM Samsonkin, Artiom
Zonal Tanaka, Tyler
Zonal IM Thavandiran, Shiyam
Zonal Tremblay, Rejean
Zonal FM Vettese, Nicholas
Zonal Wiebe, Isaac
Zonal GM Yang, Kaiqi
Zonal Yao, Houji
Zonal CM Zhong, Kevin
Zonal WGM Zhou, Qiyu
U2200 Donev, Danail
U2200 Doubleday, Bill
U2200 England, Max
U2200 Han, Johnathan
U2200 Joseph Benher, Savio
U2200 Latreille, Etienne
U2200 Mercure, Gilbert
U2200 Van Rooy, Jake
U2200 Xu, Daniel
U2200 Xu, Ruoying
U2200 Zhao, Jeffrey Renfei
U2200 Zhu, Matthew
U1900 Balasooriya, Randika
U1900 Bond, Hal
U1900 Dickson, Kirk Johannes
U1900 Dickson, Raymond
U1900 Dong, Yiwei
U1900 Dupont-Mageau, Nicolas
U1900 Durhan, Batuhan (TUR)
U1900 Frangakis, Evan
U1900 Groot-Lipman, Jeff
U1900 Hsu, Ted
U1900 Hua, Michelle
U1900 Krolczyk, Jacob
U1900 Kuryliw, Ray
U1900 Landstrom, William
U1900 Laurin, Marcel
U1900 Lemieux, Richard
U1900 Lesage, Pierre
U1900 Masse-Garneau, Anthony
U1900 Page, Dany
U1900 Perkins, Simon
U1900 Phillips, Brian
U1900 Ramesh, Sanjay
U1900 Samuel, Victor
U1900 Sharma, Vishruth
U1900 Srinivas, Atharva
U1900 Stopic, Alexander
U1900 Xiao, Edward
U1900 Xie, Austin
U1600 Azroy, Arman
U1600 Bilodeau-Savaria, Carl-William
U1600 Bilodeau-Savaria, Sandy-Rose
U1600 Chau, Jonathan
U1600 Chau, Matthew
U1600 Chocina, Adam
U1600 de Leon, Raf Adrik
U1600 de Leon, Rut Jurry
U1600 Douglas, Steven
U1600 Gougeon, Patrick
U1600 Guillemette, Hugo
U1600 Hay, John
U1600 He, Jiaqi
U1600 He, Zekai
U1600 Hua, Gary
U1600 Lee, Ji Won
U1600 Li, Allen
U1600 Liao, Austin
U1600 Mai, DeRen
U1600 Paulsen, Lorenz
U1600 Sztuka, Jeremy
U1600 Wang, Derek
U1600 Wang, Rachel Zihan
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