4th Aurora Chess Day - January 4, 2020

[Egidijus Zeromskis]

Tournament website - http://www.aucc.club/4th-aurora-chess-day


The tournament has several changes compared to previous editions. Many fours.




Details ( on the website http://www.aucc.club/4th-aurora-chess-day/4thacd/ ) On Saturday January 4th, 2020.
Location: Magna Room at Aurora Public Library (15145 Yonge Street, Aurora)
4 round CFC regular rated tournament in two sections: Odd and Even. Top 4 players from each section go into a round robin blitz tournament (CFC active rated) where final prizes are won!





Regular tournament

Eligibility: no rating restrictions, players shall have the CFC membership (it's possible to pay dues at www.chess.ca)
Format: 4 round Swiss system tournament.
Two sections: players are sorted by CFC rating, then odd numbered (1, 3, 5 etc) players go to Odd section, even (2, 4, 6) ones to Even.
Time control: 55 min + 5 sec
Schedule
Pairing - 9:15
Round 1 – 9:30
Round 2 – 11:30 (or ASAP)
Break
Round 3 – 14:30
Round 4 – 16:30 (or ASAP)
Four first places from each section enter into the Blitz tournament.
Tie-break criteria:

• Buchholz (sum of opponents scores)
• Greater number of wins
• Greater number of wins with Black

Both sections are rated by the CFC standard rating system.





Blitz

Four first players from each section enter the blitz tournament.
Format: Round robin system tournament
Time control: 3 min + 2 sec starting from move one.
Schedule: the tournament starts at 18:45 and will last about 80 minutes.
Tie-break system:

1. Greater number if wins
2. Sonneborn-Berger
3. Direct encounter

The blitz tournament is rated by the CFC active rating system.





Prizes

Four first places of the Blitz tournament will receive prizes (based on 50 players in the regular tournament):

1. $300
2. $250
3. $150
4. $100

(prizes are not split)





Registration

Entry fees:

• Early bird - $30 prior to December 3, 2019.
• Regular - $40 prior to January 3, 2020.
• At the door - $60 on the tournament day before 9 am.

Cancellation: refunded paid entry fee minus $5 if cancelled before January 2nd, 2020. Later on - no refund.
Registration

• Online - http://www.aucc.club/4th-aurora-chess-day/4thacd-registration/
• At the Aurora Chess Club
• On the tournament day by 9 am ($60)

Misc

All equipment (chess sets, boards, clocks, scoresheets) provided
Arbiter and organizer – Egidijus Zeromskis ( info@aucc.club )


the players list at http://www.aucc.club/4th-aurora-ches...thacd-players

[Egidijus Zeromskis]

the outdated list was deleted

[Egidijus Zeromskis]

New list with 45 players.
Due to a room size, only 5 spots are left, after that a waiting list will be started.
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Two more players: Mark Plotkin (2524, FM) and Anirud Chakkoli (1977)
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#	Name	Rating
1	FM Nicholas Vettese	2372
2	Sergey Noritsyn	2285
3	Ilia Bluvshtein	2228
4	Isai Berengolts	2128
5	Jeffrey Renfei Zhao	2028
6	Brendan Cater	1875
7	Aayush Ajith	1867
8	Alex Xu	1768
9	Vinushan Vijendra	1760
10	Larry Yang	1667
11	Chris Tapping	1606
12	Eric Qian	1587
13	April Yunwei Zhong	1566
14	Neal Nian Li	1562
15	Anni Guo	1505
16	Daniel Zhang	1493
17	Lefan Yang	1482
18	Emeka Onwuka	1473
19	Henry Yao	1450
20	John Banic	1433
21	Heye Gao	1432
22	Aarush Ajith	1380
23	Doug Gillis	1376
24	Ryan Yunhui Zhong	1344
25	Leon Xu	1322
26	Cameron Herbert	1266
27	Ivan Noritsyn	1239
28	Jeffrey Zhuang	1189
29	Ivan Huang	1163
30	Ricky Chen	1081
31	Justin Huang	1064
32	Kuni Morin	1064
33	Tony Lu	1052
34	Sato Morin	1033
35	Triston Li	1007
36	Kyler Chi-Rey Cheng	980
37	Ashley Qian	968
38	Gauri Sreekumar	903
39	Jack Yuhao Xu	799
40	Margaret Luo	781
41	Nigel Hotton	754
42	Milek Luo	660
43	Wilson Wang	470

[Egidijus Zeromskis]

Two more players (total 47)
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Valerie Ruchinskaya	1566	Woodbridge, ON
Felix Zhou	987	Richmond Hill, ON

[Egidijus Zeromskis]

Two more players (total 49, one spot left):

Victor Plotkin (FM, 2384)
Dylan Shanmugadhasan (1279)

The registration fee became a regular one for $40 till Jan 3, 2020.

If there will be more interest, the waiting list will be formed.

[Egidijus Zeromskis]

SOLD OUT - all spots are taken, a waiting list was started.

Thnx for a great response.

[Egidijus Zeromskis]

Reminder - tomorrow the tournament starts at 9:30 am. Draw of colours at 9:15 am.

Preliminary split into sections at http://www.aucc.club/4th-aurora-ches...4thacd-players

I'll try to post results at chess-results.com asap.

[Egidijus Zeromskis]

Several pictures from round 2 - https://photos.app.goo.gl/3fRKeadRz3XubPKbA

[Cameron Herbert]

A very nicely organized tournament, like usual, Egis. Pictures were a nice touch. See you in March! :)

[Egidijus Zeromskis]

A very nicely organized tournament, like usual, Egis. Pictures were a nice touch. See you in March! :)

Thnx Cameron for kind words.

Results are at chess-results:
Odd - http://chess-results.com/tnr504242.aspx?lan=1&art=1
Even - http://chess-results.com/tnr504244.aspx?lan=1&art=0
Blitz - http://chess-results.com/tnr504263.aspx?lan=1&art=4

Shortly - two players made 100% (4/4) in their sections - Sergey Noritsyn and Ilia Bluvshtein. The Blitz was won by Nicholas Vettese with 100% (7/7) score too.

Several more pictures will be posted later.

[Egidijus Zeromskis]

Photos - part 2 - https://photos.app.goo.gl/hLhi2yNfgcXDLbBRA
with one video of the last game.