2020 Canada Women Zonal & Canadian Closed & Easter Sectionals (U2200/U1900/U1600)

[Aris Marghetis]

To everyone who has registered but not yet paid, and especially so if you're booking a hotel room through our tournament, please note that the first wave of hotel room reservations will be made after this coming weekend. Therefore, please e-transfer me the amount from our registration email thread by Monday, March 9th.

If you feel you need to send me a security question answer, I recommend TEXT vs. email. If you do so, please start the text with the player(s) name, thanks!

Thank you, best regards, Aris Marghetis.

P.S. if you miss this Monday, that's not the end of the world, but rooms will eventually run out (and there's also the increase in prices after the end of March)

[Aris Marghetis]

90 players registered as of now:
(section upgrades to be verified)
.

Good morning, if you feel that your name should already be on the "first 90" list above, but it isn't, then it's probably because I had emailed you requesting some last bit of information (i.e. cell number, number of people for free breakfasts, etc). Then that email would be sitting in my "waiting for more information" pile lol. Please reply to that to complete your registration. I will of course honour the pre-March rates if you initiated your registration before March. arismarghetis at rogers dot com

[Aris Marghetis]

Do players have to be Canadian citizens? Have FIDE transfer their nationality to CAN?

Presently active in Toronto is a 2000 rated young woman.

My understanding is that participants in the Zonal need to be living in Canada,
and non-Canadian-flags are ineligible for prizes that require the Canadian flag.

[Erik Malmsten]

Hello Andrei, thanks for your post.

Re rating eligibility for the Canada Women Zonal, there is no restriction (this could change, but I doubt it)

Please feel free to ask any other questions, it likely helps other people too to see the resulting answers.

Thanks, regards, Aris

Do players have to be Canadian citizens? Have FIDE transfer their nationality to CAN?

Presently active in Toronto is a 2000 rated young woman.

[Aris Marghetis]

90 players registered as of now:
(section upgrades to be verified)
.

section	title surname, name (CAN)	rating	FIDE#	CFC#	FQE#	bye
Closed	FM Atanasov, Anthony		2623897	156079
Closed	CM Chen, Max		2622440	155238
Closed	IM Chiku-Ratte, Olivier-Kenta		2614782	148376	101838
Closed	Dukic, Zachary		2617188	149507
Closed	IM Duong, ThanhNha		2601079	107950	70424
Closed	CM Gordon, David		2602431	106629
Closed	GM Hambleton, Aman		2606577	129797
Closed	FM Hua, Eugene		2618150	154197
Closed	CM Kang, Dorian		2619156	155339
Closed	CM Li, William		2619750	154677
Closed	Manley, Jason		2611538	136791
Closed	Masse, Hugues		2604264	125461	88885
Closed	FM Munro, Allan (TTO)		7700245	140841
Closed	IM Noritsyn, Nikolay		2604922	132534
Closed	Noritsyn, Sergey		2616408	146893
Closed	FM Plotkin, Victor		2606674	142063
Closed	FM Rodrigue-Lemieux, Shawn		2620049	155300	103091
Closed	Rusonik, Max		2619253	155671
Closed	Saha, Ananda		2619644	155219	103299
Closed	GM Sambuev, Bator		4128290	146462	100539
Closed	Surya, Benito		2620073	153755
Closed	CM Tanaka, Tyler		7002351	159441	105159
Closed	FM Vettese, Nicholas		2620090	154199
Closed	GM Yang, Kaiqi		8604398	160390
Closed	Zhang, Henry		2620162	153836
Closed	CM Zhong, Kevin		2624907	159604	105652
Zonal	WFM Botez, Alexandra		2603365	132416
Zonal	Botez, Andrea		2614324	147577
Zonal	WGM Burtasova, Anna		4150740	169693
Zonal	WIM Demchenko, Svitlana		14149893	156853
Zonal	Gao, Lucy		2629640	161206
Zonal	WFM Golubeva, Oksana		4170164	168840
Zonal	Guo, Anni		2631350	163250
Zonal	Guo, YuHan		2623870	159161
Zonal	Hua, Michelle		2626837	159858
Zonal	Leger, Manon		2601710	111938	84161
Zonal	Surya, Dania		2627280	161403
Zonal	Wang, RachelZihan		2628325	163408	106882
Zonal	Xu, Ruoying		8603707	160490
Zonal	Zhong, April		2635658	167271
U2200	Donev, Danail		2604094	143574
U2200	England, Max		2622602	155135		1
U2200	Gao, Raymond		2629429	156480
U2200	Han, Johnathan		2629631	161709
U2200	Huang, Youhe		2629445	159428
U2200	JosephBenher, Savio		2629453	161296
U2200	Landry, Sylvain		2605953	101200	19664
U2200	Loadman, Ian		2613743	101686
U2200	Papneja, Arul		2626136	159468
U2200	Ramesh, Sanjay		2631270	162979
U2200	VanRooy, Jake		2622670	152635
U2200	Xie, Austin		2623919	157588
U2200	Xu, Daniel		2627345	160020
U2200	Zhao, JeffreyRenfei		2628651	158702
U1900	Balasooriya, Randika		2635968	150499
U1900	Bond, Hal		2601699	111830
U1900	Dickson, Raymond		2632950	104296
U1900	Dong, Yiwei		2632128	160373
U1900	Dupont-Mageau, Nicolas		2635984	156184	104082	1
U1900	Groot-Lipman, Jeff		2625628	102773
U1900	Guillemette, Hugo		2636077	167806	107286	1
U1900	Hsu, Ted		2630796	102608
U1900	Krolczyk, Jacob		2618001	120860
U1900	Mercure, Gilbert		2629585	164472	90540
U1900	Laurin, Marcel		2604906	100337	45663
U1900	Kuryliw, Ray		2604833	105482
U1900	Landstrom, William		2633540	162880
U1900	Lang, Quintin		2638045	168570
U1900	Latreille, Etienne		2634279	154563	103469	1
U1900	Masse-Garneau, Anthony		2636000	158468	105260	1
U1900	Perkins, Simon		2618737	107582
U1900	Phillips, Brian		2636018	102028
U1900	Samuel, Victor		2629062	112306
U1900	Sharma, Vishruth		2621215	156776
U1900	Srinivas, Atharva		2623900	157721		1
U1900	Stopic, Alexander		2630036	160017
U1900	Wang, Derek		2636115	166573
U1900	Xiao, Edward		2628643	156911
U1900	Zhu, Matthew		2633434	160019
U1600	Douglas, Steven		2632098	101523
U1600	Gillis, Doug		2604361	111022
U1600	Guillemette, Sebastien				55675	1
U1600	Huang, Ivan		2637715	164614
U1600	Huang, Justin		2638240	166068
U1600	Lee, JiWon		2631806	162960
U1600	McHenry, Colin			171192
U1600	Mourgelas, James		2613816	108540
U1600	Rebhi, Mohamed			168119	106996
U1600	Sztuka, Jeremy		2629089	162452
U1600	Zhong, Ryan		2635860	166737

[Aris Marghetis]

N.B. the special "pre-registration" deadline for last year's players will expire at midnight tonight. I don't need your money yet, I just want your registration by email. That'll hold the rates for you.

(search emails from me)

Thanks, regards, Aris.

[Aris Marghetis]

Hi Aris,

Is there a rating eligibility for Canadian Woman zonal or just for the Closed?

Also what do you mean by "payment via e-mail" - is that PayPal?

Thank you
Andrei

Hello Andrei, thanks for your post.

Re rating eligibility for the Canadian Closed, that will for sure be >=2200!
Re rating eligibility for the Canada Women Zonal, there is no restriction (this could change, but I doubt it)
Re "payment via e-mail", I mean INTERAC e-transfer. I suspect that's not available via American banks?

Please feel free to ask any other questions, it likely helps other people too to see the resulting answers.

Thanks, regards, Aris (out of town for four days, hope to catch up to all email by sometime tomorrow)

[Andrei Botez]

Hi Aris,

Is there a rating eligibility for Canadian Woman zonal or just for the Closed?

Also what do you mean by "payment via e-mail" - is that PayPal?

Thank you
Andrei

[Aris Marghetis]

Just a quick note that byes are available for any round:

- in the U2200/U1900/U1600 sections, if requested with registration, up to 3 half-point byes, within rounds 1-7
- all other requested byes will be 0-point (therefore, all Zonal and Closed byes will be 0-point)

Thanks, Aris.

(65 players registered, 3 GMs & 2 IMs/WGMs, 182 room nights booked, French translation being posted)

[Aris Marghetis]

Stop trying to mess things up! Leave it up to the organizers....they are the ones trying to satisfy their "customers", not a few posters on here!

Thank you to Grey and Fred, you put a smile on my face today!!

[Fred Harvey]

Stop trying to mess things up! Leave it up to the organizers....they are the ones trying to satisfy their "customers", not a few posters on here!

[Erik Malmsten]

At the other end, the oldest players, some of them have been over 2200 for many years, maybe even have a FM title, but may have recently dipped under 2200. Some active players bounce back and forth, over and under 2200. There is an argument for inclusion if they apply. The rigid rules could be broken for a couple of exceptional cases, but then the flood gates might open with "what about my child?"

[Grey Guo]

Chess should a perfect rule based world, just follow the rules, the only exception should be if the rule not make any sense (or the rule was wrong), then we can discuss to change the rule. Section design and play up rule is the right of organizer, stay with it and it's same for everyone.

[Aris Marghetis]

We are looking at FIDE and CFC ratings (and FQE if from Quebec). That's what we feel is right for this event. And people seem generally supportive of this.

[Erik Malmsten]

It is a balencing act. We want more entries but to not water down the top section.

Players travel far and the improving kids want free chess lessons. But the masters have also travelled far to meet other strong players, some who they haven't played before. Every game for them should be worthwhile. It will affect the final standings while some masters battle each other to draws, a few other masters will get a couple of rounds of easy points.

A parent would have to provide evidence of the ability to play at master level. For example, in smaller regions the ratings are lower. Could also look at provincial and national youth champions.