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If you're thinking of joining us, please email me by the end of this weekend, as we need to submit our floor layout on Monday. We want to maximize spaces, and I'm delighted to announce that we're going to have a lot of DGTs going, under the expert coordination of John Upper. Known registration numbers helps us plan layouts.
Thanks, best, arismarghetis at rogers dot com
Great, I would enjoy more space than they had at the recent Mississauga tournament. And how is the the lighting? Any windows? I assume that pieces and clocks are provided.
What will be the website address to see the live action? To show the players who were considering going, but dropped out. Will the Chessbrahs in Toronto be covering the event?
If you're thinking of joining us, please email me by the end of this weekend, as we need to submit our floor layout on Monday. We want to maximize spaces, and I'm delighted to announce that we're going to have a lot of DGTs going, under the expert coordination of John Upper. Known registration numbers helps us plan layouts.
Frank to Aris, regarding my offer of prize money for Best Game Prizes:
You will have this $400 by Thursday, April 14, in Kingston, at the tournament.
I had a situation where a good friend of mine recently lost his job and his apartment, and turned to me for emergency help. Although I am far from wealthy, this request simply could not be refused. He needed a few grand, right away. He has since stabilized, with a new job and a new apartment, so I will be repaid this loan, but not until after the tournament. I could cash out a bond early, and get you the money in a couple of days, but this would cost me a financial penalty. So I hope this offered arrangement is all right. The event does not end until several days after this.
Also, I am volunteering to serve on the Appeals' Committee for the event, as I did last time, in 2019.
1) the "seeding" column is the rating used to get into that section (highest of ...)
2) the (JR) suffix only applies to the two Zonal sections (special donated prizes)
3) please tell me if you see anything off, thanks! arismarghetis at rogers dot com
section seeding title surname, name (JR re BN) FIDE# (or By) CFC# FQE# byes
Zonal 2615 IM Noritsyn, Nikolay 2604922 132534
Zonal 2574 GM Sambuev, Bator 4128290 146462 100539
Zonal 2562 IM Plotkin, Mark 2611651 141086
Zonal 2524 IM Panjwani, Raja 2604493 121202
Zonal 2501 IM Thavandiran, Shiyam 2605058 127431
Zonal 2476 IM Chiku-Ratte, Olivier-Kenta 2614782 148376 101838
Zonal 2455 FM Rodrigue-Lemieux, Shawn (JR) 2620049 155300 103091
Zonal 2453 FM Talukdar, Rohan (JR) 2616378 150843
Zonal 2421 FM Plotkin, Victor 2606674 142063
Zonal 2357 Dorrance, Adam 2618567 141191
Zonal 2347 Derraugh, Geordie 2603950 132393
Zonal 2337 Dukic, Zachary 2617188 149507 104979
Zonal 2311 MacKinnon, Keith 2601990 133701
Zonal 2308 FM Atanasov, Anthony (JR) 2623897 156079
Zonal 2275 CM Tremblay, Rejean 2606682 105918 11057
Zonal 2270 Han, Johnathan (JR) 2629631 161709
Zonal 2261 CM Chen, Max (JR) 2622440 155238
Zonal 2259 CM Tanaka, Tyler (JR) 7002351 159441 105159
Zonal 2256 Clyde, Jordan 2616653 130068 79874
Zonal 2245 IM Barron, Michael 2605120 134840
Zonal 2236 CM Rusonik, Max (JR) 2619253 155671
Zonal 2218 Abrahams, Daniel 2606879 134333
Zonal 2212 FM Jung, Hans 2600609 100182 3789
Zonal 2209 Jiang, Brian 2627922 161639
Women 2341 WGM Ouellet, Maili-Jade (JR) 2620472 151330 103293
Women 2280 WFM Botez, Alexandra 2603365 132416
Women 2263 WIM Demchenko, Svitlana (JR) 14149893 156853
Women 1943 WCM Tsukerman, Julia (JR) 2621649 156150 103770
Women 1908 Hua, Michelle (JR) 2626837 159858
Women 1908 Gao, Lucy (JR) 2629640 161206
Women 1904 Baylon, Glenda 9301470 143314
Women 1878 DSouza, Carina (JR) 2635550 167600
Women 1859 Wang, Rachel (JR) 2628325 163408 106882
Women 1833 Guo, Veronica (JR) 2623870 159161
Women 1638 Jiang, Hancy (JR) 2640384 166648
Women 1347 Gavrileva, Anna (JR) 2641305 156634
Women 1308 Cao, Elaine 2641160 173374
U2200 2185 JosephBenher, Savio 2629453 161296
U2200 2170 Xu, Eddie 2632160 166274
U2200 2126 Berengolts, Isaac 2603837 125667
U2200 2116 Gao, Raymond 2629429 156480
U2200 2098 Xu, Daniel 2627345 160020
U2200 2075 Sharma, Vishruth 2621215 156776 123
U2200 2073 VanRooy, Jake 2622670 152635
U2200 2065 Ramesh, Sanjay 2631270 162979
U2200 2052 Oancea, Nicolae 1211870 139674
U2200 2044 Loadman, Ian 2613743 101686
U2200 2046 Latorre, Vincent 2636891 162297 105837
U2200 2025 Zhu, Matthew 2633434 160019
U2200 2024 Adam, Rafael 2630958 165899 107249
U2200 2017 Shi, Michael 2634090 167348
U2200 2003 Hakim, Bassel 10604340 175289
U2200 1983 Liu, Henry 2628597 157720
U2200 1973 Hansen, Troy 2622653 135151
U2200 1956 Wang, Derek 2636115 166573 123
U2200 1945 Malmsten, Erik 2612038 100196
U2200 1942 Palsson, Halldor 2603136 106856
U2200 1936 Khan, Riley 2637570 166965
U2200 1915 Guillemette, Hugo 2636077 167806 107286 1
U1900 1879 Balasooriya, Randika 2635968 150499
U1900 1853 Latreille, Etienne 2634279 154563 103469 12
U1900 1843 Srinivas, Atharva 2623900 157721 1
U1900 1809 Kuryliw, Ray 2604833 105482
U1900 1787 Moulton, Richard 2622718 138571 56
U1900 1777 Supsup, Ferdinand 2614030 142366 16
U1900 1773 Bond, Hal 2601699 111830
U1900 1768 Phillips, Brian 2636018 102028 4
U1900 1761 Hughes, Henry 329219082 160188
U1900 1755 Dupont-Mageau, Nicolas 2635984 156184 104082 12
U1900 1604 Moses, Neil 2640627 170949
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