KEC 2022 announcement (Kingston Easter Chess)

[Aris Marghetis]

Im impressed by your thoughtfulness Frank. Best Game Prizes are an important feature of the best events and two more worthy individuals FM Kevin Gentes and IA David Cohen, both who recently passed away and were important parts of the Canadian chess scene, I cant think of.

Hans, I emailed Frank, but I don't think he's had the chance to see it yet. And I'm also thinking, would YOU like to head the "judging" person/committee to select the winning games/players?!

I'll try to connect all three of us by email now.

[Frank Dixon]

Hi Aris, Email is a problem for me right now; working to sort it out. Cheers, Frank

[Aris Marghetis]

I appreciate that this post is repetitive, but I'm getting a lot of emails from people who apparently haven't had the chance to read the whole thread, no problem:

Please note that the reservation confirmation emails from the hotel may include two errors. Please rest assured that these will be fixed, they are JUST errors:
1) PARKING for hotel guests will be FREE ... ignore the parking line in the email
2) the room rate for up to 4 people is $100 ... sometimes the Summary Charges section of the email adds a surcharge for "more" guests, this is NOT TRUE!!

I encourage you to book your rooms (25% gone in first 3 days), and the amounts will be fixed. My strong messages are being escalated up their management.

Thanks, best, Aris.

[Frank Dixon]

Aris: Just looking for guidance on possible income tax aspects of my donation for KEC:
1) I plan to send a money order for $200, along with a letter on ideas for the event, soon, to you care of RA Chess Club, Ottawa;
2) Is CFC OK as 'payable to'? Since CFC is a registered non-profit, then this can be claimed as an income tax aspect.
Please advise.
Cheers,
Frank Dixon
NTD, Kingston

[Aris Marghetis]

Aris: Just looking for guidance on possible income tax aspects of my donation for KEC:
1) I plan to send a money order for $200, along with a letter on ideas for the event, soon, to you care of RA Chess Club, Ottawa;
2) Is CFC OK as 'payable to'? Since CFC is a registered non-profit, then this can be claimed as an income tax aspect.
Please advise.
Cheers,
Frank Dixon
NTD, Kingston

Hello Frank, I don't think the non-profit angle applies. And please don't mail anything to me, but made out to the CFC nor mailed to the RA Chess Club. Neither of those angles would work.

Let's switch this conversation to email! Thanks!

[Frank Dixon]

I am increasing my contribution to $400, from $200, for the Best Games Prizes at the 2022 Kingston Zonal and Easter Congress.

Here is how I would like to see this awarded:
1) Four prizes of $100 each:
2) One for Zonal section;
3) One for Women's Tournament;
4) One for all other amateur sections;
5) One for best-played drawn game, from any section.

And I support Aris' proposal for FM Hans Jung to either chair a committee to decide this, or do take it on himself.

Cheers,
Frank Dixon
NTD, Kingston

[Fred McKim]

Since CFC is a registered non-profit, then this can be claimed as an income tax aspect.

I wish this was true, Frank. Being a non-profit does not automatically make you a charity, for example. There presently are no income tax receipts for donations to the CFC.

[Sam Sharpe]

Yes, we lost our charitable status back about a decade or so ago ... I think.

[Aris Marghetis]

I am increasing my contribution to $400, from $200, for the Best Games Prizes at the 2022 Kingston Zonal and Easter Congress.

Here is how I would like to see this awarded:
1) Four prizes of $100 each:
2) One for Zonal section;
3) One for Women's Tournament;
4) One for all other amateur sections;
5) One for best-played drawn game, from any section.

And I support Aris' proposal for FM Hans Jung to either chair a committee to decide this, or do take it on himself.

Cheers,
Frank Dixon
NTD, Kingston

Thanks Frank! Now, please switch to email, so we can arrange transferring of the funds, etc.
I've also spoken with Hans, who will also play about half the tournament, and he's quite keen!

(please note that I've been in the bush for days, so I probably won't catch up to email today)

[Aris Marghetis]

Just a quick note that I am getting a LOT of emails (even phone calls) ... registrations are starting off REALLY WELL.
Please appreciate everything is compressed this year, and I'm working as many hours as I can to make this happen.
I'll post a pre-registered list when I catch up registration emails. Emails asking me for it are, well, just more emails lol
Respectfully, Aris (targetting Thursday for pre-registered list, after CFC renewals get updated Wednesday overnight)

[Frank Dixon]

As reported in the Thursday, March 17th edition of the newspaper 'Kingston This Week', page 6, the Canadian Scrabble Classic was hosted in the Four Points by Sheraton hotel in downtown Kingston, starting on March 10, with about 75 players. This is the same hotel which is to host the KEC festival, starting on April 14, in just over three weeks' time. This hotel also successfully hosted the 2019 Zonal and Easter festival. In the photo, players are wearing masks at the board, with a clock operating; same sort of picture as for tournament chess, but a different game!

Note that mandatory masking rules changed in Ontario today, Monday, March 21, 2022.

[Alex Starks]

Where we can find a list of registered players?

[Aris Marghetis]

Where we can find a list of registered players?

I'm getting to it. Just very many things to take care of very quickly. Now targeting tonight or tomorrow.
And then there'll be a huge rush between now and Thursday lol. The hotel says over 50 rooms gone.

Later, Aris.

[Aris Marghetis]

section qualify rating title surname, name (JR re BN) FIDE# (or By) CFC# FQE# byes
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 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 789
Zonal 2209 Jiang, Brian 2627922 161639
Women 2341 WGM Ouellet, Maili-Jade (JR) 2620472 151330 103293
Women 2290 WGM Zhou, Qiyu 505161 151707
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 (transferring) 9301470 143314
Women 1878 DSouza, Carina (JR) 2635550 167600
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 2126 Berengolts, Isaac 2603837 125667
U2200 2098 Xu, Daniel 2627345 160020
U2200 2073 VanRooy, Jake 2622670 152635
U2200 2065 Ramesh, Sanjay 2631270 162979
U2200 2052 Oancea, Nicolae 1211870 139674
U2200 2048 Gao, Raymond 2629429 156480
U2200 2044 Loadman, Ian 2613743 101686
U2200 2024 Adam, Rafael 2630958 165899 107249
U2200 2017 Shi, Michael 2634090 167348
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 1915 Guillemette, Hugo 2636077 167806 107286 1
U1900 1879 Balasooriya, Randika 2635968 150499
U1900 1853 Latreille, Etienne 2634279 154563 103469 12
U1900 1809 Kuryliw, Ray 2604833 105482
U1900 1799 Srinivas, Atharva 2623900 157721 1
U1900 1777 Supsup, Ferdinand 2614030 142366
U1900 1773 Bond, Hal 2601699 111830
U1900 1755 Dupont-Mageau, Nicolas 2635984 156184 104082 12
U1900 1604 Moses, Neil 2640627 170949
U1600 1599 Gillanders, Robert 2606968 108202
U1600 1580 Beardall, Ben 2638177 170948
U1600 1561 Dickson, Raymond 2632950 104296
U1600 1557 Samuel, Victor 2629062 112306
U1600 1467 Gillis, Doug 2604361 111022
U1600 1440 Paulsen, Lorenz 2620936 106406
U1600 1425 Byl, Oliver (2002) 174403
U1600 1390 Wen, Justin (2011) 174383
U1600 1368 Mourgelas, James 2613816 108540
U1600 1364 Li, Aiden (2011) 167620 1
U1600 1360 Parakin, Don 2634759 106488
U1600 1337 Sztuka, Jeremy 2629089 162452
U1600 1312 Mullur, Neerav (2001) 152505
U1600 1174 Hay, John 2629046 162669
U1600 1168 Byun, JaeHyun (1995) 173434
U1600 1037 Lim, Justin (2004) 173268 12
U1600 1002 Tseng, Elliot (2006) 175135
U1600 944 Fischer, Jacob (By) 174508
U1600 764 Narula, Japveer (2014) 173922

added: the (JR) suffixes apply only to Zonals,
for the Bryon Nickoloff Memorial Prizes for JRs

[Erik Malmsten]

Will you be accepting entries at the Golden Horseshoe Chess Championship in Mississauga this weekend?