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Annex Chess Club (ACC) will host the 2022 Toronto Blitz Championship on Monday, August 22nd at 918 Bathurst Street, M5R 3GS.
The event will consist of 7 double rounds with a time control of 3 minutes / 2 seconds increment, and will start at 6pm.
Pre-registration is open for ACC members tonight (Monday, June 27th), at the club's front desk. Please see George.
Open registration will be available online starting on Tuesday, June 28th at noon. Registrations will be limited to 80 players, so don't delay if you want to secure your seat! Discounts are available for ACC members, earlybirds, juniors, seniors and women players.
ACC sent the first invitation to IM Artiom Samsonkin in recognition of his contribution to the chess community by saving the Ottawa norm tournament. ACC is also very proud to welcome the winner AND the runner up of the World Senior Blitz Championship: IM Michael Barron & FM Victor Plotkin.
The following top players have already booked their seats for the event:
Registration is now closed for the event. It seems the appetite for blitz was very strong and most of the spots were booked in a few days.
We have a few more seats reserved for titled players, please contact me directly if you fall in that category and you want to play.
We will likely add a few more seats as well and open a waiting list in the coming weeks. I will provide updates here and on ACC's Facebook page.
Below is the current list of registered players. I haven't double checked the ratings, apologies if there are any mistakes.
One third of the players are rated above 2000.
GM Bator Sambuev, 2511
WGM Anna Burtasova, 2271
IM Nikolay Noritsyn, 2567
IM S. Rodrigue-Lemieux, 2544
IM Ameet Ghasi, 2526
IM Artiom Samsonkin, 2521
IM Mark Plotkin, 2517
IM Sai Krishna, 2405
IM Michael Barron, 2242
FM Victor Plotkin, 2414
FM Eduardo Teodoro, 2350
FM Michael Humphreys, 2296
CM Koosha Jaferian, 2355
CM William Li, 2265
NM Geordie Derraugh, 2337
NM Zehn Nasir, 2211
NM John K Upper, 2163
Roman Gavrilin, 2267
Youhe Huang, 2266
Fengxi Mao, 2234
Joshua Terry, 2201
Mihai Ganea, 2103
Younan Ishow, 2100
Raymond Gao, 2092
Kyrylo Demchenko, 2083
Nicolae Oancea, 2061
Eddie Xu, 2035
Nader Ghanbari, 1958
Erik Malmsten, 1944
Vaibhav Bhat, 1890
Eddie Lu, 1863
Wade Courson, 1858
Carina D'Souza, 1854
Nazareno Merlin, 1816
Slawek Janicki, 1810
Albion Kolndreu, 1798
Daniel Sirkovich, 1773
Mario Moran-Venegas, 1747
Mohid Zaka, 1730
Sahir Abbas, 1713
Devin Nicholson, 1678
Ande Li, 1633
Dimitar Mancevski, 1607
Shafkat Ali, 1563
Jakub Perlin, 1551
Salim Belcadi, 1544
Frank Helwig, 1517
Michael D Sharpe, 1509
Umid Allahverdi, 1421
Rustam Alimirzoev, 1420
Jose Escobar, 1414
Richard Pell, 1414
Dustin Zhang, 1412
Bradley Tseng, 1373
Brendan Chan, 1320
Lorcan Duffy, 1301
Nicolas Bonnard, 1284
Zichuan Chen, 1189
Charles Lesperance, 1161
Clark Yu, 1153
Justin Lim, 1125
Jude Tuladhar, 1098
Caleb Langridge, 1053
Pieter van Gaalen, 1019
Jordan Burge, 1003
James Lindop, 955
Heidi Gay, 911
Dhruv Murali, 881
George Flagg, 776
Maxim Bondarev, 668
Jordan Cobb-Donahue, 625
Youssef Ishow, 595
Milan Lesperance, 567
Aarya Mehta, 331
Antoni Frolov, 0
Edan Armstrong, 0
Guilherme Osorio Rodrigues, 0
Ibai Lacunza, 0
Jordan Chong, 0
Lucio Amato, 0
Matteo Pattara, 0
Hi Vincent, the capacity will be expanded to 100, we just confirmed that today :)
Right now, players can register by adding their name to the waiting list. We are at 94 players, so not many seats left.
Hi Vincent, the capacity will be expanded to 100, we just confirmed that today :)
Right now, players can register by adding their name to the waiting list. We are at 94 players, so not many seats left.
That is great to hear, I managed to register for a waiting list spot yesterday as the previous days it was blocked off. Hopefully I made it into the waiting list. Looking forward to seeing an updated list of players!
Registration is now closed for the 2022 Toronto Blitz Championship as we have reached the planned capacity.
3 spots are additionally reserved for FIDE-titled players, who may enquire via info@annexchessclub.com.
Waiting List players may click Register on the link below to complete payment and secure their seat, using the special code that was emailed to them:
CFC Standard ratings used as default (for pairing purposes) as previously announced.
Reason is: most players have CFC standard ratings, but not quick ratings, and many players with quick ratings have too small a sample size.
CFC Quick & FIDE were used on a couple of cases where CFC Standard did not exist.
Pairings are not expected to be posted in advance. 6pm Monday (one hour before the round) at the earliest.
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