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4th Annual Collingwood-Somborac Chess Festival May 9-11
It's still not too late to register for the $125 rate in Collingwood. You can register on our website: Collingwood-Somborac Chess Festival
The rate goes up tomorrow. We now have 70 players registered. I hope you can join us!
Crown
1 Raymond Gao 2178 2 Dhruv Murali 2063 3 Valerie Ruchinskaya 2047 4 Isai Berengolts 2045 5 Sasha Starr 2019 6 Iassen Pelev 2018 7 Andrew Colvin 2010 8 Nicolae Oancea 1995 9 WIM Nava Starr 1956 10 Anni Guo 1951 11 Sarthak Deshpande 1943 12 Levi Lim 1942 13 Riley Khan 1910 14 Andrew Leliveld 1907 15 Will Beattie 1899 16 Benjamin Fradkin 1846
U1900
1 Dominic Coulon 1878 2 William Martinez 1875 3 Omaray M Shah 1813 4 Jacob Fischer 1793 5 Jose Jimwil Avila 1787 6 Alex Szatmary 1749 7 Mario Moran-Venegas 1746 8 Leroy Gibson 1730 9 Dale W Proctor 1713 10 Evan Andersen 1688 11 Don Parakin 1667 12 Michael Van Harten 1656 13 Slobodan Markovic 1649 14 Robert Gillanders 1637 15 Robert J Armstrong 1635 16 Apramey Mathur 1623 17 Calvin Van Harten 1617 18 Daniel Mullin 1613 19 Hanzel Pinto 1595 20 Gordon Howe 1593 21 Jeffrey Gibbens 1572 22 Michael Ivkin 1571 23 Doug Gillis 1563 24 Chris Vanderlee 1559 25 Alfredo Jr Ilustrisimo 1544 26 Justin Sheppard 1530 27 Caleb Hart 1509 28 Mary Vaudry 1501
U1500
1. Brendan Munro 1489 2 Solomiia Rybak 1483 3 Nikita Kamath 1468 4 Oscar Kerrebyn 1465 5 Jaxon Ceretti 1458 6 Greg Wilson 1453 7 Charles Gabriel Avila 1441 8 Richard Temple 1434 9 Kevin Germann 1420 10 Scott McManus 1414 11 James Kutuzyan 1405 12 Michael Ostroff 1391 13 Devin Arnold 1306 14 Milan Somborac 1296 15 Nathan Leliveld 1266 16 Navika Renganathan 1265 17 Taylor House unr. 18 Alex Bruxer unr. 19 Philip Graham unr. 20 Atharv Awashti unr. 21 Arthur Linturn unr. 22 Liam Linturn unr. 23 Roger Lafontaine unr. 24 Davinder Rathore unr. 25 Alister Reni unr. 26 Jacob Nunes unr.
Good news from the Collingwood Somborac Chess Festival. The organizers have decided to freeze the entry fees at $125 until midnight Thursday. We are closing in on 80 entries and it promises to be another memorable tournament. See you soon!
There is still time to register for this beautiful tournament in Collingwood before midnight tonight for $125.00. We have 78 players and we look forward to hosting one and all!
Hello Collingwood players!
I am leaving for the venue shortly. We aim to post the pairings for round one today at 4pm on Chess-Results. If you can submit you payment before then I can still get you into the tournament.
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