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5th Annual Collingwood Somborac Chess Festival May 1-3
5th Annual Collingwood Somborac Chess Festival May 1-3
Collingwood is back for a 5th rendition, at the beautiful Georgian Bay Hotel. Razvan Preotu tops the registration list, and is our first GM to compete in Collingwood. You can register by etransfer to collingwoodchessfestival@outlook.com
The entry fee is $100 until March 31. Here is our initial registration list. I hope you can join us!
53 players managed to register before the March 31 early bird deadline. I will publish the newest list when we reach 60 players. It's going to be another great time in Collingwood. I hope you can join us!
Hello everyone! We are pleased to see our registration over 100 for Collingwood. Sadly the website is down, so if you know anyone who is on the list or should be, please direct them to this post.
If you wish to avoid the onsite fee of $25, please register by etransfer to collingwoodchessfestival@outlook.com before I get up tomorrow at 6am. Swiss pairings in round one are not guaranteed for any on site registrants. Pairings and progress will be posted on Chess-Results and the current roster is also there.
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1 GM Razvan Preotu 2581
2 Savio Joseph Benher 2311
3 Iassen Pelev 2222
4 Sarthak Deshpande 2166
5 Shabd Dembla 2142
6 Ashley Qian 2124
7 Hugh Siddeley 2106
8 Gyula Bordas 2095
9 Austin Lin 2069
10 Jacob Fischer 2067
11 Aarush Ajith 2058
12 Isai Berengolts 2058
13 Oscar Cheung 2039
14 Andrew Colvin 2023
15 Mahmud Hassain 2013
16 Nicolae Oancea 1989
17 Nikola Brajkovic 1967
18 Michael Blair 1966
19 Will Beattie 1936
20 Jayden Lau 1912
21 William Martinez 1902
22 Farhaan Syed 1833
23 Diyor Muminov 1810
24 Gauri Sreekumar 1800
25 Adwaith Harish 1793
26 Filip Wierzbicki 1788
U1900
1 James Kutuzyan 1799
2 Alex Lambruschini 1791
3 Scott Kuehl 1740
4 Mario Moran-Venegas 1736
5 Michael Schwartz 1706
6 Rick Runstedler 1702
7 Hal Bond 1697
8 Dale W Proctor 1694
9 Gordon Howe 1664
10 Don Parakin 1658
11 Robert Gillanders 1653
12 Hanzel Pinto 1648
13 Michael Ivkin 1645
14 Thiago Eustaquio Alves De Oliveira 1641
15 Gayathri Sreekumar 1631
16 Nikita Kamath 1626
17 Robert J Armstrong 1575
18 Sanjarbek Zokirov 1573
19 Philip Graham 1572
20 Mehmet Uyanik 1568
21 William J Mollison 1555
22 Brendan Munro 1552
23 Jacob Hood 1550
24 Harshil Swain 1544
25 Richard Campbell 1537
26 Bernie Prost 1530
27 Ralf Meyer 1528
28 James Mourgelas 1525
29 Hamed Khezri 1518
30 Doug Gillis 1516
31 Balakrishnan Sreekumar Maliekal 1512
32 Rucha Deshpande 1510
33 Nolan Welsh 1509
34 Colby Seabourn 1500
35 Dinesh Dattani 1479
U1500
1 Sam Moncada 1486
2 Solomiia Rybak 1483
3 Mary Vaudry 1469
4 Oscar Kerrebyn 1460
5 Justin Pool 1441
6 Nathan Zhen 1408
7 Scott McManus 1407
8 Devin Arnold 1406
9 Bruce Snyder 1374
10 Richard Temple 1372
11 Jared Chan 1371
12 Tyler Rossiter 1359
13 Greg Wilson 1358
14 Milan Soskic 1355
15 Arpan Shah 1337
16 Jacob Nunes 1315
17 Michael Ostroff 1295
18 Arnav Harish 1294
19 Jacob Reech 1269
20 Roger Lafontaine 1258
21 Milan Somborac 1249
22 Brandon Vassos 1211
23 Eric [zilong] Wang 1180
24 Armin Vaziri 1168
25 Rishant Mishra 1098
26 Sriyadhvi Vijay 1067
27 Taylor House 1012
28 Jean Claude Savoie Therriault 897
29 Michele Carlucci unr.
30 George Cescon unr.
31 Evgeny Padalets unr.
32 Zackarane Inthisorn unr.
33 Daniel Garagan unr.
34 Theodore Zavitz unr.
35 Nishal Raval unr.
36 Qayyum Rajan unr.
37 Daniel Brioux unr.
38 Spencer Linklater unr.
39 Jackson Watt unr.
40 Kennedy McArthur unr.
41 John Kerr unr.
42 Benjamin Emes unr.
Not just "down" but hacked and held for ransom. The hackers want 0.1 Bitcoin (over C$10,000) to recover the files of their website. Nasty! The web isn't as much fun as it once was :(
Not just "down" but hacked and held for ransom. The hackers want 0.1 Bitcoin (over C$10,000) to recover the files of their website. Nasty! The web isn't as much fun as it once was :(
Which website are you referring to? I saw Hal's post but I don't see a website mentioned.
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