National Capital Open: final registration days

[Aris Marghetis]

Hi again, with a couple of days to go, we already have over 50 players registered!

Here are the remaining registration/payment options :

1) Unless you FedEx or something, I would recommend against any more mail! ;)
I haven't checked the mailbox since Monday, but will check it by Friday 12noon.
Just after that, I will try to email anyone who said they had mailed their payment.

2) I will be at the RA club on Thursday evening, accepting payments in cash, thanks.

3) Onsite Friday evening, I plan to do first pairings by 645pm, to start games at 7pm.

P.S. Especially if you would like to play for free(!), as noted below, we could still really use a floater player rated over 2000. Check out the details below.

Refer further down in this post for lists of currently registered players. I expect to post the next list update after I take registrations at the RA club tonight.

Yours in chess,

Aris Marghetis
- Organizer/TD, FIDE Arbiter
- EOCA President, CFC Governor

--------- previously posted information ---------

This weekend event is relatively similar to previous events by this Organizer, but there are a few changes, hopefully improvements! First of all, we are starting with 3 predefined sections, around the rating cutoffs of 2000 and 1600. In addition, one of our goals is to attain a total prize fund of at least $2K, with a first place of at least $500. Towards that end, some of the discounts and entry fees have been adjusted, either up or down $5-$10. Most players who register early enough as Amateurs, can still do so for as little as $30, and the full entry fee due onsite is actually less than it was for the previous EOCA Grand Prix tournament in Ottawa, the RA Fall Open in September. The only significant entry fee change is that now both GMs and IMs can enter for free!

Please note that we are still looking for at least 1 more floater player :
**** WE ESPECIALLY NEED SOMEONE RATED OVER 2000 ****
- floater players help the TD guarantee no “forced byes”
- floater players are paired and rated like all the players
- floater players play for free, but under some conditions :
----- they play in 0 to 5 rounds, depending on byes by all the players
----- they can be phoned/texted in the hour before every single round
----- they have a current CFC membership by the time of first pairings
if you are interested in being a floater player for this event, please apply by email

--------- players already registered ---------

Top Section
146462 2632 GM Sambuev, Bator
146305 2594 IM Samsonkin, Artiom
138609 2412 Sapozhnikov, Roman
103715 2345 Pacey, Kevin
134902 2324 Szalay, Karoly
120516 2296 Voloaca, Mihnea
133928 2286 Xiong, Jerry
106629 2274 Gordon, David (bye 2)
125461 2250 Masse, Hugues
101925 2228 Upper, John
134989 2215 Qin, Joey
103754 2202 Doubleday, William

U2200 Class
108750 2156 Dunn, David (bye 1)
139655 2134 Sadeghi, Saeid
106856 2106 Palsson, Halldor
107595 2084 Bertrand, Daryl
131936 2065 Desjardins, Michel

U2000 Section
111290 1981 Smilovici, Emil (bye 1)
103276 1981 Martin, Spencer (byes 1 & 3)
107391 1945 Marghetis, Aris (floater)
137927 1924 Kalra, Agastya
142032 1915 Forget, David
109366 1910 O'Connor, Michael
101895 1906 Danilov, Alex
107565 1896 Hubley, Roger
148663 1892 Nicholson, Matthew
133929 1885 Xiong, Sonja
110972 1878 Ritchie, Gordon
134845 1872 Renaud, Joshua (bye 1)
102205 1828 Thibault, Mario
100337 1806 Laurin, Marcel
104270 1803 Laszlo, Robert (bye 3)

U1800 Class
147351 1774 Liu, Dan
127519 1738 Lambruschini, Alex
147276 1710 Zhang, Kevin
135706 1710 Peters, Romy
142031 1704 Burton, Joe
148508 1702 Martens, Stephanie
135113 1638 Eyre, Keven (bye 1)

U1600 Section
104858 1598 Hunt, Murray
136037 1595 Xiong, Wei (floater)
120860 1588 Krolczyk, Jacob
147460 1547 Wan, Kevin
128144 1512 Murray, Brian
146765 1512 Lukezich, John
146597 1466 Luo, Fangyi
129952 1456 MacNevin, Dave
147277 1388 Zhang, David
147280 1360 Martin, James (bye 1)
146598 1202 Luo, Tony
148924 1165 Zhang, Jeff
149314 1158 Metcalfe, Drew

P.S. All applicable ratings will be rechecked before first pairings at 645pm.

--------- original event announcement --------- (since modified to include FIDE rating)

The Eastern Ontario Chess Association (EOCA) organizes the EOCA Grand Prix, a series of weekend tournaments over the 2009-2010 chess season.

The next EOCA event in Ottawa will be the National Capital Open, on December 4th-6th. It will consist of 5 rounds, with flexible bye and Amateur options.

We will have 3 sections (rated CFC, Top Section also rated FIDE), class prizes every 200 rating points from 2200 to 1600, and several discount options.

For more details on this event, and a great webpage for all of the events in the 2009-2010 EOCA Grand Prix, please consider bookmarking this weblink:
http://www.eoca.org/htm/tournaments_2009-2010.html

[Egidijus Zeromskis]

Re: National Capital Open: final registration days

Aris, it is a question about a Grand Prix standing list (http://www.eoca.org/PDF/GRPRIX2009-2010.pdf ):

Any reasons that there are only two sections?

and it seems the Top Section will be a very tough tournament. Good luck conducting it :)

[Aris Marghetis]

Re: National Capital Open: final registration days

Aris, it is a question about a Grand Prix standing list (http://www.eoca.org/PDF/GRPRIX2009-2010.pdf ):

Any reasons that there are only two sections?

and it seems the Top Section will be a very tough tournament. Good luck conducting it :)

I am not sure why the Grand prix standings appear that way, but I will check with Tim tonight if he is at the club. Or if Tim sees this post, he would reply himself. Thank you.

Yes, the Top Section is shaping up to be stronger than usual, looking forward to it! :)

[Sanjiv Kalra]

Re: National Capital Open: final registration days

Aris any news on the plaque for last year winners?

[Aris Marghetis]

Re: National Capital Open: final registration days

Aris any news on the plaque for last year winners?

I am still waiting for a design drawing from one of our volunteers. Will ask again tonight.