RA Winter Open: date change (including early payment discount)

[Aris Marghetis]

Please note the RA Winter Open has been moved up a couple of weeks, to the weekend of January 22nd-24th. Given the recent relative success of the National Capital Open, the RA Winter Open will follow virtually the same format, including an early payment discount. With the date change, the early payment discount month is now December. Therefore, mailed payments with a postmark of December take advantage of the $15 early payment discount.

For players in Ottawa who would prefer to pay IN PERSON, please note that Thursday, December 17th, at the RA club, will be the only opportunity to take advantage of the early payment discount IN PERSON. I should be there all evening playing in the RA Active event. If you cannot make it to the RA club that evening, you can still take advantage of the early payment discount simply by mailing in your registration and payment like the players from out of town do.

For people who might be concerned about registering too early, in case their plans might change closer to the date of the tournament, please remember that you can always later decide not to play, and your registration fee can be applied to one of my future events (I run a weekender every 2 months or so).

Yours in chess,

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

Please note that we are looking for at least 3 floater players :
- 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

--------- original event announcement ---------

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 RA Winter Open, on January 22nd-24th. It will consist of 5 rounds, with flexible bye and discount options.

At least 3 sections (rated CFC, Top Section also rated FIDE), class prize(s) every 200 rating points from U2200 (U2400 if many high rated) to U1600.

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

[Aris Marghetis]

Re: RA Winter Open: date change (including early payment discount)

Hi there, just a friendly reminder (we already have about a dozen people committed!) :

For players in Ottawa who would prefer to pay IN PERSON, please note that Thursday, December 17th, at the RA club, will be the only opportunity to take advantage of the early payment discount IN PERSON. I should be there all evening playing in the RA Active event. If you cannot make it to the RA club that evening, you can still take advantage of the early payment discount simply by mailing in your registration and payment like the players from out of town do.

Thanks and regards, Aris.