RA Winter Open: passing 45 players

[Aris Marghetis]

Hi again, we are pleased to report that registrations are continuing, and with still 2 weeks ago, we are now passing 45 players, including a GM and 2 IMs.

Please note that while you can still pay by cheque-in-the-mail, that the early payment discount was only for before January, and so can no longer be taken advantage of. In addition to receiving registrations/payments by mail, I'll also be at the RA chess club the next 2 Thursday evenings, January 14th & 21st.

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

--------- ongoing registration list ---------

CFC# rating name: title last, first

Top Section
146462 2624 GM Sambuev, Bator
102700 2428 IM Hartman, Brian
106245 2426 IM O'Donnell, Tom
(U2400 Class)
103715 2340 Pacey, Kevin
120516 2284 Voloaca, Mihnea
125461 2274 Masse, Hugues
106629 2254 Gordon, David (bye 2)
101925 2232 Upper, John
134989 2228 Qin, Joey
U2200 Class
106856 2165 Palsson, Halldor
141393 2156 Marinkovic, Mate
108750 2133 Dunn, David (bye 1)
139655 2100 Sadeghi, Saeid
131936 2059 Desjardins, Michel

U2000 Section
111290 1963 Smilovici, Emil
106383 1962 Spicer, Christopher
112806 1947 Van Dusen, Eric
107391 1945 Marghetis, Aris (floater)
107565 1944 Hubley, Roger
142032 1941 Forget, David
102539 1933 Groleau, Gilles
101895 1931 Danilov, Alex
148408 1926 Cvetkovic, Simeon
137927 1917 Kalra, Agastya
134845 1891 Renaud, Joshua (bye 1)
110972 1873 Ritchie, Gordon (bye 3)
104270 1841 Laszlo, Robert (bye 3)
102205 1834 Thibault, Mario
103877 1826 Serdula, Jay
100337 1814 Laurin, Marcel (bye 1)
U1800 Class
110166 1788 Roth, Gerhard
107582 1758 Perkins, Simon
147276 1752 Zhang, Kevin (renew CFC membership)
142031 1688 Burton, Joe
148745 1670 Meyer, Ralf
135113 1668 Eyre, Keven (bye 1)
147460 1600 Wan, Kevin

U1600 Section
104858 1596 Hunt, Murray
144311 1506 Sharma, Pranav
147280 1464 Martin, James
146765 1416 Lukezich, John
147277 1412 Zhang, David (renew CFC membership)
150262 1371 Muhammad, Hanif
126475 1344 Woolner, Nicholas
148924 1172 Zhang, Jeff
150390 1139 Carroll, Billy

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

--------- 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