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RA Spring Open: already almost 60 players have registered
With the $20 double-early discount wrapping up 2 weekends ago, we now have almost 60 players already registered! If you are interested in joining, you can still take advantage of the $10 early discount for the month of February. Registering early is especially valuable for GMs and IMs (1 and 2 so far), as they benefit from free entry before March, but then regular full entry fees would apply just like for everyone else. Email heads-up are always welcome.
Paying by mail is best for me, especially as my attendance at the RA chess club will be spotty for the month of February. I will try to post my schedule here.
CFC memberships: The following players will need to renew their expiring CFC memberships before the tournament begins. Ideally for me, please do so directly with the CFC office, and ask them to CC me on the email receipt that they would normally send you afterwards: Josh Renaud & Kevin Wan (Junior).
In the better-late-than-never category, the winners plaques for the EOCA 2008-2009 Grand Prix have been ordered, and should be received well in time to be presented at this tournament. If you were one of the section winners, but cannot make it that weekend, no problem, we can make other arrangements.
Yours in chess,
Aris Marghetis
- Organizer/TD, FIDE Arbiter
- EOCA President, CFC Governor
Please note that we are looking for up to 4 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 2638 GM Sambuev, Bator
106245 2426 IM O'Donnell, Tom
102700 2416 IM Hartman, Brian
U2400 Class
103715 2358 Pacey, Kevin
134902 2356 Szalay, Karoly
133928 2304 Xiong, Jerry
125461 2288 Masse, Hugues
106629 2274 Gordon, David
134989 2248 Qin, Joey
135223 2230 Kraiouchkine, Nikita
101925 2202 Upper, John
U2200 Class
108750 2133 Dunn, David (bye 1)
106856 2105 Palsson, Halldor
131936 2094 Desjardins, Michel
141390 2086 Pace, Christopher
139655 2037 Sadeghi, Saeid
104837 2014 Riordon, Jason
106383 2012 Spicer, Christopher
105070 2009 Gagnon, Serge
U2000 Section
142032 1960 Forget, David
111290 1958 Smilovici, Emil
107565 1957 Hubley, Roger (bye 1)
102539 1948 Groleau, Gilles
112806 1944 Van Dusen, Eric
134894 1932 Murray, Adam
133929 1930 Xiong, Sonja
137927 1918 Kalra, Agastya
134898 1917 Li, Ruokai
134845 1904 Renaud, Joshua (bye 1) [CFC membership]
104270 1841 Laszlo, Robert (bye 3)
110972 1832 Ritchie, Gordon
102205 1831 Thibault, Mario
147276 1827 Zhang, Kevin
100337 1819 Laurin, Marcel (bye 1) [awaiting payment]
110166 1800 Roth, Gerhard
U1800 Section
112353 1798 Tomalty, Alan
107582 1740 Perkins, Simon
135706 1700 Peters, Romy
148745 1670 Meyer, Ralf
127526 1657 Devine, Norman (bye 3)
102589 1640 Daku, Zoltan
135113 1631 Eyre, Keven
U1600 Section
148746 1592 Farah, Liiban
136037 1591 Xiong, Wei (floater)
104858 1582 Hunt, Murray
128144 1579 Murray, Brian
140794 1576 Huang, Jayson [awaiting payment]
141389 1563 Pace, Anthony
147460 1556 Wan, Kevin [CFC membership]
129952 1556 MacNevin, Dave
141391 1538 Pace, Nicholas
144311 1509 Sharma, Pranav
150262 1401 Muhammad, Nizam
146765 1400 Lukezich, John
126475 1360 Woolner, Nicholas
147277 1350 Zhang, David
146449 1314 Buss, Andreas
150390 1190 Carroll, Billy
148924 1179 Zhang, Jeff
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 Spring Open, on March 5th-7th. It will consist of 5 rounds, with flexible bye and discount options.
We are planning for 4 sections (rated CFC, Top Section also rated FIDE), and prizes ($2800 last event) for every 200 rating points from U2400 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
Paying by mail is best for me, especially as my attendance at the RA chess club will be spotty for the month of February. I will try to post my schedule here.
CFC memberships: The following players will need to renew their expiring CFC memberships before the tournament begins. Ideally for me, please do so directly with the CFC office, and ask them to CC me on the email receipt that they would normally send you afterwards: Josh Renaud & Kevin Wan (Junior).
In the better-late-than-never category, the winners plaques for the EOCA 2008-2009 Grand Prix have been ordered, and should be received well in time to be presented at this tournament. If you were one of the section winners, but cannot make it that weekend, no problem, we can make other arrangements.
Yours in chess,
Aris Marghetis
- Organizer/TD, FIDE Arbiter
- EOCA President, CFC Governor
Please note that we are looking for up to 4 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 2638 GM Sambuev, Bator
106245 2426 IM O'Donnell, Tom
102700 2416 IM Hartman, Brian
U2400 Class
103715 2358 Pacey, Kevin
134902 2356 Szalay, Karoly
133928 2304 Xiong, Jerry
125461 2288 Masse, Hugues
106629 2274 Gordon, David
134989 2248 Qin, Joey
135223 2230 Kraiouchkine, Nikita
101925 2202 Upper, John
U2200 Class
108750 2133 Dunn, David (bye 1)
106856 2105 Palsson, Halldor
131936 2094 Desjardins, Michel
141390 2086 Pace, Christopher
139655 2037 Sadeghi, Saeid
104837 2014 Riordon, Jason
106383 2012 Spicer, Christopher
105070 2009 Gagnon, Serge
U2000 Section
142032 1960 Forget, David
111290 1958 Smilovici, Emil
107565 1957 Hubley, Roger (bye 1)
102539 1948 Groleau, Gilles
112806 1944 Van Dusen, Eric
134894 1932 Murray, Adam
133929 1930 Xiong, Sonja
137927 1918 Kalra, Agastya
134898 1917 Li, Ruokai
134845 1904 Renaud, Joshua (bye 1) [CFC membership]
104270 1841 Laszlo, Robert (bye 3)
110972 1832 Ritchie, Gordon
102205 1831 Thibault, Mario
147276 1827 Zhang, Kevin
100337 1819 Laurin, Marcel (bye 1) [awaiting payment]
110166 1800 Roth, Gerhard
U1800 Section
112353 1798 Tomalty, Alan
107582 1740 Perkins, Simon
135706 1700 Peters, Romy
148745 1670 Meyer, Ralf
127526 1657 Devine, Norman (bye 3)
102589 1640 Daku, Zoltan
135113 1631 Eyre, Keven
U1600 Section
148746 1592 Farah, Liiban
136037 1591 Xiong, Wei (floater)
104858 1582 Hunt, Murray
128144 1579 Murray, Brian
140794 1576 Huang, Jayson [awaiting payment]
141389 1563 Pace, Anthony
147460 1556 Wan, Kevin [CFC membership]
129952 1556 MacNevin, Dave
141391 1538 Pace, Nicholas
144311 1509 Sharma, Pranav
150262 1401 Muhammad, Nizam
146765 1400 Lukezich, John
126475 1360 Woolner, Nicholas
147277 1350 Zhang, David
146449 1314 Buss, Andreas
150390 1190 Carroll, Billy
148924 1179 Zhang, Jeff
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 Spring Open, on March 5th-7th. It will consist of 5 rounds, with flexible bye and discount options.
We are planning for 4 sections (rated CFC, Top Section also rated FIDE), and prizes ($2800 last event) for every 200 rating points from U2400 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
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