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RA Spring Open: onsite registrations tomorrow
Hi there, first of all, an important note for local chess players who have not yet registered/paid: please note that I am working tonight, and so I will not be dropping by the RA chess club to take registrations/payments. Unless you use super-Fed-Ex or something like that, the only way to register now is to email me as soon as feasible, and then arrive onsite Friday evening, before 630pm or so. Payments now need to be in cash, and pairings will be done by 645pm.
Since my last post, some players (2 of them quite high rated) had to drop out, but some new ones are joining. We are at 62 players so far, with a few more Amateurs than last time, so the prize fund is tracking a little behind last time ($2800 at the RA Winter Open). However, there are always some players who register and pay onsite at the last moment, and we are already at almost $2100 anyway. Just over 24 hours from now, we will see if we matched last time!
Finally, please note that I do the pairings for Round 2 before I leave the site after Round 1. In other words, (unless you have already registered and paid and asked for a bye in Round 1), I need all payments early tomorrow evening. After Round 1 is underway, and I have prepped all the pairing cards, ranked by rating, etc., then that will effectively close registrations for the tournament. Therefore, if you were planning on registering onsite on Saturday, that will not work out, so please get someone else to pay for you before 8pm or so on Friday evening. I will not have any email connectivity after 4pm tomorrow!
OK, that takes care of all the caveats I can think of, LOL! Ottawa weather is supposed to warm up this weekend, and it has been beautifully sunny for days!
See you tomorrow evening chess friends!
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 ---------
*** ALL APPLICABLE RATINGS WILL BE RECHECKED BEFORE FIRST PAIRINGS AT 645PM ***
CFC# rating name: title last, first
Top Section
146462 2638 GM Sambuev, Bator
146305 2606 IM Samsonkin, Artiom
106245 2426 IM O'Donnell, Tom
U2400 Class
138609 2398 Sapozhnikov, Roman
134902 2356 Szalay, Karoly
133928 2304 Xiong, Jerry
125461 2288 Masse, Hugues
106629 2274 Gordon, David (bye 2)
103754 2250 Doubleday, William
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 (bye 1)
141390 2086 Pace, Christopher
139655 2037 Sadeghi, Saeid
102717 2036 Sibbald, Peter (bye 1)
104837 2014 Riordon, Jason
106383 2012 Spicer, Christopher
105070 2009 Gagnon, Serge
U2000 Section
103276 1970 Martin, Spencer (bye 1)
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)
104270 1841 Laszlo, Robert (bye 3)
110972 1832 Ritchie, Gordon (bye 3)
102205 1831 Thibault, Mario
147276 1827 Zhang, Kevin
100337 1819 Laurin, Marcel (bye 1)
110166 1800 Roth, Gerhard
U1800 Section
112353 1798 Tomalty, Alan
147351 1797 Liu, Dan
107582 1740 Perkins, Simon
135706 1700 Peters, Romy
148745 1670 Meyer, Ralf
127526 1657 Devine, Norman (bye 3)
102589 1640 Daku, Zoltan (bye 1)
135113 1631 Eyre, Keven
U1600 Section
148746 1592 Farah, Liiban (not fully paid)
136037 1591 Xiong, Wei (floater)
104858 1582 Hunt, Murray
128144 1579 Murray, Brian
141389 1563 Pace, Anthony
129952 1556 MacNevin, Dave
141391 1538 Pace, Nicholas
146414 1514 Lalonde, Drake (CFC membership)
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
--------- 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
Since my last post, some players (2 of them quite high rated) had to drop out, but some new ones are joining. We are at 62 players so far, with a few more Amateurs than last time, so the prize fund is tracking a little behind last time ($2800 at the RA Winter Open). However, there are always some players who register and pay onsite at the last moment, and we are already at almost $2100 anyway. Just over 24 hours from now, we will see if we matched last time!
Finally, please note that I do the pairings for Round 2 before I leave the site after Round 1. In other words, (unless you have already registered and paid and asked for a bye in Round 1), I need all payments early tomorrow evening. After Round 1 is underway, and I have prepped all the pairing cards, ranked by rating, etc., then that will effectively close registrations for the tournament. Therefore, if you were planning on registering onsite on Saturday, that will not work out, so please get someone else to pay for you before 8pm or so on Friday evening. I will not have any email connectivity after 4pm tomorrow!
OK, that takes care of all the caveats I can think of, LOL! Ottawa weather is supposed to warm up this weekend, and it has been beautifully sunny for days!
See you tomorrow evening chess friends!
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 ---------
*** ALL APPLICABLE RATINGS WILL BE RECHECKED BEFORE FIRST PAIRINGS AT 645PM ***
CFC# rating name: title last, first
Top Section
146462 2638 GM Sambuev, Bator
146305 2606 IM Samsonkin, Artiom
106245 2426 IM O'Donnell, Tom
U2400 Class
138609 2398 Sapozhnikov, Roman
134902 2356 Szalay, Karoly
133928 2304 Xiong, Jerry
125461 2288 Masse, Hugues
106629 2274 Gordon, David (bye 2)
103754 2250 Doubleday, William
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 (bye 1)
141390 2086 Pace, Christopher
139655 2037 Sadeghi, Saeid
102717 2036 Sibbald, Peter (bye 1)
104837 2014 Riordon, Jason
106383 2012 Spicer, Christopher
105070 2009 Gagnon, Serge
U2000 Section
103276 1970 Martin, Spencer (bye 1)
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)
104270 1841 Laszlo, Robert (bye 3)
110972 1832 Ritchie, Gordon (bye 3)
102205 1831 Thibault, Mario
147276 1827 Zhang, Kevin
100337 1819 Laurin, Marcel (bye 1)
110166 1800 Roth, Gerhard
U1800 Section
112353 1798 Tomalty, Alan
147351 1797 Liu, Dan
107582 1740 Perkins, Simon
135706 1700 Peters, Romy
148745 1670 Meyer, Ralf
127526 1657 Devine, Norman (bye 3)
102589 1640 Daku, Zoltan (bye 1)
135113 1631 Eyre, Keven
U1600 Section
148746 1592 Farah, Liiban (not fully paid)
136037 1591 Xiong, Wei (floater)
104858 1582 Hunt, Murray
128144 1579 Murray, Brian
141389 1563 Pace, Anthony
129952 1556 MacNevin, Dave
141391 1538 Pace, Nicholas
146414 1514 Lalonde, Drake (CFC membership)
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
--------- 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