Canadian Open Early Bird Deadline Extended to May 8!

[Bob Armstrong]

Canadian Open Early Bird Deadline Extended to May 8!

As a result of calls from players (apparently struggling to complete their tax returns!) the organizers have extended the early bird deadline to Saturday May 8.

Players may enter in any of the following ways;

1. By mail using cheque or money order to Michael Barron at the address indicated in the flyer
2. By phone with credit card to the CFC office during business hours
3. Dropping by your nearest Strategy Games / Chess N'Math location in Montreal, Ottawa or Toronto.

Don't miss out on the action in Toronto in July!

For further information contact Michael Barron (416 739-6257) or Brian Fiedler (416 480-8801 or 416 733-3199).

101 Registrants as of Friday April 30 !!:

Title First Name Surname Rating Province Category

1 GM Evgeny Bareev 2667 RUS
2 GM Eduardas Rozentalis 2628 LTU
3 GM Alexander Shabalov 2587 USA
4 GM Joshua Friedel 2543 USA
5 GM Walter Arencibia 2500 CUB
6 IM Tomas Krnan 2484 ON
7 Roman Sapozhnikov 2477 ON j
8 IM David Cummings 2462 ON
9 IM Luis Lazaro Aguero Jimenez 2398 CUB
10 FM Barron Michael 2366 ON
11 IM Lawrence Day 2326 ON s
12 FM Michael Dougherty 2322 ON
13 FM Adam Ashton 2316 ENG
14 Liam Henry 2295 ON
15 Keith MacKinnon 2290 SK j
16 FM Brett Campbell 2270 ON
17 Yuri Aronov 2266 ON
18 FM Hans Jung 2264 ON
19 Nikita Gusev 2256 ON j
20 Bernd Wagner 2253 GER
21 David Filipovich 2226 ON
22 Michael Kleinman 2223 ON j
23 Ilia Bluvshtein 2216 ON
24 Ruperto Frilles 2168 ON s
25 Alan J. Walton 2137 ENG
26 Alan Gregg 2128 USA s
27 Ralf Ostermeier 2127 GER
28 Daniel Van Heirzeele 2125 BEL
29 Jesse B Wang 2121 ON j
30 David Southam 2119 ON
31 Andrew Picana 2114 ON s
32 Mariano A. Acosta 2108 USA s
33 Maxim Dudkin 2108 RUS
34 Alex Ferreira 2067 ON
35 Ismail Ibrahim 2062 ON
36 Helmut Fritzsche 2060 ON
37 Daniel Abrahams 2060 ON
38 Vladimir Semyonov 2059 ON
39 Ralph Gregorz 2048 ON
40 Lawrence Cohen 2031 USA
41 Simon-Pierre Desjardins 2016 QC
42 Stephan Tonakanian 2008 ON
43 Rod Hill 1982 NB s
44 Stephen Fairbairn 1973 ON
45 Daniel Wiebe 1973 ON
46 Sam Haziprodromu 1950 ON s
47 Robert Bzikot 1943 ON
48 Ian Finlay 1931 ON s
49 Michael Song 1927 ON
50 Yves Ber 1914 QC s
51 John Doknjas 1917 BC j
52 Paul Leblanc 1883 BC
53 Ralph Deline 1882 ON
54 Pepin Manalo 1879 ON s
55 Kevin Zhou 1879 ON j
56 David Poirier 1855 NS
57 Jim Paterson 1852 ON s
58 Ferdinand Supsup 1834 ON
59 David Bowers 1813 ON s
60 Bruce Dowling 1796 ON s
61 Jack Triefeldt 1791 ON s
62 Robert J. Armstrong 1764 ON s
63 Steven Faust 1758 AB
64 Joe Bellomo 1742 ON s
65 Jose Cabioc 1738 ON s
66 David Itkin 1733 ON b
67 Mario Moran-Venegas 1722 ON s
68 Caesar Posylek 1708 ON
69 John R. Brown 1696 ON s
70 Joseph Sy 1694 ON
71 Richard Keep 1690 QC
72 Joe Yalkezian 1688 ON s
73 William George 1670 ON
74 Shafkat Ali 1659 ON
75 Ian Mahoney 1654 ON j
76 Doug Gillis 1633 ON s
77 Ken Kurkowski 1630 ON s
78 Doug Sly 1628 BC s
79 Lali Agbabishvili 1627 ON f
80 Zehn Nasir 1581 ON b
81 Henry Grayson 1580 ON
82 Rick Dhalinal 1577 ON
83 Peter W. Hazen 1565 ON
84 Samir El-Gohary 1550 NL
85 Michael Rogers 1536 ON s
86 Alex De Cal 1532 ON
87 Ted Termeer 1530 ON s
88 Jack Maguire 1518 s
89 Bryant Yang 1476 ON b
90 Andre Siegel 1471 ON
91 James Mourgelas 1466 ON
92 Wayne Siu 1449 ON
93 Dinesh Dattani 1414 ON s
94 Jiaxin Liu 1407 ON fb
95 Jesus Vera 1380 ON s
96 Eric Song 1328 ON b
97 Paul Radelicki 1317 ON j
98 Rick McCleary 1158 ON
99 Michael Gomes 964 ON b
100 "Victor " Okon 0 ON
101 Eyinsan Agbeyegbe 0 ON

DATE: JULY 10TH to JULY 18TH
LOCATION: Westin Harbour Castle
Downtown Toronto. See following page for map ( website given at end ).
STYLE: 9 Round Swiss System, Single Section, CFC and FIDE rated.
Accelerated pairings will be used in early rounds.
TIME CONTROL: 40 moves in 90 minutes, 30 minutes for remainder (with 30 second increments from move 1).
SCHEDULE: Saturday July 10th Opening Ceremony & Round 1 6:00pm Sharp
July 11th- July 16th Rounds 2-7 6:00pm Daily
Saturday July 17th Round 8 2:00pm
Sunday July 18th Round 9 10:00am
Sunday July 18th Awards Banquet / Presentation 6:00pm
For other side events, including Canadian Speed Chess Championship, GM simuls and lectures, see website
PRIZE FUND: $ 30,000+ Guaranteed! (see following page for details).
ENTRY FEE: $175 per person (Early bird Special now to May 8), thereafter $195. Deadline July 6th. To enter see details / entry form on following page.
ACCOMMODATION: Special Chess Rate of only $99.00 is being offered by the luxurious Westin Harbour Castle. Book early; a limited number of rooms are available at this rate.
BYES: Maximum of 3 ½-point byes available in rounds 1-8
EQUIPMENT: Please bring chess sets and digital clocks, if you have them.
CHIEF ARBITER: Hal Bond, I.A. halbond@sympatico.ca
ORGANIZERS: Greater Toronto Chess League
Michael Barron 416 739-6257 barron045@yahoo.com
Brian Fiedler 416 733-3199 fiedlerbrian@yahoo.com.au
WEBSITES: http://www.chess.ca/misc2009/2010CANOP.pdf ; www.monroi.com

Bob - for Brian Fiedler

[John Brown]

Re: Canadian Open Early Bird Deadline Extended to May 8!

Hi Bob;
I've noticed that some players are seniors but they are not indicated as such.
Will there be time to have these players corrected? How should they do it?

[Bob Armstrong]

Re: Canadian Open - Senior Registrations

Hi John:

I've sent a copy of your post on to Brian Fiedler for response.

Bob

[Gary Ruben]

Re: Canadian Open - Senior Registrations

Hi John:

I've sent a copy of your post on to Brian Fiedler for response.

Bob

What's the definition of a senior for the purposes of this event? I figure a senior is someone 65 or over.

[Egidijus Zeromskis]

Re: Canadian Open - Senior Registrations

What's the definition of a senior for the purposes of this event?

Top Senior (50+ years)

[Gary Ruben]

Re: Canadian Open - Senior Registrations

Top Senior (50+ years)

I don't consider 50 - 55 to be a senior. Many chess players haven't lost much from their game at that age. 60+ is more like it.

[Bob Gillanders]

Re: Canadian Open - Senior Registrations

I don't consider 50 - 55 to be a senior. Many chess players haven't lost much from their game at that age. 60+ is more like it.

Gary, you should try some OTB chess again. After you get beat up by the kids a few times, you may consider 25+ as a senior. :D

Trust me, I know. :o

[Alex Ferreira]

Re: Canadian Open Early Bird Deadline Extended to May 8!

Whoaa... the list is going up pretty fast :-)

[Gary Ruben]

Re: Canadian Open - Senior Registrations

Gary, you should try some OTB chess again. After you get beat up by the kids a few times, you may consider 25+ as a senior. :D

Trust me, I know. :o

Still, we shouldn't mistake weak players for seniors. When I turned 65 the government of Canada sent me a card.

It's not impossible that I could be beaten by kids.

When I was a junior, myself and another guy used to go to a coffee shop and hustle for nickles and dimes. That was worth a lot more then than it is now. There was one guy who used to like to play us and he was a pretty fair player. It was fast games and I can't recall if we played by clock. We probably did. He was probably in his mid 40's.

The guy showed up at an open event and finished pretty high. Maybe it was the Manitoba Open. Some years later I ran into him in Toronto. Of course, we were friends. Howard Rideout was his name.

[Bob Armstrong]

Re: Canadian Open - Senior Reg. Corrections

Hi John:

Here is Brian Fiedler's reply:

" Yes - if seniors (or juniors or females for that matter!) have not been indicated as such on our listings then we will be happy to correct in advance of or even during the tournament.

For people that completed their entry form along with their payment they generally indicated as such but if they phoned in their entry it may have been missed. They can just let us know and we can correct. "

Bob

[Bob Armstrong]

Re: Canadian Open - Hotel Location?

Hotel Location


The address given on the flyer for the Westin Harbour Castle is 1 Harbour Square.

Questions:

1. Is this off Queen's Quay at the waterfront, between Yonge and York Streets?
2. Can you get a streetcar to the hotel from Union Station? What is it called, or the car #?

This stuff is hard to tell from the map, and is not on the flyer.

Bob

[Bob Armstrong]

Re: Canadian Open - Hotel Location?

Here is Brian Fiedler's reply to this post:

Hi Bob,

I think Erik had put the details on the Monroi site (or a previous Chess Talk posting) but I may be wrong. You have the location exact and I think there is a street car that goes right up to the door but don’t know the #. Erik may be able to help.

Regards,

Brian

[Erik Malmsten]

Re: Canadian Open - Hotel Location?

Hotel Location


The address given on the flyer for the Westin Harbour Castle is 1 Harbour Square.

Questions:

1. Is this off Queen's Quay at the waterfront, between Yonge and York Streets?
2. Can you get a streetcar to the hotel from Union Station? What is it called, or the car #?

This stuff is hard to tell from the map, and is not on the flyer.

Bob

1. The Exhibition/Spadina streetcars that go to Harbourfront first stop is at Queen's Quay.

2. Go up the stairs on the east side (northbound streetcars) of the tunnel.

3. Go through the doors of the building on the North-West corner of Bay and Queen's Quay. Take the escalator up to the second floor. The playing hall is the North-west room.

People can also take the Spadina streetcar south and eastbound to Union Station and get off at the underground stop. Or can also take the Bay bus south to Queen's Quay. Or walk down from Union Station.

There is an overhead walkway joining the playing hall to the Hotel which surrrounds the Island Ferry dock.

[Rob Love]

Re: Canadian Open Early Bird Deadline Extended to May 8!

Whoaa... the list is going up pretty fast :-)

123 players as of May 8 but continuous to grow! Interesting to notice that new names are coming out this early. What's going on with the Toronto players? Was it not that this national tournament is brought for you? Common guys, show your support and show what you got!!! This is your SHOWTIME if you really got something to prove your chess ability against some of the BEST IN THE WORLD!!!

[Francis Rodriguez]

Re: Canadian Open Early Bird Deadline Extended to May 8!

Brian Fiedler/Bob Armstrong,


Enquiry recvd. at the Ontario Open.........

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From:
Goran Mufić
goran.mufic@ri.t-com.hr

I would like to play in the Ontario Open but regret
this is impossible to play for me in this period.

I have a question please. A few months ago I sent a
mail about great Toronto Open in July. In the name of
young GM Bosiocic Marin (Croatia-Elo 2563) I asked about
possible conditions of his playing there. But no any answer.
Can you follow this mail to the responsible man?

Thank you.
Regards
IM Goran Mufic,
Rijeka-Croatia
goran.mufic@ri.t-com.hr;
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