Ottawa Autumn Open: $30 discount ending

[Aris Marghetis]

Hi again, please note the $30 August triple-early discount is about to end, and will reduce to the $20 September double-discount next week. The only way left to take advantage of the bigger discount, is to mail your payment before August 31st, so that it has an August postmark. If you do not use cheques, then you could just get a postal money order at the post office. Check out the recent list of registered players below, which is already over 40 players.

N.B. for players from the RA club : please renew your RA Chess membership as soon as feasible, to take advantage of the $5 RA registration discount!

Yours in chess,

Aris Marghetis, FIDE Arbiter
Organizer/TD, EOCA President
arismarghetis at rogers dot com
http://www.eoca.org/htm/tournaments_2010-11.html

Please note that we are looking for up to 5 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 2620 GM Sambuev, Bator
106245 2444 IM O'Donnell, Tom
103715 2402 Pacey, Kevin
134989 2334 Qin, Joey

U2200 Section
101925 2197 Upper, John
103754 2134 Doubleday, William
149090 2128 Torres, Aleksandr
134333 2088 Abrahams, Daniel
106856 2079 Palsson, Halldor
104837 2049 Riordon, Jason
139655 2048 Sadeghi, Saeid

U2000 Section
102539 1985 Groleau, Gilles
101895 1962 Danilov, Alex
146811 1961 Zhang, Zhiyuan (bye 1)
143574 1958 Donev, Danail
111290 1954 Smilovici, Emil
134894 1939 Murray, Adam
128651 1917 Gagnon, Gabriel
107565 1909 Hubley, Roger
147351 1904 Liu, Dan
134845 1859 Renaud, Joshua (bye 1)
104270 1856 Laszlo, Robert (bye 3)
102205 1851 Thibault, Mario
100337 1841 Laurin, Marcel

U1800 Section
112353 1794 Tomalty, Alan
148449 1776 Zhang, Yuanchen
147460 1764 Wan, Kevin
147276 1750 Zhang, Kevin
136932 1696 Schwartz, Saul

U1600 Section
148746 1584 Farah, Liiban
120860 1568 Krolczyk, Jacob
135113 1548 Eyre, Keven
144311 1530 Sharma, Pranav
146449 1472 Buss, Andreas
146597 1462 Luo, Fangyi
146453 1446 Dunne, Francesco
150262 1428 Muhammad, Nizam
147277 1388 Zhang, David
150390 1386 Carroll, Billy
148924 1310 Zhang, Jeff
142224 1286 Sun, Michael
146598 1246 Luo, Tony
TBD UNR Yang, Ryan

P.S. All applicable ratings will be rechecked before first pairings at 7pm.

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

The Eastern Ontario Chess Association (EOCA) organizes the EOCA Grand Prix, a series of weekend tournaments over the 2010-2011 chess season.

The next EOCA event in Ottawa is the Ottawa Autumn Open, on September 24th-26th. It will consist of 5 rounds, with flexible bye and discount options.

We are planning 5 sections (rated CFC, upper sections also rated FIDE), and prizes for every 200 rating points (total of $3300 for latest Ottawa event!)

For more details on this event, and a great webpage for all of the events in the 2010-2011 EOCA Grand Prix, please consider bookmarking this weblink :
http://www.eoca.org/htm/tournaments_2010-11.html

[Aris Marghetis]

not at the RA this Thursday

I have to work this Thursday evening, so I will not be at the RA club to take payments.

Please feel free to mail in your registrations/payments, at least for the $20 discount.

Thanks and regards, Aris.

[Aris Marghetis]

again not at the RA this Thursday

I have to work this Thursday evening, so I will not be at the RA club to take payments.

Please feel free to mail in your registrations/payments, at least for the $20 discount.

Thanks and regards, Aris.

P.S. We already have 50 players, and there's probably another 5-10 new ones sitting in the post office mailbox. I will post an updated pre-registered list by this weekend. Of note for those interested in the top players : GM Sambuev / IM Hartman / IM O'Donnell are in.

[Aris Marghetis]

15 payments received in the mail today

Hi again, just a quick note that I zipped by the mailbox today, and there were 15 payments waiting there for me. I believe that everyone who asked me by email this week whether I had received your payment, I now believe I have, but I will email individual confirmations later this weekend, or perhaps even Monday, as I am working a lot more than expected. Similarly, I might not be able to post the latest pre-registered list until even Monday.