National Capital Open: $30 discount ending

[Aris Marghetis]

Hi again, I realize that the subject might seem a little early, as the $30 triple-early discount is on until the end of the month. However, I am leaving for the WYCC tomorrow, gone for the rest of the month. I expect to be returning late November 1st, and to go to the mailbox on November 2nd. All registrations that I find in the mailbox that day benefit from the $30 triple-early discount. In the interest of being fair, any registration payments after that mailbox visit, can only benefit from a smaller early discount. For example, the double-early discount for the first week-and-a-half of November would instead be $20 off.

As of today, we already have over 45 players registered!

My target is at least 70 players, and a prize fund of at least $3K. In addition, we have secured nicer playing rooms, in the East Wing of the RA Centre. For those of you who attended the 2009 Ontario Open, you'll recall the Courtside rooms had more space, better lighting, and much better soundproofing! :)

P.S. IM Brian Hartman has graciously donated his prize from the Ottawa Autumn Open to the prize fund for the National Capital Open, with the request that I make it some sort of junior prize. Therefore, I am expecting that the prize fund for the U1600 Section will exceed the prize fund for the U1800 Section.

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 ---------

entries posted @ ChessTalk : http://www.chesstalk.info/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=2

CFC# rating name: title last, first

Top Section
146462 2672 GM Sambuev, Bator
102700 2450 IM Hartman, Brian
106245 2434 IM O'Donnell, Tom
134989 2362 Qin, Joey
103715 2355 Pacey, Kevin
125600 2296 Mai, Lloyd
109653 2268 Arsenault, Nicolas
141393 2248 Marinkovic, Mate
131628 2240 Humphreys, Michael
101925 2213 Upper, John
141390 2205 Pace, Christopher

U2200 Section
103521 2188 Filipovich, David
103754 2119 Doubleday, William
106856 2085 Palsson, Halldor
150446 2082 Han, Zixiao
104837 2049 Riordon, Jason
139655 2044 Sadeghi, Saeid

U2000 Section
102539 1996 Groleau, Gilles
146811 1988 Zhang, Zhiyuan
143574 1984 Donev, Danail
134898 1960 Li, Ruokai (bye 2)
101895 1947 Danilov, Alex
137927 1924 Kalra, Agastya
128651 1917 Gagnon, Gabriel
147457 1908 Adamou-Ndiaye, Mocktar
104270 1841 Laszlo, Robert (bye 3)
147351 1836 Liu, Dan

U1800 Section
147276 1779 Zhang, Kevin
110972 1761 Ritchie, Gordon
147460 1734 Wan, Kevin
136932 1701 Schwartz, Saul
103050 1684 Best, Garland
120860 1600 Krolczyk, Jacob

U1600 Section
148746 1597 Farah, Liiban
146453 1578 Dunne, Francesco
146449 1522 Buss, Andreas
141391 1513 Pace, Nicholas
142224 1466 Sun, Michael
147277 1450 Zhang, David
146765 1406 Lukezich, John
146597 1384 Luo, Fangyi
105729 1364 D'Aoust, Marc
151429 1353 Yang, Ryan
151154 1296 Yang, Frank
146598 1207 Luo, Tony
148747 970 Amirshadova, Victoria

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 National Capital Open, on November 12th-14th. 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 (last 2 Ottawa events averaged $2900!)

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]

Re: National Capital Open: $30 discount ending

Just a quick note that pre-registrations by email have included some great players. The Top Section already sits at 14 players, including GM Bator, and now 3 IMs: Cummings, Hartman (confirming), and O'Donnell. I can't wait to empty the mailbox when I return! ;)