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I will be present at the 2011 Hamilton Winter Open weekend to accept early bird registration of $150.00 for 2011 U20 Canadian Junior Chess Championship. Cash and cheques will both be accepted. Please take advantage of this opportunity to save $50.00 from regular entry fee.
Hi, is it possible to fide-rate this event? thanks,
If our events can consistently reach lets say 100 players we would consider fide rating them. But it would take a year or so to see if that's happening.
Because we end up paying 5 dollars a person instead of 3 for ratings you should also consider if you prefer your money going to ratings instead of the prize fund.
There are other questions it would be nice to get input on from the stronger players. For example, should our open section become a section only people either 1900 or 2000 and over can play in?
In the last year or two we've had an interesting phenomenon happen, where experts have become the largest group playing in our events. Even a larger group than Class A. So I definitely want to get their opinion on where to take the open section in future events.
Experts being the largest group is something that we also witnessed at the recently completed KW Winter Open. Both the fact of an under 2100 section and playing up limited to a 100 points below meant for a much more competitive Open section and a much more competitive under 2100. (and the masters I spoke with were much happier not playing A class players) Our open section had 20! players and was our biggest section by far.
I must admit that when it was initially suggested suggested that you try and get him to play, I thought it was something daydream-- even with the free soup.
In retrospect, GM So's willingness to play is likely due in no small part to this event not being Fide rated-- something to consider.
It's clear the kid should be seeded #1, but other then that we do not need a specific rating for him.
The rating conversion formula is extremely crude, and should not really be considered accurate.
I think it would be more appropriate to arbitrarily seed him 1st, then only after the event publish a rating (equal to his performance).
Presuming all estimated cfc rating for So are higher then Sambuev's, there will be no difference in the resultant pairings, regardless of whether the estimate is 2719 or 2900.
Further more, using this method will result in more rational changes in the ratings of his opponents.
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