Ottawa Spring Open: already 50 players

[Aris Marghetis]

Good news, as of last weekend, we were up to 52 players, with almost a month to go. We are now in the February $20 double-early discount period. In other words, any mailed payment with a February postmark would be $20 off. For people who prefer to pay in person at the RA club, please note that I cannot attend this Thursday, the 10th, nor next Thursday, the 17th. I would prefer that you just mail your payment in, as Thursday the 24th looks free for now, but I might be assigned to work that evening. If you pay and then change your mind, you could simply defer your registration to my next event, etc.

Also for local chess fans, I am offering to organize billeting of travelling players. The standard rate will be $30 per person per night. If you are interested in hosting your chess-bed-n-breakfast, please email me to be included on a confidential list. If a travelling player asks to be billeted, I will BCC you their email address, and some relevant info about them, and you can decide on your own if you would like to extend the offer. There is no obligation to host anyone.

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 ---------

rating name (title last, first)

CFC&FIDE Sections

Masters Section
2716 GM Sambuev, Bator
2451 IM O'Donnell, Tom
2405 Levkovsky, Alexandre
2341 Qin, Joey
2332 Kraiouchkine, Nikita
2329 Pacey, Kevin
2280 Humphreys, Michael
2224 Marinkovic, Mate

U2200 Section
2176 Upper, John (floater)
2174 Oussedik, Elias
2095 Zhang, Zhiyuan
2095 Forget, David
2090 Palsson, Halldor
2066 Doubleday, William
2057 Desjardins, Michel
2038 Riordon, Jason
2024 Chiku-Ratte, Olivier-Kenta
2009 Sadeghi, Saeid

U2000 Section
1981 Smilovici, Emil
1975 Arseneau, Peter (floater)
1950 Spicer, Christopher
1937 Kalra, Agastya
1934 Li, Ruokai
1932 Danilov, Alex
1916 Donev, Danail
1913 Liu, Dan
1909 Hubley, Roger
1866 Zhang, Kevin
1857 Laurin, Marcel
1842 Ritchie, Gordon
1841 Laszlo, Robert (bye 3)
1833 Vasiloi, Nadejda
1818 VanDusen, Eric
1814 Bigras, Jean

CFC-only Sections

U1800 Section
1784 Peters, Romy
1749 Tomalty, Alan
1678 Farah, Liiban
1630 Meyer, Ralf
1624 Yang, Ryan
1603 Dunne, Francesco

U1600 Section
1579 MacNevin, Dave
1452 Levkovsky, Emil
1449 Eyre, Keven
1433 Luo, Fangyi
1418 Zhang, David
1401 Lukezich, John
1343 Zhang, Jeff
1314 Luo, Tony
1301 Carroll, Billy
1093 Ju, Terry
1080 Ju, Larry
1017 Amirshadova, Victoria

Friday, March 4th: if established FIDE rating is higher, then that will be used

--------- 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 Spring Open, set for March 4th-6th. It will consist of 5 rounds, with flexible bye and discount options.

5 sections rated CFC, with Masters-U2200-U2000 sections also rated FIDE. Predicted prize fund >$2200, with class prizes every 200 rating points.

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: Ottawa Spring Open: already 50 players

Hi there, just a friendly bump reminder that I will not be at the RA this Thursday. Please refer to the original post in this thread regarding how to register by mail instead, etc.

Thanks and regards, Aris.

[Aris Marghetis]

Re: Ottawa Spring Open: already 50 players

Hi there, just a friendly bump reminder that I still do expect to visit the RA club this Thursday, but only after the weekly round has started at 730pm. I will be driving in from out of town after dinner, predicting making it to tha RA by 845pm at the latest. I then have to leave for work by 915pm. In other words, if you would like to register in person this Thursday at the RA club, please aim for between 845pm and 915pm. This will be the last in-person chance to take advantage of the February $20 double-early discount. Of course, you could also benefit from that discount by mailing your payment before March.

Thanks and regards, Aris.