Eastern Ontario Open: postal strike adaptations

[Aris Marghetis]

Hi again, due to the ongoing postal labour issues, we have to adapt our early registration discount mechanism.

Effective now, if you would like to take advantage of the June $10 early discount for paying before June 30th, just email me as soon as you can, and we will plan regarding paying onsite.

For people who can pay in person on June 23rd, I expect to be at the RA chess club that Thursday evening, from about 7pm, but must leave before 8pm.

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Hi chess fans, the EOCA (Eastern Ontario Chess Association) is pleased to announce the final event of the EOCA Grand Prix, the Eastern Ontario Open!

We are proud this year to have expanded this tournament to 6 rounds, and extend it over the Canada Day long weekend. On July 1st itself, there will be one round starting mid-morning. After that, there is no better place to be in the whole country that day, than downtown Ottawa, around Parliament Hill!

Even though we are growing to 6 rounds over 4 days, the entry fee structure remains exactly the same as our other Ottawa events, which for the 2010 Eastern Ontario Open, generated a nice prize fund of $3300. For those players who register and pay in April, the triple-early discount is a sweet $30!

N.B. As this tournament occurs after the end of the University school year, travelling players can get great deals to stay in the residences of Carleton University, which is a convenient walking distance from the playing site. It is not right next door, but really is close enough, and includes free breakfasts!
http://www.eoca.org/details_of_tourn...sJune2011.html
Another option to consider is our own growing chess bed-and-breakfast system. The standard rate will be $30 per person per night. If you are interested in hosting your bed-and-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 4 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 6 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
2750 GM Sambuev, Bator
2449 IM O'Donnell, Tom
2316 Qin, Joey (CFC membership)
2292 Pacey, Kevin (byes 3&4)
2284 Humphreys, Michael
2211 Marinkovic, Mate
2206 Filipovich, David (byes 1&2)
2204 Pace, Christopher
2201 Upper, John

U2200 Section
2157 Sadeghi, Saeid
2121 Zhang, Zhiyuan
2119 Doubleday, William
2113 Ferreira, Alex
2079 Smilovici, Emil
2078 Forget, David (CFC membership)
2062 Eng, Randel (payment at NAYCC)
2059 Carrier, Claude
2036 Desjardins, Michel (byes 1&2)
2027 Chiku-Ratte, Oliver (payment in mail)
2022 Arseneau, Peter (floater)
1950 Donev, Danail
1919 Kalra, Agastya
1901 Liu, Dan
1900 Laszlo, Robert (bye 4)

CFC-only Sections

U1900 Section
1897 Hubley, Roger
1891 Danilov, Alex
1847 Zhang, Kevin
1845 Laurin, Marcel
1794 Ritchie, Gordon (byes 2&4)
1776 Ali, Shafkat (bye 1) (payment in mail)
1771 Tomalty, Alan
1768 Villeneuve, Luc
1764 Wan, Kevin (overpaid by $5!)
1754 Dunne, Francesco
1723 Lidstone, Phil
1634 Eng, Rachael (payment at NAYCC)
1631 Yang, Benjamin (bye 1) (payment in mail)
1606 Meyer, Ralf

U1600 Section
1504 Zhang, David
1429 Carroll, Billy
1401 Woolner, Nicholas (bye 1)
1328 Zhang, Jeff
1107 Hall, Richard

Thursday, June 30th: if established FIDE rating is higher, then that will be used

[Aris Marghetis]

Aris at RA tonight (7pm-730pm)

To take registrations/payments in person. Both cheques/cash welcome.

Thanks and regards, Aris.

http://www.eoca.org/htm/tournaments_2010-11.html

[Aris Marghetis]

"make money" by hosting!

Hi again, for this event, we have more people than usual travelling in, so would anyone else like to join the bed&breakfast list? For example, there is a family of 4 (parents and 2 kid players). At our standard $30 rate, that would be $120 "income" per day for the host!

Please email me ASAP at :
arismarghetis at rogers dot com