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Re: 2011 Toronto Labour Day Tournament - Register Now
Looks like a well organized tournament, and securing that hotel is good. It's the cheap mentality that many chess players have that helps contribute to why chess is so far behind other sports and also poker. Take a reasonable entry fee and then divide by maybe three and you'll get what a chess player is expecting.
It just should be mention what is a default time. (FIDE rules 6.6 requires to announce it if it is not 0. "Any player who arrives at the chessboard after the start of the session shall lose the game. Thus the default time is 0 minutes. The rules of a competition may specify otherwise." )
Thanks, Egis.
If a player does not show up within one hour of any round's start, then the player will lose the game by forfeit; lose the CFC rating points for the game; not lose the FIDE rating points for the game (if FIDE rated); and be removed from the tournament.
Looks like a well organized tournament, and securing that hotel is good. It's the cheap mentality that many chess players have that helps contribute to why chess is so far behind other sports and also poker. Take a reasonable entry fee and then divide by maybe three and you'll get what a chess player is expecting.
As a titled correspondence player I expect my entry to correspondence events to be free and that's the very least, or I won't play.
How large an entry fee are you paying for your events these days?
Did you even read the very first post on this thread??
And another sarcastic poster hits CT. Yup! I am an idiot as you suggested with that tone. I missed it. Do you have anything to do with running the event?
And another sarcastic poster hits CT. Yup! I am an idiot as you suggested with that tone. I missed it. Do you have anything to do with running the event?
Thank you to Marcus.
You're welcome, Ken. Hopefully the pre-registered list is easier for everyone to find now.
FM Aman Hambleton gave a simul at the Canadian Open and Ted Winick was full of praise for how he conducted it, especially how he related to the kids from the chess camp, but no, he is not involved in organizing the 2011 Toronto Labour Day Open.
nope. does not necessarily follow. the td has leeway on this one. for example, known sandbaggers who try to lose rating points by forfeiting by no-show...
besides, you don't deserve rating points you didn't actually earn; all you're entitled to is the point on the cross-table.
Marcus;
AT the New York Open or World Open you pay $200 or more but there are 20 + prizes to be won per section.
You are charging $95 and you are giving out maybe 5 prizes per section.
So for half the entry as the other venues you are giving back 1/4 or less.
I would think the other two venues are a better deal dollar for dollar.per section
I don't think the World Open was $200 when I played in the early 1990s. I believe that they are up to the $300+ range for those who pay five or six months in advance. I suspect that the organizational costs of large tournaments that you are citing siphon off a larger percentage of the gross revenues than the Toronto organizers typically do. This is despite the fact that they probably get the venue for free because of the huge hotel bookings such tournaments generate. There may be twenty prizes per section but there are a lot more players playing for each prize.
For me raising the entry fee by $20 does not really factor into things as it is a small percentage of the total cost including about $100 for gas (boy do I miss my 1996 Honda Accord that died last year in which I could get to Toronto and back home on one tank of gas), $200 to $300 for accomodations, and increased food expenses. With entry fee the total can approach $500 to $600 for just a weekend event. I haven't even mentioned my chess book expenses. :p
So, when will you organize such tournament? I would come for one day (2 rounds :D
Actually John Coleman is organizing such a tournament in Windsor on the weekend of October 1st and 2nd. $40 entry fee for the pro section (open), $25 fee for the under 1600 section. Free entry to 2200+. 100% of entry fees in the Pro section paid as prizes; trophies for the Amateur section
$50 bonus for anyone in either section winning all four games. Out of towner friendly schedule.
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