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Entries are starting to arrive for Guelph next weekend. I will publish a pre-registered list in a few days. We are going with 3 sections this time. The first two are FIDE rated. Entry for the Pro Section is $60, the U2000 and U1600 are each $40
Here are the complete details.
Guelph Fall Pro-Am
November 5-6, 2011
Room 442, Guelph University Centre
5 Round Swiss; A SWOCL Grand Prix Event
3 Sections: FIDE Rated Pro, FIDE Rated U2000, U1600
Players may play up if current rating is within 100 points of rating floor.
Cost is $20, proceeds to the Olympic Fund.
Round Times: Saturday 10:am, 1:30pm, 6:00pm, Sunday 10:00am, 2:00pm
Time Control: Round 1 G/60 +30 sec, Rounds 2-5 G/90 + 30 sec
Entry Fees: Pro Section $60, others $40. Late Fee: $10.00 on site
Half Point Byes: in rounds 1-4 may be requested in advance
Prizes: $55 per Pro player returned as prizes.
Trophies awarded in other sections
Register: Mail to TD Hal Bond, 205 – 105 Conroy Crescent, Guelph, ON N1G 2V5,
email halbond@sympatico.ca, or cash on site from 8:30-9:30 am Saturday. Players registering after 9:30 Saturday may not receive a swiss pairing in first round.
Equipment, snacks and refreshments provided by organizer
Nikolay Noritsyn is currently the top seed in the Pro Section, and little brother Sergei will be playing in Guelph as a tune up for the U8's at WYCC in Brazil. FMs Sapozhnikov, Hambleton, Plotkin and Klienman have joined the hunt.
The list currently stands at 38 players. You can still register by email to avoid the on site late fee, halbond@sympatico.ca
Wall Chart. Guelph Fall Pro-Am 2011: Pro Section
# Name/Rtng/ID
1 IM Nikolay Noritsyn
2657 132534 (2455) (2604922)
2 FM Roman Sapozhnikov
2478 138609 (2301) (2601842)
3 FM Aman Hambleton
2398 129797 (2223) (2606577)
4 FM Victor Plotkin
2377 142063 (2263) (2606674)
5 FM Michael Kleinman
2376 132631 (2252) (2609479)
6 FM Michael Dougherty
2305 100294 (2208) (2601559)
7 Nikita Gusev
2272 128168 (2109) (2602334)
8 David Filipovich
2223 103521 (2100) (2600706)
9 Steve Demmery
2174 109477 (2080) (2603799)
10 Razvan Preotu
2155 146124 (1978) (2613280)
11 Michael Song
2102 144236 (2036) (2613190)
12 Mark Plotkin
1912 141086 (1788) (2611651)
Wall Chart. Guelph Fall Pro-Am 2011: U2000 Section
# Name/Rtng/ID
1 Rob Gashgarian
1937 112426 (2612321)
2 Robert Laszlo
1869 104270 (2604892)
3 Michael von Keitz
1806 128800 (2612119)
4 Robert Gillanders
1801 108202 (2606968)
5 John Zoccano
1800 103094 (2615053)
6 Patrick O'Sullivan
1757 149300
7 Richard Chen
1722 148271
8 Shafkat Ali
1717 149142 (2613441)
9 Zachary Dukic
1710 149507
10 Sasha Chuchin
1678 147910 (2613018)
11 Sergey Noritsyn
1637 146893 (2616408)
12 Mark Brauer
1632 132166
13 Derick Aghamalian
1604 146782
14 Daniel Moorehouse
1597 102805
15 Yue Tong [Davy] Zhao
1537 148512 (2613387)
16 Jiaxin Liu
1519 149747 (2611872)
17 Hikmet Bosnac
unr. 152997
Wall Chart. Guelph Fall Pro-Am 2011: U1600 Section
# Name/Rtng/ID
1 Leonid Aghamalian
1496 121022
2 Jeffrey Xu
1435 148513
3 Graeme Knight
1397 153005
4 Constance Wang
1369 149748 (2615657)
5 James Williamson
1231 105942
6 Benjamin Lin
1175 151128
7 Taylor Zhang
1164 150152 (2615665)
8 Kevin X Zhang
1130 150174
9 Ethan Zheng
886 151103
Guelph players, you mustn't forget to sleep in on Sunday morning! Daylight saving time ends Saturday midnight, so you will have an extra hour at your disposal.
We've had a few players unhappy about the 100 point "play up" limit. Can't please everyone it seems! The feedback I get from players who belong in a given section is that they prefer not to face the "play up" crowd. To the extent that this tournament format was designed to mitigate sandbagging, I suppose some success has been achieved.
Registration currently stands at 46 players. You can still avoid the late fee by registering today until 10pm by emailing me, halbond@sympatico.ca
...We've had a few players unhappy about the 100 point "play up" limit. Can't please everyone it seems! The feedback I get from players who belong in a given section is that they prefer not to face the "play up" crowd.....[/email]
Flyer: " Players may play up if current rating is within 100 points of rating floor."
As one of those who likes to play up, I'd just like to say I like this tournament condition. Those who want the challenge of better opponents can get it, and, with a 100 point limit, they are generally pretty close to the playing ability of those at the bottom of the section.
I'd note that Scarborough CC has adopted this condition for their regular Thursday night swisses, which run in three sections: 1800+; U 1800 ( t0 1400 ) - 1700's have the option to play up; U 1400 - 1300's have the option to play up.
Does anyone out there enjoy playing someone who is playing up?
I don't. It certainly destroys any chance for a decent performance rating when you play someone 300 or 500 or 600 points below your rating. The other drawback is the yoyo effect where you are alternately paired against people rated much lower and then much higher than you. It is much easier to play well where you face strong opposition in every round.
I'm a nice guy! Know how to sit at the board! Don't slobber.....a lot.
However, I am not opposed to what some organizers do - charge $ 10 per section for playing up.
Bob
I don't like that practice. For the ten dollars they ruin my experience which may have cost me $500 or $600 for an out of town weekend tournament. In the recently concluded Dearborn International Chess Festival my opponents were rated 1654, GM 2579, 1791, 2200 and IM 2520. I would have been very unhappy after 3 rounds if I had been playing in Toronto. As it was, the cost of this tournament was only $100 plus my share of the gas (ignoring the cost of the chess books I picked up over the two days) so it was not so bad. I did find that my play was very poor in the round immediately following a game with a low rated player.
Does anyone out there enjoy playing someone who is playing up?
I think it is important to note the section range as well as the 100 point (or whatever) buffer for playing up. If the section range is (say) 1900-2000, then throwing in the 100-point buffer means the section range is now 1800-2000. That is not too big a deal.
If you have a section that is 1800-2199 then adding in people from 1700-1799 makes the resulting range way too wide.
As long as the resulting spread is not too wide (whatever that means) I think allowing playing up within 100 points is not a big deal.
People who don't enjoy playing someone who is p-u invariably p-u'd themselves when they were lower rated. I p-u'd for over a decade and remember that the comments from opponents broke down into two classes: 1) "Thanks, Pete, I needed a good laugh."; 2) "Thanks, Pete, do you need some help crossing the street?" Ah yes, those were the days - the heady days of p-u.
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