National Capital Open: IN EAST WING

[Aris Marghetis]

Hi there, I just got off the phone with the folks at the RA Centre, who had good news for us! We are being moved, FOR THE WHOLE WEEKEND, to the COURTSIDE ROOMS, which are in the EAST WING. Please pass this info along to anyone who might be coming, and we will try to put up helpful signs.

Please find below lists of players so far, with byes, etc. If there are any changes, please email me by 5pm, or please see Halldor onsite by 7pm. Round 1 is scheduled for 730pm.

For the people who accidentally overpaid, I will have cash for you on Saturday morning.

Thanks and regards, Aris & Halldor.

Section A: Masters & U2200
2449 IM Hartman, Brian (bye 1) 102700
2445 IM O'Donnell, Tom 106245
2344 FM Hamilton, Robert (bye 1) [registration fee due] 102629
2271 Pacey, Kevin 103715
2202 Upper, John amateur 101925

U2200 Class
2098 Peng, Jackie 142388
2089 Forget, David 142032
2085 Marinkovic, Mate (bye 2) 141393
2068 Doubleday, William 103754
2055 Sadeghi, Saeid 139655
2036 Palsson, Halldor (bye 3) staff 106856
2031 Fritzsche, Helmut (byes 1 & 2) 145427
2030 Smilovici, Emil 111290
2007 Kalra, Agastya FLOATER 137927
1980 Marghetis, Aris (byes 1 & 3) staff 107391
1924 Danilov, Alex (overpaid by $5) amateur 101895
1915 Bleau, John (bye 1) [registration & CFC fees due] 111867
1900 Hubley, Roger (overpaid by $5) amateur 107565

Section B: U1900 & U1600
1892 Wan, Kevin 147460
1875 Laszlo, Robert (bye 1) 104270
1828 Dunne, Francesco 146453
1826 Zhang, Kevin (bye 1) 147276
1801 Laurin, Marcel amateur 100337
1789 Ritchie, Gordon (overpaid by $5) 110972
1776 Tomalty, Alan (still owes $5) amateur 112353
1752 Roth, Gerhard amateur 110166
1699 Krolczyk, Jacob 120860
1698 Peters, Romy amateur 135706
1688 Villeneuve, Luc 123745
1662 Cova, Ramon ("other" rating) 153227
1638 Yang, Ryan amateur 151429
1634 Meyer, Ralf amateur 148745
1623 Zhang, David (bye 1) amateur 147277
1602 Eyre, Keven (bye 1) 135113

U1600 Class
1459 Lukezich, John 146765
1396 Zhang, Jeff amateur 148924
1317 Elleithy, Hisham amateur 153123
1299 Peng, Henry FLOATER 149889
1291 Ju, Terry 151396
1274 Carroll, Billy 150390
1218 Fritzsche, Philipp (byes 1 & 2) 146319
1173 Peng, Janet amateur 147928
1104 Ju, Larry (bye 1) amateur 151370
1049 Amirshadova, Victoria amateur 148747

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Hi again, the National Capital Open is coming up this weekend, and we have slightly extended the early discounts. The current $20 double-early discount is in effect until this Thursday evening at the RA. If you are planning on paying me then, please bring cash to do it, and ideally catch me before 730pm, as I will then be playing a rated slow game. If you are mailing your payment (cheque or money order), please do so ASAP, so that I receive it by this Thursday.

Please note that registration/payment onsite on Friday evening, before the first pairings at 7pm, will get only a $10 "early" discount. After that, full prices apply, and a Swiss pairing can no longer be guaranteed for Round 1. All onsite payments are in cash, and on Friday evening, Halldor will be taking them.

Thanks and regards, Aris & Halldor.

P.S. Is there someone in your life who keeps asking what they can get you for Christmas? How about entry to the Ottawa Winter Open?! And if it would help, send me their email address, and I can help them register you! (of course, other holiday names are also available! ;)

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EOCA Tournaments webpage : http://www.eoca.org/htm/tournaments_2011-12.html
entries posted @ ChessTalk : http://www.chesstalk.info/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=2

Hi chess fans, the EOCA (Eastern Ontario Chess Association) is pleased to announce the 2011 National Capital Open. After some experimentation with our last two Ottawa events, we are returning to our more "regular" format from the last few years. The only significant difference from, for example, the 2011 Ottawa Spring Open, is that we are concentrating with 4 sections/classes rather than 5, in order to ensure increasing the variety of opponents.

Finally, I am delighted to announce that Halldor Palsson is joining me to help run this tournament! He will be kickstarting the event on Friday evening, and he will be providing Swiss-Sys pairings throughout the weekend, including the last round, where FIDE pairing rules are slightly different. Thanks Halldor! :)

Yours in chess,

Aris Marghetis
International Arbiter
arismarghetis at rogers dot com

[Hal Bond]

Re: National Capital Open: IN EAST WING

Great job scoring the courtside rooms Aris! Good luck with the event.

[Aris Marghetis]

Re: National Capital Open: IN EAST WING

Great job scoring the courtside rooms Aris! Good luck with the event.

Hi Hal, thanks for the good wishes. Originally, we were going to have to switch rooms overnight tomorrow, which would have been a hassle. Then by fluke, I was chatting with an RA administrator last night, after she had finished something involving her new puppy, and we realized that someone must have silently cancelled a booking, enabling us to get the better rooms for the whole weekend. I find those rooms amongst the best there!

By the way, I am not at the event tonight, as it was my wife's work Christmas party. Holding down the fort is Halldor Palsson, who is being incredibly helpful in making this tournament happen. I hope people onsite tonight offered him the thanks he deserves!

See everyone tomorrow for Round 2. Halldor will be posting the pairings later tonight.

[Halldor P. Palsson]

Pairings round 2

The usual caveats apply - if we get more entries these pairings will change!

Round 2 is at 10 AM.

Pairings for Round 2. National Capital Open 2011: Section A-2
Bd # Res White # Res Black
1 2 Tom O'Donnell 6 Jackie Peng
2 5 John Upper 4 Kevin Pacey
3 1 Brian Hartman 11 Halldor Peter Palsson
4 15 Aris Marghetis 3 Robert Hamilton
5 7 David Forget 17 John Bleau
6 9 William G Doubleday 16 Alex Danilov
7 10 Saeid Sadeghi 14 Agastya Kalra
8 18 Roger Hubley 13 Emil Smilovici
8 ½ Mate Marinkovic BYE
12 ½ Helmut Fritzsche BYE

Pairings for Round 2. National Capital Open 2011: Section B-2
Bd # Res White # Res Black
1 1 Kevin Wan 10 Romy Peters
2 9 Jacob Krolczyk 3 Francesco Dunne
3 11 Luc Villeneuve 6 Gordon Ritchie
4 12 Ramon J Cova 8 Gerhard Roth
5 13 Ryan Yang 2 Robert Laszlo
6 17 Keven Eyre 4 Kevin Z Zhang
7 5 Marcel Laurin 27 Lawrence [larry] Ju
8 16 David B Zhang 18 Fangyi Luo
9 23 Terrence [terry] Ju 14 Ralf Meyer
10 15 Liiban Farah 24 Billy Carroll
11 19 John If Lukezich 28 Victoria Amirshadova
12 26 Janet Peng 20 Jeff Zhang
7 ½ Alan Tomalty BYE
21 ½ Hisham Elleithy BYE
22 ½ Henry Peng BYE
25 ½ Philipp Fritzsche BYE

Best regards,

Halldor Palsson

[Aris Marghetis]

Re: Pairings round 2

Hello, I received a text from IM Brian, from the hospital. It seems he has pneumonia, so there will be some changes to the Section A pairings. Halldor and I will figure it out soon.

[Aris Marghetis]

Re: Pairings round 2

Hello, I received a text from IM Brian, from the hospital. It seems he has pneumonia, so there will be some changes to the Section A pairings. Halldor and I will figure it out soon.

There will probably be no pairing changes, as Halldor (Brian's opponent) will take a bye.