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Alex Ferreira
05-05-2009, 08:21 PM
Hello all,


The Hart House Chess Club, at University of Toronto, is organizing another tournament, in the first weekend of July. We had a terrific turn-out at the last Canada Day Summer Open with 115 players coming out!

A few new things from our previous events:
- 5 playing sections instead of 3
- Open section to be FIDE rated
- Team Prize (check website)

When: July 3rd, 4th, 5th (Fri, Sat, Sun)
Where: Debates & Music Rooms, 2nd Floor, Hart House, University of Toronto
7 Hart House Circle, Toronto

Style: 5 round Swiss in 5 sections: Open (FIDE Rated), U2200, U2000, U1800 & U1600 (w/U1400 prizes and UNR)
Rounds: Friday 6pm, Saturday 10am & 4pm, Sunday 10am & 4pm
Time Control: 30/90, SD/60

Entry Fees: $60 in advance, $70 cash only on site. Extra $10 to play up each section.
Registration: 5pm – 5:30pm on Friday, July 3rd
Registrants after 5:30pm are not guaranteed to be paired by 6pm
In advance (arrival by July 2nd) by mail to:
Hart House Chess Club – 7 Hart House Circle, Toronto, ON M5S 3H3
Make cheque payable to Hart House Chess Club. No postdated cheques please.
Email registration to alex.ferreira@utoronto.ca (by July 2nd) Email registrants must arrive onsite by 5:30pm to pay or will be charged onsite fee.

Tournament Director: Bryan Lamb
Organizer: Hart House Chess Club

Please bring sets and clocks.
No smoking. No computers. No cellphones (on).

For all the detailed information, including:
- Printable flyer with all the above information
- Access/Maps & parking info
- Prize fund projection
- Pre-Registered list of players

Visit our website at:
http://hhchess.sa.utoronto.ca/hhopen


Hope to see you all there,


Alex Ferreira
Hart House Chess Club

Alex Ferreira
06-12-2009, 03:42 PM
Hello all,


We've found a problem with our original intention to have the time control of 90/30, 60/SD. Although this works fine for CFC-rated events, the same is not so for FIDE events. :o

From the "Rate of Play" Section of FIDE documents, we recently found:

1.3 Where a certain number of moves is specified in the first time control, it shall be 40 moves. Players benefit from uniformity here.

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In light of this, we're being forced to change the time control for the top section in order to rate it with FIDE. Since we have enough digital clocks for the top boards, and wanted to keep the total length of the game to approximately 5 hours, the time control will be changed to 120 minutes for the whole game, with 30 seconds increment per move from the beginning.

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The other sections (2200, U2000, U1800 & U1600) will remain with the originally advertised time control of 90 minutes for the first 30 moves and 1 hour Sudden Death.

We apologize for only announcing this change 3 weeks before the tournament, but hopefully digital clocks with increments will provide the opportunity for higher quality chess.


Alex Ferreira
Hart House Chess Club

Alex Ferreira
06-12-2009, 03:50 PM
Hello,

The Hart House Summer Open will take place in 3 weeks and we've just broken 50 entries :eek:

IM Leonid Gerzhoy and IM Nikolay Noritsyn lead the field of advance registrations.

We may just break last Summer's record of 115 :)


Alex Ferreira
Hart House Chess Club

Alex Ferreira
06-25-2009, 06:22 PM
Hello all,

The Summer Open at Hart House is only 8 days away.
70 people have signed up, so it's looking to be a promising event!

A reminder that there's a team prize and you may want to start thinking about who to team up with. 4 players per team from 3 different sections.
You may register your teams on-site before round 1.

All details below:
http://hhchess.sa.utoronto.ca/hhopen


Alex Ferreira
Hart House Chess Club

Alex Ferreira
07-01-2009, 01:42 PM
Woot !


We've broken 100 pre-registrations for the Hart House Summer Open.
Looks like we're on track to break last year's record of 115 and meet our goal to pass 120. GM Sambuev, IM Noritsyn and FM Bekefi are at the top of the table, with players all the way to what looks like it'll be a very competitive U1600 section, consisting of almost half of all the entries.

All details at:
http://hhchess.sa.utoronto.ca/hhopen

On an important note, Omar Shah will be at the tournament site selling some used chess books from his vast collection at very reasonable prices. He will also bring some of the newest books on behalf of Strategy Games and will be selling them at regular retail price. If there's any specific item you're looking for and would like Omar to bring, do e-mail him at oshah316@yahoo.com
Omar will also give a book prize from his collection in the lower section of the tournament.

See you all Friday,


Alex Ferreira
Hart House Chess Club

Alex Ferreira
07-05-2009, 04:54 AM
Hello everyone,


Below I copied the pairings for Round 4, from the printouts I got from Bryan last night:


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Open

Samsonkin vs Divljan
Plotkin, V. vs Bekefi
Sambuev vs Noritsyn
Sapozhnikov vs Mark
Calugar vs Casareno
Kleinman vs Zeromskis
Sadeghi vs Masse
Hambleton vs Chidley-Hill
Eng, Randel vs Humphreys
Whissell vs Le
Fu vs Abrahams
Drkulec vs Wu, A.

1/2 (bye) Moffat
1/2 (bye) Shebetah

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U2200

Frilles vs Southam
Gusev vs Hahn
Derraugh vs Ng
Demmery vs Zhang, B.
Peng, B. vs Siddeley
Leu, R. vs Gladstone
Olden-Cooligan vs Wu, K.
Rubanovski vs. Kim

1 (bye) Wang, J.
1/2 (bye) Florea

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U2000

Semianiuk vs Liu
Stein, M. vs Shah
Farine vs Sherman
Nicholson vs Thomas
Perez, Michael vs Iriarte
Malmsten vs Zhou
Haziprodromu vs Douglas
Moysoski vs Cortez

1/2 (bye) Perelman
1/2 (bye) Itkin, D.
1/2 (bye) Itkin, V.
1/2 (bye) Fang

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U1800

Mesiti vs Roddick
Ward vs Ugodnikov
Ivanov vs Posaratnanathan, R.
Bercovici vs Lai, J.
Posaratnanathan, J. vs Bellissimo
Lin vs Wing
Song vs. Stein, J.
Buzila vs Gillis

1 (bye) Szucs

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U1600

Ali vs Cale
Wang, F. vs Arulsubramamiam
Lai, F. vs Avila
Lalonde vs Lan
Azimitia vs Giblon, R.
Plotkin, M. vs Luo
Odziemkowski vs Peng, J.
Maguire vs Radpey
Rogers vs Chuchin
Hossain vs Nasir
Martin vs Zotkin
Karpik vs Pancer
Woolford vs France
De Cal vs Green
Giblon, A. vs Vera
House vs Merrick
Leu, S. vs Zhang, Y.
Teram vs. Eng, Rachael
Pishdad vs Perez, Matthew
Zhao vs Yusuf
Maulucci vs Vora
Villaluz vs Peng, H.
Gauer vs Tao
Xi vs Baki
Smyk vs Stocking

1 (bye) Zhu

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We should be able to find an opponent for anyone given a full point bye who wishes to play a CFC-rated game.

The Team Standings will be on-site.
Same with tournament standings after round 3.
Prize Fund and Tournament Financial Statement will also be posted at the tournament site early in Round 4.

133 Participants by my count.



Alex Ferreira
Hart House Chess Club