In this thread, Michael Barron of the GTCL organizing committee, will advise us of the current status of the Can. Open. Anyone can respond.
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In this thread, Michael Barron of the GTCL organizing committee, will advise us of the current status of the Can. Open. Anyone can respond.
I see Michael has signed in now. Can he please post here a current status report on the Canadian Open?
Thanks.
Bob
Dear chess friends,
I'm pleased to inform you about progress in 2010 Canadian Open organization.
Many people are working to make 2010 Canadian Open really remarkable event.
We have started extensive advertising campaign:
Canadian Chess News publishes our advertising since February,
it was included in April issue of Chess Life magazin,
many web sites have information about 2010 Canadian Open as well.
To promote Canadian Open we offered a free entry as an additional prize for one of the Grand Pacific Open participants - at organizers' discretion.
We're planning to offer the same prize for a few more major Canadian tournaments - please let me know if you're organizing such tournament.
We got confirmations from 5 GMs and so far have 32 registrants:
We're looking forward for enjoyable and succesfull Canadian Open.Code:Title First Name Surname Rating Province Category
1 GM Evgeny Bareev 2667 FO
2 GM Eduardas Rozentalis 2628 FO
3 GM Alexander Shabalov 2587 US
4 GM Joshua Friedel 2543 US
5 GM Walter Arencibia 2500 FO
6 IM Luis Lazaro Aguero Jimenez 2398 FO
7 Liam Henry 2180 ON
8 FM Brett Campbell 2177 ON
9 FM Michael Dougherty 2160 ON
10 Alan Gregg 2128 US s
11 Ilia Bluvshtein 2099 ON
12 Daniel Abrahams 2084 ON
13 Ismail Ibrahim 2052 ON
14 Rod Hill 1982 NB s
15 Michael Song 1858 ON
16 David Poirier 1855 NS
17 Ferdinand Supsup 1834 ON
18 Bruce Dowling 1786 ON s
19 Steven Faust 1758 AB
20 Joe Bellomo 1738 ON s
21 John R. Brown 1714 ON s
22 Caesar Posylek 1708 ON
23 Joseph Sy 1694 ON
24 Richard Keep 1690 QC
25 Shafkat Ali 1646 ON
26 Doug Sly 1628 BC s
27 James Mourgelas 1596 ON
28 Henry Grayson 1580 ON
29 Peter W. Hazen 1565 ON
30 Andre Siegel 1514 ON
31 Eric Song 1268 ON b
32 Victor Okon 0 ON
See you all in Toronto in July!
Are Canadian GM/IM being offered the same conditions as the foreign ones? I'm just curious why none have signed up so far.
The same conditions were offered to Canadian GMs. Unfortunately, none of them signed up.
Thus far no conditions have been offered to IMs due to limited budget. We are still working with potential sponsor. If budget allows to offer conditions in future, we will first offer the conditions to Canadian players.
Can exceptions be made for certain IMs? For instance, if Hebert were to opt to play, would he be offered conditions on par with those offered to Canadian/international GMs?
All in all, I have to say that I am looking forward to this event getting started! I would like to thank the organizers for all of their hard work to date.
Jean is the title holder of the moment, so I think he should be given special consideration if he wishes to play!
See Michael Barron post above for report.
Is this summary generally satisfactory?
Bob
Of course, we could make exceptions for certain IMs!Quote:
Originally Posted by Michael von Keitz
The problem is - somebody in the end should pay the bills... :(
I could promise - if we get 300 paid entries, Hebert will be offered to play without entry fee.
Another option - everybody could make a charitable donation for Canadian Open.
The donors will get tax receipts, and their protege - special consideration... :)
... I wanted to make is to treat the Canadian Champion on the same level as GMs. Considering this is a Canadian organized tournament, I am sure the public favours the participation of the top local player over just another GM in the crowd!Quote:
Originally Posted by Michael Barron