RA Winter Open: announcements and registrations

The EOCA invites you to celebrate the new year just for yourself, by playing in our first tournament of 2009, the RA Winter Open, scheduled for the weekend of January 16th-18th. Both CFC and FQE members are welcome, and every player will be submitted for rating by both the CFC and FIDE.

This event will be very similar to recent EOCA weekend tournaments by this Organizer/TD in Ottawa, except that entry fees are generally reduced.

For complete details for this event, and a great webpage for all events in the 2008-2009 EOCA Grand Prix & Active Series, bookmark this weblink:
http://www.eoca.org/htm/tournaments%202008-09.html

For local players who normally pay me in cash at the RA Centre on a Thursday evening, please note that I expect to be there on both the 8th and 15th, from about 7pm onward, as I have no work assigned then yet. However, in the interim, I love email registrations, as they save us both lots of time onsite.

Thanks and regards,

Aris Marghetis, Organizer/TD
EOCA President, OCA/CFC Governor

P.S. Sensible feedback from active readers who frequent multiple Canadian chess newsgroups, has encouraged me to refrain from posting duplicate information at more than one location. Therefore, I will update this thread at the ChessTalk site, which seems to have the most general reader volume:
http://www.chesstalk.info/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=2

Finally, as I am banned from the OCC board, please feel free to direct people to this post.