2012 Canadian Junior Championship

[Michael von Keitz]

2012 Canadian Junior Championship
XMAS Break Thursday Jan 5, 2012 through Sunday Jan 8, 2012
Calgary Junior Chess Club
#274, 3359 27th St. NE
Calgary, Alberta T1Y 5E4

7 round Swiss, CFC rated and FIDE rated
Organizer: Calgary Junior Chess Club
Tournament Director: Frank Kluytmans
Time Control: Game 90 minutes in 40 moves, 30 minutes for remainder of game + 30 second increment per move from move 1.
Times: Thursday Jan 5, 2012 10:00 AM and 6:00 PM
Friday Jan 6, 2012 10:00 AM and 6:00 PM
Saturday Jan 7, 2012 10:00 AM and 6:00 PM
Sunday Jan 8, 2012 10:00 AM
Entry Fee: $150 per entry if pre-registered. $30 late fee on day of tournament
Registration: Pre-register by mailing a cheque payable to the Calgary Junior
Chess Club at the above address.
In Calgary, pay Frank Kluytmans at the Calgary Chess Club, in Edmonton pay Vlad Rekhson.
On-site registration, Thursday, Jan 5, 2012 from 9-9:45am.
Prizes: Top male and female winner will each receive travel flight vouchers to
attend the 2012 World Junior Championship in Athens, Greece
for a value of $1300 per winner.
Based on number of entries, cash prizes will also be rewarded.
In addition there will be trophies and medallions.
For more info, contact Frank Kluytmans
Phone: (403) 999-2092
Email: fkluytmans@hotmail.com
Website: www.cjcc2012.ca

[Eric Hansen]

Can someone explain why the females receive the same as males? I'm all for promoting female chess, but this seems very strange to me. 95% of the entrants are normally boys yet the prize is split 50/50???? And it doesn't even cover the full expenses of a trip to WJCC...

Let's be realistic, females already have equal, if not much better opportunities than males when it comes to junior chess in Canada. WYCC, World Junior, and Olympiad are some examples. There's no need to take away from others.

[Bob Gillanders]

Can someone explain why the females receive the same as males?

Because the airlines will charge them the same for airline tickets!

[Andrei Botez]

2012 Canadian Junior Championship
XMAS Break Thursday Jan 5, 2012 through Sunday Jan 8, 2012
Calgary Junior Chess Club
Prizes: Top male and female winner will each receive travel flight vouchers to
attend the 2012 World Junior Championship in Athens, Greecefor a value of $1300 per winner. ]

Can the prize be used to go to Panamerican Junior Championship instead of WJ?

[Fred McKim]

Can the prize be used to go to Panamerican Junior Championship instead of WJ?

It's my understanding that the prize will be offered to the 2nd or 3rd place finishers, if the winner declines. No alternative prizes.

Bob, is that the correct interpretation from this past year. Or was that simply the rule for 2011 ?

[Fred McKim]

Can the prize be used to go to Panamerican Junior Championship instead of WJ?

It's my understanding that the prize will be offered to the 2nd or 3rd place finishers, if the winner declines. No alternative prizes.

Bob, is that the correct interpretation from this past year. Or was that simply the rule for 2011 ?

[Bob Gillanders]

It's my understanding that the prize will be offered to the 2nd or 3rd place finishers, if the winner declines. No alternative prizes.

Bob, is that the correct interpretation from this past year. Or was that simply the rule for 2011 ?

Yes Fred. The girls prize was offered to 1st, 2nd, 3rd. All declined. In consultation with Youth coordinator it was offered to a few top girls (at the last minute), but all declined. The prize was $750 towards travel costs, so the player would still need to pay some expenses. The objective was to find a Cdn representative at the World Junior. No alternate tournaments were considered.

[Andrei Botez]

Yes Fred. The girls prize was offered to 1st, 2nd, 3rd. All declined. In consultation with Youth coordinator it was offered to a few top girls (at the last minute), but all declined. The prize was $750 towards travel costs, so the player would still need to pay some expenses. The objective was to find a Cdn representative at the World Junior. No alternate tournaments were considered.

I don't see anything wrong with the idea to offer the first place in a youth/junior championship the choice to pick the next level tournament right after the national tournament ends.

I will explain it a bit to make it clear.

Let's take CYCC as the National Championship and WYCC, PanAm Youth and NAYCC:
- the first place has the first pick where to go as a Canadian representative, CFC will provide the airfare money prize mentioned (in CYCC case $1000). CFC will present the prize money when is sure that the player is participating in the tournament. If the first place decide not to go in any of those 3 tournaments then the money will go to 2nd place. After picking one tournament the champion still can participate in other 2 tournaments but not as Canadian representative (except if he/she is the only Canadian representative) and CFC is not responsible for providing funding.
- the second place, if the champion already pick, will pick one of the remaining 2 tournaments to be the Canadian representative (getting free accommodation etc) but no travel funding from CFC. Same as the champion 2nd place still can participate in other 2 tournaments but not as Canadian representative (except if he/she is the only Canadian representative) and CFC is not responsible for providing funding.
- and so on for 3rd place down. The tiebreaker can be the performance rating.

Similar idea for Canadian champion going to one of the next 2 layers of U20: Worlds Junior and PanAm Junior.

I modeled this after European countries who are giving the choices between WYCC, EYCC and Scholastic CC.

Andrei