Hamilton Winter Open 2009

[Bob Gillanders]

Hamilton Winter Open 2009 will take place on the weekend of March 7-8.

The trend set by ours and Niagara's 2008 events indicate that chess tournaments are becoming more popular in the Golden Horseshoe area. We thank you all who made this success possible and we ask you to help us make chess even more successful in 2009.

At 40 dollars this tournament is one of the greatest deals in Southern Ontario yet you can still get a ten percent discount by emailing us by March 6. We take no profit for ourselves. Everything above our fees goes to the prize fund.

A MAJOR discount will also be available for titled players who commit to playing in our event by February 15. Titled players interested should email us asap for details.

Our tournament location is conveniently located across the street from a decent sized mall giving you access to food and other supplies between games.

This event is part of the SWOCL Grand Prix.

To see a detailed poster of our event please visit:

http://chess.servegame.com/hamilton/...erOpen2009.htm

Feel free to send any discount requests and other questions to chesshamilton@gmail.com

And thanks again,

Garvin
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Hamilton City Chess Club

[Bob Gillanders]

Garvin,

Do we have a preregistered list we can post ?

Just a week and a half away.

[Bob Gillanders]

Here's the tournament flyer since we are having some website problems:

Still time to sign up. I am trying to get a pre registered list out of Garvin, but it's like pulling teeth ! LOL Garvin tells me we have 28 already !

Hamilton Winter Open
A chess tournament Presented by the Hamilton City Chess Club

Prize Fund: 100% of entries less expenses
(About $1000 every 30 entries)

5 Round Swiss
March 7th & 8th

Hamilton Wentworth District School Board
100 Main St West
Hamilton, Ontario

Parking & entrance behind the building, enter off Bay St. between King & Main

Register on-site, Saturday March 7 between 9:00 am – 9:15 am, cash only.

Rounds: Saturday - 9:30 am, 1:30 pm and 5:30 pm
Sunday - 10:30 am and 3:30 pm

Entry Fee: $ 40.00
Email us by March 6 to receive 10% discount
Titled Players who commit to playing by Feb 15 will receive major discount

Time Control: rounds 1-3 90 minutes SD, rounds 4-5 2 hrs SD

Chess Federation of Canada membership required
This is a CFC rated event
Bring Chess sets, Boards & clocks--no computers on site
Please turn off your cell phones

To get on the discount list or ask questions about our CFC events please email
chesshamilton@gmail.com

And don’t forget to visit our website at
chess.servegame.com/hamilton

Tournament Organizers: Garvin Nunes, Bob Gillanders, Joe Ellis, Gordon Gooding

This is a SWOCL grand prix event

[Bob Gillanders]

Hamilton Winter Open, March 7 & 8
Here is our pre-registration and discount list so far:


Eddie Mark............2354*
Doug Bailey...........2312
Michael Dougherty..2274
Hugh Siddeley........2167
Mike Egorov..........2151
Hans Jung.............2138
Vladimir Drkule.......2131
Jesse B. Wang.......2020
Gordon Gooding......2005
Raymond Singh......1988
Alex Friedman........1981
Garvin Nunes.........1909
Rob Gashgarian......1893
Robert Gillanders....1889
Joe T Ellis.............1884
Matthew Nicholson..1836
Stan Percival.........1820
Brian Fortney.........1768
Matt Cooke...........1689
Kevin Zhou............1622
Mei Chen Lee.........1564
Ivan Kudelka..........1553
Drake Lalonde.........1505
Jose Belzunce.........1485
John Maclean..........1468
Adam Cormier.. .......1434
Jackie Peng ............1430
Leslie Tang.............1253*
Ricky McArthur........1125
Yuanchen Zhang......1099*


*Still deciding

If you notice any mistakes on this list please send your concerns to chesshamilton@gmail.com

[Bob Gillanders]

Congratulations to Roman Sapozhnikov and Alex Friedman who tied for 1st with 4.5/5.

We had a strong field with 47 players, up from 36 last year. Our Hamilton winter and summer weekend swiss's continue to grow.

Special congratulations to Alex Friedman with a huge upset win over Michael Dougherty in the final round.

Complete tournament report will be in the webzine.