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    Canadian Open Chess Championship
    Sun, July 10 to Sun July 17, 2016
    Caesars Windsor
    377 Riverside Dr E,
    Windsor, ON N9A 7H7
    website: windsorchess.org/tournaments

    9 round chess tournament to determine the Canadian Open champion.
    CFC and FIDE rated (top two sections only), One round per day with one double round day.

    Head Arbiter: TBA
    Time Control: 40 moves in 90 minutes, remainder of game in 1 hour, plus 30 second increment per move throughout.

    Tentative Schedule:

    Round 1: 2:00 pm Sunday July 10
    Round 2-6: 6:00 pm Mon-Fri Jul 11-15
    Round 7: 10 am Saturday July 16.
    Round 8: 6:00 pm Saturday, July 16.
    Round 9: 10:00 am, Sunday, July 17

    Super Early bird Entry Fee until March 1st:

    All sections except U1200: $150.
    U1200 section: $60

    Exchange rates below based on Sunday, February 7th rates or as otherwise noted.

    After March 1st $175 Cdn ($127 U.S. at today's exchange rate), Free entry for GMs and IMs. U1200 $60
    After April 1st $195 Cdn. U1200 $60
    After July 1st $225 Cdn U1200 $65



    Prize Fund: $15,000 Canadian Guaranteed:
    Open Section (CFC, USCF or FIDE over 2000) : $2000 / $1600 / $1300 / $1100 / $1000 U2400: $750 / $500 U2200: $750 / $500

    U2000 Section: $750 / $500 U1800: $750 / $500
    U1600 Section: $650 / $400 U1400: $650 / $400 U1200 $500
    Booster U1200 Section : Trophies Only Trophies for Top 3 plus Top 3 Under 1000, Top 3 Under 800 rating
    Unrated Prize: $200
    Prize fund is guaranteed
    Players within 100 points of rating floor can play up for $20 donation to CFC Chess Olympiad Fund

    Highest rating of CFC, USCF or FIDE used in determining prize eligibility except in open section where prizes and pairings based on FIDE ratings.
    Players over 1900 FIDE rating must play in Open section. Players must disclose ratings.
    2500 CFC, FQE or USCF not eligible for U2400 prize.
    2300 FQE, CFC or USCF not eligible for U2200 prize.

    Prizes are guaranteed but based on paid entries. Prize structure is based on 160 fully paid entries.
    If there are 220 entries prize fund will improve to $20,000. Booster section players count as 0.4 of an entry for purposes of this calculation. The last time this tournament was held in Montreal in 2014 there were over 400 participants.
    Note: Unrated players are not eligible for class prizes.

    Register Online:
    https://onlineregistration.cc/ Go down to Windsor Chess Association and choose Canadian Open at bottom of page.
    https://onlineregistration.cc/tourna...izdLa&tid=nqWg

    Special Room Rate for Canadian Youth Chess Championship, Canadian Open and North American Youth Chess Championship:


    $129.00 Canadian ($88.79 US at current exchange rate Jan 15th) week night double occupancy room Sun through Thursday


    $149.00 Canadian ($102.56 US at today’s exchange rate) weekend double occupancy room Fri, Sat All Hotel prices do not include applicable taxes. These are reduced rates as they have waived the $10 per night resort fee and the $5 reservation fee.


    For each of these tournaments we expect to be holding many side events including bughouse, blitz and lectures by noted chess personalities GMs, IMs, FMs, NMs. There will be $10 to $20 fees for side events all of which will be free to players staying in the official hotel Caesars Windsor a four diamond luxury destination.

    You can reserve a room at Caesars Windsor by clicking on the following link or by calling the toll free number below and using the group code below:

    http://www.totalrewards.com/hotel-reservations?propCode=WCL&groupCode=ACP0710

    Caesars Group Code for Canadian Open is ACP0710
    Call Caesars Windsor Reservations Toll Free
    1-800-991-7777

    Checks in U.S. or Canadian funds can be sent to:

    Windsor Chess
    c/o Vlad Drkulec
    1725 Calvary Crt,
    Tecumseh, Ontario, Canada N8N 4X1

    Please include Name, CFC, USCF and/or FIDE ID and section that you wish to play in.

    Paypal payments to:
    info@windsorchess.org
    Last edited by Vladimir Drkulec; 02-25-2016 at 06:00 AM.

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