2020 Eastern Ont. Open June 12,13 &14

[Halldor P. Palsson]

2020 Eastern Ontario Open Chess Championship
An EOCA Grand Prix Event, www.eoca.ca

Date: June 12-13-14, 2020
Place: RA Centre, 2451 Riverside Drive, Ottawa – Riverstone Room (subject to change).
Rounds: 5, Friday 7:30 PM Saturday & Sunday @ 10 AM & 3 PM.

Type: Regular Swiss

Prizes are based on projected entries and may change.

Open - (rated FIDE & CFC); 1st $600, 2nd $300 3rd $150: U2200 $100 & U2050 $100;
U 1900 – (rated CFC); 1st $250, 2nd $150 3rd $75; U1750 $100;
U1600 – (rated CFC) 1st $150, 2nd $100 3rd 50; U1300 $50

Time Control: Game-in-90-plus-30-seconds-a-move.

Entry Fee: Open $80 if pre-registered, $100 at site;
U1900 $60 if pre-registered, $80 at site;
U1600 $40 if pre-registered, $50 at site.
Free entry for GM/WGM & IM/WIM. National Master $60 if entered by e-mail by June 5th.

Add $20 if playing up a section. A player must be 100 points or less from the rating floor for the section he wants to play up in.

Amateur entry is $30. Amateur entrants are not eligible for prizes. Amateur entrants will be used in a higher or a lower section, if needed, to avoid giving a BYE to a player.

CFC or FQE membership is required.

Requesting byes: max of three ½ point byes in the first four rounds.

Prizes: $$BEN

Organizers; RA Chess Club, EOCA. TD: Halldor P. Palsson

Registration: Cheque by June 5th, payable to: Halldor P. Palsson, 633 Island Park Cr., Ottawa, Ont. K1Y 3P4 or interac etransfers to e-mail fs889@ncf.ca

Or register in person at the RA Chess Club, June 4 &11, 7:00-7:30 PM

Please bring your own equipment if you prefer it – RA Club sets and clocks are provided.

[Hugh Brodie]

Don't these dates conflict with both the Golden Horseshoe Open (Mississauga), and the Guelph Pro-Am?

[Halldor P. Palsson]

I asked for weekends later in the month but weddings and other events crowd us out of the RA. This is the only weekend in June that the RA Centre can allow us to use the hall. So we run the tournament that weekend.

There is little overlap between my 40-60 player tournaments in Ottawa and whatever is on offer in Toronto or Guelph. In a fantasy five players from the GTA sign up for my events but most of the time it is 1 or 2 I am dealing with. I think you can say at most five Ottawa area players might participate in an event in Toronto or Guelph.

[Halldor P. Palsson]

This event is now cancelled.

I will run this tournament post covid-19.