2024 Ottawa March Open, March 1-3.

2024 Ottawa March Open
An EOCA Grand Prix Event [www.eoca.ca]

Date: March 1,2,3, 2024

Place: RA Centre, 2451 Riverside Drive, Ottawa, Ontario K1H 7X7

Room(s): Clark Hall

Rounds: 5, Friday 7:00 PM Saturday & Sunday @ 10 AM & 3 PM.

Type: Regular Swiss

Sections and prizes are based on projected entries and may change.

Open - (rated FIDE & CFC); 1st $1000, 2nd $600, 3rd $400; U2200 $200, U2050 $200
U 1900 – (rated CFC); 1st $600, 2nd $400 3rd $200; U1750 $200;
U1600 – (rated CFC) 1st $600, 2nd $400 3rd 200; U1300 $200

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

Entry Fee: Open; $100 if pre-registered, $120 at site;
U1900 $80 if pre-registered, $100 at site;
U1600 $60 if pre-registered, $80 at site.

Free entry for GM/WGM & IM/WIM. National Master entry is $80 if registered by February 22 – (one week before event), $100 after that. GM Bator Sambuev is playing.

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.

CFC or FQE membership is required.

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

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

Registration: to: Halldor P Palsson, by e-mail & Interac e-transfer to fs889@ncf.ca

Or register in person at the RA Chess Club, February 22, 29.

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

Schedule of RA weekend tournaments;
June 14,15,16, 2024 Eastern Ontario Open Clark Hall