RA Fall Open (FIDE & CFC): RA registrations Thursday
Hi again, I will be at the RA club on Thursday, September 4th, from 7pm onwards, taking registrations. That will be the last chance to pay with no late fee. Note that onsite payment on Friday (but already registered by email) costs only $5 more, but onsite registration and payment on Friday costs $20 more.
Therefore, even if you or a friend cannot pay on Thursday, emailing me your registration will save you $15 on Friday, and save us both some scrambling! ;)
Remember that Brad Thomson from the Ottawa Strategy Games store will run a Chess&Math kiosk on Saturday, from 12noon for the rest of the day, set up in the skittles room next door to the playing room. If there is anything that you would like him to bring, please feel free to contact him at the Ottawa store, (613) 565-3662, or via email: thomson at chess-math dot org
Also, IM Brian Hartman is graciously bringing autographed copies of Nick's Best, by Lawrence Day. We will be selling them for the discounted price of $25, and the proceeds will go towards a junior prize. If you would like one reserved for you, please email Brad (email just above) and myself (email just below).
P.S. Would anyone know how I could get in touch with Doug Burgess and Terry Fleming? If yes, please reply privately: arismarghetis at rogers dot com
Please find below the list of players registered so far, and there are some more that I am emailing back and forth with. In Ottawa, we usually get a lot of registrants at the RA club on the Thursday before a weekend event, so I will repost this list again after then. Thanks again for any email registrations! :)
rating FIDE# ....CFC# name (byes)
2527 4128290 146462 GM Sambuev
2445 2600064 106245 IM O'Donnell
2432 2600200 106245 IM Hartman
2378 2600234 102629 FM Hamilton
2292 2603110 101864 Valdizon
2258 2605147 127769 Henry
2244 2602431 106629 Gordon
2200 2605651 134989 Qin
2171 2606844 133928 Xiong,J
2144 2607310 101805 Fiedler
2128 2603730 105142 Mayo
2098 2603136 106856 Palsson
2064 ........... 108750 Dunn
2019 2605732 121329 Shah
2003 2605570 146323 Pestov
1945 2606445 112806 VanDusen
1930 2604345 142032 Forget
1926 ........... 141390 Pace,C
1924 2606321 111290 Smilovici
1900 2607034 135360 Longo
1889 2607182 133929 Xiong,S
1887 ........... 108131 Gavan
1886 ........... 111268 Robinson
1823 2604892 104270 Laszlo (3)
1777 2604094 143574 Donev
1769 2604965 134898 Li
1735 ........... 103959 Nadeau
1719 2606267 136932 Schwartz (1)
1697 ........... 146811 Zhang (2-3)
1675 2604744 137927 Kalra
1649 ........... 104181 Wright
1644 2609177 134845 Renaud (1)
1541 ........... 147351 Liu [U1800]
1446 2606283 144311 Sharma
1418 ........... 120275 Levesque
1418 ........... 146597 Luo,F
1411 2602989 103951 Abrams
1402 2604698 145247 Jarmyn
1400 2604205 135113 Eyre (3)
1387 ........... 141391 Pace,N
1275 ........... 146449 Buss (4)
1161 ........... 147460 Wan
1117 ........... 146598 Luo,T
--------- original event announcement ---------
The EOCA is pleased to announce the first event of the 2008-2009 EOCA Grand Prix, the RA Fall Open. It is scheduled this year for the weekend after Labour Day. My plan is to spend lots of time with the family on the holiday weekend, thus earning time away to run the tournament the weekend after! :)
Back to the event details, to start this new season, the Top (>=2000) section will now be rated FIDE. In addition, regular participants from past EOCA events will notice that the prize fund is getting chunkier. We're still working on potential sponsorship, but even without that, we should exceed $3000.
On top of that, I used to offer discounts for GM and IM, and now there are also discounts for FM, and for the female equivalents: WGM, WIM, and WFM.
We are also happy to announce that we have formed a partnership with the Crowne Plaza Hotel for those of you who need a place to stay. If you are indeed interested in taking advantage of the rate we negotiated ($100! off their regular weekend rate), I recommend you reserve as soon as you can.
For complete details for this event, and a great webpage to bookmark for all of the events in the 2008-2009 EOCA Grand Prix, please go to this weblink:
http://www.eoca.org/htm/tournaments%202008-09.html
All the best,
Aris Marghetis, Organizer/TD
EOCA President, OCA/CFC Governor
