2022 Ottawa Winter Open January 21, 22, 23

[Halldor P. Palsson]

2022 Ottawa Winter Open
An EOCA Grand Prix Event [www.eoca.ca]

Date: February 11, 12 ,13, 2022
Place: RA Centre, 2451 Riverside Drive, Ottawa –

Room(s): Courtside A & B - We are limited to 80 participants if the same public health capacity regulations are in place at the RA Centre as for 2021 National Capital Open and 2021 RA December Open.

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 $600, 2nd $300 3d $150 U2200 $100, U2050 $100
U 1900 – ( rated CFC); 1st $250, 2nd $150 3rd $100; U1750 $100;
U1600 – (rated CFC) 1st $125, 2nd $75 3rd 50.

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.


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.

Free entry for GM/WGM & IM/WIM. CFC National Master entry fee is $80 if entered by e-mail by January 7th. GM Bator Sambuev is playing.


C.F.C. membership is required. FQE=CFC membership.

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

Prizes: $$BEN

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

Registration: to: Halldor P. Palsson by e-mail to fs889@ncf.ca. Please Interac etransfer entry fees to fs889@ncf.ca

Use the RA Chess Club pieces & clocks or if you prefer bring your own.

[Halldor P. Palsson]

We are limited to 80 now. We had 80 participants in the 2021 National Capital Open and the 2021 RA December Open.

We are at 61 of 80. I will update pre-registered list later today.

2022 Ottawa Winter Open

# Name/Rating/ID
1 Bator Sambuev
2556 146462 (2641) (4128290)
2 Ahmeet Ghasi
2485
3 Olivier Kenta Chiku-Ratte
2480 148376 (2357) (2614782)
4 Shawn Rodrigue-Lemieux
2457 155300 (2345) (2620049)
5 Victor Plotkin
2422 142063 (2370) (2606674)
6 Koosha Jaferian
2392 174318 (unr.) (12507440)
7 Zachary Dukic
2336 149507 (2265) (2617188)
8 William Li
2275 154677 (2208) (2619750)
9 Johnathan Han
2271 161709 (2040) (2629631)
10 Christopher Pace
2267 141390 (2079) (2610167)
11 Marius Nicula
2234 128271 (2224) (1203096)
12 Isaac Wiebe
2207 146995 (2192) (2623862)
13 Saeid Sadeghi
2112 139655 (2112) (2606810)
14 Jake Van Rooy
2066 152635 (2038) (2622670)
15 Milos Petrovic
2055 160269 (1772) (2633582)
16 Vincent Latorre
2021 162297 (1926)
17 Troy Hansen
2009 135151 (1994) (2622653)
18 Michael Shi
2000 167348 (1791) (2634090)
19 Rafael Adam
1979 165899 (1812) (2630958)
20 Ilia Batorshyn
1974 167504 (1984) (2633140)
21 Danail Donev
1951 143574 (2106) (2604094)
22 Carina D'Souza
1892 167600 (1857) (2635550)
23 Derek Wang
1861 166573 (1646) (2636115)
24 Etienne Latreille
1851 154563 (1872) (2634279)
25 Jonath Joseph
1846 171981 (1479) (329105368)
26 Henry Hughes
1824 160188 (1758) (329219082)

2022 Ottawa Winter U1900

# Name/Rating/ID
1 Jeff Groot-Lipman
1822 102773 (1950) (2625628)
2 Randika Balasooriya
1797 150499 (1636) (2635968)
3 William Landstrom
1760 162880 (1705) (2633540)
4 Sebastien Azar
1726 167031 (1969)
5 Nicolas Dupont-Mageau
1697 156184 (1684) (2635984)
6 Marcel Laurin
1664 100337 (1795) (2604906)
7 Anthony Masse-Garneau
1631 158468 (1610) (2636000)
8 Victor Samuel
1583 112306 (1531) (2629062)
9 Neil Moses
1532 170949 (1113) (2640627)

2022 Ottawa Winter U1600

# Name/Rating/ID
1 Joao Costa
1587 174951
2 Cody Griffiths
1530 172958 (1440)
3 Elber Zhu
1482 174325
4 Oliver Byl
1465 174403
5 Bryce MacDonald
1462 174843
6 Theo Kneen
1405 174656
7 Romy Peters
1387 135706 (1589) (2605589)
8 Anais Chloe Fiset
1380 173894 (1051) (2640503)
9 Valori Ethier
1355 103661 (1262)
10 Malcolm Arendt
1338 173025 (1132)
11 Jeremy Sztuka
1322 162452 (1366) (2629089)
12 Justin Wen
1297 174383
13 Samuel Khosla
1296 174734
14 Veronica Hitchlock
1293 167285 (1240)
15 Neerav Mullur
1271 152505 (1134)
16 Akash Shetty
1164 173469 (1285)
17 Vicente Costa
1092 174409 (unr.) (1942409)
18 Dave Westbury
1079 158216 (1036)
19 Pierre Arcand
1052 160146 (1131)
20 Daniel Fiset
1026 174851
21 Erik Smith
993 174446
22 Ahmed Nuru
884 174754
23 Tran Phuong Anh Huynh
unr. 174931
24 Abigail Morris
unr.
25 Mehar Bala
unr. 174914
26 Matt Vitiello
unr.

[Halldor P. Palsson]

The tournament runs February 11,12 13, 2022.

RA March Open booking is for March 4-6th and that will run unless the RA is closed.

A full refund of your entry fee is available if you cannot play February 11,12 13. Just e-mail your e-transfer instructions to me.

Best regards,

Halldor Palsson