Canterbury Summer Swiss

[Publicist]

Box Hill Chess Club presents The 2009 CANTERBURY SUMMER SWISS
at 3 Rochester Road Canterbury on 3 days from December 27 to December 29
Tournament: A 7 round swiss tournament.
Rate of Play: 90 min. per player per game plus 30 sec. per move from move 1
Ratings: ACF rated, FIDE rated
Entry fees: Early bird entry fee $40 Pay before Christmas
Or after that date Full entry fee $60
There is a special discount of $10 for Box Hill Chess Club, and Canterbury Junior members on all entry fees.
Free entry for Grand Masters and International Masters provided their entries are received during the early bird period
Payments: Cash, or cheque to the Box Hill Chess Club Inc.
Entries: by mail to the address on the entry form or in person at the Box Hill Chess Club.
Prizes
Total Prize fund $1200
First Prize $400
Second Prize $200
Third prize $100
Five Ratings prizes $100

Playing schedule:
Sunday Rd 1 10.00 Rd 2 15.00
Monday Dec 28 Rd 3 10.00 Rd 4, 15.00 Rd 5, 19.30
Tuesday Dec. 29 Rd 6 10.00 Rd 7 15.00

Forfeit time 30 minutes

The tournament is financially supported by the friends of the Box Hill Chess Club who aim to contribute $500 towards the tournament expenses

Enquiries: Gerrit Hartland, tournament organiser
Telephone 9 8783163 email: gerrit.hartland@bigpond.com

[The Bennett]

Is this event an open so anyone can play?

[Publicist]

The tournament is now a catagory 2 Grand prix event.
Of course anyone can play. It is just that you get an extra $10 discount if you are a member.

[Igor_Goldenberg]

The tournament is now a catagory 2 Grand prix event.
Of course anyone can play. It is just that you get an extra $10 discount if you are a member.

Gran Prix 2009 or 2010?

[Bill Gletsos]

Forfeit time 30 minutes

For all 2009 ACF GP events the forfeit time is 1 hour.

[Publicist]

For all 2009 ACF GP events the forfeit time is 1 hour.

Thank you I did not know that

[SHump]

For all 2009 ACF GP events the forfeit time is 1 hour.

Bill - where is this information found? I realise that different GP events have different game times (such as 60/75/90 minutes, with 60 being the minimum) but I thought the organiser could choose an appropriate forfeit time, usually based on the game times, that could be less than 60 minutes.

[Bill Gletsos]

Bill - where is this information found? I realise that different GP events have different game times (such as 60/75/90 minutes, with 60 being the minimum) but I thought the organiser could choose an appropriate forfeit time, usually based on the game times, that could be less than 60 minutes.

The ACF decided that all GP events would have a uniform forfeit time. Since events at the start of the year were under the 23005 FIDE Laws with its forfeit time of 1 hour then this was adopted for all ACF GP events for 2009.

For 2010 the ACF GP forfeit time will be 30 minutes.

[SHump]

Thanks Bill - perhaps this 30 minute factoid could go onto the 2010 GP web site somewhere - or some way of letting all the GP organisers know about it?

[Publicist]

1hour, 0.5 hour whatever. In a tournament that has more than 1 round a day. It is a good policy to get there on time. Then you can find out who your opponent is and think about what you want to play

[Publicist]

Due to the wonderful donation response from the friends of the Box Hill Chess Club we are now able to increase the total prize fund to $1500 in line with last year's prizes. So we now have these changes from the first concept:
1st prize $500
2nd prize $250
3rd prize $150
6 ratings prizes at $100.
We now have 1hr forfeit time.
We have class 2 grand prix rating.
Let us hope we get many entries soon

[brett]

Are there a list of entrants at the moment for this event?

Regards

Brett

[Publicist]

With the entry of Sam Chow [2007 Joint winner] Entries are starting to flow . Sam being a BHCC member pays an entry fee is $30! This surely must be best value in town. Did I really set the fees as low as that? What was I thinking of. Come and join Sam and me. Enter early and often. Gerry

[Publicist]

We have secured the entries from Eugene Schön and Justin Tan both of whom will be great assets to the tournament, however Bobby Cheng will be away on a family holiday in New Zealand. I hope they are proud of him over there as well

[Davidflude]

We have received entries over the last few days from Zachary Loh, Jorg Wallmueller among others. Who is the strong mystery player who may be going to enter. Even publicist does not know his identity.

Why not enter during the Chess Victoria Blitz this afternoon.