2019 Box Hill Chess Club Championship

[Peter Tsai]

2019 Box Hill Chess Club Championship

A 9 Round Robin (Division A) & 9 Round Swiss tournament (Division B)

Eligibility: 2018/9 BHCC membership or 2018 CJCC membership is required
Club Membership: $85 for Adults and $70 for families and Concession
Online Registration and Payment for Membership: to Try Booking (https://www.trybooking.com/BBYHL)
Early Bird Entry fee: $50 must be paid by Wednesday May 1
Full Fee: $70 (from May 2)
Free entry for GM, IM and FM
Online Registration and Payment for Tournament: Try Booking (https://www.trybooking.com/BBYNF)

Venue: 21A Electra Avenue, Ashwood 3147
Rate of Play: 90 min. / player / game plus 30 sec. per move from move one
Forfeiture time: 30 minutes from advertised start time.
ACF & FIDE Rated

Playing Schedule
Round 1: Friday May 3 7:30 pm
Round 2: Friday May 10 7:30 pm
Round 3: Friday May 17 7:30 pm
Round 4: Friday May 24 7:30 pm
Round 5: Friday May 31 7:30 pm [miss June 8]
Round 6: Friday June 14 7:30 pm
Round 7: Friday June 21 7:30 pm
Round 8: Friday June 28 7:30 pm
Round 9: Friday July 5 7:30 pm

Total Prize Pool: $4650

Division A will be a 10 player, 9 round robin tournament. Higher rated players are invited to apply for this tournament (apply to the organiser – Peter Tsai chess@t-s-a-i.com – up to 22 April, then to Trevor Stanning trevorstanning@gmail.com from 23 April). Closing date for Division A entry is Wednesday 1 May. The highest 9 FIDE rated players will be accepted by Wednesday 1 May
Division A Prizes: 1st $1500, 2nd $800 3rd $400 4th $200

Division B will be open to all other players with a limit of 70 players and either have a FIDE rating or an ACF rating of over 500. Players below the rating limit will be placed on a waitlist. The winner of Division B will automatically qualify for Division A in the 2020 Club Championship.
Half Point Byes: A maximum of two half point byes only will be permitted for rounds 1 to 7 (Division B only).
Pairings will be published on Wednesday. Arbiter must be informed by Tuesday COB if you require a bye for the following round
Division B Prizes: 1st $700 2nd $400 3rd $200. 3 ratings prizes of $150 each


Tournament Organiser: Peter Tsai Telephone 0419 324 870 Email: chess@t-s-a-i.com
Arbiter: FA Kyle Gibson Mobile 0466 612 334 mtgkyle@live.com.au (rounds 1 to 3)
IA Peter Tsai Mobile 0419 324 870 chess@t-s-a-i.com (from round 4);

LOCATION
Box Hill Chess Club, 21A Electra Avenue, Ashwood, Vic 3147

[Peter Tsai]

No Name                FIDE ACF Title

1. Zou, Brendan        1871 1916         winner of Div 2 in 2019  
2. Chan, Luis          2241 2292 fm   
3. Sandler, Leonid     2223 2266 im   
4. Dragicevic, Domagoj 2202 2266 fm   
5. Nemeth, John        2164 2190      
6. Soo, Kai Jie        1989 2067      
7. Hacche, David J     1957 1977 fm

Applications are open for Division 1 till 1 May.
Top 9 FIDE rated players will be accepted in the 10 players round robin

Apply via email to Peter Tsai chess@t-s-a-i.com (till 22 April), then to Trevor Stanning trevorstanning@gmail.com (from 23 April to 1 May)

[Peter Tsai]

Applicants for Division 1

ID	NAME	                Title	RtgF	RtgN	
1	Chan,Luis	        FM	2241	2292	
2	Sandler,Leonid	        IM	2223	2266	
3	Dragicevic,Domagoj	FM	2202	2266	
4	Nemeth,John		        2164	2191	
5	Yang,Ray		        2112	2164	
6	Soo,Kai Jie		        1989	2068	
7	Hacche,David J	        FM	1957	1978	
8	Zou,Brendan		        1871	1916	Winner of 2018 Div 2
9	Li,Oliver		        1780	1646

Division 2 Entries

ID	NAME	                RtgF	RtgN
1	Ilic,Nicholas	        1898	1954
2	Do,Aaron	        1743	1605
3	Ilic,Goran	        1741	1681
4	Van Sebille,Sulia	1457	1277
5	Sanusi-Goh,Gavyn	1419	1298
6	Srinivasan,Arjun B	1391	1241
7	Jansen,Tony	        0	1381
8	Kelly,Geoff	        0	801

[Amigo]

Could you please place Nicholas Ilic under Division 1 entries for now

[Peter Tsai]

ID	NAME	          Title	RtgF	RtgN
1	Chan,Luis	    FM	2241	2292
2	Sandler,Leonid	    IM	2223	2266
3	Dragicevic,Domagoj  FM	2202	2266
4	Nemeth,John		2164	2191
5	Yang,Ray		2112	2164
6	Soo,Kai Jie		1989	2068
7	Hacche,David J	    FM	1957	1978
8	Raine,Marcus		1905	1933
9	Ilic,Nicholas		1898	1954
10	Zou,Brendan		1871	1916    Winner of 2018 Div 2
11	Li,Oliver		1780	1646

[Amigo]

Peter, are you going to be using May FIDE ratings for the Division A

[Peter Tsai]

Peter, are you going to be using May FIDE ratings for the Division A

Closing date for applications to Division A is May 1 and the May FIDE ratings will be used