All4chess & Chess4All: Toronto Chess Festival For Women & Girls

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The Hart House Chess Club is proud to announce an upcoming event for Women and Girls! The All4chess & Chess4All: Toronto Chess Festival For Women & Girls will be hosted at Hart House on Sunday, May 14th. The event is supported by the Canadian Chess Federation, Ontario Chess Association, and the FIDE Commission for Women’s Chess. event flyer – EVENT REPORT

FORMAT AND LOGISTICS

Where: Debates Room, Hart House, University of Toronto. 7 Hart House Circle, Toronto, ON M5S 3H3
When: Sunday, May 14, 2023 from 9:30 am – 5:30 pm
Format: 3 events: Lectures, Simultaneous Exhibition, Rapid Tournament
Lunch: provided for all attendees
Cost: free (event is fully financial supported)
Eligibility: only open to Women and Girls
Registration: via email with: name of attendee, dietary restrictions (lunch provided), note if any events will be skipped (lectures, simul, rapid tournament), CFC ID, email address
Organizer: Hart House Chess Club, Tanner McNamara
Email: hhchess@studentorg.utoronto.ca
CFC: unrated
Equipment: Chess sets and clocks supplied

SCHEDULE

  1. Lectures: 9:30 am – 12:00 pm
    • Speakers: WGM Dana Reizniece-Ozola, WGM Anna Burtasova, WFM Oksana Golubeva
  2. Lunch: 12:00 pm – 1 pm
    • Lunch provided for all guests
  3. Simultaneous Exhibition: 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
    • Simul with clocks against speakers
  4. Rapid Tournament: 5 round, 10 minute + 2 seconds. $1250 in prizes and trophies for 4 age groups (see flyer for breakdown)

Participants are requested to check-in outside the Debates Room for all events.

RAPID REGULATIONS

Live DGT boards: https://lichess.org/broadcast/toronto-chess-festival-for-women–girls/round-2/zlF39sSv

Tournament format: 5 round swiss system at a time control of 10+2. The tournament is played as one big group, but you will be paired against others with the same score as you (if you win a lot of games, you will play opponents who are winning a lot; if you lose games, you will play opponents who are also losing). Each player has 10 minutes to complete each game, and 2 seconds are added with every move made.

The tournament is unrated. CFC regular ratings used for pairings and prize eligibility. Quick, FIDE, or other national ratings can be used in the absence of CFC regular or at the discretion of the arbiter.

Players may take up to one half point bye in rounds 1-4 if requested before the start. Byes requested late or for round 5 will be worth 0 points. Forced byes are worth 1 point.

Cash prizes will be shared in case of a tie. Trophies will be awarded according to tiebreaks: Buchholz (lowest opponent dropped), Buchholz (no exclusions), Sonneborn-Berger, direct encounter, number of blacks.

Players do not need to keep score. The touch move rule applies – if a player touches a piece of their own and is able to move it, they must do so. If they touch an opponent’s piece and are able to capture it, they must move so. Players should pause the clock and call an arbiter in case of any claim or dispute. An illegal move results in 2 minutes added to the opponent’s clock for the first offense, and in loss of game for the second offense.

Make sure the result of your game is reported correctly, and notify the arbiter of any mistake as soon as you notice.

PRE-REGISTERED

FirstLastTitleRatingCFC/FIDE ID
1LizLeeunrx
2RobinLeeunrx
3AdelinaNicu991 (Q)173958
4LauraNicuunr174203
5ChloeDuong135512416967
6ShannonZhao795179928
7HeidiGay1019175381
8IreneXie1703175644
9HanxiJiang1870166648
10AnnaDelgashevaunrx
11OlenaKucherenkoWCM204914117304
12OlgaMushtaler581175787
13VictoriaLai742177318
14MariaPolyanska506 (Q)178767
15TiffanyChen750178654
16OksanaGolubevaWFM2302168840
17AnnaBurtasovaWGM2271169693
18AshleyQian1761168050
19Yunxi (Juliana)Chenunr181804
20AprilZhong1791167271
21AriannaYuan1031180970
22OliviaKusunr181544
23NataliaKusunr181545
24SerenaWilson1121 (Q)176965
25ChloeHuang920173785
26AlyssaLi1006179191
27PurviGadde834 (Q)176158
28AlexaRoque874172868
29EmilyRobinson1084147903
30AniOrchanian-Cheffunrx
31NehaNavinunr181798
32AdieTodd1573125156
33AnnaRomanunrx
34LisaRomanunrx
35LucyGao1792161206
36KendraForrestunrx
37HannahShen1015179971
38ElhamBanazadeh1257 (B)36794619
39IngridWu1472160934
40HelenSomohanounrx
41AlexandraWangunrx
42NishaDominicunrx
43KaileyLuo1323168091
44SashaKonovalovaunrx
45ShabnamAbbarin1442151181
46SamanthaTajik1184178764
47AngelaLiunrx
48KatherineLeung746172773
49LizaAugustinunrx
50CarterPayneunrx
51LaksshanaDeepak1726175714
52AshleyFox-Corlettunrx
53RuchaDeshpande944172012
54CindyQiaoWFM2070155864
55GabriellaJohnson18237701128
56OlyaKaye1786120564
57ChloeKayeunr181934
58NadiaChichkinaunrx
59AlaMischankaunrx
60JesseHamilton1194173880
61SonjaLang1287112444
62ElenaYang1475162141
63Yingying (Coco)Chen

This event is supported by the following organizations: