2024 UToronto vs UWaterloo Invitational Match

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Find the event report here. See below for event details.

The Hart House Chess Club (University of Toronto) and University of Waterloo Chess Club have agreed to an inter-university match between the clubs from March 2nd – March 3rd, 2024. As two leading university hubs for chess in Ontario, this match will see two schools battle it out for school pride and glory. The tournament is a Team Match with Scheveningen pairings, and players will play only against players from opposing schools. There will be 12 players per team, and two pools per team. The tournament is a Team Rapid and Blitz, with each point counting towards the overall team score.

Tournament Overview

  • WHERE: East Common Room, Hart House, University of Toronto.
  • WHEN: March 2nd – March 3rd
  • SCHEDULE: 6 Double-Round Blitz Round-Robin tournament, split in 2 sections. Followed by a 6 Single-Round Rapid Tournament.
  • TIME CONTROL: Blitz: 3 minutes + 2 seconds increment from move 1. Rapid: 15 minutes + 10 seconds increment from move 1.
  • RATING: All sections will be CFC Active Rated. Blitz will be FIDE Blitz Rated. Rapid will be FIDE Rapid Rated.
  • DGT Boards: All games will be broadcast live on DGT boards.
  • Organizers: Victor Zheng (Toronto), Richard Chen (Waterloo)

Blitz Tournament

Double Round Robin Tournament of 6 double rounds starting at 12 noon, Saturday March 2nd

  • Time Control: 3 minutes plus 2 seconds increment
  • Round Times: Round 1 at 12 noon, subsequent rounds every 30 minutes with event ending by 3 pm.
  • Sections: Each school will have a Team A and Team B, each with 6 players.
    • Team A will play all players of Team A in blitz.

Rapid Tournament

Single Round Robin Tournament of 6 rounds starting at 4 pm, Saturday March 2nd

  • Time Control: 15 minutes plus 10 seconds increment
  • Round Times: Saturday 4 pm and 5 pm. Sunday 10 am, 11 am, 1 pm, 2 pm.
  • Sections: Each school will have a Team A and Team B, each with 6 players.
    • Team A will play all players of Team A in rapid.
  • Pizza will be provided on Sunday afternoon after Round 2.

Tournament System:

Scheveningen System, Round Robin. Pairings will be announced by February 29th, 48 hours before the start of the tournament.

Prizes:

  • Team Plaque for overall team winner. A Rapid win counts as 2 points and a Blitz win as 1 point. If team are tied in points after the Rapid, a single-game tiebreaker blitz will be played from a player nominated from each school, until a decisive result is achieved.
  • Individual Prizes: $100 + Plaque for 1st for the top-player in each section for each tournament.

Players: Please contact your university representative if you are interested in playing for your team.

Live Games: view games here
Chess Results: https://chess-results.com/tnr903460.aspx?lan=1&art=0&turdet=YES

Pre-Registered

PoolTorontoRatingWaterlooRating
AAdvait Patel2482Yuanchen Zhang2404
Nicholas Vettese2459Richard Chen2344
Christopher Knox2333William Li2285
Fengxi Mao2315Patrick Huang2205
Eilia Zomorrodian2242Momin Fayzan2192
Ray Wu2215Sanjay Ramesh2065
BCindy Qiao2070Sriram Kumar1945
Bingfei Wang1930William Ratelband1829
Christopher Yu1639Dinny Wang1672
Yukuan Zou1505Josh Zabor1543
Daniel Stueckmann1475Matthew Sekirin1507
Eric Wan1436Omkar Baraskar1361

Contact: hhchess@studentorg.utoronto.ca