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2005 ROBERT WHEELER OPEN

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2005 Robert Wheeler Open

SPONSORED BY:
ALL ISLAND GYPSUM DISTRIBUTORS LTD.

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Venue: Holy Child Hood High School

Registration; 8:00am - 8:45am

The 2005 Robert Wheeler Chess Open which is being sponsored by All Island Gypsum Distributors Limited, will be held on June 4-5 2005, at the Holy Childhood High school in the format of an open 6 round Swiss.

This is the third staging of this Tournament, which is held in Honor of arguably Jamaica’s longest serving chess administrator/player, NM ROBERT WHEELER.

TOURNAMENT INFORMATION

Registration takes place between 8:00 am and 8:45 am on
Saturday morning. The Tournament which will see 3 rounds played each day, will end on Sunday.

NB: Half (½) point bye available only for first round and will only be allowed after proper registration (including payment of membership and entry fee)

GUARANTEED PRIZES

OPEN SECTION: 1st - $10,000.00 plus trophy; 2nd - $5,000 plus medal; 3rd $3,000 plus medal.

AMATEUR SECTION: 1st - $3,000 plus trophy; 2nd - $2,000 plus medal; 3rd $1,000 plus medal.

W0MEN’S SECTION: 1st - $3,000 plus trophy; 2nd - $2,000 plus medal; 3rd - $1,000 plus medal.

Other prizes include best Under 10 and under 14 year-old players, best rural player, best female player, best junior and best new player.

FORMAT: Open 6) round Swiss Tournament
One Section: a)Open and b) U1800 section

TIME CONTROL
FOR OPEN TOURNAMENT - 30 moves in one hour with 30 minutes to complete.

FOR AMATEUR AND WOMEN’S SECTION - Game in sixty-five minutes.

SCHEDULE

Registration; 8:00am - 8:45am

ROUND ONE: 9 am to 12 noon
ROUND TWO: 12:30 pm to 3:30 pm
ROUND THREE: 4 pm to 7 pm

DAY TWO (Sunday 5th June, 2005)

ROUND FOUR: 8:30 am to 11:30 am
ROUND FIVE: 12:30 pm to 3:30 pm
ROUND SIX: 3:45 pm to 6:45 pm

AWARDS CEREMONY: 7:00 pm to 7:15 pm

ENTRY FEE:
Adult members - $600.00

Students/Juniors/Women - $400.00

NB: All persons must be paid-up members of the Jamaica Chess Federation.

Membership fees – Adults - $2,000 per year.
Juniors- $1,000 per year

For more info: Contact: Mark Henry @796-5036, Sidley Matthews@8290472 Mark Holness@375-7733 OR Peter Myers @425-5939

The Tournament was originally called the Easter Open, but it was decided, to re-name the Easter Open tournament the “Robert Wheeler Chess Open” in honour of this legendary National Master

German-born, English-bred Robert Wheeler has lived in Jamaica for thirty years, serving chess in the Caribbean tremendously. Currently the Secretary of the Jamaica Chess Federation, he has been Jamaican national champion on many occasions and has represented the “land of wood and water” at numerous chess Olympiads, including the most recent in Bled, Slovenia. He has also been Jamaica’s delegate to a number of Fide congresses.
Local legends Dr. Harold Chan, Thomas Figueroa (of blessed memory) and Wheeler hold the distinction of being the first players to be awarded the Jamaican title of National Master in 1975.

For thirty years Wheeler has remained very competitive on the chess circuit, putting up strong performances against Jamaica’s younger generation of leading players (including NM Shane Matthews and FM Warren Elliott) and recently placed 5th in the 2004 Jamaica national Champs and qualified for the Jamaican Chess Olympiad team.

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