Annex Chess Club (ACC) is proud to collaborate with OXO Innovations on a GM norm event taking place the week of November 14th, 2022: the Maplewood Invitational.

GM norm events are always difficult to organize due to challenging FIDE requirements and high operating costs. ACC provides administrative, technical and logistical support, and is responsible for gathering the right mix of players to reach an ambitious targeted average rating of 2450 FIDE. ACC also contributes financially, up to $1,000.

Fédération québécoise des échecs (FQE), Quebec’s chess federation, has indicated it will support the event.
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Format:

10-player round-robin tournament using classical time controls

The final list of players is now:

GM Marin Bosiočić (CRO), 2536
GM Isan Ortiz (CUB), 2520
GM Toms Kantans (LVA), 2517
GM Bator Sambuev (CAN), 2432
IM Jason Liang (USA), 2492
IM Shawn Rodrigue-Lemieux (CAN), 2465
IM Nikolay Noritsyn (CAN), 2446
IM Artiom Samsonkin (CAN), 2421
IM Sai Krishna (IND), 2396
IM Mark Plotkin (CAN), 2361

Venue:

Manoir Maplewood in Waterloo Quebec, 90 km east of Montreal.

Organizers:

Charles Lesperance (CEO of OXO), Salim Belcadi (President of ACC)

Arbiters:

Aris Marghetis (Lead), Alex Ferreira (Assistant)

Players:

The lineup is available on our website and includes a mix of GMs & IMs from the chess federations of Canada, Cuba, Latvia, India and the United States.

The current average rating is 2455 FIDE, thereby guaranteeing a minimum 6.5/9 performance requirement for a GM norm for all participating IMs. The event is likely to have the highest average rating for any Canadian chess tournament in decades.

The games will be streamed online in real time.

Prizes:
1st Place: $1,000
2nd Place: $500

Contributors:

The Board of ACC and OXO are grateful for the contributions of, in alphabetical order, Alex Ferreira, Anna Burtasova, Aris Marghetis, Erik Malmsten, George Supol, Glenn Giffen, Ismail Khachani, Louis Lesperance and Phil Rainville.

Maplewood Invitational 2022: GM Norm Event.