The 2021 AB Junior Championships had two parts. The first was the Closed Championship and it took place on the weekend of November 6-7. It consisted of a 6 player Round-Robin featuring some of the strongest juniors in Alberta. Those included: Paris Dorn, Mark Ivanescu, Anand Rishi Chandra, Hemant Srinivasan, Maxim Vasic and Jinghui Bai. Paris Dorn from Edmonton emerged as the winner with 4/5 and earned ACA sponsored funding for a trip to Canadian Junior in 2022. See full standings at: https://www.chess.ca/en/ratings/t/?id=202111007&p=172448

The second portion was Open and under 1300 sections which this year took place online on December 19th. The following players won prizes: Open section: Matthew Ivanescu (1st, Edmonton), Mark Ivanescu(2nd, Edmonton), Jonathan Wu (3rd, Calgary). Top girl: Erin Zhao (Fort McMurray), Top under 1600: Jason Pan (1st, Edmonton) Eric Jin (2nd, Calgary). Crosstable: https://www.chess.ca/en/ratings/t/?id=202112039&p=172448

In the under 1300 section: Hasya Patel (1st, Fort McMurray), Matthew Sylvestre (2nd, Fort Chipewyan) Matt Fu (3rd, Calgary). Top girl: Allison Chan (Calgary). Top under 1000: Linus Jin (1st, Calgary), William Waller (2nd, Calgary). Crosstable: https://www.chess.ca/en/ratings/t/?id=202112040&p=167994

The ACA’s PGN page has been updated with the 2019 AB Seniors and 2019 AB Women’s Championships, as well as several tournaments from 2018.

For earlier years, please visit this page, which has links to PGN files from 1970-2017.

Two ACRs are upcoming soon. If you have any submissions you’d like to send in from the first half of this year, please send them to Leah at albertachess@gmail.com by noon, Monday, July 15. Tournaments still needing annotated games include the 2019 Schleinich, 3rd Steinitz-Menchik, 2019 Northern Alberta Open, 2019 Alberta Closed, 2019 Edmonton and Calgary International Qualifiers, Jina Burn Fort McMurray Open, 2019 Lethbridge Open, and the Trumpeter Classic.

Many thanks to Ian Findlay, who has contributed several annotated games to the ACRs already.

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