Registration is open for both the Northern Alberta Open (February 18-19) and the Edmonton Youth Regional (February 11). The tournament pages can be found on the 2023 Schedule.

Congratulations to all the section winners:

Section A: Dale Haessel
Section B: Rex Yumen and Emil Soberov
Section C: Mateo Jackson
Section D: Aaqil Alpuri (Shaik Shabana)
Section E: JB Duclos
Section F: Daniel Hogg
Section G: Michael Lee
Section H: Chayan Dureja
Section I: Luke Suo

Full crosstables are viewable on the CCC facebook page. Thanks to the organizing and directing team for their efforts.

Results for the WBX Team Tournament, December 17-18, courtesy of Terry Seehagen:

Teams:

1. Tymur Keleberda + Anna Synytska + Siva Nandipati — 11½ / 15

2. Anand Rishi Chandra + Hemant Srinivasan + Bhavik Dave — 10½ / 15

3. Paris Dorn + Dustin Koperski + Douglas Nechio — 8½ / 15

Board 1
Tymur Keleberda — 4½ / 5

Board 2
Anna Synytska — 4½ / 5

Board 3
Ryan Chen, Bhavik Dave, and Douglas Nechio (+ Mike Zeggelaar) — 3½ / 5

The 2023 schedule has been posted.

The ACA Board’s Planning Meeting minutes may also be viewed via the Minutes page.

Here are the teams registered for the WBX Team Tournament, via the organizer:

1   Anand Rishi Chandra + Hemant Srinivasan + Bhavik Dave  (average rating 1987)
2   Butch Villavieja + Dante Briones + Ron Offengenden  (average 1976)
3   Paris Dorn + Dustin Koperski + Douglas Nechio  (average 1956)
4   Jonathan Wu + Roy Yearwood + Mateo Jackson  (average 1921)
5   Samuel Hoekman + Eric Jin + Ryan Chen  (average 1903)
6   Rafael Arruebarrena + Yash Darvekar + Prabhat Nagarajan  (average 1900)
7   Tymur Keleberda + Anna Synytska + Siva Nandipati  (average 1879)
8   Belsar Valencia + Mark Tuvera + Winifred Boquiren + (Alvin Guevarra – substitute)  (average 1852)
9   Nicholas Zacharias + Joshua Sembrano + Ricky McCoshen  (average 1711)
10   Shreyas Prasanna + Dean MacDonald + Stephen Ejack (average 1554)

The first round pairings will be sent out most likely on Thursday.

The WBX Team Tournament is coming up, December 17-18 in Edmonton. This is a very popular event with teams of three players whose ratings average no more than 2000.

Full information is available on the tournament webpage.

The following results were posted on the Calgary Chess Club facebook page. Congratulations to the winners.

Overall:
T-1. Anand Rishi Chandra & Leo Lin (4.5/5)
3. Patrick Angelo Tolentino (4/5)

U2100:
T-1. Jonathan Wu, Hemant Srinivasan, and Roy Yearwood (3.5/5)

U1800:
1. Shreyas Prasanna (3.5/5)
2. Garth Dunn (3/5)

U1400:
1. Paul Viminitz (3/5)
2. Patrick Giles (2.5/5)

Thanks to Bhavik Dave for his work running the tournament.

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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