Congratulations to NM Anand Chandra from Calgary who won the 2023 Banff Open in an Armageddon playoff beating IM Raymond Kaufman from Vancouver scoring 5/6. This year saw a record turnout of 132 players. Sherzod Khodjimatov from Calgary let Raymond Kaufman escape with a perpetual check in the last round to tie for 3rd with IM Leon Piasetski from Vancouver.

The exciting finish can be seen here.

https://www.facebook.com/61553555332010/videos/367590772292149

The results can be found here

https://chess-results.com/tnr838720.aspx?lan=1&art=1&rd=6&flag=30

https://chess-results.com/tnr842224.aspx?lan=1&art=1&rd=6

https://chess-results.com/tnr838718.aspx?lan=1&art=1&rd=6

I am happy to announce a change of heart by the organizer Ian Findlay. This will not be the last Banff Open!! Thanks to the encouragement of the new Banff Centre President, we will be back November 9-11. Mark your calendar for Banff Open 2024!

Congratulations to the winners in the Alberta Junior Championship:

Closed: Hemant Srinivasan

Open: Mark Ivanescu

Under 1300: Jaiven Jahal

Under 800: Kevin Guo

Girls: Ashlyn Lu

Thanks to Cristian Ivanescu for organizing and to Dustin Koperski for lead directing.

Good luck to everyone playing in the very popular Banff Open this weekend!

Congratulations to Dale Haessel on winning the Alberta Senior’s Championship, and to runner-up Sardul Purewal.

Thanks to Terry Seehagen for organizing and Dustin Koperski for directing.

The Alberta Senior’s and Women’s Championships take place this weekend, October 29-30. Players can still pre-register via the tournament webpages or e-mail to the organizer, Terry Seehagen, and may also register on-site (prior to 9:45 a.m.).

Please note that the travel grant prize for each of these two events is up to $1000 — it was originally listed as $500.

Thank you to Sean Wu for directing and Lars Lowther for organizing. The following report provided by Lars Lowther.

The 2022 Alberta Open ran from October 8-10 at the Calgary Chess Club. Through six rounds of grueling play over 3 days, 40 participants battled it out to determine who would become the 2022 Alberta Open Champion and earn a qualifying spot into the 2023 Alberta Closed.

Calgary’s Sherzod Khodjimatov beat out Calgary youngster Patrick Angelo Tolentino on head-to-head tiebreaks, after both finished the tournament with a 5/6 score.  The fate of the winner was determined in the final round when Patrick – who was 5/5 heading into the round, was defeated by Sherzod.

Full results can be found here.

Prize Winners:

1st: Sherzod Khodjimatov
2nd: Patrick Angelo Tolentino
3rd: Rafael Arrubarrena/Maxim Vasic/Leo Lin/Hemant Srinivasan

U2000
1st: Yash Darvekar
2nd: Michael Decaire

U1700
1st: Cally Ntete
2nd: Kevin Hawkshaw

U1400
1st: Paul Viminitz
2nd: Stephen Demaer

The Alberta Junior Championship is now open for entries. Go to the 2022 schedule and follow the link. It will be held at the Quality Inn West in Edmonton and organized by Cristian Ivanescu with Dustin Koperski directing.

The Annual General Meeting of the Alberta Chess Association (ACA), will take place on Monday, October 10th in Calgary at the Alberta Open in the Calgary Chess Club. It will occur approximately after the morning round. The positions of Secretary, Vice President, Treasurer and 4 directors will be elected.

You must be a ACA member in good standing to attend.

Topic: ACA AGM
Time: Oct 10, 2022 02:00 PM Mountain Time (US and Canada)

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Annual General Meeting Agenda

October  10, 2022 @ online Zoom meeting 2:00 pm or CCC in skittles room.

(1) Call to Order and introduction of Officers – Discussion of Meeting Procedures – President

(2) Passing of the Minutes of the last AGM – President

(3) President’s Address – President

(4) Financial Report and Statement – Treasurer

(5) Positions up for election

      Vice President

      Treasurer

      Secretary

      4 Directors – 2-year term – replacing or rerunning are the following directors.

Vlad Rekhson, Calgary
Ico van den Born, Fort McMurray
Richard Pua, Edmonton

 Leah Hughey, Edmonton

(6) Other Business

(7) Adjournment of AGM

Congratulations to IM Bitan Banerjee for winning the 13th Calgary International with a score of 6.5 / 9. Many thanks to Vlad Rekhson and Bhavik Dave for directing and organizing and the Calgary Chess Club for hosting.

Leaderboard

Score IM Bitan Banerjee 6.5

FM Zachary Dukic 6

GM Magesh Panchanathan 6

GM Enrico Sevillano 4

FM Gary Ng 4.5

FM Dale R. Haessel 4

CM Koosha Jaferian 4

Patrick Angelo Tolentino3.5

FM Grigoriy Morozov3.59

Omid Malek2.59