The Medicine Hat Open has been postponed till next year and the 4th Steinitz-Menchik GM tournament has been postponed till March 2022.

The Over Under 1800 tournament will take place Aug 21-22 at Edmonton Chess club. Entries are now open under the 2021 Schedule page. It will be organized by Ian Findlay and TD will be Aaron Sequillion. So far there are 34 entries! Please renew your CFC membership if expired before Wednesday, as that is when the CFC database gets updated.

By entering this tournament, players agree that the Edmonton Chess club, ACA and tournament organizers cannot guarantee that they will not as a result become infected with COVID-19. Entrants further certify that during the 14-day period before the tournament, they have not experienced any symptoms associated with COVID-19, which include fever, cough, or shortness of breath, or had close or direct contact with anyone who is either confirmed or suspected of having COVID-19.

Congratulations to IM Bitan Banerjee for winning the 2021 Alberta Closed with a score of 4.5/5. 2nd prize went to FM Ian Zhao with 3.5/5 and 3rd place went to FM Gary Ng. Thank you to Steve Sklenka and the Calgary Chess Club for hosting the event and providing snacks and refreshments

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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