Thank you to Sean Wu for directing and Lars Lowther for organizing. The following report provided by Lars Lowther.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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. 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… Continue Reading →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","clear"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.albertachess.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.albertachess.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.albertachess.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.albertachess.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.albertachess.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3857"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.albertachess.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3858,"href":"http:\/\/www.albertachess.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3857\/revisions\/3858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.albertachess.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.albertachess.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.albertachess.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"