Congratulations to IM Bitan Banerjee, who secured his sixth Alberta Championship victory with a 5-move draw in the final round! The draw ensured he would at worst finish tied at 4\/5 with FM Tymur Keleberda, but having defeated Tymur in the first round Bitan was set to finish first on the head-to-head tiebreak.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Instead, however, Sherzod Khodjimatov survived a highly unpleasant position against Tymur in the last game and turned it around to win in 83 moves. Congratulations to him on solo second place (3.5\/5).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
You can review the games and standings on the Lichess broadcast<\/a>, and pictures on the CCC facebook page<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n One more congrats to Jinghui Bai, who scored 4.5\/5 in the Alberta Reserves to win by half a point over Hemant Srinivasan and Yash Darvekar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Many thanks to Bhavik Dave for organizing and directing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Congratulations to IM Bitan Banerjee, who secured his sixth Alberta Championship victory with a 5-move draw in the final round! The draw ensured he would at worst finish tied at 4\/5 with FM Tymur Keleberda, but having defeated Tymur in the first round Bitan was set to finish first on the head-to-head tiebreak. Instead, however,… Continue Reading →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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-4582","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\/4582","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.albertachess.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4582"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.albertachess.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4590,"href":"http:\/\/www.albertachess.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4582\/revisions\/4590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.albertachess.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.albertachess.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.albertachess.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}