The Canadian Open came down to the final round on July 30th, where top seed GM Alexei Shirov won his game to take first place by half a point at 8.5\/10. He scored two wins and three draws against the other five grandmasters and won the rest of his games.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Second place goes to GM Illya Nyzhnyk at 8\/10, and third place was shared by GM Dimitri Komarov, FM Anthony Atanasov, and Ryan Campbell at 7.5\/10. Three Albertans, IM Bitan Banerjee, Sherzod Khodjimatov, and Maxim Vasic, tied for 6th-15th at 7\/10.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Full standings and results here<\/a>, and top games from each round are viewable here<\/a>. Check out the Calgary Chess Club facebook page<\/a> for photos throughout the event. Thanks and well done to the organizing team, led by Lars Lowther.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Congratulations to the winners at the Canadian Youth Championship, which had 454 total players the week prior:<\/p>\n\n\n\n U18O – Tymur Keleberda Full results here<\/a>. Thanks to the Youth organizing team, led by Wanjing Hu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Canadian Open came down to the final round on July 30th, where top seed GM Alexei Shirov won his game to take first place by half a point at 8.5\/10. He scored two wins and three draws against the other five grandmasters and won the rest of his games. Second place goes to GM… 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-4755","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\/4755","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=4755"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.albertachess.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4784,"href":"http:\/\/www.albertachess.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4755\/revisions\/4784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.albertachess.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.albertachess.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.albertachess.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
U18G – Julia Tsukerman
U16O – Max Chen
U16G – Valerie Ruchinskaya
U14O – Emil Soberov
U14G – Hanxi (Hancy) Jiang
U12O – Neil Moses
U12G – Laksshana Deepak
U10O – Edison Zhu
U10G – Ashley Qian
U8O – Venkat Karthikeya Reddy Kola
U8G – Florence Zixin Xu<\/p>\n\n\n\n