The Southern Alberta Open is in two weeks. This is one of the qualifying events for the 2025 Alberta Closed. Tournament details and registration info here.

Congratulations to Alberta Junior Champion Tymur Keleberda, who won with a perfect 5/5 score. Second place went to Michael Prianichnikov at 3/5, and third to Jonathan Wu at 2.5/5.

Congratulations also to the other top finishers:

OPEN
1st – Stephen Gan (5/5)
2nd – Zhihui Lai (3.5/5)
3rd – Zlata Butenko, Jake Li, Lucas Wang (3/5)

U1300
1st – Dominic Martin (5.5/7 – settled on tiebreak)
2nd – Rhys Andrew (5.5/7)
3rd – Aryan Ranjan-Kumar (5.5/7)

U800
1st – Ethan Zhang (7/7)
2nd – Maxwell Wang (6/7)
3rd – Matviy Kostyuk (5/7)

Big thank you to the directing team of Terry Seehagen, Rob Brazeau, and Sam Hoekman.

Congratulations to the winners of the Edmonton Fall Sectional:

Section A – 1st: Rafael Arruebarrena (4.5/5); 2nd: Samuel Hoekman (3.5/5)
Section B – T-1st: Jason Green & Siva Nandipati (3.5/5)
Section C – 1st: Tynan Boyd (4.5/5); 2nd: Mike McKenzie (4.0/5)
Section D – 1st: Nenad Lilic (5/5); 2nd: Mark Shopland (4/5)

Thanks to Mike Zeggelaar for running the event.

Congratulations to the winners:

Women’s Championship – 1st: Zlata Butenko (5/5); 2nd: Liubov Shtepa (4/5)
Senior’s Championship – 1st: Brad Booker (4/5); 2nd: Dale Haessel & Ihor Netesin (3.5/5)

Thanks to Mahan Eshraghi for directing.

Congratulations to Amir Mohammad Bahmani for winning the Alberta Open with a score of 5.5/6. After a first round bye, he won five straight games, including the last round against Sherzod Khodjimatov to claim the lead. Khodjimatov, Tymur Keleberda, and Jinghui Bai shared second place with 5/6.

Thanks to Zeeshan Munir for organizing and Maxim Vasic for directing.

Information is now posted for the Alberta Senior’s Championship, Alberta Women’s Championship, and Edmonton Fall Sectional, and registration is open.

Upcoming tournaments in a packed Fall calendar:

– Alberta Open, October 12-14 in Calgary. This is a six round event, where the winner qualifies for the 2025 Alberta Closed. Information here. The ACA’s Annual General Meeting will be held at 3:30 p.m. on Sunday, in between rounds three and four.

– Alberta Senior’s Championship & Alberta Women’s Championship, October 19-20 in Edmonton.

– Edmonton Fall Sectional, October 25-27.

– Alberta Junior Championship, November 2-3 in Edmonton.

– Banff Open, November 9-11, currently headlined by IMs Jean Hébert and Mark Ginsburg.

Information on the Edmonton events will become available on the Schedule page.

Congratulations to Team South on winning the Battle of Alberta. They came in with a big rating advantage, and made no mistake, finishing with a crushing second round to win 17-7. Still, very well done to the North players who scored big upset games, and to the seven players who scored 2/2.

Big thanks to captains Zeeshan Munir and Rafael Arruebarrena for organizing. Photos from the event can be found on the CCC facebook page.

The Junior Battle of Alberta follows on September 28th in Red Deer, full details here.

A busy month of chess ahead of us:

– Last call for the Edmonton International, which runs August 29th to September 2nd.

– The Battle of Alberta, September 7th in Red Deer.

– The Edmonton Junior Regional, September 14-15, and Calgary Junior Regional, September 21-22.

– The Lethbridge Fall Open, September 21-22.

See the linked pages for individual tournament information.

Congratulations to Amir Mohammad Bahmani on winning the Over 1800 with a perfect 5/5 score! Anand Rishi Chandra was runner up with 3.5/5.

Congratulations to Jack Sheng on winning the Under 1800 with a 4.5/5 score. Second place was shared by Joshua Sembrano and Shanker Raman.

Thanks to Zeeshan Munir and the CCC for organizing.