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The tournament is full. On-site registrations will only be accepted in the event of no-shows.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Date:<\/strong> February 17-18, 2024
Venue:<\/strong> Edmonton Chess Club — (780) 424-0283
Address:<\/strong> #204 10840 124 Street, Edmonton, AB T5M 0H3
Organizer & Director:<\/strong> Mike Zeggelaar
E-mail:<\/strong> zerg_gosu@hotmail.com<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Qualifier for the 2024 Alberta Closed<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Format:<\/strong> 5-round Swiss, CFC & FIDE rated
Time control: <\/strong>Game in 90 minutes with a 30-second increment<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Round times:<\/strong> Saturday \u2013 10:00 a.m., ~2:00 p.m., ~6:00 p.m. ; Sunday \u2013 10:00 a.m., ~2:00 p.m. or ASAP.
A 30-minute break between games is guaranteed. Default late time is 60 minutes.
Entry fee:<\/strong> $50 if pre-registered by 11:00 p.m. on Thursday, February 15. $60 after.
$15 discount for juniors (2004 birth year or later), seniors (age 65 and over), and female players. GM\/IM\/FM title holders receive free entry.
Post-secondary student promotion:<\/strong> For this event, the entry fee for students with a valid post-secondary ID is $25.
CFC membership is required and may be purchased on-site. Annual membership is $43 for adults, $28 for juniors. CFC tournament membership is $20 for adults, $10 for juniors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Registration:<\/strong> Fill out the registration form below. Payment may be made by e-transfer to the organizer or on-site by cash. On-site registration and check-in runs 9:15 – 9:45 a.m. on Saturday, February 17. Players must arrive by 9:45 a.m. or they won’t be paired.
Prizes:<\/strong> Entry fees less ACA dues of $10 per paid participant. The winner (if an Albertan) qualifies for the 2024 Alberta Closed.
Byes: <\/strong>A maximum of two \u00bd-point byes are available in rounds 1-4 if requested before the start of round 1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Qualification for Alberta Closed:<\/strong> In the event that two players finish with a 5 out of 5 score (and thus have not played each other, nor had the opportunity to do so), a single armageddon game will be played. Players will submit a bid of the lowest amount of time they would accept as Black (White will have 15 minutes) and whoever bids less will play Black with draw odds. Any first-place ties on a score of 4.5 or less will be settled directly by the ACA tie-breaking system<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Registration Form<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

Submit a form.<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n

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Final Pre-registered list<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Richard Bocan (rd. 3 bye)
Robert Brazeau (maybe rd. 1 bye)
Tamir Bulga
Zlata Butenko
Caleb Castro
Joshua Castro
William Castro
Anand Rishi Chandra
Joe Ciz
John Clemens
Jim Daniluk (rd. 3 bye)
Yash Darvekar
Michael Decaire
Enlil Dimitrov
Nathan Doiron
Paris Dorn
Stephen Ejack
Mahan Eshragi
Robert Gibson
Jason Green
Kevin Hawkshaw
Samuel Hoekman
Micah Hughey (rd. 1 & 2 byes)
Mateo Jackson
Eric James
Eric Jin
Tymur Keleberda
Spencer King
Dustin Koperski
Ayush Laroia
Omid Malek
Stephen Marshall
Michael McGovern
Mike McKenzie
Jaden Merrit
Samuel Montmagny
Prabhat Nagarajan
Ron Offengenden
Michael Prianichnikov
Jerry Qiu
Sina Rajabzadeh
Nathan Sheetz
Jake Slone
Zachary Thomson
Tri Tran
Adria Trilla
Nicolas Vaagen
Maxim Vasic
Marek Wozniak
Jonathan Wu
Jeffrey Xu
Oleksandr Yershov
Zongyan Yu
Erin Zhao<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last updated: February 15, 11:00 p.m.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The tournament is full. On-site registrations will only be accepted in the event of no-shows. Date: February 17-18, 2024Venue: Edmonton Chess Club — (780) 424-0283Address: #204 10840 124 Street, Edmonton, AB T5M 0H3Organizer & Director: Mike ZeggelaarE-mail: zerg_gosu@hotmail.com Qualifier for the 2024 Alberta Closed Format: 5-round Swiss, CFC & FIDE ratedTime control: Game in 90 minutes with a 30-second increment Round times: Saturday… Continue Reading →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5484","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","clear"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.albertachess.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.albertachess.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.albertachess.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.albertachess.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.albertachess.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5484"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/www.albertachess.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5797,"href":"https:\/\/www.albertachess.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5484\/revisions\/5797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.albertachess.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}