{"id":5819,"date":"2024-03-22T21:32:07","date_gmt":"2024-03-23T03:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.albertachess.org\/home\/?page_id=5819"},"modified":"2024-04-25T22:01:29","modified_gmt":"2024-04-26T04:01:29","slug":"2024-alberta-youth-championship","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.albertachess.org\/home\/2024-alberta-youth-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"2024 Alberta Youth Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Update: event capacity has been increased.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Date: <\/strong>April 27-28, 2024
Venue: <\/strong>Quality Inn West Edmonton
Address:<\/strong> 17803 Stony Plain Rd NW, Edmonton<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Organizer:<\/strong> Cristian Ivanescu
Email: <\/strong>cristianivanescu59@gmail.com
Tournament Director:<\/strong> Dustin Koperski <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sections<\/strong>
U-8 (Born after Jan. 1, 2016)   U-10 (Born after Jan. 1, 2014) U-12 (Born after Jan. 1, 2012)
U-14 (Born after Jan. 1, 2010) U-16 (Born after Jan. 1, 2008)   U-18 (Born after Jan. 1, 2006)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Time Control: <\/strong>Game in 90 minutes + 30 seconds per move.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Entry Fee:<\/strong> $40 if registered before Thursday, April 25 at 10:00 p.m., $50 after. Entry paid in cash on-site before the 1st round.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Registration:<\/strong> Fill out the form below to register.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Approximate Schedule<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Saturday, April 27<\/strong>
On-site registration: 9:15 a.m. \u2013 9:45 a.m.
Opening ceremony: 9:50 a.m. \u2013 10:00 a.m.
Rounds 1-3: 10:00 a.m., 2:00 p.m., ~5:00 p.m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sunday, April 28<\/strong>
Round 4-5: 10:00 a.m., ~1:00 p.m. or ASAP
Tiebreaks: immediately after round 5.
Award ceremony: immediately after the completion of each section.
U-8 and U-10 groups may follow their own schedule.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prizes<\/strong>: Trophies will be awarded to the top three finishers and top girl in each section. Section winners will be eligible for a $500 travel grant to the 2024 Canadian Youth Championship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tiebreak procedure<\/strong>: In case two or more players are tied for places 1-3, the following tie-break procedure will apply:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1) Head to head result. This will only apply if all the players in a tied group played each other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2) If two players are tied, they will play a two-game match. If the tie is for first place, the time control will be Game\/10 minutes + 5 seconds per move. If the tie is for the second, third, or top girl, the time control will be Game\/3 minutes + 2 seconds per move.
If more than two players are tied, they will play a round-robin tournament with the same time controls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If the tie is still not broken, the procedure will be repeated, at a Game\/3 minutes + 2 seconds\/move time control.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

3) Tiebreaks for all other places will be determined by the ACA Tiebreak Procedure.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Move Recording<\/strong>
Moves must be recorded at all times by both players. Assistance through notation \u201ccheat sheet\u201d can be provided to inexperienced participants. Scoresheets and pens will be provided by the organizers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Junior Draw Rule<\/strong>
In junior only events, a draw offer and acceptance is only allowed once both players have played 30 moves. Players must prove they have each played 30 moves by showing it on their scoresheets. For games without scoresheets, allowing the draw will be at the TD\u2019s discretion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FOR HOTEL BOOKING:<\/strong>
Quality Inn is offering a room rate of $102+ taxes per room per night, Single\/Double. To make a reservation, guests can call the reservation team at (780) 484-8000 and ask for the group name Alberta Chess Association<\/strong> with group Account No. 4829693<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n

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

*<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pre-Registered List<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

U8<\/strong>
Muneer Hussain
Audvik Verma
Aavan Singh
Caleb Izrajel Castro
Kaiser Nguyen
Euclid
Platon Bilyk
Erasmus Marchen
Alan Chen
Joaquin David Villacura
Advik Senthilkumar
Allister Erickson<\/p>\n\n\n\n

U10<\/strong>
Leo Roy
Shahzain Awan
Rivaan Patel
Aarav Singh
Zeth Matthew Dahlke
Austin Lu
Blayden Olynyk
Kyle Chen
Lucas Wang
Finley Zhang
Liubov Shtepa
Saanvi Shamanth
Jack Poncelet
Lucy Zhao
Maximus Witwer
Chelsea Fang
Lakshan Vinotha Sathishkumar
Levi Harper
Tran Hien Son
Radmehr Jadidizadeh
Dennis Nguyen
Michael Prianichnikov
Oliver Li
Shahzain Awan
Ryan Xiong<\/p>\n\n\n\n

U12<\/strong>
Zongyan Yu
Meijia Li
Jack Christopher
Nicholas Ma
Zhihui Lai
Jack Sheng
Ansh Jain
Rishi Bhaumik
Joshua Jahrvn Castro
Oleksandr Yershov
Dylan Curran
Hasya Patel
Bohdan Palamarchuk
Kian Daiyan
Sina Rajabzadeh
Ryan Li<\/p>\n\n\n\n

U14<\/strong>
Zlata Butenko
Jovan Singh
Rhys Andrew
Milana Inozemtseva
Steven Gan
Felix Zhang
Michael Xu
Le Kuznietsov
Jonathan Wu
Matthew Ivanescu
Ivan Alboreggia
Aarya Patel
Nikolai Nikolov
Aaqil Ahmed Alpuri
Aydin Samei<\/p>\n\n\n\n

U16<\/strong>
Ryan Weidlich
Luke Jackson
Christopher Nikolov
Shiloh Leger
Ron Offengenden
Nate Dyck
Zorigt Amarbileg
Anu Purevjamts
Eric Jin
Aleksey Goulko
Richard Bocan
Karthik Korrapati<\/p>\n\n\n\n

U18<\/strong>
Jonathan Stobbe
Alexander Nikolov
Mark Ivanescu
Behrad Jadidizadeh
Sam Hoekman
Tymur Keleberda
Nathan Marsh
Yash Darvekar<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last updated: April 25, 10:00 p.m.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Update: event capacity has been increased. Date: April 27-28, 2024Venue: Quality Inn West EdmontonAddress: 17803 Stony Plain Rd NW, Edmonton Organizer: Cristian IvanescuEmail: cristianivanescu59@gmail.comTournament Director: Dustin Koperski  SectionsU-8 (Born after Jan. 1, 2016)   U-10 (Born after Jan. 1, 2014) U-12 (Born after Jan. 1, 2012)U-14 (Born after Jan. 1, 2010) U-16 (Born after Jan. 1, 2008)   U-18 (Born after… 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-5819","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","clear"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.albertachess.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5819","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=5819"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"https:\/\/www.albertachess.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6065,"href":"https:\/\/www.albertachess.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5819\/revisions\/6065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.albertachess.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}