{"id":7476,"date":"2025-03-02T18:18:44","date_gmt":"2025-03-03T01:18:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.albertachess.org\/home\/?page_id=7476"},"modified":"2025-04-03T22:56:38","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T04:56:38","slug":"2025-lethbridge-open","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.albertachess.org\/home\/2025-lethbridge-open\/","title":{"rendered":"2025 Lethbridge Open"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Date:&nbsp;<\/strong>April 5-6, 2025<strong><br>Venue:&nbsp;<\/strong>Polish Hall &#8212; 745 13th Street N T1H 2T2<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Organizer:&nbsp;<\/strong>Jerry Mikusek<strong><br>Email:&nbsp;<\/strong>mikusek@telus.net<strong><br>Tournament Director:<\/strong>&nbsp;Bhavik Dave<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Format:&nbsp;<\/strong>5-round Swiss, CFC &amp; FIDE rated.<br><strong>Time Control:&nbsp;<\/strong>Game in 90 minutes with a 30-second increment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Round Times<br><\/strong>Saturday: 10:00 a.m., 2:00 p.m., 6:00 p.m.<br>Sunday: 10:00 a.m., 1:30 p.m. or ASAP<br>A 30-minute break between games is guaranteed. Default late time is 60 minutes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Entry fee:\u00a0<\/strong>$50 if pre-registered by 11:00 p.m. on Thursday, April 3. $60 after.<br>$15 discount for juniors (2005 birth year or later), seniors (age 65 and over), and female players.<br>$20 discount for NMs, CMs, and 2300-rated CFC players (supercedes any junior\/senior\/female discount). GM\/IM\/FM title holders receive free entry.<br>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<p><strong>Registration:&nbsp;<\/strong>Fill out the form below. Payment will be made on site by cash. Pre-registered players must arrive by 9:50 a.m. on the morning of the first round or they will not be paired.<br><strong><br>Byes:<\/strong>&nbsp;A maximum of two \u00bd-point byes are available in rounds 1-4 if requested before the start of round 1.<br><strong><br>Prizes:&nbsp;<\/strong>Sum of entry fees minus ACA dues of $10 per paid entry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Accommodations are available at the Lethbridge Lodge, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sandmanhotels.com\/signature-lethbridge\">https:\/\/www.sandmanhotels.com\/signature-lethbridge<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-jetpack-contact-form\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.albertachess.org\/home\/2025-lethbridge-open\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Submit a form.<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n<p>*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Pre-Registered List<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Doug Boyd<br>Robert Brazeau<br>Arth Dizon<br>Garth Dunn<br>Anthony-Dwight Graham<br>Anatolli Khimich<br>Aryan Ranjan Kumar<br>Jerry Mikusek<br>Roland Schech<br>Adam Szulski<br>Josiah Trentalance<br>Javier Valdes<br>Paul Viminitz<br>Michael Xu<br>Jole Young<br>Piotr Zabielski<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Last updated: April 3, 11:00 p.m.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Date:&nbsp;April 5-6, 2025Venue:&nbsp;Polish Hall &#8212; 745 13th Street N T1H 2T2 Organizer:&nbsp;Jerry MikusekEmail:&nbsp;mikusek@telus.netTournament Director:&nbsp;Bhavik Dave Format:&nbsp;5-round Swiss, CFC &amp; FIDE rated.Time Control:&nbsp;Game in 90 minutes with a 30-second increment. Round TimesSaturday: 10:00 a.m., 2:00 p.m., 6:00 p.m.Sunday: 10:00 a.m., 1:30 p.m. or ASAPA 30-minute break between games is guaranteed. Default late time is 60 minutes&#8230;. <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.albertachess.org\/home\/2025-lethbridge-open\/#more-7476\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/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-7476","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","clear"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.albertachess.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7476","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=7476"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.albertachess.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7665,"href":"https:\/\/www.albertachess.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7476\/revisions\/7665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.albertachess.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}