{"id":8704,"date":"2026-01-05T17:46:38","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T00:46:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.albertachess.org\/home\/?page_id=8704"},"modified":"2026-02-19T18:37:23","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T01:37:23","slug":"2026-edmonton-youth-regional","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.albertachess.org\/home\/2026-edmonton-youth-regional\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 Edmonton Youth Regional"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The tournament is full and registration is closed. Further entries will be wait-listed.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Date: <\/strong>Saturday, February 7, 2026
Venue: <\/strong>Edmonton Chess Club
Address: <\/strong>#204 10840 124 Street, Edmonton — (780) 424-0283
Organizer:<\/strong> Cristian Ivanescu
Email:<\/strong> cristianivanescu59@gmail.com<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sections<\/strong>
U-8 (Born after Jan 1, 2018)   U-10 (Born after Jan 1, 2016)   U-12 (Born after Jan 1, 2014)
U-14 (Born after Jan 1, 2012)   U-16 (Born after Jan 1, 2010)   U-18 (Born after Jan 1, 2008)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Format: <\/strong>The exact format of each section will depend on the number of participants but players should expect to play 4 games.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Time control: <\/strong>Game in 25 minutes with a 5-second increment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Entry fee: <\/strong>$25. Payment will be made on site by cash. CFC rated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Byes: <\/strong>Up to two 1\/2-point byes are allowed in rounds 1-3 if requested before the start of the tournament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

On-Site Registration: 10:15 a.m. \u2013 10:45 a.m.
Rounds 1 and 2: 11:00 a.m. \u2013 12:30 p.m.
Lunch break: 12:30 p.m. \u2013 1:00 p.m.
Rounds 3 and 4: 1:00 p.m. \u2013 2:30 p.m.
Tie-breaks (if necessary) and awards: immediately after the completion of the last round<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prizes<\/strong>
Medals will be given to top finishers in each section. Top two places plus top girl in each section receive free entry to the 2026 Alberta Youth Championship, held April 25-26 in Edmonton.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tie-Break Procedures<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In case two or more players are tied for first place, the following tie-break procedure will apply:
1) Head to head result. This will only apply if all the players in a tied group played each other.
2) Tie-break match. If two players are tied, they will play a two-game match with the time control of game in 10 minutes + 5 seconds per move.
If more than two players are tied, they will play a round-robin tournament with the same time controls.
If the tie is still not broken, the procedure will be repeated; however, the time control will be game in 3 minutes + 2 seconds per move.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tie-breaks for all other places will be determined by the following criteria:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If Swiss system pairing system is used:
a) Buchholz (total scores of opponents)
b) Sonnenborn-Berger (total scores of opponents beaten plus half the scores of opponents drawn)
c) Most wins.
d) Most games with the black pieces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If the tournament is played in a Round-Robin format:
a) Sonnenborn-Berger (total scores of opponents beaten plus half the scores of opponents drawn).
b) Koya System (Only counting the scores of opponents who scored 50% or more).
c) Most wins.
d) Most games with the black pieces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Registration<\/strong>
Fill out the registration form below. Pre-registered players must show up by 10:45 a.m. or they won\u2019t be paired.
Maximum capacity is 52 total participants. Players registering beyond that will be wait-listed and only able to play in the event of no-shows.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Name, Email, Section, Mailing, Comments<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

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

U8<\/strong>
Inhvar Andriichuk
Ethan Wang<\/p>\n\n\n\n

U10<\/strong>
Leonardo De Crisci
Daryn Ibrayev
Arsh K
Lilly Layton
Darrin Ma
Yan Owcarz
Aadhavan Suresh<\/p>\n\n\n\n

U12<\/strong>
Agam Singh Ahuja
Mitchell Bean
Ashley Honey Ganji
Nicole Kikot
Loki Lai
Ryder Layton
Harold-Minh Le
Muhammed Zaid Lepakshi
Austin Lu
Michael Prianichnikov
Tyren Principe
John Nguyen
Izzathon<\/p>\n\n\n\n

U14<\/strong>
Jackson Burnash
Micah Deeg
Platon Kikot
Meijia Li
Isaac Sajosh
Ethan Zhou<\/p>\n\n\n\n

U16<\/strong>
Rhys Andrew
Marcus Bei
Emil Benders-Nath
Zlata Butenko
Steven Gan
Matthew Ivanescu
Aryan Ranjan Kumar
Gagan Mahal
Arthithan Murallidaran
Nikolai Nikolov
Mingfei Song
David Wait<\/p>\n\n\n\n

U18<\/strong>
Rawan Alalchi
Nathan Belous
Banaj Bhasin
Richard Bocan
Ryan Chen
Alex Heath
Eric Jin
Joel Kurisinkal
Matthew Metry
Emmanuel Olajide
Daniel Ratte
Kian Shirvani
Kyrylo Skachkov
Jared Sobredo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Waiting List<\/strong>
1. Jace MacDougall (U16)
2. Liame Parra-Alexander (U16)
3. Wuran Guo (U14)
4. Steven Lanko (U10)
5. Alek Fletcher (U10)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last updated: February 5, 11:00 p.m.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The tournament is full and registration is closed. Further entries will be wait-listed. Date: Saturday, February 7, 2026Venue: Edmonton Chess ClubAddress: #204 10840 124 Street, Edmonton — (780) 424-0283Organizer: Cristian IvanescuEmail: cristianivanescu59@gmail.com SectionsU-8 (Born after Jan 1, 2018)   U-10 (Born after Jan 1, 2016)   U-12 (Born after Jan 1, 2014)U-14 (Born after Jan 1, 2012)   U-16 (Born after Jan… 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-8704","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","clear"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.albertachess.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8704","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=8704"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.albertachess.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8916,"href":"https:\/\/www.albertachess.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8704\/revisions\/8916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.albertachess.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}