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Date & Location<\/strong>
Saturday, September 26, 2026
Baymont by Wyndham Red Deer \u2014 Pine Lake Room
4311 49 Ave, Red Deer, AB T4N 5Y7
Tournament Arbiter:<\/strong> Sean Wu<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Captain of Team North is Selena Yang: qy3@ualberta.ca
Captain of Team South is Sean Wu: wuxiangyu06@gmail.com

Please contact your team captain as soon as possible if you wish to join the team as a player or a substitute.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Time control:<\/strong> Game in 90 minutes with a 30-second increment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Round times:<\/strong> 11:30 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. The Arbiter at their discretion may postpone the start by up to half an hour if many of the players from one team are not available at the start for a good reason.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Default late time: <\/strong>60 minutes unless the Arbiter decides otherwise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CFC & FIDE rated.<\/strong> CFC membership is not required.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Battle Regulations<\/strong>
North vs. South. Dividing line: Red Deer river or 52\u00b016\u201905\u201d elsewhere in the province. Each player players two rounds against the same opponent, one game each with white and black. Drawing of lots for colours will be done immediately before round 1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Team Composition<\/strong>
Each team will be made up of twelve players. All players must be Under-18 (born January 1, 2008 or later). Five players must be Under-12 (born January 1, 2014 or later). Each team must include at least two girls, one of whom must be Under-12. Players will be paired by rating within their section (U-18, U-12, Girls), with the captain determining who is in each section if a player qualifies into more than one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Final roster\/board order announcements must be made by noon on Wednesday, September 23<\/strong> using the most recently published rating lists as of September 18th.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the official roster announcement, replacements must be lower rated than the players they are replacing, and replace them on the same board. Replacements after the first game will only be allowed in case of an emergency. The final decision on whether to allow a replacement will be made by the Arbiter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The winning team receives the Junior Battle of AB trophy. If the match ends up in a 12-12 tie, the defending champion keeps the trophy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Date & LocationSaturday, September 26, 2026Baymont by Wyndham Red Deer \u2014 Pine Lake Room4311 49 Ave, Red Deer, AB T4N 5Y7Tournament Arbiter: Sean Wu Captain of Team North is Selena Yang: qy3@ualberta.caCaptain of Team South is Sean Wu: wuxiangyu06@gmail.com Please contact your team captain as soon as possible if you wish to join the team as… 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-9397","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","clear"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.albertachess.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9397","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=9397"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.albertachess.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9408,"href":"https:\/\/www.albertachess.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9397\/revisions\/9408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.albertachess.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}