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2025 Alberta Blitz & Rapid
Information is posted for the Alberta Blitz Championship and Alberta Rapid Championship, on March 8th and 9th. Registration will be done on-site.
2025 Chess Challenges
Registration is open for the Edmonton Chess Challenge (March 1) and Calgary Chess Challenge (March 2). These events are by school grade level, 1-12. Info is linked.
2025 Edmonton Youth Championship Results
Congratulation to the winners of the Edmonton Youth Championship:
U8 – Platon Bilyk (runner up: Aadhavan Suresh)
U10 – Mitchell Bean (Darrin Ma)
U12 – Isaac Sajosh (Leo Roy)
U14 – Matthew Ivanescu (Zlata Butenko)
U16 – Yuri Troitsky (Aryan Ranjan-Kumar)
U18 – Mishka Mathur (Behrad Jadidizadeh)
Thank you to Cristian Ivanescu for organizing.
2025 Northern Alberta Open
Registration is open for the Northern Alberta Open, February 15-16 in Edmonton. This is a qualifying tournament for the 2025 Alberta Closed. You can find full info here.
New in 2025: the major Opens are being divided into two sections, Premier and U1700, to give players more games closer to their level.
2025 Youth Regionals
Registration is open for the Calgary Youth Regional (February 1-2) and Edmonton Youth Regional (February 8th). Info is linked.
2025 Schleinich Memorial
Information for the Schleinich Memorial Sectional, January 10-12, is available on the Calgary Chess Club website, and can be viewed here.
Players are welcome to wear jeans at ACA events.
2025 ACA Tournament Schedule
The 2025 Schedule has been posted, and can be found in the top menu.
Note the one big change is that the Banff Centre did not offer the same November dates for 2025, so the ACA Board is investigating alternatives, which may include holding the Banff Open in October, which would then move the Alberta Open to the Labour Day weekend.
CBC on Chess for Life in Lethbridge
The CBC has written an article on the University of Lethbridge’s “Chess for Life” program, founded by Dr. Lance Grigg. Read about it here. Thanks to Len Steele for sharing.
2024 Southern Alberta Open Results
Congratulations to Anand Rishi Chandra, who won the Southern Alberta Open with a 4.5/5 score, half a point ahead of runners-up Hemant Srinivasan, Jonathan Wu, and Brooks Jiang.
Thanks to Zeeshan Munir for organizing and Maxim Vasic for directing. The CFC crosstable can be viewed here.