Shortly after the tournament, 2 people tested positive for COVID-19 who were at the tournament. While we believe they did not get infected at the tournament, we would advise anyone who played in the tournament in Red Deer on September 4th and has COVID-19 symptoms to please get tested immediately.
ACA Annual General Meeting – October 10th at 2 pm
The ACA Annual General Meeting will take place after the 3rd round of the Alberta Open. The meeting will also be available on Zoom. If the Alberta Open cannot be held due to COVID-19, then it will take place on Zoom. Any ACA member may attend.
Topic: ACA Annual General Meeting
Time: Oct 10, 2021 02:00 PM Mountain Time (US and Canada)
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Over Under 1800 Results
The Over/Under 1800 Tournament took place August 21-22 at the ECC. Congrats to Eddie Xu who won the Over 1800 section with a perfect 5-0 score. Also congrats to Ron Offengenden and Yash Darvekar who tied for 1st in the under 1800 section with 4.5/5. Thank you to Aaron Sequillion for directing
2021 Edmonton Junior Regional Sept 11-12
Entries are now open to the 2021 Edmonton Junior Regional Tournament to be held at the Edmonton Chess Club Sept 11-12. Anyone born after January 1, 2002 may enter. Organized by Dustin Koperski. Please go to 2021 Schedule and click on link to submit entry.
ACA COVID-19 Policy
The ACA had an emergency meeting on Sunday, August 29 and passed a motion to adopt a new ACA COVID policy effective immediately till the end of the year for all ACA tournaments. See link below.
Medicine Hat Open and 4th Steinitz-Menchik GM postponed
The Medicine Hat Open has been postponed till next year and the 4th Steinitz-Menchik GM tournament has been postponed till March 2022.
Over Under 1800 Aug 21-22 at the Edmonton Chess Club – New Covid Waiver
The Over Under 1800 tournament will take place Aug 21-22 at Edmonton Chess club. Entries are now open under the 2021 Schedule page. It will be organized by Ian Findlay and TD will be Aaron Sequillion. So far there are 34 entries! Please renew your CFC membership if expired before Wednesday, as that is when the CFC database gets updated.
By entering this tournament, players agree that the Edmonton Chess club, ACA and tournament organizers cannot guarantee that they will not as a result become infected with COVID-19. Entrants further certify that during the 14-day period before the tournament, they have not experienced any symptoms associated with COVID-19, which include fever, cough, or shortness of breath, or had close or direct contact with anyone who is either confirmed or suspected of having COVID-19.
2021 Alberta Closed – Bitan Banerjee is victorious.
Congratulations to IM Bitan Banerjee for winning the 2021 Alberta Closed with a score of 4.5/5. 2nd prize went to FM Ian Zhao with 3.5/5 and 3rd place went to FM Gary Ng. Thank you to Steve Sklenka and the Calgary Chess Club for hosting the event and providing snacks and refreshments
The July 2019 Alberta Chess Report is available
The newest edition of the ACR is available online here.
This ACR covers ACA tournaments from the first half of 2019, including the Edmonton International, Alberta Closed, Chess Challenge, and Alberta Youth Chess Championship.
And just in case you missed it, a delayed ACR (December 2018) was published online a few weeks ago. This ACR includes the 2018 Battle of Alberta, Alberta Junior Championship, and Alberta Open (among many others). That ACR is available here.
PGN page & Upcoming ACRs
The ACA’s PGN page has been updated with the 2019 AB Seniors and 2019 AB Women’s Championships, as well as several tournaments from 2018.
For earlier years, please visit this page, which has links to PGN files from 1970-2017.
Two ACRs are upcoming soon. If you have any submissions you’d like to send in from the first half of this year, please send them to Leah at albertachess@gmail.com by noon, Monday, July 15. Tournaments still needing annotated games include the 2019 Schleinich, 3rd Steinitz-Menchik, 2019 Northern Alberta Open, 2019 Alberta Closed, 2019 Edmonton and Calgary International Qualifiers, Jina Burn Fort McMurray Open, 2019 Lethbridge Open, and the Trumpeter Classic.
Many thanks to Ian Findlay, who has contributed several annotated games to the ACRs already.