Registration is open for the Alberta Chess Challenge, held Saturday, April 8th in Red Deer. This is a grade-level scholastic event, and winners in each grade earn the right to represent Alberta at the Canadian Chess Challenge on the May long weekend. This year, Nationals will be in Montreal.

Full information can be found here.

Online registration is available for the Alberta Reserves, March 18-19 in Calgary. You can find full tournament information here or through the Schedule page.

We are in the midst of a very busy stretch of the ACA Schedule. The following tournaments are coming up:

• Calgary Youth Regional (February 26th)
• Alberta Blitz & Rapid Championships (Edmonton, March 4th/5th)
• Edmonton Chess Challenge (March 11th)
• Wood Buffalo Youth Regional (March 12th)
• Alberta Closed & Alberta Reserves (Calgary, March 17th-19th)

You can find further information on specific events through the Schedule tab.

Congratulations to Tymur Keleberda, who won the Northern Alberta Open with a perfect 5/5 score!

Well done also to Dale Haessel, Paris Dorn, Anand Rishi Chandra, Eric Jin, and Ricky McCoshen, who all tied for second place with 4/5.

Thanks to David Ludwig and Mike Zeggelaar for organizing and directing.

Congratulations to all the section winners in the Edmonton Youth Regional, and good luck in the Alberta Youth Regional.

Under 8
1st – Michael Prianichnikov, 3/3
2nd – Oliver Li, 2/3

Under 10
1st – Zongyan Yu, 6/6
2nd – Austin Lu, 4/6

Under 12
1st – Matthew Ivanescu, 5/5
2nd – Joshua Johnson, 4/5

Under 14
1st – Yash Darvekar, 4/4
2nd – Tri Tran, 2.5/4

Under 16
1st – Ryan Chen, 5/5
2nd – Ron Offengenden, 4/5

Under 18
1st – Tymur Keleberda, 2.5/3
2nd – Samuel Hoekman, 2.5/3

Thanks to Cristian Ivanescu and Richard Pua for organizing and directing.

The CFC has launched a “Recognize Chess as a Sport in Canada Petition” and are seeking your support. From the CFC:

“This is an opportunity for Canada to recognize chess as a sport and offer government funding for our training, tournaments, players, coaches, and more. Achieving this milestone will give chess the funding it deserves to promote chess to anyone who wants to learn, regardless of their ages.

It will be closed for signatures on April 1st and so in 2 months, we must collect as many signatures as we can.

Here is the link to sign the petition. After you sign the petition, you will receive an email minutes after from House of Commons Petitions to confirm your support.

https://petitions.ourcommons.ca/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-4283

Thank you very much for helping out.

Again, anyone who believes Chess should be recognized as a sport in Canada can vote.”

The website for the Canadian Open and Canadian Youth Championship is live!

https://canopen2023.ca/CCC/Home/Home

Registration is open for both. Register before May 1 for the best rates.

Registration is open for both the Northern Alberta Open (February 18-19) and the Edmonton Youth Regional (February 11). The tournament pages can be found on the 2023 Schedule.

Congratulations to all the section winners:

Section A: Dale Haessel
Section B: Rex Yumen and Emil Soberov
Section C: Mateo Jackson
Section D: Aaqil Alpuri (Shaik Shabana)
Section E: JB Duclos
Section F: Daniel Hogg
Section G: Michael Lee
Section H: Chayan Dureja
Section I: Luke Suo

Full crosstables are viewable on the CCC facebook page. Thanks to the organizing and directing team for their efforts.