The Canadian Open came down to the final round on July 30th, where top seed GM Alexei Shirov won his game to take first place by half a point at 8.5/10. He scored two wins and three draws against the other five grandmasters and won the rest of his games.

Second place goes to GM Illya Nyzhnyk at 8/10, and third place was shared by GM Dimitri Komarov, FM Anthony Atanasov, and Ryan Campbell at 7.5/10. Three Albertans, IM Bitan Banerjee, Sherzod Khodjimatov, and Maxim Vasic, tied for 6th-15th at 7/10.

Full standings and results here, and top games from each round are viewable here. Check out the Calgary Chess Club facebook page for photos throughout the event. Thanks and well done to the organizing team, led by Lars Lowther.

Congratulations to the winners at the Canadian Youth Championship, which had 454 total players the week prior:

U18O – Tymur Keleberda
U18G – Julia Tsukerman
U16O – Max Chen
U16G – Valerie Ruchinskaya
U14O – Emil Soberov
U14G – Hanxi (Hancy) Jiang
U12O – Neil Moses
U12G – Laksshana Deepak
U10O – Edison Zhu
U10G – Ashley Qian
U8O – Venkat Karthikeya Reddy Kola
U8G – Florence Zixin Xu

Full results here. Thanks to the Youth organizing team, led by Wanjing Hu.

Follow along with Canadian Open updates on the Calgary Chess Club facebook page.

You can view live games of the top boards here or here and round by round results here.

Happy Canada Day!

The Canadian Open takes place July 22-30 in Calgary. Please visit the tournament website, which also includes information on the many side events featuring high-level Grandmasters:

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

The registration deadline is 11:59 p.m. on July 12, 2023.

Reminder that the Edmonton Summer Split (over/under 1800) takes place this weekend, June 16-18. Full info and registration here.

This is the last scheduled ACA event before the Canadian Open in July!

Congratulations to Hemant Srinivasan on a spectacular and improbable 6/6 performance. He defeated all four of the top seeds in a row to earn the tournament victory.

Emil Soberov and Jonathan Wu tied for second place with 4.5/6, while Talha Lodhi and Jarret Diep tied for first in the U1500 section with 5.5/6. Full results can be found here.

Thanks to Sean Wu for organizing and directing.

Congratulations to Team Alberta’s top performers at the Canadian Chess Challenge this weekend! Five players earned top three finishes in Montreal:

Grade 4 — Ryan Li, 3rd Place (7/9)
Grade 6 — Matthew Ivanescu, 3rd Place (6/9)
Grade 7 — Jonathan Wu, 1st Place (8.5/9)
Grade 9 — Anand Rishi Chandra, 1st Place (8/9)
Grade 11 — Sam Hoekman, 3rd Place (6.5/9)

Team Alberta finished in fourth place and impressively played the big three very tight, dropping matchups with Quebec (8-4), Ontario, (7-5), and BC (7-5) while putting up one of their best total scores ever at 72 points.

Full results

The Edmonton Summer Split takes place June 16-18, and registration is now open. This will be an over/under 1800 event, with two distinct sections. Find full information here.

Also upcoming are the Steinitz-Menchik Chess Classic in Calgary, next weekend (May 26-28) and the Trumpeter Classic in Grande Prairie (June 3-4). Register via the tournament pages, through the Schedule tab.

The Steinitz-Menchik takes place in Calgary on May 26-28. You can register for the six round event and find full information here or through the Schedule page.

The 38th Trumpeter Classic takes place June 3-4 in Grande Prairie and has a guaranteed $1000 prize fund.

Registration is open — see the tournament page to join and for full information.

Congratulations to the winners of the Alberta Youth Championship:

U8 — Maikl Prianichnikov (4.5/5)
U10 — Ryan Li (4.5/5)
U12 — Felix Zhang (4.5/5)
U14 — Emil Soberov (5/5)
U16 — Hemant Srinivasan (4.5/5)
U18 — Tymur Keleberda (6/6)

Good luck to everyone who will be competing in the Canadian Youth Championship this Summer.

Thanks to the CJCC for running this event.