2025 Alberta Chess Challenge

There are a few spots open as of the April 10th 10:00 p.m. online registration deadline. Please reach out to the organizer directly to see if there is still room.

Date: Saturday April 12, 2025
Venue: Holiday Inn & Suites on Gasoline Alley (Promenade C)
Address: 33 Petrolia Drive, Red Deer, AB, T4E 1B3

Organizer: Cristian Ivanescu
E-mail: cristianivanescu59@gmail.com

Format: 12 Sections (Grades 1-12). The exact format of each section will depend on the number of participants but players should expect to play 3-5 games.
Chess’N Math (CMA) rated. Open to Alberta residents only.
Time control: Game in 25 minutes with a 5-second delay.

Entry fee
$50 if pre-registered online by 10:00 p.m. on Thursday, April 10.
$60 afterwards and on-site (may not be available depending on the number of registrants).

Registration
Fill out the form below. The deadline for online registration is Thursday, April 10, 2025 @ 10:00 p.m. Capacity is 90 players.

Approximate Schedule on April 12
Registration: 9:45 a.m. – 10:15 a.m.
Rounds 1 and 2: 10:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Lunch: 12:30 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.
Rounds 3 to 5: 1:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Tie-breaks (if necessary) and awards: immediately after the completion of the last round.

Prizes in each section
1st, 2nd, and 3rd place finishers will receive trophies.
Grade winners will represent Team Alberta at the 2025 Canadian Chess Challenge. The ACA will provide a $400 travel grant to help offset expenses for travel to Ottawa for the May 18-19 tournament. Travel reimbursement policies apply.

JUNIOR DRAW RULE
In junior only events, the draw offer and acceptance are only allowed once both players have played 30 moves. For games without scoresheets, allowing the draw will be at the TD’s discretion.

Tie-break procedure
a. There will be playoff games for 1st place ties: 10+5, then 5+3, then 3+2 as needed.
b. No playoff games for 2nd or 3rd place.

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Pre-registered Players

Grade 1
Anzhi Hu
Holly Hughey
Cormac Tarnasky
Grade 2
Platon Bilyk
Advik Bindal
Sahasra Budiyal
Genie Hughey
Raphael Lee
George Liu
Tran Phat
Aavan Singh
Aadhavan Suresh
Grade 3
Caleb Izrajel Castro
Alan Chen
Owen Chen
Jude D’Souza
Elizeo Fraser
Muneer Hussain
Zaid Kassas
Daniel Li
Darrin Ma
Kaiser Nguyen
Anthony Ouyang
Aanya Rathee
Audvik Verma
Sienna Vu
Grade 4
Vienna Hughey
Saanvi Shamanth
Liubov Shtepa
Aarav Singh
Tran Hien Son
Finley Zhang
Grade 5
Shahzain Awan
Chelsea Fang
Vihan Gandhi
Diyas Iskander
Loki Lai
Austin Lu
Leo Roy
Lakshan Vinotha Sathishkumar
Kaisa Angela Tolentino
Lucas Wang
Peihong Yang
Grade 6
Joshua Jahrvn Castro
Zeth Matthew Dahlke
Kian Daiyan
Micah Deeg
Oliver Edden
Wuran Guo
Zhihui Lai
Meijia Li
Ryan Li
Mensajero (Manny) Perla
Isaac Sajosh
Jack Sheng
Jonah Wong
Grade 7
Roman Andrei Magtibay
Antonio Robins
April Wang
Michael Xu
Zongyan Yu
Grade 8
Matthew Ivanescu
Ysabella Landas
Jovan Singh
Felix Zhang
Grade 9
Rhys Andrew
John Carlo Bautista
Baneet Boparai
Steven Gan
Ray Jiang
Nirvaan Maria
Arthithan Murallidaran
Christopher Nikolov
Benjamin Williams
Grade 10
Aryan Ranjan Kumar
Tri Tran
Yuri Troitsky
Rostyslav
Grade 11
Richard Bocan
Nate Dyck
Shiloh Leger
Matthew Williams
Grade 12
Paul Caplan
Arshia Jafarmadar


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