Saturday, October 24, 2009

Alberta Junior Championship and Reserve 2009

The Alberta Junior Championship and Reserve 2009 will be held at Calgary Chess Club on November 7-8, 2009. It will be a 5 round open swiss or round robin (if we have low entries). The winner of the "Championship" section will recieve ACA sponsorship to the next Canadian Junior Chess Championship. The Calgary Junior Chess Club will purchase plaques and will be given to the winner and runner-ups of both sections. Cash prizes will be available for both sections. Time control is Game in 90 minutes + 30 second increments per move. The round times will be 10:00am / 2:30pm / 6:00pm on Saturday and 10:00am / 2:30pm on Sunday (may change to give time to player to get lunch and dinner). All byes must be requested before round 1 (with last round counting as 0 point bye).

The full details for this tournament can be found on the following website: http://www.albertachess.org/Alberta_Junior.html

You can still join by emailing simong89@yahoo. ca (Tournament Director is Simon Ong).

CHAMPIONSHIP SECTION (OPEN):
(1) YueKai Wang of Calgary (1808)
(2) David Miller of Grand Prairie (1627)
(3) Aaron Ting of Calgary (1329)

RESERVE SECTION (RESTRICTION: BELOW 1700 CFC):
(1) Raymond Ong of Calgary (1613)
(2) Naveed Virgi of Edmonton (1478)
(3) Yaroslav Babich of Calgary (1256)
(4) Artsiom Akhverdziyev of Calgary (1186)
(5) Kevin Zhao of Calgary (1110)
(6) Krishneel Singh of Calgary (1077)
(7) Chenxi Zhao of Calgary (929)
(8) Jackson Prather of Calgary (877)
(9) Bill Xu of Calgary (772)
(10) Ryan John Tebbutt of Calgary (608)
(11) Andre Angelo Tolentino of Calgary (587)
(12) Lee Ma of Calgary (589)
(13) Zeling Li of Calgary (531)
(14) Patrick Angelo Tolentino of Calgary (513)
(15) Derek Zhang of Calgary (474)
(16) Imran Virji of Edmonton (UNR)

Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Alberta Blitz Championship 2009

Alberta Blitz Championship 2009
Date: Saturday, November 14th, 2009
Location: University of Calgary, Macewan Hall, Room Cassio A/B
Registration: 9:00 AM to 9:45 AM (Tournament finishes around 4:00 PM)
Time Control: 5 minutes
Entry Fee: 5$ for U of C Chess Club members; 10$ for other players
Prize Fund: 100% of entry fees
Contact and Pre-Registration: Adie Todd, chess@ucalgary.ca

Pre-registration list:
(1) Ben Schmaltz
(2) Nicholas Moloney
(3) John Morrey
(4) Michael Wanless
(5) Jacob Smith
(6) Chase Cunningham
(7) Dan Kazmaier
(8) Steven Blahitka
(9) Robert Gaforth
(10) Simon Ong
(11) Monica Sommerville
(12) Brett Collier

Click the following link for the map to the playing site: http://www.ucalgary.ca/map/detailed_map/mhflo002.htm