Alberta Chess Challenge

Registrations for Valentine's Tournament on Sunday, February 12, at Edmonton Chess Club

Sign in by 12:50 p.m. on February 12 afterregistering

Below playing sessions are based on ratings and where possible siblings are not placed in same section. Sections often change right up to the final listing at 9 a.m. February 12 due to new entries, withdrawing entrants, and changings in ratings. Top sections, usually A and B and sometimes C depending if all or most players are rated over 1300 play for cash prizes while other sections play for chess medals and ribbons. Competitive prizes are usually awarded to one-half of the players in each section. There will be a Valentine treat by draw given to one player in each section and then a general draw for larger prizes from among all participants.

A limited number of players may enter this tournament and play via internet if they do not live in Edmonton, St. Albert or Strathcona County. When registering these players must put that they wish to play via internet in the comment section of the registration form.

Registered as of February 5 are:

Section A: Derek Thomas, David McCullough, Aren Zita

Section B: Matthew Zita, Ian McCullough, Lenard Grossmann, Siddhartha Chitrakar

Section C: Collin Harrison, Andrew Carlson, Eric Li, Calvin Liu, Nishan Abulike

Remember: if you have to withdraw from this event after registering, please e-mail rovingchessnuts@shaw.ca On the day of the event, if you have to withdraw or will be arriving later than 1 p.m., call 780-554-7280. If you do not show up and do not notify that you are withdrawing, you will be paired and will forfeit one or more games. New players entering their first tournament are encouraged to arrange for an evaluation first so they can be put into the proper playing section.

RESULTS for Elementary Team Tournament on Sunday, Jan. 29, Edmonton Chess Club:

SECTION A Teams:

1st, 8.0 points - Westbrook A: 1. Mark Nie, 2. David Yao, 3. Kaining Lin (Average Rating: 1638)

2nd, 4.5 - Westbrook B: 1. Rayden Lin, 2. Lukas Muliawan, 3. Siddhartha Chitrakar (Average Rating: 1453)

3rd, 3.5 - New Horizons A: 1. Ian McCullough, 2. Adam Mawani, 3. Kevin Stanislus (Average Rating: 1502)

4th, 2.0 -McKernan: 1. Matthew Zita, 2. Alex Broughton, 3. Olga Cadenillas (Average Rating: 1123)

SECTION B Teams:

1st, 12 points - Dickinsfields (Fort McMurray): 1. Johnny Burn, 2. Ben Farrington, 3 Robert Gibson (Average Rating: 842)

2nd, 8.0 - New Horizons B: 1. Jarod Hasell, 2. Andrew Carlson, 3. Patrick Radvanyi (Average Rating: 782)

3rd, 7.0 -Glen Allan: 1. Josh Gamache, 2. Cade Gyte, 3. Bryce Emes and Alex Emes (Average Rating 639)

4th, 6.5 - Windsor Park A: 1. William Bradford, 2. Karim Valji, 3. Aly Valji (Partially Rated)

5th, 5.5 - Frere Antoine B: 1. Kaden Schipper, 2. Gabriela Quintanilla, 3. Anna Saunders (Unrated)

6th tied with 4.5 each:

Frere Antoine A: 1. Nathaniel Tran, 2. Anthony Saunders, 3. Giancarlos Quintanilla and Anton Slone (Unrated)

Windsor Park B: 1. Deven Reddy, 2. Kaeten Mehta 3.Sonya Mehta (Unrated)

Thank you to all players and parents who participated in this Team Event. Special Thanks to Directors Bruce Thomas, Rob McCullough, Derek Thomas and Richard Pua, and to Colin Broughton for manning the concession with help from Ada and Alex. Thank you to the other parents and players who helped with setting up and taking down the event. The change of format from five-players to three-player teams led to greater participation and more excitement as the teams fought hard for the four pizza parties, school trophies and individual medals! Watch for the next team tournament where there is likely to be more schools and more teams. The success of the internet play will mean that schools from across the province will be able to participate.

Results of SACK's Welcome 2012 Scholastic Tournament, Sunday, January 15 at Edmonton Chess Club:

Section A: 1. Jamil Kassam, 2. Etienne Leclerc, 3. Kaixin Wang, 4. Aren Zita

Section B: 1. Matthew Zita, 2. David Yao, 3. Austin Hesse, 4. Alex Broughton,

Section C: 1. Lenard Grossmann, 2. Collin Harrison, 3. Payus Shrestha, 4. Artur Lyssenko, 5. Johnny Burn

Section D: 1. Andrew Carlson, 2. Nabil Kassam, 3. Adrian Kovac, 4. Francois Marais, Tied 5-6 Andi Superceanu and Ada Broughton

Section E: 1. Eric Li, 2. Cade Cyte, 3. Namo Rousseau, 4. Julian Lau, 5. Alex Emes

Section F: 1. Calvin Liu, 2. William Braford, 3. Olga Cadenillas, 4. Gabriel Sillador

Directors: Bruce Thomas, Jack Wang, Peng Li, Richard Pua and Colin Broughton (concessionaire)

Thank you to Edmonton Chess Club for venue and all players and parents and Roving ChessNuts for organizing and some door prizes

> Congratulations to DAVID ZHANG of Calgary for becoming Canada's newest Junior Chess Champion! The Grade 11 student won the title on January 8, with a score of 6.5 out of 7 in the championship held in Calgary. Richard Wang of Edmonton was second with a 6.0 score while the highest-rated player from Ontario, Shiyam Thavandiran finished third at 5.5. A total of 12 players were in the championship open section. The 6-player female section was also won by an Albertan - Nicka Kalaydina of Calgary. This may have been the best results ever for Alberta in the history of the junior championship.

Results of Society of Alberta Chess Knights Christmas Tournament

Section A: 1. David McCullough, 2. Derek Thomas, 3. Noah Hoffner, 4. Mark Nie

Section B: 1. Kaixin Wang, 2. Ian McCullough, 3. Prabjeet Bansal, 4. Henry Song

Section C: 1. Aren Zita, Tied 2-4: Zack Kirsch, David Yao and Adam Mawani

Section D: 1. Matthew Zita, Tied 2-3: Alex Broughton and Siddhartha Chitrakar, 4. Lenard Grossmann, 5. Filip Stevanovic,

6. Collin Harrison

Section E: 1. Raghu Manohar, 2. Prayus Shrestha, 3. Daniel Zhang, 4. Alvin Wu, 5. Divya Shah

Section F: 1. Andi Superceanu, Tied 2-3: Johnny Burn and Victor Robbins, 4. Adrian Kovac, 5. Ada Broughton, 6. Joshua Gamache

Section G: 1. Nabil Kassam, 2. Andrew Carlson, 3. Robert Gibson, Tied 4-5: Eric Li and Cade Gyte, 6. Julian Lau

Results for Northern Alberta Scholastic Chess Championships, November 13 in Edmonton

Grade 1: 1. Andi Superceanu

Grade 2: 1. Daniel Zhang, 2. Adrian Kovac, 3. Jeffrey Ma, 4. Eric Li, 5. John Thomson, 6. Ellis McDougald

Grade 3 Pro Section: 1. Lenard Grossmann, 2. Kaixin Wang, 3. Siddhartha Chitrakar

Grade 3 Amateur Section: 1. Ada Broughton (perfect score), 2. Andrew Carlson, 3-4 tied Peter Daye and Olga Cadenillas

Grade 4: 1. David Yao (perfect score), 2. Alvin Wu, 3. Emmett Maxfield, 4. Bryn McDougald

Grade 5 Pro Section: 1. Ian McCullough, 2. Adam Mawani, 3. Boris Stevanovic, 4-5 tied Tosin Kuye and Kevin Stanislus

Grade 5 Amateur Section: 1. Prayus Shrestha, 2. Remi Hou, 3. Joshua Gamache, 4. Ryan Lupul

Grade 6 Pro Section: 1. Mark Nie, 2. Matthew Zita, 3. Ethan Chew, 4. Alex Broughton, 5-6 tied Rayden Lin and Adam Roth

Grade 6 Amateur Section: 1. Jessie Zhang, 2. Johnny Burn, 3-4 tied Robert Gibson and Ewan McAlister

Grade 7: 1. Noah Hoffner (perfect score), 2. Filip Stevanovic 3. Collin Harrison, 4. Allan Stanislus, 5. Ryan Nowakowsky

Grade 8: 1. David McCullough, Stephen Pavlic, 3. Raghu Manohar, 4. Dennis Situ

Grade 9: 1. Prabjeet Bansal, 2. Aren Zita, 3. Henry Song

Grade 10: No Entrants

Grade 11: 1. Derek Thomas, 2. Etienne Leclerc

Grade 12: No Entrants

50/50 Raffle Winner of $166 - Ticket #122 Trev Ushko of Edmonton;

Secondary Prize of Chess Set donated by Roving ChessNuts - Ticket #31 Ian Brooks of Strathcona County

Players Draw Prizes including chess books and travel sets went to each grade level: Andi Superceanu, Adrian Kovac, Olga Cadenillas, Alvin Wu, Adam Mawani, Ethan Chew, Collin Harrison, Raghu Manohar, Aren Zita, Etienne Leclerc

General Prize of Tube Travel Chess Set - all players eligible goes to Joshua Gamache

All Northern Champs receive a free entry in the 2012 Alberta Challenge, April 21 in Red Deer, compliments of the Society of Alberta Chess Knights.

Congratulations to the three Alberta players who participated in the World Youth Championships. Richard Wang of Edmonton finished 10th in the Under Age 14 division with 6.5/9 score. He was ranked 15th out of 132 participants. David Zhang of Calgary was 44th out of 104 players in the Under 16 division after being ranked 53rd at the start. David had four wins and two draws in his nine games. Nicka Kalaydina was ranked 39th out of 84 competitors and scored four points with two wins and four draws to finish 48th.

See Results from Tournament August 21, 2011 to November 11, 2011

See results from other earlier events

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