2011 Alberta Closed & Reserves

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  • 2011 Alberta Closed & Reserves

    The 2011 Alberta Closed & Reserves takes place this weekend at the Calgary Chess Club.

    The 2011 Alberta Closed will determine Alberta's rep to the Canadian Closed & Zonal this year in Guelph. The winner will receive a cash prize and funding to attend the Canadian Closed. The format is the usual 6 player round robin. This year's tournament will be tough as Alberta's two strongest players will be participating. Here are the players:

    IM Eric Hansen
    IM Edward Porper
    FM Dale Haessel
    NM Richard Wang
    NM Nicolas Haynes
    Vlad Rekhson

    Time control will be 40/90, G/30 + 30 second increment.

    All the games will be broadcast live on the ACA website. The drawing of lots was done last week and the pairings are also available on the website.

    http://www.albertachess.org/2011AC.html

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    Re: 2011 Alberta Closed & Reserves

    Just a reminder that the Alberta Closed starts this Friday. We will be broadcasting all the games live on the ACA website. Round 1 begins at 7 pm MST this Friday.

    http://www.albertachess.org/2011AC.html

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      Re: 2011 Alberta Closed & Reserves

      Great stuff Tony - looking forward to following the games. :)

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        Round 1 has started. Unfortunately, one of the boards is not working so we can only broadcast 2 of the 3 games this round, hope to have the problem resolved for round 2 tomorrow.

        http://www.albertachess.org/2011AC.html

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          Re: 2011 Alberta Closed & Reserves

          Due to a faulty usb cable, we can only broadcast 2 boards from the Alberta Closed.

          Round 2 has started. Here are the match-ups:

          IM Eric Hansen vs. Vlad Rekhson
          NM Nicolas Haynes vs. IM Edward Porper
          NM Richard Wang vs. FM Dale Haessel

          Watch the games live here:

          http://www.albertachess.org/2011AC.html

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            Re: 2011 Alberta Closed & Reserves

            Full results for round 2 are:

            Hansen 1-0 Rekhson
            Wang 1-0 Haessel
            Haynes 0-1 Porper

            Round 3 begins at 6 pm and will see:
            Porper vs. Hansen
            Rekhson vs. Wang
            Haessel vs. Haynes

            We will be broadcasting Porper vs. Hansen along with Rekhson vs. Wang.

            Standings so far:
            Porper - 2
            Hansen - 2
            Wang - 1
            Haynes - 1
            Haessel - 0
            Rekhson - 0

            http://www.albertachess.org/2011AC.html

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              Re: 2011 Alberta Closed & Reserves

              I have uploaded the games from the first two rounds using DGT's Chess Theatre.

              http://www.calgarychess.com/2011ACG.html

              Let me know what you think of this viewer.

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                Here are the full results for round 3:

                Porper 0-1 Hansen
                Rekhson 0-1 Wang
                Haessel 0-1 Haynes

                Black continues to rake in this tournament. All games have been decisive, no draws after 3 rounds. Black has won 7 of the 9 games so far! If that's not competitive chess, I don't know what is.

                Standings:
                Hansen - 3
                Porper - 2
                Wang - 2
                Haynes - 2
                Haessel - 0
                Rekhson - 0
                Round 4 begins at 10 am tomorrow morning. We will be broadcasting the following 2 boards:
                Haynes vs. Hansen
                Wang vs. Porper

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                  Re: 2011 Alberta Closed & Reserves

                  Originally posted by Tony Ficzere View Post
                  I have uploaded the games from the first two rounds using DGT's Chess Theatre.

                  http://www.calgarychess.com/2011ACG.html

                  Let me know what you think of this viewer.
                  Maybe it's "just me", but whether I used Firefox, Opera or Chrome, as a replay device, all I was able to see was Black's half of the board. As a PGN-downloader, the results were more mixed. In Firefox, it worked fine. In Opera 11, it crashed the browser.

                  Thanks for thinking of us!

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                    Re: 2011 Alberta Closed & Reserves

                    Originally posted by Jonathan Berry View Post
                    Maybe it's "just me", but whether I used Firefox, Opera or Chrome, as a replay device, all I was able to see was Black's half of the board. As a PGN-downloader, the results were more mixed. In Firefox, it worked fine. In Opera 11, it crashed the browser.

                    Thanks for thinking of us!
                    Good to know. I had only tried it in Explorer and Safari where it seemed to work well.

                    I can fix it so that it will display the entire board in Firefox, Opera or Chrome, it's all in the way I frame it. Basically, I upload to a page on the net then use an html frame on the page to display. Or, I could just give you the actual url so that you can view the flash page as it is published. I have no control over design, but I can make the board larger or smaller.

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