Texas Scholastic Championship info

The biggest TCA event of the year takes place Feb 18-19 in Dallas! More information, including links to online registration, is available at the tournament website. Discounted hotel rates are available until Jan 27, so make your reservations soon!

GM Timur Gareev wins Austin Club Championshiop

GM Timur Gareev (2743!) topped a field of 142 players at the Austin Chess Club Championship last weekend.  Gareev scored a perfect 5-0, good for first place and $600.
NM Arvind Jayaraman finished in second place ($300) with 4.5 points.  Alexander Quach won the U1800 section ($400) with 4.5 points and Jeff Little won the U1500 section ($250) with 5 points.

Crosstables are online at the Austin Chess Club website.  Thanks to Lori Balkum for running a fabulous tournament!
 

Round 5: GM Gareev faces NM Alex Chua

Texas Grade & Collegiate Championships

The Texas State Grade and Collegiate Chess Championships will take place at the Hilton Hobby Airport Hotel in Houston, October 29-30.  Please visit the website for registration and more information about the event.  The deadline for the early registration discount is Oct 19, so register soon!

National K-12 Championships

The National K-12 Chess Championships, also known as the National Grades, will be held at the Hilton Anatole in Dallas, November 18-20, 2011. In this event, players compete only in their respective grades. Winners, including ties, are declared National Grade Champions.

For more information and registration, please visit http://www.uschess.org/tournaments/2011/k12/. The deadline for the early rate is fast approaching, so sign up today and join us in Dallas!

Koltanowski Conference on Chess & Education

Nov 18-19 in Dallas:
http://www.utdallas.edu/chess/education-camp/second-koltanowski-conference.html

Texas State Grade & Collegiate Championships

2011 Texas State Grade & Collegiate Championships
Hilton Houston Hobby Airport
October 28-30, 2011

More info coming soon...

National Chess Festival in Houston

Later this month, the Hilton Hobby Airport Hotel in Houston will be the site of a Chess Festival that includes two National events: The U.S. Junior Open (July 22-24), open to all players under the age of 21 as of 1/1/2011, and the U.S. Senior Open (July 18-23), open to players age 50 and over as of 7/18/2011. For those who are not eligible for these two events, we will also have the Not-A-Senior-Not-A-Junior Open (July 22-24)! In addition to these three main events, there will be Blitz and Bughouse side events as well as a tournament for the Parents and Friends of the U.S. Junior participants.

The U.S. Junior Open has four sections: U21, U15, U11, and U8 (age as of 1/1/2011). The U21 will have cash prizes and plaques, and the winner gets an automatic spot in the 2012 U.S. Junior Championship, if still eligible by age. The other three sections have trophy prizes. All sections have Class prizes (age and rating) and all participants receive commemorative medals. In addition to the individual awards, the event will have team prizes and players are eligible to enter school or club teams! Top four scores, minimum of three, count towards team scores in each section. Winners of all four divisions, including ties, are considered National Champions. On line registration is available at http://www.active.com/more-sports/houston-tx/us-junior-open-chess-championships-2011

The U.S. Senior Open has 6-Day and 3-Day Schedules. It has a guaranteed prize fund of $5,000 with the overall winner taking home $1,250! The top three finishers get Commemorative Clocks and six class (age) winners will receive plaques. The event is open to all players age 50 or over, and the top finisher born on or before January 1, 1951 is the official USCF entrant in the World Senior Chess Championship. That player also receives a $500 USCF stipend towards that event. On line registration for this event is available at http://www.active.com/more-sports/houston-tx/us-senior-chess-championship-2011

The Not-A-Senior-Not-A-Junior Open offers a Prize Fund of 70% of entries collected. This event has four USCF rated sections: Open (also FIDE rated), U2000, U1600/Unrated, and U1200. More details and on-line registration is available at http://www.cajunchess.com/tourns/uptourns.shtml

The names of all National Champions in the Junior Open and the Senior Open will be included in the USCF 2011 Yearbook. Grandmasters receive free entry for any of these events, if eligible. On-site registration will be available but to take advantage of the early rates, you must register as soon as possible, so REGISTER TODAY!

IM Zivanic and NM Guadalupe win State Championship

IM Marko Zivanic and Francisco Guadalupe II drew their third-round game, both ending with five wins and two draws and in a tie for the Texas State Championship. Marko was the top seed among the 31 players in the Championship while Francisco entered as the twelfth(!) seed. In sole possession of third place was NM Artur Safin who drew both games with the Co-Champions. Thirteen masters were in attendance in this event open to players with over 2000 FIDE or USCF rating.

In the Amateur Championship, Yuri Nunez won his first six games and entered the last round with a full-point lead over Andy Shao, Bovey Liu, Alexander Jiang and Claudia Munoz. In that last game, Shao beat Nunez while Bovey beat Jiang. That allowed Shao and Bovey to tie Nunez for the Championship. Claudia tried very hard to join the group but was held to a draw by the much higher rated William Molina. Claudia fell to a fourth place tie with Akshay Bangale, Austin Jiang, and Atulya Vaidya.

Look for many of the games to be published in an upcoming edition of the Texas Knights magazine.


2011 Texas State Champions: NM Francisco Guadalupe II and IM Marko Zivanic

2011 Texas State Championship

May 27 or 28 - 30, 2011 Texas State and Amateur Championships GPP: 20

7SS, Sheraton Dallas North Hotel, 4801 Lyndon B Johnson Fwy, Dallas, Texas, 75244. $$ 8,350 b/175, full entries, 2 Sections and scholastic side events: Championship (This section is FIDE rated but uses USCF rules. Must be rated 2000 or above by either USCF or Fide to play in this section. Defending Amateur Champion may also play in this section. Foreign unrateds may play in this section.) G/90 with 30 sec. increment: $$ 1,000-500-250, 2200-2399 $700, U2200 $800. Amateur: U2000 & unrated. Rds. 1-7 30/90 SD/1, rd. 1 of three day is G/120 (deduct 5 min. for delay). $$ 800-400-200. B $$ 600-300-150, C 500-250-125, U1400 $500-250-125, U1200 $400, U1000 $300 Unrated $200. Both: TCA membership required. Other states accepted.EF: $88 if received by 5/19, else $99. $80 Junior(U19) if received by 5/19 else $90 (juniors count as 90% toward base), Senior(over 65)/Handicapped/ additional family participant $52 if receive by 5/19 else $65 (Senior/Handicap/ Additional family participant counts 60% toward base). Add $5 for CC phone entries; pre-reg requires pre-payment. After 5/25/11 all registration and changes on site only; all changes including withdrawals, $10 after 5/25/11. 4 day: Reg. Friday 5/27, 6:15 pm-7:15. Rds. Fri.: 7:45, Sat: 2:30 pm - 8:00, Sun.: 11:00 am - 5:15 pm, Mon.: 9 am - 2:45 pm. 3 day: Reg. Sat. 5/28, 9-9:30 am, Rd. 1 at 10 am then merge with 4 day. Foreign Unrated must play in Championship section. Registrations that do not indicate 4 or 3 day schedule will be put in the 3 day. HR: $84/84/84/84, 972-661-3600 reserve by 5/13 and ask for Dallas Chess Club rate. Free Parking. Up to two 1/2 pt byes available if requested before end of rd. 2, but byes for both rd. 6 AND 7 not permitted. K-12 Scholastic on Saturday, 5/28. 5-SS, Rds. 1-3 G/30, rds. 4-5 G/45, EF: $29 by 5/19, $43 after; Pre-reg. requires pre-payment. After 5/25/11 all registration and changes on site only; all changes $10 after 5/25/11. No refunds after 5/25/11, $10 handling fee for refunds before 5/25/11. Entries do not count toward base in Championship and Amateur. Registration 8:15-8:45 am, Rd. 1 at 9:30 am, rest ASAP with small lunch break. Sections: K-12 Championship and K-12 U750. Prizes: Trophies to top 12 individuals, five teams in each section. K-12 U750 also top three unrateds. Medals to those who do not win a trophy. Ent: Dallas Chess Club, C/O Barbara Swafford, 2709 Longhorn Trail, Crowley, TX 76036. Info: Barb Swafford, 214-632-9000, info@dallaschess.com www.dallaschess.com NS. NC. W. FIDE. WCL JGP.

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