Texas Chess Association

February 24, 2009

2009 Texas State & Amateur Championship

Start making your plans for Memorial Day weekend (May 22-25) in San Antonio! More details on the the State Championship page on the Dallas Chess Club's website.

Texas State and Amateur Championship 7SS, Marriott San Antonio Riverwalk, 889 East Market Street, San Antonio TX 78205 $$8350 b/175, full entries 75% Guaranteed, 2 Sections and scholastic side events: Championship (Open to players with USCF or Fide ratings of 2000 or greater and last year's Amateur Champion. This section is Fide rated but uses USCF rules.) Rds 1-3 G/90 with 30 sec increment, rds 4-7 G/120 with 30 sec increment: $$1000-500-250, U2400 $500, X $700-300. Amateur: U2000 & unrated. Rds 1-7 30/90 Sd/1, rd 1 of 3 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: $74 if received by 5/15, $85 at site. $65 Junior(U19) if received by 5/15 else $77 (juniors count as 90% toward base), Senior (over 65)/Handicapped/ additional family participant $45 if receive by 5/15 else $60 (Senior /Handicap/ Additional family participant counts 60% toward base). Add $5 for CC phone entries; pre-reg requires pre-paymt. After 5/20/09 all registration and changes on site only; all changes including withdrawals, $10 after 5/20/09. 4 day: Reg Friday 5/22, 6:15pm-7:15. Rds Fri: 7:45, Sat: 2:30pm-8:00, Sun: 10am-4:00, Mon: 9am-2:30. 3 day: Reg Sat 5/23 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: $105/105/105/105. 800-228-9290 reserve by 5/1 (or rate may go up) and ask for SA Chess Tournament rate. Note that this hotel has no free parking. Up to two ½ pt byes available if requested before rd 2, but byes for both rd 6 AND 7 is not permitted. K-12 Scholastic on Saturday, 5/23. 5-SS, Rds 1-3 G/30, rds 4-5 G/45, EF: $28 by 5/15, $40 after; CC phone entries add $5. Pre-reg. requires pre-paymt. After 5/20/09 all registration and changes on site only; all changes $10 after 5/20/09. No refunds after 5/21/09, $10 handling fee for refunds before 5/21/09. 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, 5 teams in each section. K-12 U750 also top 3 unrateds. Medals to plus scores 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

February 16, 2009

Two-way tie for first at Texas Team Championship

This year's Texas Team Championship produced a strong turnout, with 14 teams representing 6 Texas cities. Two teams from San Antonio and Austin shared the first prize after battling to a draw in a tense, final-round match. See the San Antonio Chess Club website for a detailed recap.

January 31, 2009

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January 10, 2009

2009 Houston Absolute Championship

The Houston Chess Club is hosting the 2009 Houston Absolute Championship on March 14-15. This would make a great warm up event for those of you who are playing in the Texas Scholastic Championship the following weekend.

December 19, 2008

2009 Texas Team Championship

Jan 31 - Feb 1, 2009: Texas Team Championship. 4-SS, 30/90. SD/60. John E. Hornbeak Bldg. 3rd floor, 4450 Medical Dr., San Antonio, TX. Open to four-player teams avg. U2200 based on Dec. 2008 rating list. One alternate allowed, must be lowest rated. EF: $100/team if rec'd by 1/29, $125 site. TCA memb. required ($10 reg., $7.50 jr. U19, $1 jr. tmt.), o.s.a. $$($1,000 b/12 teams): $450 + T, $250, U1900 team $200 + T, $100. Reg. 11 a.m.-noon, Rds. 12:30-6, 9:30-3. Ent: SACC, POB 501, Helotes, TX 78023; 210-695-2324; schachlied@yahoo.com. NS. NC. W.

The San Antonio Chess Club website has a list of players seeking teams.

September 27, 2008

Fall Tournament Calendar

Plenty of great events around Texas this fall:

September 24, 2008

SPICE Cup

The SPICE Cup is underway in Lubbock. It's a 10-player round-robin event, with an all-GM field and an average FIDE rating of 2605 (category 15). Games start at 2pm daily and are being broadcast live on the Internet Chess Club and Monroi.com. The event is sponsored by Texas Tech University and the Susan Polgar Institute for Chess Excellence (SPICE).

September 18, 2008

Southwest Open wrapup

GM Alejandro Ramirez, IM Salvijus Bercys, IM Puchen Wang, and IM Jacek Stopa each scored 5.5/7 to tie for first place at the Southwest Open, held Labor Day weekend in Fort Worth.

In the Reserve section, Eric Lu scored an impressive 6.5/7 to win first place by a clear point. Eric's rating has risen by 140 points in his last two events, so it looks like Austin will have another expert soon.

Thanks to the 155 players who turned out and made it a great event, and a special thanks to the organizers: Susan Breeding, Francisco Guadalupe, and Luis Salinas.

Final round, board 1: IM Pachen Wang and IM Jacek Stopa

NM Tautvydas Vedrickas and NM Drew Sarkisian. Sarkisian
scored the upset to finish with 5/7, good for the U2200 prize.

August 30, 2008

Southwest Open underway

The 74th annual Southwest Open is underway! I don't have the final headcount yet, but as of Wednesday 168 players had entered, including the addition of IM Salvijus Bercys (2479) and Tautvydas Vedrickas (2347). This is one of the strongest fields ever for a TCA event. Just take a look at the top 8 players:

GM Alejandro Ramirez  2600
IM Marko Zivanic      2544
IM Davorin Kuljasevic 2528
GM Babakuli Annakov   2510
IM Jacek Stopa        2507
IM Salvijus Bercys    2479
IM Puchan Wang        2440
Tautvydas Vedrickas   2347

TCA Business meeting announcement

The TCA business meeting will be held 10am Sunday morning at the Southwest Open tournament site. You can read the minutes from the Spring 2008 meeting and some new bylaw amendments which are up for discussion on Sunday. (All of the business meeting minutes going back to 1991 are available on the Files page.)

The business meeting is open to the public.

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