Texas Knights Magazine - Online!

Several back issues of Texas Knights Magazine are now available for download.

2008
Jan - Feb
March - April
May-June
July-August
September-October
November-December

2007
Jan - Feb
March - April
May - June
July - August
September - October
November - December

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Minutes from the Fall 2007 TCA Business Meeting

TCA held a business meeting at the recent Southwest Open in Brownsville. The meeting minutes are now available online.

2008 Texas Scholastic Championships - early info

For those of you who are already planning for next year's Texas Scholastic Chess Championships, the event will be held in Houston on March 7-9, 2008 at the Hilton Americas hotel. (800-774-1500 or 713-739-8000. HR $104.) I'll post more info as soon as it becomes available.

Five-way tie for first at Southwest Open

The 73rd annual Southwest Open was held in Brownsville over Labor Day weekend. The remote location hurt attendance - only 76 players competed, roughly half as many as in previous years. What the event lacked in size, it made up for in strength, with 7 IMs in the field.

Five players tied for first with 5.5/7 - IM Salvijus Bercys, IM Axel Bachmann, IM Daniel Fernandez, Tautvydas Vedrickas, and IM Alfonso Almeida. In the Reserve section, Victor A. Flores won clear first with 6/7. See the crosstables for all the results. In the one-day scholastic event, Kristin Ramos and Jorge Hernandez both notch perfect 5-0 scores to win their respective sections.

Duplicate scoresheets were not provided to the players, and as a result, very few games scores were submitted. Please email your games to Texas Knights editor Selby Anderson at schachlied@yahoo.com.


Victor A. Flores, winner of the Reserve Section.



Nelly Estrada & Janeth Moreno ponder their next move.

TCA business meeting

The Fall business meeting of the TCA will be held at the Southwest Open tournament site on Sunday, Sept 2 at 8:30am. If you plan to attend this meeting, please take the time to review the proposed amendments to the TCA Bylaws.

Southwest Open - make your hotel reservations

The 73rd annual Southwest Open is less than three weeks away! If you're planning to attend, you must make your hotel reservations by August 17th to get the discounted $69 room rate. (Ask for the chess rate.)

http://www.holidayinnbrownsville.com/
1-800-325-7385

This is your chance to participate in the longest-running event in TCA history!

Warren Harper wins Denker Tournament!

Back in March, we told you about Warren Harper's victory at the Texas Scholastic Championship. Warren continued his winning ways last week, taking clear first place at the 2007 Denker Tournament of High School Champions, and winning a four-year scholarship to Texas Tech University.

This result should push Warren's rating above 2300. Not bad for a
16-year old who played his first rated game 3 years ago!

For more coverage, visit the USCF website and Susan Polgar's blog.

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Games from the Canadian Open:

2007 Southwest Open information

The 73rd annual Southwest Open will be held in Brownsville from Aug 31 - Sept 3. This is one of the strongest tournaments held in Texas each year - just take a look at the list of previous winners.

For more details, visit the official website.

State Championship Results

Congratulations to GM Gilberto Hernandez, who scored 6 out of 7 to win clear first place at the 2007 Texas State Championship. This is the first Texas Championship title for Hernandez, adding his name to the prestigious list of past winners. The Championship Section games were broadcast live on the Monroi website - a nice touch that will hopefully be repeated at future events.


The Amateur Championship saw a three-way tie for first place with Leo Bonnell, Alexander Steger, and Arthur Safin all finishing at 6-1.

On Saturday, 105 players competed in a separate K-12 scholastic event. Alexander Jiang scored a perfect 5-0 to win the Open section, while Richard Ay and Nick Zarosky both notched 5-0 scores to tie for first in the U-750 section.

See the final crosstables for complete results.

Special thanks to Luis Salinas, Francisco Guadalupe, Rob Jones, and Barb Swafford, for their hard work in organizing and running the event.