From October 9-13, 2014, the highest stakes open chess tournament took place at the Planet Hollywood. A total of 548 players entered what would be the biggest ever payout for an open chess tournament. In the Open Section, GM Wesley…
NV North-South Team Match, Quickplay championship 2014 The two teams from Reno and Las Vegas traveled to Tonopah on September 27-28, 2014 for the annual team match for that big trophy. First of all, I want to say that Juan…
Nevada State Championship 2014 Four players qualified for this annual event,which returned to a 4 player format from 20 years ago. Elliot Liu and Mike Zaloznyy had qualified for winning the best 2 of 3 scores in the Southern Nevada…
Las vegas Chess Center The Back to school tournament is over at LVCC. Dan Durham and Glenn shared first in the open with three points each and Tony ran away with the first in the Under section. Thanks to everyone!…
Las Vegas Open 2014 The third of the grand prix series was once again held at the Las Vegas Chess Center and Timur Gareev won a thousand dollar first prize with a 4.5/5 score. But Elliott Liu and Mike Zaloznyy…
Saturday, March 22, 2014 at Las Vegas Day School INFO Enter Now Advance Entries Flyer and Entry Form Results On line entry will be available up to the start of the tournament. Entries received after Friday March 21 will incur an…
23rd Annual North American Open December 26-30, 2013 The 23rd Annual North American Open was held at Bally’s Casino Resort, 3645 Las Vegas Blvd S, Las Vegas, Nevada. GM Giorgi Kacheishvili had the best tie-breaks out of 8 players who…
Old news is good news. Round 1 [Event “nosom13”] [Site “Tonopah, NV”] [Date “2013.09.28”] [Round “1”] [White “Alsasua, E..”] [Black “Reyes, Virgil”] [Result “1/2-1/2”] [ECO “B32”] {318MB, Fritz11.ctg, USER-BF45D6A2CE} 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4…
Nevada State Championship 2013 David Lucky and Jerry Weikel, who commented that he was playing some of his best chess ever squared off for the 2 game match in Tonopah Nevada at the Station House on September 28, 2013. In…
If Nevada was the world… then this qualifer comprised 6 world champions, current and past. That’s right, 6 state champions entered the lists, with 4 masters, 4 experts and 12 class players at the City of the World Art Gallery…
The following is the report from the Barber Tournament in Madison, Wisconsin by Liceu Pereira, the father of our Nevada Champ: Royce Pereira. From the onset, I would like to apologize for the size of this post. This is the…
FLASH…Here are the results of the recent national scholastic chess tournaments from Madison, Wisconsin. Nevada representatives Raymond Seid scored 3/6 in the Denker event, Royce Pereira scored 2.5/6 in the Barber event, and Aisha Sanwal scored 2/6 in the NGIT…
