On the weekend of April 25-27, 48 chess players came to the Learning Village, located at the corner of Fremont Street and 8th Street in downtown Las Vegas, to compete in the Mantis Downtown Chess Fest. This five round swiss…
190 players competed in the Nevada Scholastic Championships on Saturday, March 22nd. In the High School Section, Cameron Patterson took the 1st place trophy on tie break over co-champion Raymond Seid. Cameron qualifies to represent Nevada at the Denker Tournamet…
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…
FIDE Master Elliott Liu played five rounds of consistently strong chess to win the open section of the Presidents’ Day Open with a perfect 5-0 score. The Presidents’ Day Open was a five round swiss system tournament played at the…
Attention scholastic chess players! The 2014 Nevada State Scholastic Chess Championship will be held Saturday, March 22 at the Las Vegas Day School. For more information, click here. If you would like to register for the tournament online, please visit…
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…
Tom Brownscombe and Timur Gareev On Friday, December 6th, 2013 not just one, but two grandmasters came to visit the Las Vegas Chess Center at the corner of Fremont Street and 8th Street in downtown Las Vegas. GM Timur Gareev…
There will be a meeting of the Nevada Chess Board of Directors on Sunday, December 8th in the Galileo Ballroom, located on the 2nd Level of The Venetian®| The Palazzo® Congress Center, immediately after the conclusion of the Mind Sports…
Have you ever tried to play an entire game of chess blindfolded? Have you ever tried to remember an entire chess game move by move just from the notation, without ever looking at a chess board? With some practice, most…
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…
