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…

After having organized, directed, and played in hundreds of chess tournaments in more than 3 decades, I thought that I had seen just about every type of chess tournament. But I was wrong. The chess tournament at the first US…

National Open 2013 With the 2013 National Open in the books, it is time for a small report on the performance of our local players. We had some big performances, and some even had a chance to play against some…

The 2013 Annual Members Meeting for the state affliate Nevada Chess will be held at the Meadows School at 8601 Scholar Lane, 89128 on April 13 at about 4 p.m. The Agenda will be Minutes, tally ballots, election results, install…

By Tom Brownscombe One hundred eighty young chess players came to the Las Vegas Day School on Saturday, March 16th to compete in the 2013 Nevada State Scholastic Chess Championships.  Third grader Carson Abbott won the individual title in the…

The 22nd Annual North American Open was held at Bally’s Casino Resort, 3645 Las Vegas Blvd S, Las Vegas, Nevada Dec.26-30, 2012. GM Timur Gareev finished with an undefeated 8/9, a full point ahead of his nearest rival, to convincingly…

Gordon Barrett Cup after 6 round, lots of great chess of the resourceful type! Jeff G. is the leading opportunist! and Paco is just on fire! Marc J. Vivian impress! next week dec 20th, christmas party and rd 7 of…

The Vegas Chess Club has re-opened at the City of the World Art gallery at 1229 South Casino Center Blvd on the first Saturdays of the month and the second, third and fourth Fridays of the month at 6:00 p.m.for…

The ChessNgames rapid tournament on Dec. 1, 2012 at Tivoli Village ended in a five way tie for the first place: David Pendergast, Glenn Bidari, Ryan Phillips, Hugo Santiago and Juan Jauregui, with 4 points. There was also casual chess…

IM Dionisio Aldama won the Las Vegas Veterans Day Open Nov 9-11, 2012 at St Viators ahead of a powerful field of just over 20 players.