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Posted on March 21, 2023April 8, 2023 by Lori Balkum

2023 NYOS Spring Tournament Pairings and Wall Charts and Standings

This event will be held on Saturday, April 1, 2023 at NYOS Charter School in North Austin.

Jump to: K-3 U300, K-3 U500, K-3 U800, K-5 U300, K-5 U500, K-5 U800, K-5 U1000, 6-12 U600, 6-12 U1000, K-12 Elite, Open Section, Family Child

Back to the scholastic tournament description
https://www.austinchesstournaments.com/2023-spring-nyos-scholastic-chess-tournament/

Puzzle Contest

Final Award Winners

In order to protect the integrity of this (and potential future) contests, the decision was made not to directly reveal the puzzle answers. We might, for instance, provide another chance at any unsolved puzzles in the future.
For anyone who would like to find more puzzles in the meantime, however, here are a few suggestions:

Chess: 5334 Problems, Combinations, and Games, by Laszlo Polgar. This large puzzle collection sometimes shows up at Half Price Books, is available through Amazon, and has a kindle version.
Chesskid.com This website has a lot of resources for children learning chess, including puzzles.
Chess.com This site has not just standard but also some ‘Retrograde Analysis’ puzzles, which are of the same type as what made up our tricky April Fools problems.
Pointing your favorite search engine to “Chess Retrograde Analysis Puzzles” should give a number of hits, but one good resource for specifically this sort of problem is The Retrograde Analysis Corner (www.janko.at/Retros/Index.htm). This site includes explanation of what Retro Analysis is and how to approach the problems, as well as more than 3500 such problems.

K-3 U300

Round 5: Final Results
Round 5: Pairings Wall Chart Team
Round 4: Pairings Wall Chart Team
Round 3: Pairings Wall Chart Team
Round 2: Pairings Wall Chart Team
Round 1: Pairings (by board) Pairings (alpha) Wall Chart Team
Preregistrations

K-3 U500

Round 5: Final Results
Round 5: Pairings Wall Chart Team
Round 4: Pairings Wall Chart Team
Round 3: Pairings Wall Chart Team
Round 2: Pairings Wall Chart Team
Round 1: Pairings (by board) Pairings (alpha) Wall Chart Team
Preregistrations

K-3 U800

K-5 U300

K-5 U500

K-5 U800

K-5 U1000

6-12 U600

6-12 U1000

Round 5: Finals Results
Round 5: Pairings Wall Chart Team
Round 4: Pairings Wall Chart Team
Round 3: Pairings Wall Chart Team
Round 2: Pairings Wall Chart Team
Round 1: Pairings (by board) Pairings (alpha) Wall Chart Team
Preregistrations

K-12 Elite

Open

Final Results
Round 4: Pairings Wall Chart
Round 3: Pairings Wall Chart
Round 2: Pairings Wall Chart
Round 1: Pairings Wall Chart
Preregistrations

Family-Child

Final Results
Results after Round 4
Results after Round 3
Results after Round 2
Results after Round 1
Preregistrations

Posted on March 16, 2023May 23, 2023 by Lori Balkum

2023 NYOS Summer Chess Camp

This camp has been relocated to the Hampton Inn Cedar Park-Leander:
https://www.austinchesstournaments.com/2023-summer-chess-camp-with-gary-gaiffe/

Description: A full day, week-long chess camp hosted by NYOS Charter School. Located on the north side of Austin, the camp is open to all scholastic chess players, and is run by Mr. Gary Gaiffe

Campers will be broken into skill level groups. Different topics will be covered depending on which group the camper is in. From tactics to positional play, game analysis to variant play, the camp will be both instructional and entertaining. The final day will include a camp-wide tournament.

Dates and Times: July 17-21; 9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.

Location:
NYOS Charter School
12301 N. Lamar Blvd.
Austin, TX 78753

Registration and Payment information: Coming soon!

Questions: Contact Gary Gaiffe at ggaiffe@att.net or 512-426-7841