The 2025 Texas State (South) Scholastic Chess Championships held at Stillman Middle School in Brownsville, Texas on March 15 – March 6, 2025.
Final Results are below.
Special congratulations to our new State Champions. K-1: Akhil Gopu (individual), Canterbury Elementary (team) Primary: Morgana E Rodriguez Marin (individual), Bonham Elementary (team) Elementary: Asher Chodniewicz (individual), Americo Paredes Elementary (team) Middle School: Joshua Meng (individual), Rising Scholars Academy (team) High School: Ethan Y Wang (individual), Veterans Memorial High School, Brownsville (team)
The 2025 Texas State (North) Scholastic Chess Championships held at The Vista in Lewisville, Texas on February 28 – March 2, 2025.
Final Results are below.
Special congratulations to our new State Champions. K-1: Lakshan Ganesh (individual), Basis Cedar Park (team) Primary: Praneel Akula (individual), Talley Elementary (team) Elementary: Oscar Yihang Zhang (individual), McCoy Elementary (team) Middle School: Vijay Srinivas Anand (individual), Uplift Education – North (team) High School: Aryan Gutla (individual), Coppell High School (team)
This Austin Chess Club tournament is being held on Friday thru Sunday, January 3 – 5, 2025 at the Austin Southpark hotel. All sections will be rated by the United States Chess Federation.
This Austin Chess Club Saturday Scholastic as held on Saturday, August 17, 2024 at the Austin Southpark hotel. This event as in association with the 2024 Austin Chess Club Summer Open. Link to Summer Open Results on a separate page. Scholastic information is found below.
This event was held on Saturday, April 27, 2024 at Del Valle High School in Del Valle. Congratulations to all who played! The tournament has been rated by the USCF.
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.
The 2023 Llano Open tournament (for adults and any youth) and the 2023 Llano Scholastic tournament (for players in 12th grade and younger), both held on Saturday, November 11-12, 2023.
This Austin Chess Club tournament was held on Saturday, August 5 and Sunday August 6, 2023 at the Doubletree NW Arboretum. Thank you to everyone who played! The event has been rated by the USCF.