National Chess Day Challenge

Join us for the National Chess Day Challange Tournament!

Students will play four games, all rated with the Learners Chess internal rating system! The 1^st round will begin right at the scheduled time for your section, with following rounds beginning approximately 5 minutes after the previous round has concluded.

Games will be played with a 15-minute time control on each side with a 2 second delay before your time starts each move.

Trophies will be awarded for the top 3 finishers in each section. A blitz tie-break game may be required to determine trophies.

Students will be paired based on their Learners Chess rating and using the Swiss pairing system. This allows students to progressively play other students with more similar ratings and score in each round of the tournament so that each student can get the best games possible.

Sections for this tournament have been merged! All chess players will play from 9:00am to 11:30

Join us again at 11:30pm for a casual Bughouse Tournament! Students may request a teammate while registering or find one on the day of the tournament. We will play as many rounds as we have time for until 12:30pm. Each bughouse game is played with a 5-minute time control on each side.

Trophies for Bughouse will be awarded for the top finishing teams.