Florida Chess Association

2018 Florida State Scholastic Championship
Host: Florida Chess Association
When: March 2-4, 2018
Where: Wyndham Orlando Resort International Drive
Tournament Flyer
Top boards in K-12, K-8, K-5 & K-3 Championship sections are being broadcast live.
Final Standings: Individual   Team

Florida North Regional Scholastic Championship
Host: Florida Chess Association
When: February 17, 2018
Where: Ramada Conference Center Mandarin, Jacksonville

Florida South Regional Scholastic Championship
Host: Florida Chess Association
When: February 11, 2018
Where: Franklin Academy Upper School Pembroke Pines
Final Standings:  Individual  Team

More information and online sign-up for all of these will be available shortly.

Chock full of coverage of Florida Chess event! Click here to visit the floridaCHESS page.

The 2018 Gulf Coast New Year’s Open was held January 5-7 at the Embassy Suites Hilton in Estero. The event attracted 134 players including three GM’s and one IM. Not too shabby for the Gulf Coast!

In the Open section GM YUNIESKY QUESADA PEREZ took first on tiebreaks over GM JULIO J BECERRA, GM PAVEL BLATNY, and IM YUNIER LEYVA RIVERA.   Results.   USCF crosstable.

The Embassy Suites was a new venue for 2018 and seemed to be very well received by the players. Chessregister.com sponsored the event and helped to offset the room rates. We’re already planning for 2019!

The 2017 Turkey Bowl, held November 10-12, was a roaring success attracting a record 198 players to a new venue for this year, the Sawgrass Grand Hotel in Sunrise. Three players tied for first in the Open Section: GM YUNIESKY QUESADA PEREZ, GM JULIO J BECERRA, and IM YUNIER LEYVA RIVERA each scoring 4/5. Complete results are available here.

Includes coverage of the 2017 Florida State Championship. Click here to visit the floridaCHESS page.

The Summer 2017 issue of floridaCHESS is now available from the floridaCHESS page. Apologies for the delay.

The Palatka September Quads have been cancelled due to damage sustained from Hurricane Irma! Contact Tim Staley (staleytimothy@hotmail.com) for a refund.

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The Spring 2017 issue of floridaCHESS is now available. The printed version will be mailed to members soon. Highlights include coverage and games from the 15th Southern Open, the Florida State Scholastic Championship, the US Amateur Team South and the 3rd Gulf Coast Open.

 

The 15th Southern Class Championship was held March 24th to 26th at the Wyndham Resort in Orlando. There were 218 players in seven sections. The master section was small at only 14 players, but featured two GMs, two FMs and a total of seven over 2200. The surprises started in round one. In the three day schedule, there were almost not enough players to have round one. There were three advance entries, but one requested a bye for round one. Also, prior to registration closing, another player notified us that he was stuck in traffic and would change to the 2 day schedule. This left one player – FM Jayaraman who was the top seed in the three day schedule. Fortunately another player registered and we had one game!

The section top winners were:

Master: GM Yuniesky Perez Abreu $1150 & Arvind Jayaraman $1000, both 4-1
Expert: Theodore Slade & Martin Hansen, 4-1, $750
Class A: Dylan Todfiels, 4½ – ½, $1000
Class B: Thomas Suh $1000 & Qingyu Zhu $500, both 4½ – ½
Class C: Teodor Malendevych & John-Gabriel Diego Bermudez, 4-1, $750
Class D: Brian Serve, 5-0, $800
Class E: James Alton & Jacob Parker, 5-0, $375
Mixed Doubles: GM Yun Quesada Perez & Violeta Atseva, 7½ – 2½, $200 each
Blitz Tournament: Corey Acor & Joshua Harrison, 7-1 $91.88

NTD David Hater directed for CCA assisted by NTD Harvey Lerman & Krista Alton. Full tournament details can be found at www.southernclass.net.