2011 Chess Fest a Success!

The 2011 New Mexico Chess Fest is in the books! It was a really fun time. Thank you to everyone who came out to support our tournament. Congratulations to the section winners!

Open - Ed Wyckoff (4/4)
Under 1100 - Kaitlyn McGrane (4/4)
Under 800 - Kameron Keahbone (4/4)
Under 600 - Logan Douglass (4/4)
Novice 4-12 - Julian Gomez (4/4)
Novice K-3 - Jonah Romero (4/4)
Bughouse Open - Foreign Outcasts - Ed Lu & Peter Li (6/7)
Bughouse K-6 - King Crushers - Donald Poston & Ethan Ross (7/7)

Full results can be found here.

USCF results crosstable can be found here.

Thank you for supporting Chess Fest! See you next year!

Chess Fest 2011 - Saturday, November 12th

The 14th Annual New Mexico Chess Fest is officially a go! It's scheduled for Saturday, November 12th! Please come out and support scholastic chess in New Mexico! Click on the link below to download or print the entry flyer.

2011 New Mexico Chess Fest flyer

Registered players as of November 11th!

New Mexico Chess Fest is a K-12 scholastic chess tournament held in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Scholastic players of all abilities are welcome. It's a great time for the kids, parents, and coaches. Here, you can get all the information you need to register for Chess Fest. We have event schedules, registration flyers, updated registration lists, and location information.

Thank you for supporting Chess Fest! Hope to see you at the tournament!

National Master Lior Lapid at Chess Fest!

BIG NEWS! National Master Lior Lapid will be at Chess Fest this year! He will be available to go over the games of Chess Fest players during the tournament and offer comments and suggestions on how to improve. Lior is generous to provide his expertise at Chess Fest for FREE. He is one of the strongest players and chess coaches in the state of New Mexico. Lior is a full-time chess coach, 2008 and 2009 New Mexico state champion, and winner of the 2011 Southern Rocky FIDE Open. Chess Fest players are encouraged to show Lior any of their Chess Fest games and learn from Lior's insight. Thank you Lior!

Chess Fest winners

Here are the winners of the 2010 New Mexico Chess Fest!

Open section - Jeff Serna 4/4
U1100 section - Ryu Hsu 4/4
U800 section - Aaron Koslow 4/4
U600 section - Calvin Stahoviak & Kaitlyn McGrane 4/4

4-12 section - Ali Qasemi & Smiley Gomez 3.5/5
K-3 section - Oscar Laird 4/4

Open Bughouse - Team IBC (Daniel Spohn & Dante Archuleta) 7/7
K-6 Bughouse - The Snores (Alex Ionkov & Donald Poston) 7/7

Thanks to everyone who played! And thanks to everyone who supported Chess Fest this year!

13th Annual Chess Fest - Saturday, Nov. 13, 2010

Chess Fest 2010 a great success!

We had 95 players in six sections at the 2010 Chess Fest. We also had 41 teams compete in the bughouse tournament. Thank you to everyone who played!

Results are posted, and we have a Lost and Found section in case you lost something.

Thanks to the scholastic players, parents, coaches, and volunteers who have made Chess Fest a successful ongoing event.

Welcome chess players!

New Mexico Chess Fest is a K-12 scholastic chess tournament held in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Scholastic players of all abilities are welcome. It's a great time for the kids, parents, and coaches. Here, you can get all the information you need to register for Chess Fest. We have event schedules, registration flyers, updated registration lists, and location information. Thank you for your interest in Chess Fest! Hope to see you there!

The Albuquerque Tribune wrote an article about the 10th Annual Chess Fest. Check it out!