Chess Tournaments
Stay tuned to our Live Chess Tournament Schedule this
Spring 2024. We have all what it takes to host a small to large scale Chess Tourney. PTA Fundraisers, AfterSchool Enrichment and Community Events. Our facility can handle all sizes of Tournaments.
Tournament Formats
Formats
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Round-robin. In round-robin tournaments, each participant plays every other participant an equal number of times.
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Swiss system. A tournament that has too many participants for a round-robin format is commonly conducted as a Swiss-system tournament.
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Elimination.
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Scheveningen system.
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Blitz chess (more commonly known as speed chess) simply refers to a game of chess that has a fast time control.
Today, educators and parents have discovered that chess is a wonderful way to teach young children mathematical concepts and important thinking skills that they can use their entire life. Chess also has connections to standards in the fields of language arts (reading, writing, oral presentation), social studies (geography – longitude and latitude, mapping), and science (graphing and critical thinking skills).