Major Open Tournaments

Fri, Aug 2nd - Sun, Aug 4th-3rd Annual Potomac Open
Tue, Aug 6th - Sun, Aug 11th-2nd Annual Washington International
Fri, Aug 9th - Fri, Aug 9th-Washington International Blitz
Sat, Aug 10th - Sat, Aug 10th-Washington International Rapid

Local Open Tournaments

Sat, May 25th- Fells Point Saturday Tornado
Sun, May 26th- Fells Point Sunday Action
Sat, Jun 1st- 4th Annual Catonsville-Fells Point Open

Major Scholastic Tournaments

No events

Local Scholastic Tournaments

Sat, May 25th- MCA Owings Mills May Scholastic 2013
Sat, Sep 14th- MCA Roland Park September Scholastic 2013 [PREVIEW]

Maryland Chess Association

59th Annual Maryland Open Report

Hits: 14
  • Print
Aaron Kahn, 59th Maryland Open Champion
Aaron Kahn, 59th Maryland Open Champion

The 59th Maryland Open was held May 10-12 at the Rockville Hilton. The Championship section was won by Zviad Izoria who went 5-0 and won $1800. The highest finishing Maryland resident was Aaron Khan who scored 4-1 and is this year's Maryland Champion.

A total of 185 players competed in the tournament playing is six sections. Links are below to the
Final Standings with prizes
 tournament pictures
 highlight video

Maryland Prize Winners at Supernationals

Hits: 296
  • Print

A total of 101 Maryland players from 33 schools attended Supernationals V last weekend at the Opryland Hotel in Nashville, TN. Below are the awards won by Maryland players.

Read more: Maryland Prize Winners at Supernationals

Razuvaev Chess Memorial

Hits: 269
  • Print

The Maryland Chess Association will be organizing a tournament in memory of GM Yuri Razuvaev August 8-11, 2013 in Rockville, Maryland. GM Razuvaev was the coach of Alexandra Kosteniuk when she won the Woman's World Championship in 2008. In honor of this, the tournament format will a match of some of the top women chess players against some older male players who were friends with GM Razuvaev.

GM Adrian Mikhalchishin GM Alexandra Kosteniuk
GM Boris Gulko IM Anna Zatonskih
GM Vladimir Tukmakov IM Irina Krush
GM Lev Alburt IM Elena Sedina

 This tournament will be held in parallel with the 2nd Annual Washington International live broadcasts of the games will be at http://www.mdchess.com.

 

2013 Maryland Sweet-16 Champion: Andrew Zheng

Hits: 119
  • Print

Congratulations to Andrew Zheng (2100), who defeated Bendeguz Offertaler (2082) on Board 1 in Round 4 to become the 2013 Maryland-Sweet-16 Champion.  A 5th grader at Pointers Run Elementary School in Howard County, Andrew finished with a score of 3.5/4. With the title comes the 4-year MD-Sweet-16 UMBC Chess Scholarship  to the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, valued at $39,056 in 2012-2013.

Main Menu

Donate to the Washington International

Goal $10,000.00
Donated amount $5,202.50

Login with Facebook

Login With Facebook

MD Chess Tweets

MCA Calendar

«
<
May 2013
>
»
M T W T F S S
29 30 1 2 3 4 5
6 7 8 9 10 11 12
13 14 15 16 17 18 19
20 21 22 23 24 25 26
27 28 29 30 31 1 2

Signup for our Mailing List

For Email Newsletters you can trust

User Login

Back to Top