SAN DIEGO CHESS CLUB
San Diego Chess Club, coined America's finest chess club, is located in beautiful Balboa Park, at 2225 6th Avenue. USCF rated tournaments are held on Wednesday evenings (7 pm), Saturdays (10:30 am), and scholastic tournaments (for kids K through 12th grades) are on Sundays.
RECENT NEWS
Gambito #1000 marks 23 years of club tradition with 118 players !!
01/21/23: 118 players came to play in GAMBITO #1000 celebrating 23 years of SDCC Saturday tradition. Check out the RESULTS!
More than 90 players are now part of Alina Markowski Open. Check out FORTH ROUND RESULTS and some GAMES !
UPCOMING EVENTS
WEDNESDAY NIGHTS
Februrary 1st, 7pm
Alina Markowski Open - Round 5
ROUND 5 PAIRINGSFebrurary 8th, 7pm
Alina Markowski Open - Round 6Februrary 15tht, 7pm
Alina Markowski Open - Round 7Februrary 22nd, 7pm
Club Championship - Round 1March 1st, 7pm
Club Championship - Round 2March 8th, 7pm
Club Championship - Round 3March 15th, 7pm
Club Championship - Round 4
SATURDAY GAMBITOS
January 28th, 10:30am
Gambito #1001February 4th, 10:30 am
Gambito #1002February 11th
Gambito #1003February 18th
Gambito #1004February 25th
Gambito #1005March 4th: NO GAMBITO
(Western Class Championships, Irvine)March 11th: NO GAMBITO
(St Patrick's Day Parade)March 18th
Gambito #1006March 25h
Gambito #1007
SCHOLASTIC
AT THE CLUB: January 29th, 12 pm
LIVE UPDATES
If you want to register, check our Scholastic page to see if any spots opened up.
ONLINE (USCF RATED): February 2nd, 4:30 - 6 pm
AT THE CLUB: February 12th, 12:00 - 3:30 pm
ONLINE (FREE): February 18th, 4:30 pm
AT THE CLUB (FREE) : March 5th, 12:30 - 2:30 pm. Scholastic club meeting, registration form will be posted soon
TOURNAMENT RESULTS
GAMBITOS
Gambito #1000 on 01/21. Congratulations to all the winners:
Elite: 1st: Noah Ward
Elite: 2nd/3rd: Isaac Wang, Alex Y Wang
Elite: 4th/5th:: Marius Lucan, Carlos Varela
Open 1st/2nd: Benjamin Tang, Esther Jou
Open 3rd/4th/5th/6th: Gordon Xu, Byron Lu, Wesley Rullman, Yanfeng Guo, Alan Peng
U2000 1st: Zachary Gold
U2000 2nd/3rd/4th: James Humphrey, Arjun Sankar, Carlos Antaran
U1800 1st: Sai Pulagam
U1800 2nd: Ken Green
U1800 3rd/4th: Tosshaan Thapar, Giancarlo Paniagua
U1600 1st: Ryan Mike
U1600 2nd/3rd/4th: Frank Kronewitter, Arjun Jagan, Samarth Raghavan
U1400 1st/2nd: Ryuta Nunez, Toby Chen
U1400 3rd: Jacob Liu, Xingti Gu
U1200 1st/2nd: Howard Wang, Jason Nunez
U1200 3rd: Nicholas Cespedes
U1000 1st: Shishir Sodagudi
U1000 2nd: Omar Orduno
U1000 3rd: Mateo Higuera
U1000 4th: Linda Williams, Hemish Parikh, Greg Deuerlein
WEDNESDAYS
December Blitz on 12/21. Congratulations to all the winners:
Open 1st place: Hin Tsang
Open 2nd place: Ron Gutman
Open 3rd place: Andrew Wang
U2000 1st/2nd: Santi Pinon, Sonsea Agonoy
U2000 3rd: Carlo Antaran
Best 1800: Hayden Karkainen
U1800 2nd/3rd: Vedant Maheshwari, Rodger Shi
Reserve 1st place: Vihan Gupta
Reserve 2nd place: Robert Henderson
Reserve 3rd place: Collin Pawlak
U1400 1st: Miguel Andrade
U1400 2nd: Fausto Borquez
U1400 3rd: Brandon Plavcan
U1200 1st: Jonathan An
U1200 2nd: Victor Pineda
U1200 3rd: Javier Betancourt
U1000 1st/2nd: Shailesh Maheshwari, Arthur Arman
U1000 3rd: Mikel Krause
SCHOLASTIC
Scholastic Winter Quads II on 12/11
Quad Elite: Priyansh Garg
Quad 1: Samarth Raghavan
Quad 2: Luke Posson
Quad 3: Jack Rush
Quad 4: Anirudh Ajay
Quad 5: James Kased
Quad 6: Michael Mokhov
Quad 7: Eric Oen