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
2023 WINTER SCHOLASTIC - largest scholastic turnout!
01/29/23: 115 scholastic players participated in 2023 SDCC WINTER SCHOLASTIC! The event went very smooth 12 to 4:30 pm. 4 rounds, G30d5.
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 FIFTH ROUND RESULTS and some GAMES !
UPCOMING EVENTS
WEDNESDAY NIGHTS
Februrary 8th, 7pm
Alina Markowski Open - Round 6
ROUND 6 PAIRINGSFebrurary 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 4March 22nd, 7pm
Club Championship - Round 5March 29th, 7pm
Club Championship - Round 6April 5th, 7pm
Club Championship - Round 7April 12th, 7pm
OPEN HOUSE & CLUB CHAMPION SIMUL
SATURDAY GAMBITOS
February 11th, 10:30 am
Gambito #1003February 18th, 10:30 am
Gambito #1004February 25th, 10:30 am
Gambito #1005March 4th: NO GAMBITO
(Western Class Championships, Irvine)March 11th: NO GAMBITO
(St Patrick's Day Parade)March 18th, 10:30 am
Gambito #1006March 25h, 10:30 am
Gambito #1007April 1st, 10:30 am
Super Gambito #1008
AT THE CLUB: February 12th, 12:00 - 3:30 pm
ONLINE (FREE): February 18th, 4:30 pm
ONLINE (USCF RATED): March 2nd, 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
GAMBITO #1002 on 02/04
Elite: 1st: Christian Silvestre
Elite: 2nd/3rd: Sihan Tao, Yanfeng Guo
Elite: 4th: Benjamin Tang
U2000 1st: Byron Lu
U2000 2nd: Vedant Maheshwari, Vincent Roberts
Open 1st/2nd: Zachary Gold, William Wang
Open 3rd/4th/5th: Sarthak Gattani, Oliver Hsiao, Glenn Zhang
Open 6th/7th: Phillip Johnson, Jacob Wang, Datris Robinson, Leon Chen
U1800 1st: Jacob Derain
U1800 2nd: Samarth Raghavan
U1800 3rd: Ildeonso Mamaradio
U1800 4th: Ken Green, Jacob Liu
U1400 1st: Jayanth Bharadwaj
U1200 2nd/3rd: Winston Wang, Walker Mitchell, Howard Wang, Vihaan Gupta, Joseph Rogers, Joshua Kaasik
U1000 1st: William Zhuang, Sachin Chavatapalli, Hemish Parikh, Ethan Quesnell, Nathan Trieu
Best Unrated: Carlos Anguiano
SDCC WINTER SCHOLASTIC on 1/29
OPEN K12:
First place: Ryuta Nunez
Second place: Samarth Raghavan
Third place: Fausto Borquez
Forth place: Francis Ordanza
Fifth place: Sebastian Burns
U800 K12:
First place: Smaran Mukkavilli
Second place: Ayaan Oswal
Third place: Raul Huseynli Borsella
Forth place: Alan Chang
Fifth place: Nathan Trieu
U500 K7:
First place: James Whitwell
Second place: Saksham Kapoor
Third place: Alejandro Rodriguez
Forth place: Thomas Hamacher
Fifth place: Delby Sherod
U300 K5:
First place: Nolan Liu
Second place: Sashwat Raj Nirmal
Third place: Sean Yong
Forth place: Andrew Whitwell
Fifth place: Jonathan Whitwell
DECEMBER BLITZ on 12/21.
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