ACE Chess News

Last Master of the Season!

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Posted: May 16th, 2012 by Daniel Rensch

Arizona,

The final Master Trek of the season will be held this Saturday at the Mesa Convention Center, so don’t miss it! Register today BEFORE late fees kick in and save $3 on your entry fee!!!

Congratulations to all the Arizona players who fared well at the Elementary National Championships in Nashville last weekend! You can click here to see a full list of the final standings – but the regular “Trekkers” who placed in the top 20 of their respective sections were:

  • Ethan Li, 6th Place — K-6 Championship
  • Prateek Pinisetti, 18th Place — K-6 Championship
  • Ethan Xie, 17th Place — K-5 Championship
  • Rick Sun, 11th Place — K-3 Championship
  • Ethan Tang, 16th Place — K-3 Championship
  • Arun Moorthy, 10th Place — K-1 Championship
  • Kevin Chor, 11th Place — K-1 Championship

Thanks again to all of you for another great year of Master Trek tournaments!!! We hope to see you this weekend, but if not, have a great summer of chess!

CHESS WORLD UPDATE:

US Championship Heats Up!

World Championship Dead Locked!

Chucky Wins Capablanca Memorial!

Chess.com’s 4th Blitz Death Match & Other News!

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Posted: April 27th, 2012 by Daniel Rensch

Firstly, we’d like to wish a congratulations to all the winners of their respective sections at the AZ State Champs last weekend (click here for the full results), and wish good luck to any and all those competing at this weekend’s Governor’s Cup in Chandler! IM Daniel Rensch will be playing in a “Blindfold Exhibition” and giving a lecture at the Governor’s Cup on behalf of ChessKid.com!

In other chess news, the world’s highest rated player, Magnus Carlsen, was featured on the Colbert Report last Tuesday. Click here to check it out (watch the last third where he brings on his guest)!

Also, Chess.com’s 4th Blitz Chess Death Match will take place tomorrow at 9:30am PST and features reigning Canadian Champion Eric Hansen against America’s newest GM (soon to be) GM-Elect Conrad Holt! The LIVE broadcast is open to all, so sign up for a FREE Chess.com Membership and watch the show on www.Chess.com/TV — hosted by IMs Daniel Rensch and David Pruess!

Chess.com's Death Match Players

CHESS WORLD UPDATE:

NM David Adelberg will be playing a simul for charity — for Leader Dogs for the Blind — this Sunday in Scottsdale. Click here for more information!

High School Nationals Results and Story!

Kramnik v Aronian Zurich Match Update!