Upcoming Events

This year we have the privilege of hosting the 2008 K-12 Scholastic Championship at Disney’s Coronado Springs Resort in Lake Buena Vista, Florida.

Tom Nelson, the USCF Volunteer/Staff Coordinator is looking for help from our ranks within the Florida chess community. Volunteers are needed for from 4 hours to 4 days.

GM Julio Becerra, IM Diaonisio Aldama, and IM Blas Lugo finish tied for 1st in the Open section after winning their last round games to finish 4-1 as the previous leader IM Kirill Kuderinov loses to remain at 3½. Besides these three, winners in the Under 2100 and Under 1700 sections also won prizes of over $1000. Two players, one 7-year old James Warren Barrick, have the only perfect scores (5-0) and share first in the Under 1300 section receiving $750 each.

Their matchup in the 3rd round featured a good fight, tough defense, and a time scramble ending into a drawn K&P VS K position with less than 10 seconds left on Toby's clock.

Boekhoff survives a scare in the 1st round and wins the July 19th Tornado and Bonus. The next Tornado is in two weeks, on August 2nd.

One gets a norm, one gets a huge cash payout and one gets indigestion.

 See Results.

Krienke beat Toby Boas in the 3rd round and then withstood a fierce attack from Adam Miller in the last round to obtain the ½-point he needed to assure himself the 1st place prize... but not enough for the CFCC 50% Bonus award only given to 4-0 scores.

Sun, surf and Chess dominate weekend

2nd place finish for Bruci Lopez