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  • 2019-11-16 Missoula Fall Scholastic

    Missoula Fall Scholastic & Simul Twenty-seven scholastic chess buffs turned out for the 4th annual MIS fall chess competition, Saturday, November 16. That number is the highest yet for the […]

  • 2019 Turkey Open

    2019 Turkey Open Results Michael Murray Wins the Turkey Open with 4.5/5.0 points in a field of 32 players. The 2019 Turkey Open was very well attended with 32 players […]

  • 2019 Great Falls Chinook

    Scott Caldwell and Daniel Mattson Tie for First Place in the Great Falls Chinook Open Pushed out of its usual National Chess Day alignment, the 2019 Great Falls Chinook Open […]

  • 2019 Montana City Scholastic

    Montana City Scholastic Fourteen scholastic players braved the season’s first storm to compete in the first Montana City Scholastic held September 28. The group played in two sections. Six players […]

  • 10/2/2019 Billings Blitz

    Billings Blitz – 10/2/2019   Nine players ventured out to the Last Chance Pub & Cider Mill on Wednesday, October 2nd, for Billings 2nd speed chess tournament. The games took […]

  • 2019 – Sept 28 – Billings Scholastic

    Billings Boys & Girls Youth Club Scholastic – 9/28/2019   The Boys & Girls Club youth tournament, directed by Mo Bain, took place on Friday, September 28th. Twenty-six kids from […]

  • 2019 Big Sky Country Open

    2019 Big Sky Country Open   Congratulations to 4.0 co-champions, Josep Maria Companyo Pagerols, Wilton Strickland and Dustin Sneeden who split the 1st & 2nd prize money. The upset prize […]

  • September 2019 MCN

    September 2019 Montana Chess Newsletter (click to view)

  • 2019-8-22 BCC Blitz – Billings

    Billings Chess Club Blitz – August 22, 2019 The Billings Chess Club offered its first rated blitz tournament last night! The time control was G5 with no delay. Ten players […]

  • 2019 – July 26-27, Billings Quads

    Billings July Quads Billings chess players tried to beat the heat this past weekend (7/26-27) by playing some rated chess indoors! A summer quad, this time drawing 12 players, was […]

  • 2019 Montana Championship

    2019 Montana Champion – Dorje McPherron   Congratulations to Dorje McPherron who won the Montana Closed in Bozeman the weekend of May 18-19. The Closed featured the 6 highest (active) […]

  • 2019 MT Open

    Richard Hobbs Wins the 84th Montana Open – 4.5/5.0   USCF Crosstable for 84th Montana Open

  • 2019 GP

    2019 Grand Prix Winner – Jim Skovron  

  • Gordon

    Gordon Shuck   6/6/1918 – 5/31/2019 Gordon would have been 101 Thursday, June 6 – he was active in Montana Chess from the 1970’s through the 2000’s MCA received a very […]

  • 2019 Championship Seeds

    2019 Montana Championship Seeds   David Duke Jim Skovron Richard Hobbs Dorje McPherron Wilton Strickland Dustin Sneeden   Alternates Scott Caldwell Darren Stacey Daniel Mattson Joshua Brown Michael Muller