Category: Tournament Reports
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Camberari Wins the Turkey Open with a Perfect 5.0; Three-way Tie in the Scholastic
Turkey Open 2023 Results Turkey 2023 Scholastic Results 2023 Turkey Open Tournament Report
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Big Sky Country Open – Griffin Herr Wins with 4.5 points
The 2023 Big Sky Country MCA Grand Prix tournament was held September 16 & 17 at the Red Lion Hotel in Kalispell Montana. 30 players competed for a $559 prize […]
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2023 State High School Championship
The state high school championship was held on Saturday May 20th in Butte. Alex Karns & Thomas Walthall are co-champions, both scoring 4/5.Meanwhile in Bozeman, the spring scholastic took place […]
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Flathead Valley Open Results
The Flathead Valley Open ran successfully Saturday, April 15, at the Eagles Club in Kalispell, and was hosted by the Flathead Valley Chess Club. 31 players filled three sections: 15 […]
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2022 Big Sky Open Results
Twenty-nine players descended on the Doubletree Hotel in downtown Billings this past weekend for this season’s first tournament, the Big Sky Country Open. In the past, this tournament has been […]
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Nazriev wins the 2022 Montana State Championship
Rasul Nazriev took home the top honors to win his first MT Chess Championship! Rasul got off to a slow start, losing a miniature (20 move) Sicilian to Dan Mattson […]
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Michael Murray wins the 87th Montana Open
The 87th Montana Open was held in Missoula April 2-3. It was well attended with 39 players including quite a few new players who performed quite well. We’d like to […]
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Nazriev Wins 2022 The St. Patrick Open
Rasul Nazriev edged out a youngster and a tournament newcomer to win the 4th Annual St. Patrick Open this past weekend in downtown Billings, MT. Rasul (Mis) finished with 4.5/5 […]
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Nazriev wins the Winter Thaw
Rasul Nazriev won his second tournament of the 21-22 chess season by taking the Winter Thaw in Helena with a score of 4.5 while Thomas Walthall took second. Youth and […]
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The Turkey Open Returns
The 2021 Turkey Open returned after a year’s hiatus and was very well attended with 43 players. The high turnout allowed for a $25 increase to all prizes along with […]
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2021 Big Sky Country Open
The 2021 Big Sky Country Open took place at the Comfort Inn in Butte, MT over the weekend of September 25-26, 2021 and attracted 23 players. A whopping 8 of […]
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Sneeden wins Billings Blitz
Congratulations to Dustin Sneeden who won the Billings Chess Club’s first rated blitz tournament of the fall with a 10/10 score! Josh Brown came in second with 8.5. Ten players […]
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Benjamin Vogel wins the 2021 Montana Closed
Congratulations to Benjamin Vogel of Bozeman on winning the 2021 Montana Closed State Championship. Full Report and photos will be published soon.
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2021 Montana Closed State Championship
The six competitors for the 2021 Montana State Championship are as follows: 1) current state champion Dorje McPherron; 2) former state champion James Skovron; 3) former state champion Wilton Strickland; […]
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2021 Montana Open draws near record attendance
The 86th Montana Chess Open, played in Helena on May 22 and 23, drew 49 players from a 4-state region including 17 unrated individuals, and an Expert (2000) and a […]