Dublin High School Chess

Six DHS players were among 300 players competing at the Calchess K-12 Superstates 2022 this weekend, including: Katherine Pask, Vikrant Ganesan, Rajneesh Jain, Vivek Goorla, Sahil Sandasani and Suriya Gnanasundar. Congrats to Vivek and Sahil, who led DHS to a 2nd place team finish in the K-12 Advanced (800-1199 rated) section, with Vivek scoring 4-1 and placing 4th out of 48 players! Also congrats to Rajneesh, who scored 3.5/6 in the tough K-12 JV (1200-1599) section to place 15th!

NEW TOURNEY LINK: https://www.chess.com/play/arena/1816092 We would love for you to join our very first NorCal Scholastic Blitz Invitational tournament on Chess.com! We have invited 18 other schools and youth clubs to compete on Thursday, April 7 from 6-7:30 pm!  The multi-club arena blitz (Game in 5 with 2 sec delay) tournament will take place on chess.com.  The club whose top 4 scorers have the most points will be the Online Arena Team Champion for NorCal in 2022. Please join us on April ...

FAQ: NorCal Scholastic State Championship 2022 The 47th Annual CalChess Scholastic State tournament, aka SuperStates, is the premier local tournament of the year, with 1,000+ players from around Northern California expected over multiple weekends.  The K-12 tournament will take place on April 23-24 at the Santa Clara Convention Center. It is split into multiple sections, from new tournament players to experienced USCF-rated competitors, with tournaments for U1200 rated players taking place o...

Updated Feb 2nd - Dublin HS placed 4th in the country at the National Online Scholastic Quick Championships this weekend, led by DHS GOAT and 2019 state HS champion, Evan Ai, who tied for 8th in the country (14th on tiebreak) with 5.5 out of 7 points! Other scorers that helped DHS dramatically improve upon its 11th place finish last year were: Suriya Gnanasundar, Cassius Lai, and Aadith Muthukumar, supported by team members Katherine Pask, Ian Hsu and Sahil Sandasani. DHS competed in a 177-pl...

Dublin HS chess club is hosting an online simul with local 24-year-old GM Yian Liou next Saturday evening Jan 8th (exact time TBD, likely start time 5:30 pm). Yian grew up in Danville, was one of the top junior players in the US, and now works at Workday in Pleasanton! Register here: More info about Yian  And here's an article from Yian about how juniors can improve their ratings fast: Note: this free event is limited to players with Chess.com or USCF ratings 800+. And please register onl...

Riding Dublin’s continued emergence as a Bay Area youth chess powerhouse, the 6th Annual Dublin Scholastic Chess Championship drew its second-largest and strongest field on Sunday, Sept. 19th. 141 players competed in the Chess.com-hosted tournament, which is more than double the attendance of our first tournament in 2016. This included about 20 players from DHS, who did very well in the tournament, with half of them winning trophies, mostly in the top two sections. DHS also won the Shamrock ...

Open to all K-12 students in Dublin, this *free* online tournament determines the best scholastic players in our fair city! Trophies will be awarded to the top finishers in each section. The tournament will have 3 sections: 1) Championship for advanced players with 1000+ USCF or Chess.com ratings; 2) Premier (players between approx 500-1000 in rating); 3) Challenger section for beginners, unrated players and up to 500 rating. Players are allowed to play UP a section. Register here by Fr...

Fallon is holding FREE monthly USCF (Quick Online) rated tournaments. The first one is THIS Sunday AM Dec 6th: Time: 9.45 am - noon (it is mandatory to join by 9.45 am) Tournament sections: Champ: USCF OQ (Online Quick rating) of 750 and above Premier: USCF OQ rating of 500-749 Booster: USCF OQ rating of 500 or less Note: You can check your latest USCF OQ rating here: http://www.uschess.org/datapage/player-search.php Zoom and Tournament links: Will be shared in chess.com (Fallon club ...