New ICA Club
Join The Idaho Chess Association Club: https://www.chess.com/club/the-idaho-chess-association/join We will run chess.com rated tourneys and it is open to non-uschess members too!
Every Tuesday?
We are pleased to offer ICA Rated Members an opportunity to play every week on Tuesday night a rated online event. Beginning this next week (and every Tuesday), 5SS G/10 at 7 pm PT we offer a rated event. For those of you interested in donating ...
2021 State Scholastic Team Championships
Join this club to participate: https://www.chess.com/club/ica-scholastic-team/join/c61ffa
Results of State
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S T A T E !
It's hard to believe the season flew by so fast, but Saturday, March 20 at 10am MST is the Idaho State Scholastic Chess Tournament (most of us simply call it "State"). The competition will be especially fierce this time around. Idaho scholastics...
Results of the West Scholastic Qualifier
The final qualifier of the season -- The West Regional -- took place on Saturday, February 27. We had 35 players compete. Four more players qualified today to bring the total to 78 players. This number is down a bit from recent years, but consider...
The ICA West Regional Scholastic Qualifier
This is it. The Western is the last qualifier of the 2021 season. To date, we have 65 players qualified across the state: 24 in K-5, 19 in 6-8 and 22 in 9-12. There are some players that are half-qualified and there are a few that we haven’t e...
Results of the South Central
We had almost 40 players that braved the cold temperatures and the huge snowdrifts to compete in the ICA South Central Regional Scholastic Chess tournament! Well, not actually. The tournament was online, hosted on Chess.com. The K-5 Section wa...
ICA South Central Regional Scholastic Qualifier
Saturday, February 13 at 10am Boise time Five Rounds 30 minutes per player/per game plus five seconds per move Chess.com rated, but not US Chess rated Must attend school in Idaho No cameras required No entry fee Links: Scholastics Registratio...
Results of The North
Thank you everyone for making Idaho scholastic chess great! The ICA North Regional Scholastic Qualifier took place on Saturday, January 30. We had a goal of breaking 40 players for The North and we did it! In total, 41 players competed. The demogr...
K-5 ICA North Regional Scholastic Qualifier
Saturday, January 30 at 10am Boise time Five Rounds 30 minutes per player/per game plus five seconds per move Chess.com rated, but not US Chess rated Must attend school in Idaho No cameras required No entry fee Links: Scholastics Registration...
Results of the East Idaho Region Scholastic Qualifier
Congratulations to Hanford Chong, Malea Heineck, Joseph Zhao for winning in the K-5 section; Kaustubh Kodihalli, Daniel Yang, Sina Heineck for taking the 6-8 section; and Bryce Leifeste, Justin He, Alex Brown for placing in the 9-12 section. Othe...
Questions that I'm hearing...
Q1: Can I play in any of or all of the regionals?A1: Yes! Play in as many as you can. Get some practice in before State. Q2: What are the times for rounds 2, 3 and 4?A2: Please pay attention! Beyond round 1, there’s no set schedule. Chess.com sta...
East Region Scholastic Qualifier
The first Idaho state scholastic regional qualifier is Saturday, January 9 at 10am Boise time. It'll be hosted right here on Chess.com. Any K-12 student living in and attending school in Idaho is eligible to play in any regional tournament. St...
Fair Play on Chess.com
The following has been cut&pasted from an original Chess.com-authored article What are the rules? No chess programs or engines (e.g. Chessmaster, Fritz, Komodo, Houdini, Stockfish, Chessbase with any active UCI engine, etc.) can be used to an...
List of Players With Qualifications
Below please find the list of players in the K-5 division. Keep in mind that it's updated only periodically and may not be 100% up-to-date. We ask that you pay special attention to the qualification codes. We track these manually so it's possi...
