PCS Chess now has 300 members with students, staff, and parents representing 50 schools in Pinellas County. Our largest high school contingent is currently from Northeast HS; our largest middle school contingents are from Bay Point MS and Morgan ...
PCS Chess is participating in the 2020 Worldwide Online Team Chess Championships along with about 140 other teams. To play, send your email to me (avlonitisg@pcsb.org) along with the days of the week and times you are normally available to play a...
PCS Chess has been invited to participate in two contests! There is a high school and one or more middle schools in New Jersey that want to play a match with PCS Chess (MS & HS students only). I will get details and let you know about th...
National Chess Day is Saturday, October 10. To celebrate, PCS Chess will have an open Fischer Random Arena tournament on October 10 from 3:30 – 4:30. All PCS Chess members are invited to play and/or watch! From Wikipedia: Fischer random chess,...
PCS Chess now has 250 members with students, staff, and parents representing 19 elementary schools, 12 middle schools, and 12 high schools in Pinellas County. Our largest contingent is currently from Northeast HS with five students, three recent ...
In addition to our open Swiss tournaments Thursdays at 7pm and our K-12 Swiss tournaments Fridays at 7:30pm, on Wednesdays we will now have open Arena tournaments from 3:40 – 4:40 starting on August 26. What’s the difference, you ask? In our S...
PCS Chess recently won its match against “Chess will” 6.5 – 3.5, thanks primarily to winning performances by Math_Chess1 (Carwise MS), AlexJTurner (Palm Harbor UHS), and ChrisalonaLiverspur (Dunedin Highland MS). Congratulations!
In July we offered daily tournaments (3 K-12 and 4 open tournaments per week), but sometimes there were not enough people (if 4 people do not join the tournament before the start time, chess.com cancels it). Starting in August, we will have two...
This month we have had daily 6pm tournaments and we will continue those through Sun., July 12. Because some students have requested it, from July 13 – July 31 these daily tournaments will start at 7pm instead of 6pm. The rest is...
Angelo_5113 (Northeast HS) and Wyfuv tied for 1st place in PCS Chess #7 today; paulinhot (Palm Harbor MS) came in 3rd. From July 2 – 31, PCS Chess will hold daily tournaments at 6pm. Mon/Tue/Fri will be for K-12 o...
“Club will” is an “anyone can join” club that started around the same time that we did. “Club will” requested, and on behalf of our club I accepted, to play a match on June 18. Here’s how I th...
Our monthly open tournament will be at https://www.chess.com/live#t=1256807 on Th., June 18 at 7pm. It will be a 4-round, 10|0 affair. Show us what you’ve got! In July, as usual we will have our K-12 tournament on the 1st Wednesday (July 1...
Congratulations to the winners of PCS Chess #5, a K-12 tournament held on June 3: angelo_5113 (Northeast HS) was in 1st place, ChrisalonaLiverspur (Ridgecrest ES) was 2nd, and Hancock5 (Elisa Nelson ES) came in 3rd place. Thanks to all...
PCS Chess continues with K-12 student tournaments the 1st Wednesday of each month at 3:40 pm and tournaments open to all Pinellas County residents the 3rd Thursday of each month at 7:00 pm. Game on! Here’s ...
Congrats to the winners of PCS Chess #4, our first tournament open to anyone in the county. florida_man was 1st, Wyfuv was 2nd, and LukasLove7 came in 3rd place. If you want PCS Chess to have more than 2 tournaments a month, go to https://...
Game on! PCS Chess #4 is our first tournament open to everyone in Pinellas County! Here’s how to play in it: On May 21, between 6:45 – 6:59pm, go to https://www.chess.com/live#t=1228629. At 7:00, chess.com will ma...
PCS Chess Online #3 on May 6 was our largest online tournament, with 24 students participating. L-ster won the tournament; Nikolay7114 came in 2nd; and Charles Moegling (Northeast HS), angelo_5113 (Northeast HS), and Andrew0613 tied for 3rd ...
Starting now, PCS Chess will have K-12 student tournaments the 1st Wednesday of each month at 3:40 pm and tournaments open to all Pinellas County residents the 3rd Thursday of each month at 7:00 pm. Game on! Here’s how st...
Game on! Here’s how to play in PCS Chess Online #2: On April 22, between 3:25 – 3:39pm, go to https://www.chess.com/live#t=1193185 . At 3:40, chess.com will match you up with an opponent. In this tournament, each player will start with 10 minut...
We had our first online tournament on April 8, with one adult (florida_man) and five students. Many thanks to florida_man for helping me create this club and set up the tournament. Kudos to Harold, Elshender, and Nick C, who finished 1st, 2nd, an...
Game on! We will have a tournament on chess.com on Wed., Apr. 8 at 3:40pm. Here’s how to play in it: On April 8, between 3:25 – 3:39pm, go to https://www.chess.com/live#t=1179822 or to go chess.com, click on Play, then on Tournaments, then on “P...
