Alabama Chess

Here are tentative standings along with links to the accepted Round 8 matches: Division 2 Updated: 2/3/23 Pos. Team Points R1 R2 R3 R4 R5 R6 R7 R8 R9 1 Arizona 6/6 AB HI MN AL OR CO OH CA NM 1 California 6/6 OR CO HI AB OH AL NM AZ MN 3 Hawaii 4/6 NM AZ CA OH MN AB AL OR CO 4 Colorado 3/5 OH CA AL OR NM AZ MN AB HI 5 Minnesota 2/4 AL AB AZ NM HI OR CO OH CA 6 Oregon 2/5 CA NM OH CO AZ MN AB HI AL 7 Alabama 2/6 MN OH CO AZ AB CA HI NM OR 8 New Mexico 1/3 HI OR AB MN CO O...

With a lot of new members to Alabama Chess, just wanted to share some other chess groups on Chess.com that might be of interest to some of you.  Here are four groups that I also belong to: 1. Alabama Chess Federation (the official state affiliate to US Chess Federation) 2. Team USA Southeast 3. Team USA 4. US Team Chess League (If you are a member of one of the participating teams in this league, like Alabama Chess, you are eligible to join this group as well.  Mostly just for those who a...

2021-22 Season Final Standings: Division 2 jcohen42 Follow Jan 1, 2023, 2:00 PM|0 It seems that with every passing year, Division 2 begins to look more and more like a second Division 1. Some of the best and most competitive matches in the league have been occurring in this division, as teams continually push themselves to higher heights. In many ways, a healthy Division 2 is the most critical link to keep the league going, so I salute the efforts of all Division 2 team admins to ma...

Welcome to the 2022-2023 season of USTCL!  For Division 2, we welcome Hawaii and Arizona from Division 3, and New Mexico and Colorado from Division 1. Below are the full rules, but you can always find them here, along with team membership and filtering guidelines https://www.chess.com/clubs/forum/view/us-team-chess-league-rules-regulations  Here are the major changes from previous years:  The Minimum number of players has increased from 6 to 9 for Division 2.  Multi-team players will be e...

Announcement of 2022-23 Season Structure jcohen42 Follow Jun 1, 2022, 11:00 AM|8 First off, I just want to thank you all for a successful 2021-22 season. It was the season with the most teams in league history, and we were able to complete it smoothly, with some of the best participation we've ever seen. Many thanks to all team admins whose dedication and efforts made all of this possible. Happily, our trajectory of growth has continued, as we welcome four new teams to the league t...

I got this invite and was wondering what the interest level would be from our group.  Apparently, some of the other state teams from the USTL have joined this group, and I do like the various tournaments based on ratings as this gives opportunities for all our members on the ratings spectrum a chance to play competitively.  Put your thoughts in the comments below. You have been invited to join the Club "ONE WORLD League" To learn more about us you can visit our homepage here. Join This Club...

pkinnicutt  0  #123 Tentative standings as of April 30, 2022. Red=loss, Green=win, Yellow-draw, White=undecided. Please be aware that these standings could change due to score adjustments from fair play, multi-state and other violations. Pos. Team Points R1 R2 R3 R4 R5 R6 R7 R8 R9 1 Ontario(ON) 8/8 CA MN OR OH AB IN TN AL NY 2 New York(NY) 7/8 AL CA MN OR OH AB IN TN ON 3 California(CA) 5.5/8 ON NY AL MN OR OH AB IN TN 4 Alabama(AL) 5/8 NY AB CA IN MN TN OR ON OH 5 ...

2022 Offseason Friendlies jcohen42 Follow Updated: Apr 1, 2022, 10:33 AM| 8 With all 2021-22 season matches currently in progress, and the next season not starting until July, we have officially entered the USTCL offseason. Many teams like to use this time to play friendly matches against other teams as a way to keep their clubs active. As discussed previously in a forum thread, we are going to see if we can help this along a little bit. If your team is interested in playing frien...