Saturday morning tournament prep w/ organizer Tim R. and TD Jack. Coming off his recent win in the State Championship tiebreaker playoff, Samrug (Sammy) Narayanan stayed hot in St. Cloud with a 1st place finish to jump to the early lead in the 2024 Summer Grand Prix Standings. Sammy scored 4.5/5.0 points, giving up only a draw to runner-up Andrew Titus in round 4. Titus finished with 4.0 points and was joined in a 2nd place tie with Josiah Jorenby. All USCF Results 🔥 In the

Joshini Sudhakar prevailed in a tiebreaker playoff with Katie Lu and will join the Minnesota Line-Up as the GK-12 Haring Representative and the 5th and final member of the State Nationals Team. The event takes place in Norfolk, Virginia in late July. Other team members include Ryan Zhou in the Rockefeller K-5, Alan Xu in the Barber K-8, Jordan Timm in the Denker K-12, and Tim Radermacher in the Irwin 50+. The Minnesota Team will be looking to improve on their stellar 10th

K-12 State Champion Jordan Timm & K-8 State Champion Alan Xu continued their streaks of great spring chess to win the K-12 Denker & K-8 Barber Playoffs on April 13-14 at the Chess Castle Club. USCF Results 🔥 See the Games! 👀 For Jordan Timm it was yet another victory as he added to his growing prize haul to become Minnesota's leading money winner thus far in 2024. Jordan went a perfect 5-0 against a tough field of high school competition to keep his newly gained 2200+ Mast

On April 13th an epic battle took place for the overall Minnesota State Chess Championship. FM Sammy Narayanan & IM Sean Nagle competed in a 5-game tie-breaking match. After an 11+ hour demonstration of brilliant fighting chess by both players, Sammy prevailed in the final seconds of the Game 5 Armageddon format to defend his title and repeat as our 2024 Minnesota State Champion. View the Games ♟️ USCF Results 🔥 Read Part 1 ➡️ The format for the tie-breaking match under

The annual Minnesota State Championship Playoffs were held at the Castle Chess Club the weekend of March 22-24. Spirited chess was on full display as only 18 of the 60 games (30%) resulted in draws. In two of the four sections there were decisive winners who were crowned champions for their section. In the other two sections, there were two players tied for 1st who will now have to "play off the playoff" in an MSCA official tiebreaker match. MSCA Pairings & Standings 🧮 U