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  • 2021 Magic City New Year’s Invitational

    The 4th Annual Magic City New Year’s Invitational took place this past Friday and Saturday at Legacy Trucking in Billings, MT. Eleven players came out to compete armed with face […]

  • Chinook Open Cancelled

    The 2020 Great Falls Chinook Open (7-8 November) has been cancelled due to a winter storm forecast.  The Scholastic Chinook Open will continue as scheduled at 10am on Chess.com (G/20, […]

  • 2020 Great Falls Chinook Open Scheduled!

    The 2020 Great Fall Chinook Open will be played November 7th and 8th at the Holiday Inn-Great Falls Convention Center.  If you plan to attend, please email Daniel Mattson – […]

  • Joshua Walthall Wins Big Sky Scholastic

    Joshua Walthall pulled off the upset over Molly Tefft in the final round to win the Big Sky Country Scholastic (9/19/2020) on chess.com. Congratulations to 1st Place Joshua (Stevi Middle […]

  • Dorje McPherron Wins 2020 Montana Closed

      Final standings from the Montana state championship are: Dorje McPherron (4.5 points) Wilton Strickland (4 points) Darren Stacey (2.5 points) Daniel Mattson and Thomas Walthall (1.5 points) Kevin Kuehnel […]

  • 2020 Montana Open

        Congratulations to Daniel Mattson for winning the Montana Open! Scoring an impressive 4.5 points, Daniel almost made a clean sweep but was held to a draw in the […]

  • 2020 Montana Closed State Championship

    The six competitors for the 2020 Montana State Championship have been named! They are: 1) Dorje McPherron, Missoula (2019 State Champion) 2) Daniel Mattson, Billings (Montana Open Champion, and Montana […]

  • 2020 Montana Open

    The 85th Montana Open (June 27-28, 2020)     Please note that these fluid and unpredictable times of the COVID-19 pandemic call for tight conditions and unusual procedures. Our expectation […]

  • MCA Annual Meeting Agenda

    Annual Meeting Agenda   The Montana Chess Association Annual meeting is scheduled to be held June 26th.  Below is the meeting agenda.

  • MT Junior Open

    2020 Montana Chess Junior (Online) Open – May 16   Outstanding tournament. It was great to see a few of the players finally get to play each other. Some amazing […]

  • MT Open

    Montana Open Delayed All other previously scheduled events are postponed or cancelled The Montana Open will not take place in April. Holiday Inns are waiving all cancellation fees through April […]

  • Chess Online

    Play Online at Chess.com “Montana Chess Association” is the Club name in Chess.com Schedule of Weekly Events is in MCA – Chess.com under Clubs menu: These events are only rated […]

  • 2020 St Patrick Open

    Tim Schoessler Wins St Patrick Open The 2nd Annual St Patrick Open & Scholastic took place this past weekend on 3/14-15, just before major public health restrictions were implemented to […]

  • USCF National Invitationals

    USCF National Invitational Tournaments The United States Chess Federation runs a number of national invitational tournaments where each state is permitted to nominate one player to represent the state: Rockefeller […]

  • 2020 January Thaw

    Pagerols wins the January Thaw with 4.5 points Twenty-six players participated in the 2020 January Thaw in Helena, the last weekend of January.  Josep Companyo Pagerols (2057) took home top […]