The state high school championship was held on Saturday May 20th in Butte.  Alex Karns & Thomas Walthall are co-champions, both scoring 4/5.Meanwhile in Bozeman, the spring scholastic took place […]

Twenty-nine players descended on the Doubletree Hotel in downtown Billings this past weekend for this season’s first tournament, the Big Sky Country Open. In the past, this tournament has been […]

Rasul Nazriev took home the top honors to win his first MT Chess Championship! Rasul got off to a slow start, losing a miniature (20 move) Sicilian to Dan Mattson […]

The 87th Montana Open was held in Missoula April 2-3. It was well attended with 39 players including quite a few new players who performed quite well. We’d like to […]

Rasul Nazriev edged out a youngster and a tournament newcomer to win the 4th Annual St. Patrick Open this past weekend in downtown Billings, MT. Rasul (Mis) finished with 4.5/5 […]

The 2021 Turkey Open returned after a year’s hiatus and was very well attended with 43 players. The high turnout allowed for a $25 increase to all prizes along with […]

The 2021 Big Sky Country Open took place at the Comfort Inn in Butte, MT over the weekend of September 25-26, 2021 and attracted 23 players. A whopping 8 of […]

Congratulations to Dustin Sneeden who won the Billings Chess Club’s first rated blitz tournament of the fall with a 10/10 score! Josh Brown came in second with 8.5. Ten players […]

Congratulations to Benjamin Vogel of Bozeman on winning the 2021 Montana Closed State Championship.  Full Report and photos will be published soon.

The six competitors for the 2021 Montana State Championship are as follows: 1) current state champion Dorje McPherron; 2) former state champion James Skovron; 3) former state champion Wilton Strickland; […]

The 86th Montana Chess Open, played in Helena on May 22 and 23, drew 49 players from a 4-state region including 17 unrated individuals, and an Expert (2000) and a […]