Billings Blitz – 10/2/2019   Nine players ventured out to the Last Chance Pub & Cider Mill on Wednesday, October 2nd, for Billings 2nd speed chess tournament. The games took […]

Billings Boys & Girls Youth Club Scholastic – 9/28/2019   The Boys & Girls Club youth tournament, directed by Mo Bain, took place on Friday, September 28th. Twenty-six kids from […]

2019 Big Sky Country Open   Congratulations to 4.0 co-champions, Josep Maria Companyo Pagerols, Wilton Strickland and Dustin Sneeden who split the 1st & 2nd prize money. The upset prize […]

Billings Chess Club Blitz – August 22, 2019 The Billings Chess Club offered its first rated blitz tournament last night! The time control was G5 with no delay. Ten players […]

Billings July Quads Billings chess players tried to beat the heat this past weekend (7/26-27) by playing some rated chess indoors! A summer quad, this time drawing 12 players, was […]

2019 Montana Champion – Dorje McPherron   Congratulations to Dorje McPherron who won the Montana Closed in Bozeman the weekend of May 18-19. The Closed featured the 6 highest (active) […]

Schoessler, Sneeden, Skovron Tie at the St Patrick Open   The inaugural 2019 St. Patrick Open left a few feeling the luck o’ the Irish, and others green with envy! […]

Jim Skovron Wins the January Thaw   Jim Skovron won the 2019 January Thaw, emerging with 4 points from a tight race in the annual tournament held the last weekend […]

Benjamin Vogel wins 2018 Turkey Open   Congratulations to all of the prize winners. Benjamin Vogel, who recently moved to Montana from Maryland, won clear 1st in this year’s Turkey […]

Big Sky Country Chess Tournament – Butte – Sept 2018   Brad Bodie – Champion   5-0   Dan Mattson – 2nd   4-1   Thomas Walthall – Junior Champion  4.5 – […]

Duke – McPherron – Strickland   Montana State Co-Champions 2018   Congratulations to David Duke, Wilton Strickland, and Dorje McPherron for playing rough and hanging tough through the May 19-20 […]

5th Annual MIS Tournament Results   The 5th annual Missoula International School Scholastic Chess Tournament drew 28 participants from various schools around western Montana as well as good crowd of […]

TURKEY OPEN 2017 This year’s Turkey Open was once again well attended with 40 entries thanks in large part to the addition of 11 new players from the Hamilton Chess […]

Raelund and Duke Share 2017 Championship Title September 23-24, Helena:   Antonius Raelund rolled to 3 wins during the Saturday go-round and convincingly inserted himself into front-runner status at the MCA […]

National Chess Weekend in Great Falls Strickland and Cohen Land on Top Congratulations to Wilton Strickland and Larry Cohen—4-points and tops in the 2017 Chinook Open. Cohen, visiting from Villa […]