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San Antonio Chess Club
Founded in 1888 at the historic Menger Hotel near the Alamo,
the San Antonio Chess Club is the oldest chess club in Texas.
Updated July 15, 2008.

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The San Antonio Chess Club and regular activities:

We meet Thursday evenings 6-10 p.m. (except holidays) at the Lions Field Recreation Center, 2809 Broadway near Mulberry - see map (phone: 826-9041). This is a City of San Antonio facility and visitors, including minors are welcome. Please bring chess sets, boards & clocks if you have them - they are not provided at site. Every week: casual skittles, blitz tourney begins 8 p.m. We also organize several weekend tournaments at other locations; see below.

Membership/Newsletter: Club members receive a monthly newsletter that covers local chess news, upcoming tournaments and games by local players. Membership is $10 per year ($5 junior, family $15, and life $200).

Annual SACC business meeting (1/24/08) minutes here.

SACC Club Officers:

2008 San Antonio Chess Club Champion: Ernesto Malazarte (Foto)
2008 San Antonio City Champion: Ernesto Malazarte (Foto)

To join for a year and to receive our monthly newsletter, send $10 regular membership ($5 junior, family $15, and life $200) with your name, address and zip code (phone # & e-mail address optional) to: San Antonio Chess Club, P.O. Box 501, Helotes, TX 78023-0501

Local Places to play chess:

Present Tournaments:

Wednesday: The Methodist Hospital Chess Club info & pairings (map).

Future Tournaments:

July 19-20. Summer Open. CANCELLED - scheduling conflict.

August 2: Hill Country Summer Tournament, Boerne.

August 23-24. Summer Open.

Chess For Education Tournaments

Past Tournaments:

2008:

San Antonio City Championship - June 14-15, TNI Building, Medical Center
SACC Championship - May, Lion's Field
Texas Polgar Qualifier - May 17 - TNI Building, Medical Center
Texas Action Championship - Mar. 15 - TNI Building, Medical Center
Winter Open - Feb. 23-24 - TNI Building, Medical Center
Texas Team Championship - Jan. 26-27 - TNI Building, Medical Center

2007:

5th Annual Jim Gallagher Memorial - Nov. 24-25 -TNI Building, Medical Center
Fall Open results - Sept. 22-23 - TNI Building, Medical Center.
Summer Open results - Aug. 4-5 - TNI Building, Medical Center
San Antonio City Championship results - June 23-24 - TNI Building, Medical Center
SACC Championship - Jesse Lozano wins. Wall Chart / Standings: May, Lion's Field
Texas Action Championship. Apr. 28 -TNI Building, Medical Center
Spring Open - Mar. 31 - Apr. 1 - TNI Building, Medical Center
Texas Team Championship - Jan. 27-28 - TNI Building, Medical Center

2006:

New Year Open - Dec. 30-31 - TNI Building, Medical Center
Jim Gallagher Memorial - Nov. 25-26 - TNI Building, Medical Center
Great Pumpkin Open - Oct. 28-29 - TNI Building, Medical Center
San Antonio Fall Open - Sept. 23-24 - TNI Building, Medical Center
San Antonio City Championship - July 29-30 - TNI Building, Medical Center
San Antonio Chess Club Championship - May, Lion's Field
Texas Action Championship - Apr. 29 - TNI Building
Spring Open - Mar. 18-19 - TNI Building, PGN games
Texas Team Tournament - Jan. 21-22 - TNI Building, Medical Center

2005:

Jim Gallagher Memorial - Dec. 3-4 - TNI Building, Medical Center
1st American Sunrise Chess Fiesta - Nov. 19, 2005 - Guadalupe Community Center
Fall Open - October 1-2 - TNI Building, PGN games
San Antonio City Championship Results
- July 23-24 - TNI Building, PGN games
San Antonio Club Championship Results - June 2005 - Lions' Field
Texas Team Results
- June 11-12 - TNI Building, Medical Center
Fiesta Open - Apr. 16-17 - TNI Building, PGN games
New Year Open Results - Jan. 1-2 - Airport Hilton, PGN games

2004:

San Antonio Turkey Shoot, - Nov. 27-28 - TNI Building, PGN games
Texas Women's Championship, - Nov. 27-28 - TNI Bldg., PGN games
Jim Gallagher Memorial Results - Sept. 25-26, 2004 - TNI Building - PGN games
San Antonio City Championship Results
- June 19-20, 2004 - TNI Building - PGN games
San Antonio Club Championship Results
- May 2004 - Lions' Field
Texas Action Championship Results - Apr. 24, 2004 - TNI Building - PGN games
Texas Team Championship Results - Mar. 13-14, 2004 - TNI building - PGN games

For Texas Chess Association tournaments before 2004, check out TCA Archives.

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