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.
Index:
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
Wednesday: The Methodist Hospital Chess Club info & pairings (map).
July 19-20. Summer Open. CANCELLED - scheduling conflict.
August 2: Hill Country Summer Tournament, Boerne.
August 23-24. Summer Open.
Chess For Education 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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