TCA has been working to make more of our Tennessee Chess History available on the web.  Click on our Newsletter Archive to revisit old TCNs

Tennessee Chess Association has been selected for the
2015 Best of Crossville Awards for Community Organization.
For details and more information please visit: 2015 Best of Crossville Awards

2017 Tennessee Open Results  click here

Flyer for 3rd Annual Smoky Mountain Chess Tournament (Jan 5-7, 2018)  Click Here

Results from the 2017 2nd Annual Smoky Mountain Chess Tournament  Click Here

2017 Tennessee Scholastic Team Regional Results (by Teams and Individuals)
Reg 1 Teams     Reg 2 Teams     Reg 3 Teams     Reg 4 Teams
Reg 1 Ind           Reg 2 Ind           Reg 3 Ind          Reg 4 Ind

2017 TENNESSEE STATE SCHOLASTIC INDIVIDUAL TOURNAMENT RESULTS
Region 1     Region 2     Region 3    Region 4

2017 Tennessee State Individual Finals Results    CLICK HERE

2017 State Scholastic Team Final Results
BY TEAM
BY INDIVIDUAL

What A Game! – latest games (see tab above for older games)

* Nicholas Tomlin – Harry Sood
Tennessee Scholastic Individual State Championship; Tennessee Tech University; 2015.02.14.
* Vincent Gould – Daniel Gabriel
2015 Tennessee Winter Open; Henry Horton State Park; 2015.02.17.
* Tanay Patri – Kyle Sharpe (with analysis)
Tennessee State Scholastic Team Finals; Tennessee Tech University; 2015.03.28.
* Todd Andrews – Kyle Sharpe (with analysis)
2015 Tennessee Winter Open; Henry Horton State Park; 2015.02.17.
* Alexander Qin – John Morphett (with analysis)
Tennessee Scholastic Individual State Championship; Tennessee Tech University; 2015.02.14

IN THE NEWS
*WHY CHESS?
THE MORALS OF CHESS BY BENJAMIN FRANKLIN (1750)
The game of Chess is not merely an idle amusement. Several very valuable qualities of the mind, useful in the course of human life, are to be acquired or strengthened by it, so as to become habits, ready on all occasions. For life is a kind of chess, in which we have often points to gain, and competitors or adversaries to contend with, and in which there is a vast variety of good and ill events, that are, in some degree, the effects of prudence or the want of it. Click on the title, and read this remarkable piece!

*A BLAST FROM THE PAST
Moxon’s Master – Automaton Chessplayer
This story may have been inspired by Wolfgang von Kempelen’s remarkable mechanical chess player, which was created in 1770. Incredibly, it beat a number of chess experts in public matches. However, the real genius behind the automaton chess player was an assistant concealed inside the cabinet. This famous story was written by Ambrose Bierce in 1910. In it, you encounter the first chess playing automaton – a fully automated chess machine. You also first encounter the problems that humans have when they face superior machines.

*NY REGION
At a Brooklyn School, the Cool Crowd Pushes the King Around
By ANNE BARNARD and DYLAN LOEB McCLAIN
Chess dominates the culture at Intermediate School 318, where most students come from families with incomes below the federal poverty level.

*TN REGION
Major push made to popularize chess in Chattanooga
By CASEY PHILLIPS
Playing chess has many positive side effects that last long after the pieces have been packed away.