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Former Tennessean Michael Abron has written a book about his quest to play a tournament in all fifty states (the first African American to do so) called “The Chess Traveler and Pioneer”.  It is now available on Amazon, Books a Million and Barns and Noble websites.

RECENT EVENTS:

2022 TN ALL-GIRLS SCHOLASTIC STATE CHAMPIONSHIP RESULTS

2022 TN WINTER OPEN RESULTS  Click Here

2021 PETER P.  LAHDE TENNESSEE OPEN WINNERS  Click Here

2021 PETER P. LAHDE TENNESSEE OPEN WALL CHART  Click Here

2021 PETER P. LAHDE TENNESSEE OPEN SCHOLASTIC RESULTS Click Here

2021 SUSAN E. KANTOR STATE SCHOLASTIC CHAMPIONSHIP RESULTS  Click Here

2021 TN DENKER, BARBER, AND ROCKEFELLER RESULTS  Click Here

2021 TN ALL-GIRLS SCHOLASTIC STATE CHAMPIONSHIP  RESULTS

WEST TN SCHOLASTIC QUALIFIER PRELIMINARY RESULTS  Click Here

EAST TN SCHOLASTIC QUALIFIER PRELIMINARY RESULTS  Click Here

2020 TN SENIOR OPEN   RESULTS

2021 WINTER OPEN WALLCHART AND PRIZE LIST    CLICK HERE

2020 TN OPEN RESULTS      U1600      Open

2020 TN ALL-GIRLS ONLINE SCHOLASTIC STATE CHAMPIONSHIP  RESULTS

2020 TN SCHOLASTIC INDIVIDUAL STATE CHAMPIONSHIP  RESULTS

2020 TN HOMESCHOOL ONLINE CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP  RESULTS

2020 REGIONAL SCHOLASTIC CHAMPIONSHIP RESULTS

Region 1        Region 2        Region 3        Region 4

2020 HARRY D SABINE STATE SCHOLASTIC TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP

TEAM RESULTS          Prim By Bd          Elem by Bd          Jr High by Bd          H.S. by Bd

 2020 Regional Scholastic Team Championships

Reg 1          Reg 2          Reg 3          Reg 4
Teams        Teams        Teams        Teams
By Bd          By Bd         By Bd          By Bd

IN THE NEWS

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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.  Do you have issues missing from our collection or issues in better condition?  Please send them to Newsletter Coordinator.

*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.