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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 January 8, 2009.

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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:

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

Future Tournaments:

Jan. 31-Feb. 1, 2009: Texas Team Championship. 4-SS, 30/90. SD/60. John E. Hornbeak Bldg. 3rd floor, 4450 Medical Dr., San Antonio, TX. Open to four-player teams avg. U2200 based on Dec. 2008 rating list. One alternate allowed, must be lowest rated. EF: $100/team if rec'd by 1/29, $125 site. TCA memb. required ($10 reg., $7.50 jr. U19, $1 jr. tmt.), o.s.a. $$($1,000 b/12 teams): $450 + T, $250, U1900 team $200 + T, $100. Reg. 11 a.m.-noon, Rds. 12:30-6, 9:30-3. Ent: SACC, POB 501, Helotes, TX 78023; 210-695-2324; schachlied@yahoo.com. NS. NC. W.

Feb. 28-Mar. 1. Pre-Spring Open. Hornbeak Bldg, 2nd floor, 4450 Medical Dr., San Antonio, TX. 4-SS, 30/90, SD/60. $$1,100 b/40, 2 sections. Open: $250-150, U2100 $100, U1900 $100. Reserve (U1800): $150-100, U1700 $100, U1500 $75, U1300/unr. $75. Unr. may play for top Open prizes or U1300/unr. only. EF: $30 if rec’d by 2/26, $35 at site. Junior (18/under) or Senior (65+) entry (count 2/3 toward based-on): $20 by 2/26, $25 at site. Reg. 11 am.-12:30 p.m., Rds. 1-6, 10-3. Half-pt. bye any one rd., notice before rd. 2. Entries: SACC, POB 501, Helotes, TX 78023. Info: http://home.satx.rr.com/sachess/, 210-695-2324. NS. NC. W.

Apr. 4-5. Spring Open. Hornbeak Bldg, 2nd floor, 4450 Medical Dr., San Antonio, TX. 4-SS, 30/90, SD/60. $$1,100 b/40, 2 sections. Open: $250-150, U2100 $100, U1900 $100. Reserve (U1800): $150-100, U1700 $100, U1500 $75, U1300/unr. $75. Unr. may play for top Open prizes or U1300/unr. only. EF: $30 if rec'd by 4/2, $35 at site. Junior (18/under) or Senior (65+) entry (count 2/3 toward based-on): $20 by 4/2, $25 at site. Reg. 11 am.-12:30 p.m., Rds. 1-6, 10-3. Half-pt. bye any one rd., notice before rd. 2. Entries: SACC, POB 501, Helotes, TX 78023. Info: http://home.roadrunner.com/~sachess, 210-695-2324. NS. NC. W.

Past Tournaments:

2008:

The Fall Open (Nov. 15-16) drew just 25 players despite having a Chess Life ad, hardly an improvement over Octoberfest. The recession, not just gas prices, seems to be driving this trend. Dennis Rylander won the ten-player Open section with 3.5 out of 4 ($125), taking a last round bye and winning three games. Ernesto Malazarte and Alok Kumar (1887) split second and U2100 prizes with 3 ($62.50 each). Richard Gabriel won the U1900 prize of $50 with 1(!) Paul Franke won the Reserve (U1800) with 3.5 ($75), ahead of Alfredo Garcia and Raymond Grillo, who shared second and U1700 with 3 ($50 each). Mike LaBelle and Titus Shanks tied for U1500 with 2.5 ($18.75 each). The lone unrated player was Christopher Clark ($37.50). Selby Anderson directed, with assistance from Martin Gordon. The new playing site at the Hornbeak Building next to TNI was adequate, except that the thin room partition did not permit the adjoining classroom to be much of a skittles area.

Ernesto Malazarte won the Octoberfest tournament (Oct. 4-5) with 4.5 out of 5, defeating Selby Anderson and Don Flournoy, only drawing Hyltin. Don Flournoy (2106), a club regular in the 80s now playing his first tournament in years, was nicked in the first round by Seth Davis (1517) but was playing on top board by the last round. Tied for second plus U2200 prizes were Andrew Nathanael Lozano and Martin Gordon, both with 4. The U2000 prize was won by Zhaosu Ye with 3. The U1800 prize was split by Daniel Lozano, John Niven, Alfredo Garcia and Richard Gabriel, all with 2.5. Also with 2.5 were the U1600 winners James Thames, Seth Davis and Raymond Grillo. David Pacheco with 2 was top U1400. Martin Gordon directed a small field (just 26 players) at TNI. Prizes were paid at 55% of the advertised prizes, which were based on 40 full entries.


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