Recent Tournament Updates – Part 1

Aldine Middle School Tournament (September 15th, 2012) To my mind, this was the first major scholastic chess tournament (160+ players) held after summer.  Congratulations are in order to Village School for taking 1st place in the Elementary Section with an incredible...

Coach Justin returns from Spain!

I have returned from Spain! After 2 months of non-stop competing in international chess tournaments, it feels great to be back home. I got to match up against plenty of Grandmasters (GMs) and International Masters (IMs) from around the world. While my goal of Fide...

Welcome to the NEW HOT Chess site!

We’ve been working hard to update our site. We’re twitter integrated too! To follow us text “follow hotchess” to 40404. This will send texts directly to your phone, note-data rates may apply. The navigation is pretty much similar to the old...

Texas Scholastic Championships

The biggest TCA event of the year takes place February 18th – 19th in Dallas (Sheraton Downtown)!  More information, including links to online registration are available at the tournament website.  So, make your reservations...