providing CPS students the opportunity to learn, play, & compete in chess
Join us online for our Spring online chess tournament on ChessKid while you enjoy you break from school. The tournament is open to all CPS students in grades K-12. To participate in the tournament students must have their ChessKid account associated with our Enterprise Account 3 days prior to the tournament. Click here for more info.
Join tournament opens at 9:30 am and Round 1 starts at 10:00 pm. The tournament features 1 section for all players.
Join us for our weekly Thursday Knights Blitz tournaments open to students in grades K-12. Join tournament opens at 4:30 pm and Round 1 starts at 5:00 pm. The tournament features 1 section for all players.
TOURNAMENT INFORMATION
To participate in the tournament students must have their ChessKid account associated with our Enterprise Account 3 days prior to the tournament. Click here for more info.
The 11 schools were selected represented a diversity of schools across the city including several Level 3 schools. 4 of the schools selected had never participated in a national Chess tournament before. The schools are Haley, Kinzie, Monroe, Decatur, Garcia HS, Jones HS, Lincoln Park HS, Payton HS, Solorio HS, Taft HS, and Englewood STEM HS.
In addition to the students on the Academic Chess trip, additional schools and students traveled on their own to compete in the tournament. In all CPS had 131 students compete in this year’s HS Championship.
Our group 66 students arrived on Wednesday in our Nation’s capital to compete in this weekend’s US Chess High School National Championship. Before the students compete to see who this year’s national champions are, the students traveled to Baltimore to compete in a friendly match against the Baltimore Kid’s Chess League. They spent Thursday visiting Howard University and some of the cultural and historic sites in DC before playing in the Thursday night Blitz chess tournament.
The 11 schools that were selected represented a diversity of schools across the city including several Level 3 schools. 4 of the schools selected had never participated in a national Chess tournament before. The schools are Haley, Kinzie, Monroe, Decatur, Garcia HS, Jones HS, Lincoln Park HS, Payton HS, Solorio HS, Taft HS, and Englewood STEM HS.
After 5 rounds of intense competition, this year’s championship teams and individuals were crowned. Each of the individuals placed clear first with a score of 5-0 and the teams were between 1/2 point – 2 points ahead of the second place teams.
All the players enjoyed the day and at the end they all walked away as winners having advanced to the final stage of the 2022-2023 Elementary chess season.
| SECTION | TEAM | INDIVIDUAL |
| Junior High | Whitney Young AC | Justin Zhang – Whitney Young AC |
| Intermediate | Pritzker | Justin Lee- Pritzker |
| Primary | Edison RGC | Advaith Muthu – Edison RGC |
On Saturday March 11 we held the K-8 Northside and Southside Playoffs. 371 players from 38 schools competed to determine who will advance the K-8 Championship on March 25.
Advancing to the Championship are the top 3 teams and top 4 individuals not associated with an advancing team in each section.
| SECTION | TEAMS | INDIVIDUALS |
| Primary K-4 South | Keller Lenart STEM | Vincent Teran – Sor Juana Jacob Castillo – Taylor Trinity Lopez – Monroe Federico Leon – Whittier |
| Primary K-4 North | Skinner North Edsion Lincoln | Ethan Huang – Virtual Academy Conrad Robison – Chicago Academy Shrihaan Bathula – Decatur Yuhan Liu – Bell |
| Intermediate K-6 South | Keller Lenart Sheridan | Lee Sandoval – STEM Andrew Barrerra – Kinzie Zakaria Isahnounen – Calmeca Adolfo Sales Brito – Whittier |
| Intermediate K-6 North | Skinner North Pritzker Beaubien | Eneko Ramos – Lasalle Sebastian Gravrilescu – Waters Shane Veale – Edison Gabriel Jael – Bateman |
| Junior High K-8 South | Whitney Young AC Ella Young Kinzie | Raymond Chen – Sheridan Uziel Bahena – Monroe Jason Suarez-Camacho – Calmeca Eleazar Munoz – Taylor |
| Junior High K-8 North | Skinner North Decatur Lane AC | Aidan Baker – Lincoln Zachary Zurawski – Taft AC Benjamin Link – Taft AC Otto Linnenbringer – Lincoln |
For 2023 we have 3 in-person Summer camps that will take place at Whitney Young Magnet High School. This year, Priority is being given to students from schools with the Cops & Kids program, followed by students from school with the Academic Chess Program.
During our Summer camps students will
| HIGH SCHOOL | QUEENS | MIDDLE SCHOOL |
|---|---|---|
| June 26 – Jul 14 | Jun 26 – 30 | Jul 5 – 14 |
| entering 9-12 grade | females entering 5-12 grade | entering 5-8 grade |
| MORE INFO | MORE INFO | MORE INFO |
High school students earn $$$ while you learn
Our K-8 North & South Side Playoffs are fast approaching. This year’s tournament will be taking place at Solorio High School.
Registration is open from February 20 – March 1 by school coaches only. Schools are limited to 15 players and 3 coaches.
Busing may be available for your school and the request must be submitted online using the form on the event page by March 1.
The top 3 teams and the top 4 individuals not associated with an advancing team in each section will advance to the K-8 Championship taking place on March 25. Advancing teams are limited to 5 players.
If a school is missing from this list, email David Heiser at daheiser@cps.edu
| NORTHSIDE PLAYOFFS SCHOOLS | SOUTHSIDE PLAYOFFS SCHOOLS |
| Bateman | Calmeca |
| Beaubien | Gallistel |
| Bell | Haley |
| Chicago Academy Elementary | Hendricks |
| Decatur | Kanoon |
| Edison | Keller |
| Henry | Kinzie |
| Lane AC | Lenart |
| LaSalle | Hammond |
| Lincoln | Hampton |
| Linne | Monroe |
| Pierce | Sadlowski |
| Pritzker | Sheridan |
| Skinner North | Sor Juana |
| Taft AC | Spry |
| Thorp | STEM |
| Virtual Academy | Taylor |
| Waters | Whittier |
| Young AC | |
| Young Elementary |
Join us online for our President’s Day online chess tournament on ChessKid while you enjoy you break from school. The tournament is open to all CPS students in grades K-12. To participate in the tournament students must have their ChessKid account associated with our Enterprise Account 3 days prior to the tournament. Click here for more info.
Join tournament opens at 9:30 am and Round 1 starts at 10:00 pm. The tournament features 1 section for all players.
8 CPS high school teams traveled to Peoria to compete in the annual IHSA State Championship. The tournament took place over 2 days, Feb 10 & 11, and at the conclusion of 7 rounds the Payton and Whitney Young chess teams tied for 2nd place with 6 points; Payton placed 3rd and Whitney Young placed 6th on tiebreaks.
| PLACE | TEAM |
| 3 | Payton |
| 6 | Whitney Young |
| 12 | Lane Tech |
| 38 | Taft |
| 41 | Northside Prep |
| 64 | Lincoln Park |
| 93 | Brooks |
| 107 | Kelly |
