Baltimore County Chess Tournament 5/23

Baltimore County Chess Tournament 5/23Silver Knights Chess Academy in partnership with the Maryland Chess Association Grades K 12 Jewish Community Center of Greater Baltimore 3506 Gwynnbrook Ave Suite 148 Owings Mills, MD 21117 See who's playing This tournament is for scholastic players in grades K 12 with and without prior tournament experience. We recommend that players in their first tournament play choose the Unrated option, where they will be grouped by age and play 3 or 4 games.

Silver Knights Chess Academy in partnership with the Maryland Chess Association

Grades K-12

Jewish Community Center of Greater Baltimore
3506 Gwynnbrook Ave
Suite 148
Owings Mills, MD 21117

See who's playing

This tournament is for scholastic players in grades K-12 with and without prior tournament experience.  We recommend that players in their first tournament play choose the Unrated option, where they will be grouped by age and play 3 or 4 games.

Players who've previously done well in an Unrated section or have previous rated tournament experience should choose the Rated option, where they'll be placed in a group of 4 players according to their age and rating.  Each participant then plays one game against each of the other three players in their group. At the end of the third game, the winner of each group receives a trophy.

This event should typically finish in 1-2 hours, but can potentially take as long as 3 hours for the most advanced players (although that is rare).

Everyone will use a clock!  We'll go over how to use the clocks on-site.  Unrated section players will play game in 10 minutes with a 5 second delay, and Rated games are 25 minutes with a 5 second delay for each player.

Games are played in the auditorium, directly to the right of the main entrance.

Players can play in the morning at 10am, the afternoon at 1pm, or both!

* All sections are non-elimination, and all players participate in all rounds
* If you're playing in the Rated sections and have a US Chess ID# and membership, please include it.  If you don't have one, we will purchase it for you ($24 value!).  If you're not sure what your ID# is you can look it up here
* Please arrive 15 minutes before games start.  Players who arrive after that may not be placed in quads.
*Prices increase by $10 at noon the Tuesday before the tournament.

Per the rules of the JCC, ALL food brought into the building must be Kosher.