Fall Chess Tournament & Camp Guide

After the success of last year's chess season, which included top finishes at the local, State & National Championships, and with the ongoing launch of our Fall Semester (registration is still open, see full club schedule below), we're all set to launch the new season of competitive training and play starting next week.

Our new season features a full array of training possibilities, which build off the club & classroom lessons and activities, and better prepare our players & teams for monthly team tournaments, and then for Grade Nationals in December, but also for the trio of big spring championships: NY States, All-Girls Nationals, and Elementary Nationals.

Our main training components are:

ICN Saturday Grand Prix happens at five locations around the city, and features AM and PM sessions to work around schedules (3 rounds of game/25 d5), with many kids staying for the day and playing both sessions, for a total of six rated games, with game analysis between rounds.

ICN Saturday Elite Quads happen at two locations (PS 111 in Manhattan, and PS 32 in Brooklyn), and features three rounds of game/60 d5 with game analysis. Players must be 1000+ USCF for the full day Quads.

ICN School Closure Training Camps are full-day drop-off camps including lunch, with rated games, analysis, lessons, outdoor activity, art, and much more.

ICN Monthly Team Tournaments happen the last Sunday of every month, and feature full-day drop-off tournament play with game analysis and team coaching, giving our teams a chance to build momentum for the bigger travel events.

We will be hosting a zoom meeting this next Wednesday, September 27 at 7:00pm to share this information with all families and to answer questions, I hope to see everyone there!

Here is the link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87578583388

Don't miss our first camp day this coming Monday, September 25th. We'll now feature five camp sites around NYC: Midtown West, Upper East Side, Lower East Side, PS 230 in Brooklyn -- and now our ICN Elite Training Camps for players over 1200+ USCF, featuring Grandmaster Oliver Barbosa. The ICN Elite Training Camps for single days will run at St Luke's in midtown, and for full weeks at the Marshall Chess Club.

Having added several strong new programs, and with GM Oliver Barbosa headlining all our top level training events, this year is looking to be enormous!

Russ Makofsky