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2019 GP
2019 Grand Prix Winner – Jim Skovron
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Gordon
Gordon Shuck 6/6/1918 – 5/31/2019 Gordon would have been 101 Thursday, June 6 – he was active in Montana Chess from the 1970’s through the 2000’s MCA received a very nice card from Gordon’s son, Andy, who also played with the MCA. All the info is in the Articles & Stories section under the History…
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2019 Championship Seeds
2019 Montana Championship Seeds David Duke Jim Skovron Richard Hobbs Dorje McPherron Wilton Strickland Dustin Sneeden Alternates Scott Caldwell Darren Stacey Daniel Mattson Joshua Brown Michael Muller
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2019 St. Patrick Open
Schoessler, Sneeden, Skovron Tie at the St Patrick Open The inaugural 2019 St. Patrick Open left a few feeling the luck o’ the Irish, and others green with envy! The event was held in Billings, MT the weekend of 3/16-17/2019 at the Mary Alice Fortin Room of the Billings Clinic (check Facebook for Photos)…
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2019 January Thaw
Jim Skovron Wins the January Thaw Jim Skovron won the 2019 January Thaw, emerging with 4 points from a tight race in the annual tournament held the last weekend in January. Wilton Strickland, Dan Mattson, and Mike Mueller tied for the second place finish with 3.5 points apiece. The 16 player tournament produced long…
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2018 Turkey Open
Benjamin Vogel wins 2018 Turkey Open Congratulations to all of the prize winners. Benjamin Vogel, who recently moved to Montana from Maryland, won clear 1st in this year’s Turkey Open. Young Dorje McPherron of Missoula won 2nd; Scott Caldwell of Missoula and young Jonathan Geyman of Bonner’s Ferry, ID shared the “B” prize; Michael…
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2018 Big Sky Country Open
Big Sky Country Chess Tournament – Butte – Sept 2018 Brad Bodie – Champion 5-0 Dan Mattson – 2nd 4-1 Thomas Walthall – Junior Champion 4.5 – 0.5 & Open Biggest Upset (539 pts) The Big Sky Country Open tournament launched the Montana Grand Prix season with a firecracker start September…
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USCF 2017 Membership Appreciation Program – MCA 1st Place
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2018 Montana Closed Championship
Duke – McPherron – Strickland Montana State Co-Champions 2018 Congratulations to David Duke, Wilton Strickland, and Dorje McPherron for playing rough and hanging tough through the May 19-20 weekend at the 2018 Montana Closed in Butte. Each finished at 3.5 with David gaining the tie-break edge and the champion seed for the 2019…
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2018 Montana Championship Seeds
2018 Montana Championship Seeds 1 Anthony Raelund 2017 Co-Champion 2 Jim Skovron Grand Prix 1st 3 Wilton Strickland Grand Prix 2nd 4 Daniel R Mattson MT Open 1st 5 Dorje McPherron MT Open 2nd 6 Kevin L Kuehnel Mt Open 3rd Alternates 1 David Duke 2017 Co-Champion 2 Darren Stacey 3 Dan McCourt 4 Joshua…
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5th Annual MIS Tournament Report
5th Annual MIS Tournament Results The 5th annual Missoula International School Scholastic Chess Tournament drew 28 participants from various schools around western Montana as well as good crowd of local talent. De La Salle School in Browning won the “door prize” –a bag of chess themed pencils with six entries. Alberton After-School Program brought…
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Montana Open Hotel Reservation Link
The easiest way to reserve your room at the discounted chess rate of $99/night is to use this link: http://doubletree.hilton.com/en/dt/groups/personalized/B/BILDTDT-MCA-20180406/index.jhtml?WT.mc_id=POG Group Name: Montana Chess Association Group Code: MCA Check-in: 06-APR-2018 Check-out: 07-APR-2018 Hotel Name: DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Billings Hotel Address: 27 N. 27th Street Billings, Montana 59101 Phone Number: (406) 238-4328
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2017 Turkey Open – Missoula – October 28 – 29
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2017 Turkey Open – Missoula – Oct 28 – 29
TURKEY OPEN 2017 This year’s Turkey Open was once again well attended with 40 entries thanks in large part to the addition of 11 new players from the Hamilton Chess Club who participated for 2 rounds. Hopefully they enjoyed their indoctrination to tournament chess and we’ll be seeing them again in the future. The Spokane…
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2017 Montana Closed – MCA Championship
Raelund and Duke Share 2017 Championship Title September 23-24, Helena: Antonius Raelund rolled to 3 wins during the Saturday go-round and convincingly inserted himself into front-runner status at the MCA Closed….and future MCA events. His 5th round victory earned him a 4-1 result and a share of the Montana Championship. Meanwhile, David Duke put 2-point…