Adam Porth
ICA Receives Matching Grant!
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Adam Porth
Jul 1, 20211 min
Magic Valley Chess Announced
Magic Valley Chess Club is up and running again! (We used to meet at Barnes and Noble) We meet every other Thursday at the Sawtooth...
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Adam Porth
Jun 29, 20212 min
GM Kayden Troff Simul finishes successfully for all
Utah's only grandmaster, GM Kayden Troff, was invited by chess student, Nobel Ang to Pocatello to provide the Idaho Chess Association...
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Adam Porth
Jun 16, 20212 min
Heck with Covid Results
June 12th was the date that the Idaho Chess Association planned to hold four simultaneous tournaments in each region of the state to...
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Adam Porth
May 21, 20211 min
Girl's State and Women's Tournament Results
On April 10, twelve Idaho ladies battled in a tournament designed to select Idaho's top girl and woman chess player. This year, due to...
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Jef Leifeste/TofuNightmare
Mar 21, 20213 min
Results of State
On Saturday, March 20, the Idaho Chess Association sponsored the State Scholastic Chess Tournament for 2021. “State” is one of the most...
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Adam Porth
Mar 8, 20211 min
Where do you want the Idaho Closed to be held? Survey
Check out our Survey!
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Jef Leifeste/TofuNightmare
Mar 4, 20213 min
S T A T E !
It's hard to believe the season flew by so fast, but Saturday, March 20 at 10am MST is the Idaho State Scholastic Chess Tournament (most...
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Jef Leifeste/TofuNightmare
Feb 28, 20212 min
Results of the West Scholastic Qualifier
The final qualifier of the season -- The West Regional -- took place on Saturday, February 27. We had 35 players compete. Four more...
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Adam Porth
Feb 17, 20211 min
Results of Idaho Closed Weekend Tournaments
President's Day Weekend is known as the Idaho Closed Weekend in Idaho, though I doubt any Presidents actually play chess regularly. The...
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Jef Leifeste/TofuNightmare
Feb 16, 20211 min
Announcing the ICA West Regional Scholastic Qualifier
This is it. The Western is the last qualifier of the 2021 season. To date, we have 65 players qualified across the state: 24 in K-5,...
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Adam Porth
Feb 14, 20212 min
Agenda for the Annual Meeting
Please use this link to the Google Doc. Scheduled for February 14, 2021 3:00 pm MST Zoom Link: Join Zoom Meeting...
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Jef Leifeste/TofuNightmare
Feb 13, 20211 min
Results of the South Central
We had almost 40 players that braved the cold temperatures and the huge snowdrifts to compete in the ICA South Central Regional...
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Adam Porth
Feb 6, 20211 min
Chess.com names
Here is a name key for chess.com tournaments: click me!
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Jef Leifeste/TofuNightmare
Jan 31, 20211 min
Results of The North
Thank you everyone for making Idaho scholastic chess great! The ICA North Regional Scholastic Qualifier took place on Saturday, January...
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Adam Porth
Jan 24, 20211 min
ICA Blitz Co-champions!
Kaustubh Kodihalli and James Wei are the 2021 Co-champions! The Annual MLK Blitz is held every year during MLK Week and this year it was...
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Adam Porth
Jan 17, 20211 min
MLK Blitz!
This quote by Dr. Martin Luther King reminds me of chess - substitute chess for education - "The function of chess is to teach one to...
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Jef Leifeste/TofuNightmare
Jan 10, 20211 min
Results of the East Idaho Region Scholastic Qualifier
The first regional was held on Saturday, January 9 on Chess.com. In spite of the fact some people are a little intimidated by online...
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Jef Leifeste/TofuNightmare
Dec 26, 20201 min
Holiday Leftover Results
The Leftovers saw a couple of ICA firsts. This was the first time we divided an online tournament into two sections: under 1500 and...
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