The 50th Annual CalChess Scholastic State Championship took place at the Santa Clara Convention Center on March 22 and 23, 2025. I began attending this event in 1997 at the same convention center and haven’t missed a year since. Throughout the past 28 years I have witnessed many historical moments featuring Northern California’s brightest young chess players and made many friends through chess. The faces change overtime but the evolution of the competition, along with the growth of the chess community in Northern California, is a testament to the passion and dedication of everyone involved in making the Calchess Scholastic State Championship a truly special tournament.
Please enjoy swiping through the photo gallery below and don’t forget to send me your child’s best games from the tournament to be included in an upcoming article on the CalChess K-12 State Championship. Games can be submitted to DailyChessMusings@gmail.com by sending links to chess(dot)com, lichess, .pgn files, pgn text notation or even just photographs of your child’s recording sheet.
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Chris Torres is a nationally renowned scholastic chess coach working in the San Francisco Bay Area. His classes have attracted players of strengths ranging from rank beginners to world champions. A chess professional since 1998, Chris is widely recognized as one of the main driving forces behind the explosion in popularity and sudden rise in quality of scholastic chess in California. Chris Torres served as the President of the Torres Chess and Music Academy from 2005-2020 and currently is recognized as a correspondence chess master with the United States Chess Federation. Since 1998 Chris Torres has taught 6 individual national champions as well as led multiple school teams to win national championship titles. In addition, Chris Torres has directed and taught at 10 different schools which have been California State Champions at chess. In 2011 and 2012, several former and current students of Chris Torres have been selected to represent the United States at the World Youth Chess Championships. Mr. Torres’ hobbies include playing classical guitar and getting his students to appear on the national top 100 chess rating lists.
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