The IASCA Annual meeting was held on Sunday April 20th at the Microbiology Building on the ISU Campus in Ames.   Outgoing IASCA secretary Craig Brophy was named 2008 Member of the year and was presented with a plaque of recognition.   Ron Nurmi was elected to a 3 year term as IASCA Secretary. ... [More]
 

  34 players competed for state championships at the 2008 Iowa Class Championships held the 19th and 20th of April at the Microbiology building on the Iowa State University campus in Ames. Pictures can be found More]
 

  Chris Rogers, playing in his first tournament, swept through a field of 29 to win the 2008 Iowa Class E Championship/West Des Moines RBO held at the Golden Teapot on April 5th. The tournament was directed by Hank Anzis and IASCA president Tim McEntee. Rogers, a native of Linden, has been playing c... [More]
 

Tim Crouse of Boone was undefeated at 3-0-0 to earn clear first place in Sunday afternoon action on the Iowa State campus. It was the second Cychess win for Crouse as he was part of a 4-way tie at the top of XIX in March 2002.

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  2 time Iowa High School Champion Dan Brashaw defeated Matt Anzis 1.5-0.5 in a 2 game match to determine Iowa's representative to the Arnold Denker Tournament of High School Champions in Dallas this August. The match was arranged after Dan and Matt shared first place at January 19th's Iowa High Sch... [More]
 

  I recently received an article from Garrett Anstreicher about his experiences at the St. Olaf Chess Camp last summer. Garrett's tremendous growth as a chess player this last year is plain to see. He won the Iowa Junior High School Championship this past December (tied with Daniel Johnson) and most... [More]
 

   Chess players from 18 schools came to Jordan Creek Elementary in West Des Moines on February 9th for the 2007-2008 Iowa Elementary Team Championships. The event was directed by Joe Stull and Hank Anzis with help from Robert Vance and Ben Munson. New features of discounts for teams with 10 or more... [More]
 

  Melanie Culpepper of Creston won the 2007-2008 Iowa Girls Championship in a 3 round sweep. Melanie had to defeat 2 time Girls champion and current Iowa 10th grade champion Dhrooti Vyas in the last round to secure the title. Vyas took second on tiebreak over Emma Stephens on Winterset. Emma, who no... [More]
 

  Defending champion Dan Brashaw and 9th grade champion Matt Anzis tied for the 2007-2008 Iowa High School Championship held January 19th at Northview Middle School in Ankeny. Matt and Dan drew their 3rd round match and then had to play Ankeny's top 2 players Charles Li and Kelsey Dixon. When Matt w... [More]
 

  Ankeny's Jeremy Madison swept through a field of 26 players on his way to capturing the Ankeny Youth Trophy Tournament on January 19th, 2008. Jeremy had to battle through tough challenges from some of Iowa's top scholastic players, including Junior High School champion Daniel Johnson, 4th grade ch... [More]