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Since the 1990s, the number of student participants in national scholastic chess tournaments has also been steadily climbing, as shown by the rapid growth of the major national championship, the National Scholastic Chess Championships. Of course, with the exception of the few students competing at the top level, most participants are there to ...
Shaked learned the game at the age of seven, and developed his chess skills in the scholastic chess organizations of Tucson, Arizona.As a junior, Shaked won several national scholastic championships, including the 1987 National Primary Championship, the 1990 National Elementary Championship, the 1991 National K-8 Championship, the 1992 National K-8 Championship, the 1992 U.S. Cadet (under 16 ...
To compete nationally, the trio won the 2024 Montana Chess Association State Scholastic Championship in the elementary, middle school, and girls categories held April 27 in Butte.
In 2019, she won the New York State Scholastic Championships and was the 2023 KCF All-Girls Nationals Champion. [1] She is the highest-rated African-American female chess player in history. [ 2 ] [ 3 ]
Several of the major scholastic tournaments now run by the U.S. Chess Federation started out as CCA tournaments: the National High School Championship (1969), [3] the National Junior High Championship (1973), [4] the National Elementary Championship (1976), [5] and the National Scholastic K-12 Grade Championship (1991).
In 1985 at the age of 11, he won the National Elementary Chess Championship with a perfect 7–0 score (seven wins and no losses), becoming the first African-American to win a national scholastic title and the second African-American to win a national chess championship (Frank Street Jr. was the first, winning the 1965 US Amateur Championship).
The United States Chess Federation (also known as US Chess or USCF [1]) is the governing body for chess competition in the United States and represents the U.S. in The World Chess Federation (FIDE). USCF administers the official national rating system , awards national titles, sanctions over twenty national championships annually, and publishes ...
Also in 2008, the DCC hosted the Girls National Championships, in conjunction with the Kasparov Chess Foundation. [9] Furthermore, the DCC hosts the annual state scholastic tournament for elementary, high-school, and college students. [10]