This Austin Chess Club tournament was held on Saturday, August 5 and Sunday August 6, 2023 at the Doubletree NW Arboretum. Thank you to everyone who played! The event has been rated by the USCF.
In order to protect the integrity of this (and potential future) contests, the decision was made not to directly reveal the puzzle answers. We might, for instance, provide another chance at any unsolved puzzles in the future. For anyone who would like to find more puzzles in the meantime, however, here are a few suggestions:
Chess: 5334 Problems, Combinations, and Games, by Laszlo Polgar. This large puzzle collection sometimes shows up at Half Price Books, is available through Amazon, and has a kindle version.
Chesskid.com This website has a lot of resources for children learning chess, including puzzles.
Chess.com This site has not just standard but also some ‘Retrograde Analysis’ puzzles, which are of the same type as what made up our tricky April Fools problems.
Pointing your favorite search engine to “Chess Retrograde Analysis Puzzles” should give a number of hits, but one good resource for specifically this sort of problem is The Retrograde Analysis Corner (www.janko.at/Retros/Index.htm). This site includes explanation of what Retro Analysis is and how to approach the problems, as well as more than 3500 such problems.
Description: A full day, week-long chess camp hosted by NYOS Charter School. Located on the north side of Austin, the camp is open to all scholastic chess players, and is run by Mr. Gary Gaiffe
Campers will be broken into skill level groups. Different topics will be covered depending on which group the camper is in. From tactics to positional play, game analysis to variant play, the camp will be both instructional and entertaining. The final day will include a camp-wide tournament.
Dates and Times: July 17-21; 9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Location: NYOS Charter School 12301 N. Lamar Blvd. Austin, TX 78753
Registration and Payment information: Coming soon!
Questions: Contact Gary Gaiffe at ggaiffe@att.net or 512-426-7841