Silver State Chess Association LLC
on behalf of Nevada Chess, Inc.
Presents
2025 SOUTHERN NEVADA STATE GIRLS SCHOLASTIC TOURNAMENT
INDIVIDUAL and TEAM CHAMPIONSHIPS
and QUALIFIER to NEVADA STATE SCHOLASTIC GIRLS CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP
Date: Sunday, March 9th, 2025 @ 11:00am
Note: Nevada switches from Pacific Standard Time to Pacific Daylight time earlier this day.
IMPORTANT: This year, the Nevada State Girls Scholastic Chess Championship will be held in a different format. Both the Southern portion of the state (defined below) and the Northern portion of the state will hold separate Over-The-Board tournaments to determine individuals and teams from each region who will then compete in the Nevada State Girls Scholastic Chess Championship to be held online on Sunday March 30th.
Girls who reside in, or go to school in, the following Nevada counties will be eligible to participate in the Southern Nevada State Girls Scholastic Chess Championship: Clark, Nye, Lincoln and Esmerelda.
This announcement is for the Southern Nevada State Girls Scholastic Chess Championship. The Northern Nevada State Girls Scholastic Chess Championship will be held on a different day and will be detailed in a separate announcement.
We expect the change in format will facilitate greater participation from girls throughout Nevada.
Location:
The Southern Nevada Chess Club
6284 Spring Mountain Road
Las Vegas, NV 89146
US Chess Membership is required
Please join or renew the player’s membership at www.uschess.org before registering for the tournament.
Girls must reside in Nevada or be a full time student in grades K-12 at a Nevada school
and born after September 1, 2006.
K-12 Open Section (Open to all girls in grades K-12)
5 rounds
Time Control Game/25 minutes + 5 seconds
Round 1 begins at 10:00am
Prizes
Individual Trophies and a Top Team Trophy will be awarded.
All Players will receive a participation medal.
The top four individual scorers in the Southern Nevada Scholastic Girls Chess Championship will meet at the Southern Nevada Chess Club on Sunday, March 30th to compete in the Nevada State Scholastic Girls Chess Championship (individuals), an online tournament that includes the Southern Nevada individual qualifiers and the Northern Nevada individual qualifiers. We will provide digital tablets for that tournament. The winner of that tournament will represent the State at the 13th Annual WIM Ruth Haring National Tournament of Girls State Champions in Madison, WI in July. The Nevada State representative will receive a travel stipend from Silver State Chess after completing all games in the national tournament without a forfeit loss.
https://new.uschess.org/haring
The top team scorer in the Southern Nevada Scholastic Chess Championship will meet at the Southern Nevada Chess Club on Saturday, April 26th to compete in the Nevada State Scholastic Chess Championship (teams), an online tournament that includes the Southern Nevada team qualifier and the Northern Nevada team qualifier. We will provide digital tablets for that tournament. The winning teams will not qualify for any national tournament because there is no national team tournament for which to qualify.
Additional Prizes
The top scoring girl, born after June 8, 2010 and rated under 1800, will receive free entry to the International Youth Championship (IYC) in Las Vegas June 7-8th. If that player won an entry in the Southern Nevada Scholastic Open Championship on March 1st, the second place finisher will win a free entry to the IYC.
The top two scoring girls will receive free entry to any single-day tournament of their choice at The Southern Nevada Chess Club. If the winner is rated over 900, that player may choose SNVCC's monthly Series. If either player won a free entry to the SNVCC tournament on March 1st, the next player(s) in scoring order will win the entry.
Entry Fees
$50 before February 22
$65 before March 2
$75 before March 8 @ 11:59pm
$100 after March 8 @ 11:59pm
Refunds: Refunds must be requested via email to info@silverstatechess.org prior to 6:00pm on March 8th and will have a processing fee of $12 withheld.
Byes: Maximum two half point byes are available upon request. All half-point byes must be requested by 10:30am on March 9th. Half-point byes for Rounds 4 or later are irrevocable after 12:30pm on March 9th. If any player is unable to play any round for any reason, including withdrawals, please notify a tournament director or score keeper.
Teams: Two or more players from the same school in the same section automatically form a team.
US Chess Membership required: you may join or renew at https://new.uschess.org/join-us-chess
Lunch: As an additional change from prior years, competitors will be required to bring their own lunches.
Schedule: Welcome and announcements will begin at 9:30am. All players should be seated for Round 1 start at 11:00am. Subsequent rounds start about 10 minutes after the previous round ends. There will be a lunch break for players to eat player-brought lunches. Players registering after 10:30 a.m. may not be paired for round 1.
Players should bring a Chess clock capable of using Increments and they should be familiar with how to set the clock.