ICEA Chess Blog
ICEA Chess Returns to the Wende Museum with a Successful Free Tournament
On Saturday (6/21/2025), ICEA Chess proudly hosted a free, all-ages chess tournament at the Wende Museum, marking our much-anticipated return…
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2025 SuperStates Championship: A Record-Breaking Celebration of Chess Excellence
The 2025 Southern California SuperStates Championship was held by ICEA Chess for the first time at the historic Biltmore Hotel…
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ICEA Chess @ Gardena: Gardena’s Youth Shine at ICEA Chess Tournament
On Saturday, April 26, 2025, the Nakaoka Community Center in Gardena transformed into a hub of strategic excitement as young…
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Lessons from the World School Chess Championship in Peru: My Journey to Growth
Author’s Note:This article was written after I achieved the title of National Master (see my other article, Journey to National…
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Journey to National Master: A Dream Comes True at the Dreaming King Open
The elusive National Master (NM) title had been my dream since I first picked up a chessboard. I started playing…
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A New Exciting Historical Chapter: 2025 SuperStates
We are thrilled to officially announce that ICEA has been designated as the host of the 2025 Southern California SuperStates…
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Road to NM (an extraordinary National Open)
Last year, I co-won the National Open U2100 in June with a score of 6.5/7, increasing my rating from 2063…
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2024 Southern California State Championship
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ICEA Chess in SuperStates 2024
(from left to right) Julian Colville, Felix Guo, Esther Jou(Co-Captian), Alex Wang(Captian), Angela Liu(Co-Captian), Elena Zhang The 2024 SuperStates, hosted…
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2024 SoCal SuperStates Scholastic State Chess Championship
ICEA Chess is proud to partner with Coach Jay to organize the 2024 SoCal SuperStates Scholastic State Chess Championship. March…
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2023 North American Youth Championship
Angela Liu, Julian Colville, and Felix Guo from ICEA Chess proudly represented Team USA in this year's tournament. Congratulations to…
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Openings: One-Trick and Bad Gambits
Gambits. Gambits aren’t horrible types of openings to play, but problems can occur if you aren’t careful. Gambits such as…
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My First Tournament Directing Experience
Ever since I started playing chess, I would watch the tournament directors amble past each board as they attentively watched…
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ICEA Qualifiers & Results of Judit Polgar’s Global Chess Festival
On September 15 and September 16, two qualifier tournaments were held to determine who would earn a coveted spot at…
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Unexpectedly Rising Above Mediocrity in the 2023 Pacific Southwest Open
In the months leading up to the Pacific Southwest Open, I experienced a string of unsatisfactory results, my play having…
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Surviving the Trials and Tribulations of One Remarkable US Open
The Beginning In March 2023, I played in Southern California’s Superstates tournament, an annual scholastic tournament held to decide California’s…
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