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For the students who play in the Berkeley Friday Night Scholastic Tournaments, you can now view your results online! The results will be updated every Monday morning and will stay current right up until your next game the following Friday. You can find the result here. The cross-tables can also be found under Our Programs and then Friday Night Chess and then Berkeley Friday Night Tournament Results! For the Walnut Creek Friday Night Scholastic tournaments, you can either click here , or follow the same steps to the Berkeley Results, but follow the Walnut Creek Friday Night Tournament Results link! Orinda Advanced Tuesday will be live as soon as the tournament begins.

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Four US players, reigning US Champion Gata Kamsky, GM Alexander Onischuk, GM Alexander Ivanov and the Berkeley Chess School Alumni, GM Sam Shankland, remain in the World Cup in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia. Sam completed his upset over GM Peter Leko when the 2700+ GM offered him a draw in a worse position, clinching Sam's ticket to round two. More news to come of the Berkeley Chess School Alum. Everyone back home is rooting for you Sam!

Be sure to check out the recap for the August 13th Walnut Creek Quad! You can get to the recap by following this link. Inside you will find a slide show of the days event, the complete standings of the winners of each quad and the Best Game of the Day, played by Luke Campopiano, annotated by the Berkeley Chess School's own FIDE Master Robin Cunningham!

On Friday, August 5, 2011, Mayor Jean Quan launched year 4 of the Berkeley Chess School’s Outreach program by drawing the names of the Title 1 Oakland classrooms that will participate in the program during the 2011-2012 school year. The event was covered by The World Journal and three TV news networks, KTVU-Channel 2, KGO TV-Channel 7, and KRON-Channel 4. More on this story...