Come join us for a fun half-day of chess on Monday, November 12th! We will be hosting the tournament at the beautiful MIT Stata Center.

Join us for our fifth tournament, hosted at MIT on Sunday, May 6th! We will be hosting the tournament at the beautiful MIT Stata Center.

Congratulations to our team “Massachusetts Institute of Tactics” for placing 4th of 325 teams at the US Amateur Team East this weekend! The team finished 5/6, losing only the final match to a team with multiple titled players. All the team members had truly fantastic individual performances in a very difficult field (including 11 grandmasters!):

October Swiss

Join us for our fourth tournament, hosted at MIT on Sunday, April 2nd! We will again be hosting the tournament at the beautiful MIT Media Lab.

Join us for our third tournament, hosted at MIT on Sunday, December 11! Note the beautiful new location at MIT’s Media Lab.

Join us for our second tournament, hosted at MIT on Sunday, November 13! Note the beautiful new location at MIT’s Media Lab.

24 players joined us for a night of quads this past week. And a unicycle.

Last week, we visited the Northeastern Chess Club at their weekly meeting in the Curry Student Center.

Harold Dondis, a pinnacle of Massachusetts chess, passed away last year at the age of 93. Besides his incredible contributions as president of MACA, longtime Boston Globe columnist, and founder of the US Chess Trust, Mr. Dondis experienced considerable success over the chessboard himself, including a victory over a then-young GM named Bobby Fischer.