Thank you to all the students and parents who made the tournament possible We had a really nice turnout and things seemed to go pretty smoothly. Please let me know (Matt Markland, mwmarkland@gmail.com) if you have any questions or comments.

Our next Scholastic tournament will be in April, 2025. February has the RASCL (Rochester Area Scholastic Chess League) City Cup tournament and March is the MN State Scholastic Tournament. There will continue to be opportunities to play on Tuesday nights at regular Rochester Chess events.

The tournament has been rated by USCF: https://www.uschess.org/msa/XtblMain.php?202501110832-30755720.

Here are the final results of the 2024 Nutcracker Swiss. It has been submitted for USCF rating.

Note that the standings are sort of funky given the work I had to do to accommodate byes and players not showing up at times. I appreciate everyone coming out to play and absolutely understand sickness and other things happen; I tried to be as lenient as I could. 🙂

Thanks for coming out and supporting Rochester Chess!

The final round of the Nutcracker Swiss will be held on 1/7/2025. Please let Matt Markland know if you won’t be able to make it either via e-mail: mwmarkland@gmail.com, or text at 507-398-8269.

Note in the pairings that we have an unpaired player in each section. I will, with their permission, pair them in an extra rated game.

Here are the current standings:

And the final round pairings as they stand right now: