Sunday, March 10, 2024

 Grade Level Championships - UWM 

Our Muskego club brought 6 players to UWM this weekend to participate in the annual Grade Level Championships, run by Wisconsin Scholastic Chess.  It was a great event with 375 players present!


Our players did great, and we took home a few trophies as well!


Grade 5

  • Ashton played in his first tournament this year and took 3 out of 5, just missing out on the trophies!
Grade 7
  • Austin took 3 out of 5, also just missing out on the trophies.  Mason won 4 out of 5 and took home the 3rd place trophy!
Grade 8
  • Anthony also took 4 out of 5 and a 3rd place trophy!
High School
  • Josh took 2.5 out of 5 in only his second tournament this year.  Luke took 3.5 out of 5 and a 10th place trophy!

Everyone did a great job representing our club, showing good sportsman ship and playing solid games along w/ notation.






Next up, and likely the last of the chess year - State Scholastic Championship at UW Oshkosh campus - March 23rd - one day only this year!

Remember - no class this week, March 13


Sunday, January 28, 2024

 Brookfield East Spartan Open

We brought 4 players to Brookfield East yesterday in a well run tournament by the IAC, with about 100 players in attendance.


K12 rated 

  • Luke was our only player in this section - he played very well, taking 3 out of 4 and finished in 3rd place!
K8 rated 
  • Shout-out to Carter, Mason and Austin - all of them stepping up and playing in their first rated tournament which is not easy to do!
  • Carter had a solid win.  Austin took 3 out of 5, and Mason took 3.5 out of 5, just missing out on a trophy.
Great job to all for playing & representing our club well!





Monday, January 22, 2024

 Midwest Regional Championships 

...were held at UW Milwaukee campus on Saturday.  This is a new event that was run by both the IAC and WSCF, thus having both WSCF sections and USCF rated sections.  This tournament brought in close to 200 players and should only get bigger in the coming years.

The MSCC brought 5 players to the event and our teams did VERY well, bringing home many trophies.

Our 5 players were in 3 different sections, as you'll see below, and we took 1st place in every one of those sections!  I don't recall having done that before, so this turned out to be a very nice event for our club!

WSCF U900

  • In this section we had Mason and Austin.  Austin took 3.5 out of 5 and finished in 9th place.  Mason went 5 for 5 and took the first place trophy!
USCF U800
  • Anthony and Grant played in this section.  Grant had two points, and Anthony took 4.5 out of 5 and took the first place trophy!  In addition, the team of Anthony & Grant took the 2nd place trophy!
USCF U1200
  • Quinn was our only player in this section and he took 4 out of 5 and also took the first place trophy!

Great job to everybody!!





Saturday, December 2, 2023


 Muskego Melee !

Today we hosted our very own tournament, run by the IAC, at Lake Denoon Middle School.  We had a great turnout of 71 players and our own club brought 25 players across 4 sections. 

This was also our biggest annual fundraiser and couldn't have been done without so many great volunteers & donations, including: 

- Lake Denoon, for allowing us to have the event 
- Generous donations from Kreusers, Rivas, and all who brought bake sale items 
- Wonderful parents who ran the concessions, helped in the team room, and helped w/ set up and clean up

And now the results!

K4 rated 
  • Dawson was our only player in this section and had a couple of nice wins and took 9th!

K8 rated 
  • Anthony had 3 wins and took 5th place!
  • Our Lake Denoon team of Sawyer, Hunter, Logan and Gideon took the first place team trophy!

K8 non rated 
  • Grant lead the way with 4-1/2 out of 5 wins and took 3rd place, also earning his red wrist band!
  • Mason had his second great tournament in a row and took 5th place, winning 4 out of 5
  • Matteo had a great day with 4 out of 5, took 8th place and also earned his red wrist band!
  • The team of Matteo, Mia, Ari, Harper, Reid, Mason, Dean and Austin (Whew, big team!) took home the first place team trophy!
  • Luca, Erik, Brandon, Brayden, Carter and Evelyn also played some great games today.

K12 rated 

  • Quinn lead the way with a great tournament of 4 of 4 wins and took first place!  He also took 2nd place team all on his own.
  • Our MHS team of Luke, Josh and Steve took the first place team trophy!  Luke took 3rd place individual, Josh took 4th and Steve (first tournament!) took 5th.









Tuesday, November 21, 2023

Sunday, November 19, 2023

 USM Fall Annual    

Our Muskego chess club visited USM Saturday for a tournament run by the IAC, with over 80 players in attendance.  We had a great time and some really good chess was played by our team - everyone had at least 2 wins!


K8 rated 

  • Sawyer was our only player in this section.  He took 3 out of 5 and finished 9th, just missing out on the trophies.
K8 non rated 
  • Evelyn took 2 out of 5 games and her last win clinched the team trophy!  If there was a prize for long, patient, playing, she would win - in 3 of her matches she was the last one playing!
  • Mason took 4 out 5 games, earning his RED wrist band and finishing in 4th place!
  • Austin also took 4 out of 5, earning his RED wrist band and finishing in 3rd place!  Amazingly this was Austin's first official tournament with our club!
  • The team of Austin, Mason and Evelyn took home the first place team trophy!
K12 rated 
  • Luke took 2 out of 4 games, a very solid day
  • Quinn took 3-1/2 out of 4 games, drawing to a 1900 rated player in the final round, and took the 2nd place trophy!
All in all, a great day for our club!




Sunday, October 29, 2023

 Brookfield East / IAC 


On Saturday the IAC ran a tournament at Brookfield East, the first in-person event of the chess year!

It's still early in the year, but our Muskego club had 5 attend.


K8 non rated 

  • Mason took 3 points for a 9th place finish!  And Carter, in his first tournament (!) took 2 points - pretty great for the first time!

K12 rated 

  • Always tough competition in this division -  Anthony (Playing up to join the team!) took 1.5, Luke took 3 points for a 7th place finish and Quinn took 3 points for a 6th place finish!  Together they took the 2nd place team trophy!
Great job to all!