The 3rd Annual ChessKid USA Girls Championship Returns on May 6th!

ChessKid is excited to bring back the 3rd Annual ChessKid USA Girls Championship! The tournament will take place on May 6th, 2023 at 9 a.m. PT/12 p.m. ET and is open to all scholastic female chess players in the USA. The event will feature three scholastic sections: K-3; 4th-5th; and 6th-12th grade sections. Click here to register today!

TOURNAMENT DETAILS

When: Saturday, May 6th at 9 a.m. PT/12 p.m. ET

Entry Fee: $20 early entry by April 25th; $25 by May 2nd. No entries will be accepted after May 2nd. Note: in order to play in the warm-up event, you MUST register by the early deadline of April 25th. ALL scholastic players will receive three months of free ChessKid gold membership.

Sections: This tournament will feature a K-3, 4th-5th, and a 6th-12th section. Note, you are not allowed to "play up" into a higher grade. You must play in the section of the grade that you currently in.

Format: For the K-3 and 4th-5th sections, players will play six rounds of games with a 10+5 second increment time control. For the 6th-12th section, players will play six rounds of games with a 15+5 time control.

***Please note that this tournament is only open to girls who are playing from inside the USA or one of its territories.***

REGISTRATION INFORMATION

Registration for this event can be found here: Registration

The early registration fee will be $20 if received on or before April 25th by 11:59pm ET time.
Registration from April 26th-May 2nd will be $25. There will be no registrations accepted after 11:59pm ET on May 2nd.
Players will need to submit their ChessKid username with their registration to participate. Please make sure to double check the spelling of your username when submitting your registration.
Everyone who registers by the early registration date of April 26th will receive their username by Friday, April 28th and will be able to participate in a warm-up event on May 1st.
Everyone who registers after April 26th will receive their username in time to play in the main event on Saturday, May 6th.

Check out last year's event here!

PRIZES

The top players in each section will be invited to participate in a live stream with a famous female chess streamer as well as receive a $100 gift card to the ChessKid Shop. Players who finish 2nd-5th will receive a $25 gift card to the ChessKid Shop. Players who finish in the top 10 will receive a year of ChessKid Gold. All players who participate will receive three months of free ChessKid Gold membership.

FAIR PLAY

ChessKid expects that all children and their families will abide by the rules governing fair play. Both the child and the parent/guardian will have to agree to our fair play policies when registering for the event.

This is what will be agreed to upon registering for the event:

ChessKid will run this event with the highest level of integrity and ethics. All players must play fairly and use good sportsmanship.
We strictly forbid cheating of all kinds. ChessKid will use its own algorithms to monitor games and will also manually analyze select games at its discretion.
All of your moves must be your own. You will not get help from anyone or anything else, including coaches, friends, parents, chess engines, or any other software of any kind.
You will also not have a phone, tablet, or any other electronic device in the same room.
You are only allowed to have one browser tab open and no other programs running on your computer. Violating this rule is a “technical forfeiture” and you will be disqualified, with no chance at prizes.
You agree that ChessKid will make the final determination on any fair play issue.
If you violate the ChessKid Fair Play Policy, then ChessKid will close your account and label it as having violated the Fair Play Policy.
If you are not willing to agree to the above policies, you will not be allowed to play in the event.

TECHNICAL DETAILS

All games will be played on ChessKid.com's live server. No account is needed and if you already have an account, you won't need that either. Special one-time use tournament accounts will be created for all players.
Each section will be open for kids to 'join' the tournament about 30 minutes before the first round. Here's a video on how a child joins a live tournament on ChessKid. If you try to join after the starting time, you may not be able to play. It is required that you 'join' before the tournament starting time.
ChessKid highly encourages playing on a laptop/desktop computer and not a tablet. Wifi is usually stronger and the site functions better. If you can plug in to an ethernet port, that is best. The reality of online play, even with the world champion, is that Wifi failures can impact an online tournament.
If you must play on a tablet, the web site version is the only way (opening a browser on your device). The app will not work for this.
Preferred browsers are Chrome, Firefox, or Safari.
Clearing your browser's cache before the tournament is another great protective measure.
If you experience issues in the middle of the game or the tournament, clicking 'refresh' on your browser is the first thing to do. If you 'refresh' in the middle of a game, it will never kick you out of the game and can only help.
Two kids cannot play at the same time on the same device.
If a family has any issues with logging in, playing, etc, there will be a live help desk on Slack that will open one hour before the first round.