Events

Upcoming Events

September 2025 to August 2026 – Online ChessKid tournaments

To give children from the clubs we support the opportunity to play children from other NC schools, we will hold regular online tournaments on ChessKid. Here are the upcoming ones:

December 27 9:00 am, 10:00 am, and 4:00 pm
January 3 9:00 am, 10:00 am, and 4:00 pm
January 10 9:00 am, 10:00 am, and 4:00 pm

We will use Game/5;+5 time controls and will have Open and Under sections. More detailed information is on our Facebook page and our ChessKid club page.

Please see our “Playing in a ChessKid Fast Chess Tournament” article for instructions and troubleshooting tips for playing in these online events.

Winners will be announced on facebook.com/IndermaurChessFoundation and on instagram.com/indermaurchessfoundation, and your students can view the full tournament results and analyze any of the games on chesskid.com/clubs/tournaments/indermaur-chess-foundation/fast. Here are the events we have held so far:

September – 4 tournaments, 20 students
October – 4 tournaments, 18 students
November – 6 tournaments, 66 students
December – 3 tournaments, 56 students

Past Events

October 28, 2025 – Aditya Dias Memorial Tournament

Together with the Dias family and ChessStream, we held our third, annual online tournament in memory of Aditya Dias and to honor his love and passion for chess. Participants also contributed to Aditya’s Memorial Fund to promote awareness of the benefits of chess and to help start chess clubs in schools, libraries and community centers, especially those with financial constraints.

September 2023 to July 2024 – Online ChessKid tournaments

To give children from the clubs we support the opportunity to play children from other NC schools, we held weekly online tournaments on ChessKid plus some additional ones on teacher work days and school holidays. Here is a summary:

September – 7 tournaments, 60 students
October – 12 tournaments, 91 students
November – 17 tournaments, 105 students
December – 9 tournaments, 44 students
January – 13 tournaments, 94 students
February – 20 tournaments, 164 students
March – 5 tournaments, 32 students
April – 2 tournaments, 11 students
May – 6 tournaments, 74 students
June – 5 tournaments, 33 students
July – 3 tournaments, 13 students

June 22-27, 2025 – Castle Chess Camp

Through our Aditya Nicholas Dias Memorial Fund, we sponsored Castle Chess Camp in Atlanta. 120 campers from 22 states plus Canada, Mexico, and Puerto Rico participated in this year’s camp. Through this sponsorship, we look forward to enabling more students to enjoy the Castle Camp experience – especially those with limited financial resources.

March 22, 2025 – NC Girls Chess Championship

We sponsored the 2025 NC Girls Chess Championship which was held March 22 at Ravenscroft School in Raleigh. We offered all 67 girls who participated ChessKid Gold subscriptions.

March 1-2, 2025 – NC K-12 Chess Championship

We rented a large team room in the Raleigh Convention Center, so the schools we support could have a comfortable space to review their games, rest between rounds, and enjoy snacks and a shared lunch.

To encourage more students to improve their chess skills, we were also pleased to provide 70 ChessKid Gold subscriptions – for the top 10 finishers and all individual trophy winners in the K-1, K-2U, K-3U, K-4U, and K-5U sections. If any of these students do not already have a chess club at their school, we would be glad to help their families start one!

October 22 and 29, 2024 – Aditya Dias Memorial Tournament

Together with the Dias family and ChessStream, we held our second, annual online tournament in memory of Aditya Dias and to honor his love and passion for chess. Participants also contributed to Aditya’s Memorial Fund to promote awareness of the benefits of chess and to help start chess clubs in schools, libraries and community centers, especially those with financial constraints.

August 17, 2024 – Chess Moms and Grandmothers tournament

Thank you to Kings and Queens Chess Academy for helping us to host the next tournament in our Chess Moms and Grandmothers series at their facility in Cary. One daughter exclaimed, “Super proud of my mom for winning her first chess tournament! From driving me to my games to now having me drive her—it’s been a full-circle moment. Watching her tackle pre-round nerves and prepare for matches has been incredible.”

September 2023 to July 2024 – Online ChessKid tournaments

September: 14 tournaments, 104 students
October: 15 tournaments, 134 students
November: 15 tournaments, 115 students
December: 10 tournaments, 76 students
January: 4 tournaments, 28 students
March: 1 tournament, 5 students
April: 2 tournaments, 10 students
May: 1 tournament, 10 students
June: 2 tournaments, 8 students
July: 1 tournament, 6 students

April 29, 2024 – Chess Moms and Grandmothers Event

Congratulations to the eleven moms and two grandmothers who participated in our Chess Moms event! Two of the top female players in the state first taught them a lesson, and then they bravely played a 2-round tournament. Eighteen of their children competed for trophies in their own sections, plus two dads and two grandfathers joined in the fun to make it a complete family affair!

March 18 to April 15, 2024 – Middle School Grade Championship

We helped one of our middle school clubs hold a rated Grade Championship.

March 16, 2024 – NC Girls Chess Championship

We helped sponsor the 2024 NC Girls Chess Championship. Fifty-one girls, including nine from schools we support, competed in this fun event at Ravenscroft School in Raleigh.

November 20, 2023 – US Chess-rated tournament

19 students played in our Legends of Ligon XXXVI after-school, rated tournament at Ligon Middle School in Raleigh.

October 10 and 17, 2023 – Online Memorial Tournaments

We held two tournaments in memory of Aditya Nicholas Dias to honor his love and passion for chess and to raise funds to help schools, libraries, and community centers, especially those with financial constraints, start chess clubs. Despite the many benefits of chess and its low cost, very few schools offer chess in their curriculum or as a club. This was one of the challenges Aditya’s parents faced when he was growing up.

October 4, 2023 – IBM Employee Giving & Volunteerism Campaign Kickoff

Many IBM employees visited our booth to learn about casual play and tournament opportunities for their children and themselves. Several offered to help start school chess clubs or to volunteer at existing clubs! We shared photos on our Facebook and LinkedIn pages.

June to August 2023 – Online ChessKid tournaments

To give children from the clubs we support the opportunity to play children from other NC schools, we held summer online tournaments on ChessKid:

June: 8 tournaments, 55 students
July: 3 tournaments, 20 students
August: 2 tournaments, 10 students

July 12, 2023 – US Chess-rated tournament

20 students from 8 schools played in our Legends of Ligon XXXV tournament at Ligon Middle School in Raleigh. Students, alumni, and parents of the schools we support played for free in these tournaments.

June 21, 2023 – US Chess-rated tournament

28 students from 9 schools played in our Legends of Ligon XXXIV tournament. Four parents also played unrated games. One of the students was from a part of South Carolina where there are few chess clubs or tournaments, so his family may start a club there with help from our nonprofit’s Game Changer program.

September 2022 to May 2023 – Online ChessKid tournaments

September – 3 tournaments, 42 students
October – 7 tournaments, 93 students
November – 12 tournaments, 156 students
December – 7 tournaments, 81 students
January – 13 tournaments, 134 students
February – 7 tournaments, 78 students
March – 10 tournaments, 88 students
April – 9 tournaments, 69 students
May – 13 tournaments, 111 students

March 18, 2023 – NC Girls Championship

We were excited to sponsor the 2023 NC Girls Chess Championship which was held at Ravenscroft School in Raleigh! Nineteen girls from schools we support competed and won 4 team and 2 individual awards. A total of sixty-eight girls and 3 women played in the main event, 17 played in a simultaneous exhibition given by WCM Arya Kumar, and 3 more students played in the side section. Please see the NC Chess Association Facebook page for photos of this fun event.

We helped promote the event and volunteered during the tournament. We also provided ChessKid Gold subscriptions to the top 10 winners and those who tied for the top 10 in the Under 300 and Under 800 sections – a total of 25 Gold subscriptions.

To give girls more opportunities to play chess, we collected contact information from parents whose daughters would be interested in a participating in a Triangle area girls chess club.

March 4, 2023 – SC K-12 Championship

We were pleased to support the South Carolina K-12 Championship through our Aditya Nicholas Dias Memorial Fund. Aditya learned to play chess in SC, and he and his sister played regularly at the Greenville Chess Club and in tournaments throughout the state. Aditya was proud to represent SC in the Barber National Tournament of Middle School Champions, so we helped to fund the stipends for South Carolina’s K-12, K-8, K-5, and Girls Champions to travel to the 2023 Denker, Barber, Rockefeller, and Haring National Tournaments.

The South Carolina Chess Association kindly opened the Championship with a remembrance of young, cheerful Aditya and offered thoughts and prayers to his family, Augustinho, Nisha, and Neha.

February 10-11, 2023 – NC K-12 Championship

We were excited to help sponsor the 2023 NC K-12 Championship! Seventy-four students from schools we support competed and won 9 team trophies. Two teams won 1st place and are state champions! Many students from our schools won individual awards including a student from one of our new Title I schools who won top female in K-1. One of our coaches, Mark Indermaur, was named 2023 NC Chess Coach of the Year.

Our Aditya Nicholas Dias Memorial Fund helped to fund the stipends for the K-12, K-8, and K-5 Champions to travel to the 2023 Denker, Barber, and Rockefeller National Tournaments. We also provided ChessKid.com Gold subscriptions to the top 5 winners and the top 3 females in all five elementary school sections (K-1, K-2, K-3, K-4, and K-5) – a total of 40 Gold subscriptions. Finally, we provided scholarships so more students could participate and reserved a team room where schools we support could relax between rounds. Please see the NC Youth Chess Facebook group for photos of this fun, two-day event.

January 15, 2023 – Triangle Championship

Ninety-six students from schools we support competed in the 2023 Triangle Championship. We provided scholarships so more students could participate and organized a team area where we relaxed between rounds, reviewed games, shared snacks, and enjoyed a team lunch. Our schools won 10 team trophies, and their students won many individual awards.

December 21, 2022 – Early Release Day USCF-rated tournament

We held a USCF-rated tournament on the afternoon of an early release day and invited students from three of the school clubs we support. This was the first chess tournament that most of these children had ever played in. A total of 79 students played 164 rated games!

October 9, 2022 – Jeff Jones Memorial Tournament

In memory of our friend Jeff Jones, we ran the 2022 Jeff Jones Memorial tournament with Chess.Stream. Jeff was a long-time coach, organizer, and supporter of chess in NC, so the weekend of National Chess Day was the perfect time to remember and honor him. Several of Jeff’s students and friends played in the event, and one of his students who is now a National Master won first place. Since the event was online, even Jeff’s friends who moved could still participate, and one played from California. We asked for donations instead of an entry fee and donated the proceeds to the Heart Failure Society of America in memory of Jeff.

Summer 2022 – Monthly Online ChessKid tournaments

We ran monthly online tournaments for the kids who have ChessKid accounts through the clubs we support.

October 2021 to May 2022 – USCF-rated tournaments

We ran 28 USCF-rated tournaments during chess club meetings and on a teacher workday, so children from clubs we support could continue to earn US Chess Federation regular, quick, and blitz ratings.

October 2021 to April 2022 – Online ChessKid tournaments on Saturdays, School Holidays, Teacher Workdays, and Snow Days

To give children from the clubs we support the opportunity to play each other during the school year, we held online tournaments on ChessKid on Saturdays, school holidays, teacher workdays, and snow days:

October – 1 tournament, 24 students
November – 8 tournaments, 258 students
December – 5 tournaments, 154 students
January – 8 tournaments, 353 students
February – 10 tournaments, 194 students
March – 8 tournaments, 131 students
April – 6 tournaments, 87 students

June 16 – August 18, 2021 – Monthly Online ChessKid tournaments

We ran monthly online tournaments for the kids who have ChessKid accounts through the clubs we support.

June 5, 2021 – KCSSU Summer to Learn Kickoff

The Kemetic Cultural Science and System of Unity, a NC non-profit, organized this event in Raleigh to recognize retired African American educators and to launch a series of educational programs in local community centers. US Chess helped sponsor the event and invited us to participate in their booth. We enjoyed promoting chess and met with many parents and educators interested in starting local chess clubs.

May 1-2, 2021 – NC Girls Chess Championship

We sponsored and promoted the 2021 NC Girls Chess Championship to continue to give North Carolina girls an opportunity to play in this event and compete for the chance to represent our state in the Ruth Haring National Tournament of Girls State Champions. Twenty-nine girls from across North Carolina participated in this online event which was organized by Chess2All and Kings and Queens Chess Academy.

February 10 – May 19, 2021 – Online USCF-rated tournaments

We ran 21 rated tournaments so children from clubs we support could earn US Chess Federation “Online Quick” and “Online Blitz” ratings.

January 1, 2021 – Jeff Jones Memorial tournament

In memory of our friend Jeff Jones, who was a long-time scholastic coach and organizer in NC, we held the 2021 Ticks tournament with Chess.Stream. We adjusted the time controls for the online world from 2021 seconds or ~G/34 to G/17+2. We also included a special prize for players who won playing the Dutch Defense, as that was one of Jeff’s favorite openings. We donated all the funds raised after prizes to the Heart Failure Society of America in memory of Jeff.

December 23 and 30, 2020 online chess tournaments

We ran four online tournaments for the kids who have ChessKid accounts through the clubs we support.

December 13, 2020 – Chess Moms and Teachers Play online event

Building on the success of last year’s Chess Moms tournament, we held this special event to encourage more women and girls to play chess, thanks to a US Chess Women’s Program Online Grant, funded by a generous gift in partnership with the Saint Louis Chess Club. Woman Grandmaster and 2017 US Women’s Champion Sabina Foişor reviewed the players’ games.

June 1 – August 21, 2020 – Daily Online Chess Tournaments

We ran three online tournaments every weekday for the over 1,000 kids who have ChessKid accounts through the clubs we support. Every weekday at 9:00 am, students could choose between an Under 1000 event (for children with Fast Chess ratings under 1000) and an Open event. Then at 4:00 pm, they could play in another Open event.

May 23, 2020 – NC Girls Online Chess Tournament

We sponsored the NC Girls Online Chess Tournament to provide a new opportunity for girls and women from across NC to play together. 24 girls and 4 women played 4 rounds of online rated games with the top four from each section winning group lessons with Chess Kings and Queens Academy.

April 25 and May 9, 2020 – Online Rated Blitz Tournaments

We helped promote and run the ChessStream “I Know You” online tournaments so our local chess community could get together virtually. 57 NC students and adults played in the first tournament, and 32 played in the second. They played six rounds of blitz games with the top four players in each group winning group lessons with local masters. The games were rated (www.uschess.org/msa/XtblMain.php?202004250702.0 and www.uschess.org/msa/XtblMain.php?202005092382.0) using US Chess online ratings.

March 16 – April 24, 2020 – Online Chess Tournaments

We ran regular online tournaments on ChessKid.com to enable students to keep playing with their friends and to support our chess clubs while NC schools are closed. We experimented with the schedule and format and found that weekday tournaments with morning and afternoon options were more popular. In the first six weeks since NC schools closed, 280 students have played 8,490 Fast Chess games in 108 tournaments. They have also done 596 lessons and 12,438 puzzles on ChessKid.

March 7-8, 2020 – NC K-12 Chess Championship

The NC K-12 Championship is our state’s largest tournament every year. 59 students from ten of the schools that we support through our Game Changer Program played in this year’s event which was hosted by Triangle Chess in Raleigh. We reserved a large team room to give our students and their parents a comfortable room where they could relax and re-charge between rounds.

February 17, 2020 – Game Changer Tournament

To give students a chance to practice before the NC Championship, we held a Game Changer tournament on President’s Day at the Triangle Chess Center. 33 students and 3 parents played in this Monday morning tournament while supporting our Game Changer Program to help NC schools and libraries start chess clubs.

January 18 – 29, 2020 – Online Chess Tournaments

We held Fast Chess tournaments on ChessKid.com on the day before the Triangle Championship, Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, and a teacher workday to give students more opportunities to keep practicing chess. They played a mix of 3 and 5 round tournaments.

December 21, 2019 to January 4, 2020 – Online Chess Tournaments

We held 5 Fast Chess tournaments on ChessKid.com during winter break to give students in the clubs we are supporting opportunities to keep practicing chess. Students from 6 different schools got to play opponents from across NC in a mix of 3 and 4 round tournaments. They can review their games later as they are all saved in their Game History in ChessKid.

January 3, 2020 – Game Changer Tournament and Workshop

41 students and 1 parent from 19 different schools played in our Friday morning Game Changer tournament! Families came from across the Triangle and from as far away as Alamance and Guilford counties, and proceeds from this event helped support our Game Changer Prog ram. After the tournament, parents and a teacher from 3 schools participated in our workshop on starting school chess clubs.

November 27, 2019 – Online Chess Tournaments

Since most of the schools in our Game Changer program were closed or released early on this day, we scheduled our first “virtual” events – two Fast Chess tournaments on ChessKid.com. Students from 3 different schools played in the 4-round tournament at 9 am and the 5-round tournament at 3 pm.

November 11, 2019 – Game Changer Tournament

34 students and 3 parents had fun playing in our Game Changer tournament on Veterans Day at the Triangle Chess Center while Wake, Durham, and Orange County schools were out. They each got to play 3 or more rated games, and proceeds from this event supported our Game Changer Program helping NC schools start chess clubs.

October 9, 2019 – Chess Moms Play Chess, Too

We helped the Hunter Elementary School Chess Club in Raleigh hold a fun Chess Moms Play Chess, Too event.

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