Houston & Katy Tx Chess Tournaments

Upcoming Chess Tournaments in Houston and Katy TX

OCTOBER 25 — KATY KIDS MONTHLY RATED TOURNAMENT Location: HITTA, 923 S Mason Road, Katy For beginner and intermediate kids rated 1200 or below. Five rounds. US Chess membership required. Time: Doors open at 11 a.m.; tournament begins at noon. Entry: $25 Details: https://katyafterschoolchesscamp.com/ NOVEMBER 21 — HEALTHY GURUKUL KATY NOVEMBER CHAMPIONSHIP Location: Katy; see organizer for venue details. Time: 9 a.m. Details: https://www.healthygurukul.org/tournaments/katy-november-championship DECEMBER 3 — TCSAAL EAST TEXAS REGIONAL CHESS COMPETITION Location: Aristoi Classical Academy, 5610 Morton Road, Katy School-team competition with eligibility restrictions. Time: Check-in at 4:30 p.m.; play begins at 5 p.m. Registration deadline: November 13 Details: https://texascharter.org/academics-arts/chess/ HOUSTON TOURNAMENTS — OCTOBER 2026 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ OCTOBER 2–4 — POISON PAWNS OCTOBER CHAMPIONSHIP Location: Houston Chess Studio, 250 Patton Street, Suite H Three rating sections, including US Chess and FIDE-rated sections. Two-day and three-day schedules available. Details: https://www.kingregistration.com/event/OCT2026CHAMP OCTOBER 5–10 — 1ST AZERI CHESS ACADEMY OPEN Location: Houston Chess Studio Nine-round international tournament, listed for FIDE ratings of 2000+. Details: https://azerichessacademy.com/tournaments/ OCTOBER 6–27, TUESDAYS — OCTOBER TUESDAY NIGHT SWISS Poison Pawns monthly tournament series. Details: https://www.kingregistration.com/affiliate/poisonpawns OCTOBER 7 — KING OF THE HILL Location: Slowpokes, 1203 W 34th Street, Houston Unrated blitz tournament. Time: 7:30 p.m.; registration closes at 6:45 p.m. Entry: $10 Details: https://www.kingregistration.com/event/OCT7KOTH OCTOBER 10 — CHESS KIDZ ROCK NATIONAL CHESS DAY TOURNAMENT Location: Rice University Details: https://chess.jliptrap.us/schedule.htm OCTOBER 11 & OCTOBER 18 — POISON PAWNS SUNDAY SWISS Location: Houston Chess Studio Separate Sunday tournaments. Details: https://www.kingregistration.com/affiliate/poisonpawns OCTOBER 14 — WEDNESDAY NIGHT BLITZ Location: Slowpokes, 1203 W 34th Street, Houston Unrated blitz tournament. Time: 7:30 p.m.; registration closes at 6:45 p.m. Entry: $25 before applicable discounts Details: https://www.kingregistration.com/event/OCT14WEDBLITZ OCTOBER 16 — TEXAS FALL RAPID Location: Houston Marriott South at Hobby Airport Details: https://chess.jliptrap.us/schedule.htm OCTOBER 16–18 — TEXAS FALL FIDE PREMIER Location: Houston Marriott South, 9100 Gulf Freeway Two-day schedule also available. Details: https://dallaschess.com/2026TexasFestival/txpremierindex.htm OCTOBER 17 — TEXAS FALL SCHOLASTIC & BLITZ Location: Houston Marriott South at Hobby Airport Blitz is listed at 6 p.m. Details: https://chess.jliptrap.us/schedule.htm OCTOBER 17 — POISON PAWNS TROPHY SCHOLASTIC Location: Houston Chess Studio For K–12 players rated under 1300 or unrated. US Chess membership required. Time: 9 a.m. Entry: From $12 Details: https://www.kingregistration.com/event/OCT17TROPHYSCHOL OCTOBER 21 — KING OF THE HILL Location: Slowpokes, 1203 W 34th Street, Houston Unrated blitz tournament. Time: 7:30 p.m.; registration closes at 6:45 p.m. Entry: $10 Details: https://www.kingregistration.com/event/OCT21KOTH OCTOBER 23–25 — HEALTHY GURUKUL LONE STAR USCF & FIDE CHAMPIONSHIP Location: DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel & Suites Houston by the Galleria, 5353 Westheimer Road Sections: U800, U1400, U1800, and Championship Details: https://www.healthygurukul.org/tournaments/lone-star-fide-championship OCTOBER 24 — HOUSTON CHESS ACADEMY TOURNAMENT Location: 2450 Holcombe Boulevard, Houston Details: https://chess.jliptrap.us/schedule.htm OCTOBER 31 — POISON PAWNS ADULTS-ONLY SWISS See organizer for venue, schedule, and entry details. Details: https://www.kingregistration.com/affiliate/poisonpawns OCTOBER 31 — CHESS-O-WEEN BLITZ Location: Aviator Pizza, 7620 Katy Freeway, Suite 415, Houston Unrated tournament with Open and Kids sections. Time: 4 p.m. Entry: $19 Details: https://www.thechessrefinery.org/chess-o-ween.html HOUSTON TOURNAMENTS — NOVEMBER 2026 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ NOVEMBER 6–8 — POISON PAWNS NOVEMBER CHAMPIONSHIP Location: Houston Chess Studio, 250 Patton Street, Suite H Championship and U1900 sections. Two-day option available. Details: https://www.kingregistration.com/event/NOV2026CHAMP NOVEMBER 13–15 — HOUSTON OPEN Location: DoubleTree by Hilton near IAH, 15747 John F. Kennedy Boulevard, Houston Details: https://www.kingregistration.com/event/2026HO NOVEMBER 14 — HOUSTON OPEN SCHOLASTIC Location: DoubleTree by Hilton near IAH, 15747 John F. Kennedy Boulevard, Houston Details: https://www.kingregistration.com/event/2026HOS NOVEMBER 20–22 — TEXAS CHESS CENTER LONE STAR FIDE Location: Texas Chess Center, 4007 Bellaire Boulevard, Suite HH, Houston Sections: Championship, U1800, and US Chess-only U1400 Details: https://www.texaschesscenter.com/store/p/lone-star-fide NOVEMBER 27 — BELLAIRE FALL SCHOLASTIC Location: Texas Chess Center, 4007 Bellaire Boulevard, Suite HH, Houston K–12 tournament. Time: 9:30 a.m. Entry: $38–$58, depending on registration date Details: https://www.texaschesscenter.com/store/p/bellaire-fall-scholastic HOUSTON TOURNAMENTS — DECEMBER 2026 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ DECEMBER 5 — MANDARIN IMMERSION MAGNET SCHOOL SCHOLASTIC Location: 5445 W Alabama Street, Houston Time: Approximately 9 a.m. Entry: $32.50 Details: https://www.kingregistration.com/event/MIMS26 DECEMBER 11–13 — NATIONAL PRIVATE/PAROCHIAL SCHOOL CHAMPIONSHIP Location: River Oaks Baptist School Calendar listing; confirm eligibility and registration details. Details: https://chess.jliptrap.us/schedule.htm DECEMBER 12 — RICE UNIVERSITY CHESS CLUB EVENT Date listed on the local calendar. Format and entry details are pending. Details: https://chess.jliptrap.us/schedule.htm DECEMBER 21 — BELLAIRE WINTER SCHOLASTIC Location: Texas Chess Center, 4007 Bellaire Boulevard, Suite HH, Houston K–12 tournament. Time: 9:30 a.m. Entry: $38–$58, depending on registration date Details: https://www.texaschesscenter.com/store/p/bellaire-winter-scholastic RECURRING HOUSTON TOURNAMENTS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ SUNDAYS — BELLAIRE SWISS Location: Texas Chess Center, 4007 Bellaire Boulevard, Suite HH Time: 2–7 p.m. Four rounds. Open and U900 sections. Entry: $30 Check available dates before attending. Details: https://www.texaschesscenter.com/store/p/bellaire-swiss SATURDAYS — PANDA CHESS Location: 9900 Westpark Drive, Suite 252 Listed at 2 p.m. Confirm the current schedule. Details: https://chess.jliptrap.us/schedule.htm SUNDAYS — DARK KNIGHTS CHESS Location: Temple Sinai in the Energy Corridor Alternate-Sunday events are also listed at Game Guys in Almeda Mall. Contact the organizer to confirm dates and locations. Details: https://chess.jliptrap.us/schedule.htm NEARBY COMMUNITY TOURNAMENTS — 2026 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • October 3 — Sugar Land Open Sugar Land. Free entry; unrated. • October 10 — National Chess Day Scholastic Strack Intermediate School, Spring. Adults may enter the advanced section. Details: https://chess.jliptrap.us/hca26str1.htm • October 24 — Sunbridge Learning Scholastic Sugar Land. • November 7 — Hyde Elementary Scholastic League City. • November 7 — Missouri City Open Missouri City. Free entry; unrated. Calendar and details: https://chess.jliptrap.us/schedule.htm ANNOUNCED TOURNAMENTS — 2027 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ FEBRUARY 20 — TEXAS ACTION CHAMPIONSHIP Location: Houston Chess Studio Sections: Open, U1600, and U800 Details: https://www.kingregistration.com/event/ACTION2027CHAMP MARCH 20–21 — TEXAS SENIOR CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP Location: Houston Chess Studio Age 50+ eligibility applies. See organizer’s qualification rules. Details: https://www.kingregistration.com/event/2027TEXASSENIORCHAMP APRIL 24 — TEXAS QUICK CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP Location: Houston Chess Studio Details: https://www.kingregistration.com/event/2027QuikChessChamp