El Centro Chess Club : Teams

Club president Felipe Cruz and freshman chess Expert Robert Sanchez scoop together enough combined victories to bring home the Third Place Team award from the 2010 Southwest Collegiate Championships at the annual Texas Scholastic Chess Championship Tournament in Dallas, Texas, February 20-21, 2010. Click here for details.

Felipe Cruz, Bradley Renfro, and West Overstreet treks to exotic South Padre Island, Texas, December 27-30, 2009, to compete at the College Chess League's annual premier tournament, the 2009 Pan-American Intercollegiate Team Chess Championships. The trio represents ECC at the event featuring 28 teams from 19 different international colleges and universities, including Yale, Princeton, Stanford, and New York University. Click here for photos.

Club President Felipe Cruz and Treasurer Bradley Renfro competes in the College Chess League's 3rd Annual Duncan Oxley Memorial Online Tournament, playing one game each Sunday for five weeks, from October 18 to November 15, 2009. Cruz posts two wins, both against UT-Dallas players. Renfro earns one point in five rounds of play. In a field of 36 players from 22 colleges and universities nationwide, Cruz earns a respectable 21st place finish in his first national tournament.

Our team of L.B. Ramirez (captain), Penny Castillo, and Edwin Mariano places 26th of 29 teams at the
2008 Pan-American Intercollegiate Chess Championships in Fort Worth, Texas, December 27-30, 2008.
Not a bad finish for an infant college chess program less than a year old. Make no mistake . . . El Centro College has burst onto the college chess scene! (See details.)

El Centro Chess Club captures 5th Place Team at the 12th Annual Texas Collegiate Championships in Houston, Texas, November 22-23, 2008. (See details.)

We are a fledgling chess club. Front and center on our agenda is creating "a social atmosphere in which individual chess club members and visitors may enjoy a friendly game of chess and find appropriate, challenging opponents with whom to play inside and outside of the Club." That is, and always will be, our primary objective. But we still try to train and/or recruit student-players strong enough to be competitive in the Collegiate Chess arena.

The El Centro Chess Club is an official student organization of El Centro College located at the historic West End of downtown Dallas, Texas. Since beginning in the Spring 2008 semester, the Club already has several active players who meet at least weekly to find and challenge worthy opponents in the Royal Game.