Blitz Chess Events - Chess Tournaments and Events around the U.S. Southwest

Blitz Chess Events

Fast chess, also known as blitz or speed chess, is a type of chess in which each player is given less time to consider their moves than classical chess time controls allow. Fast chess is subdivided, by decreasing time controls, into rapid chess, blitz chess, and bullet chess.

November 2025

11/13

Chess Knight Blitz

11/29

Arizona Thanksgiving Blitz

Rising Star Chess

11/29

American Open (Blitz)

Garden Grove, CA

11/29

Phoenix Saturday Blitz

Phoenix Chess Academy

December 2025

12/2

SMBCC ROUND ROBIN BLITZ

Santa Monica Bay Chess Club

West Los Angeles, CA

12/9

SMBCC ROUND ROBIN BLITZ

Santa Monica Bay Chess Club

West Los Angeles, CA

12/11

Chess Knight Blitz

12/13

Prescott Blitz #23

Prescott Chess Club

12/27

Phoenix Saturday Blitz

Phoenix Chess Academy

January 2026

1/1

Annual Blitz Championship

Phoenix Chess Academy

Link to Chess takes you through more than 5,000 unique instructional situations, many taken from actual matches, including 306 problems for checkmate in one move, 3,412 mates in two moves, 744 mates in three moves, 144 simple endgames, and 128 tournament game combinations.

Chess: 5334 Problems, Combinations and Games

1/8

Chess Knight Blitz

February 2026

2/12

Chess Knight Blitz

2/13

2026 Colorado State Scholastic Blitz Chess Championship

Colorado State Chess Association

Highlands Ranch, CO

State Championship

2/28

ASU Spring 2026 Rapid and Blitz

Arizona State University Chess Club

March 2026

3/12

Chess Knight Blitz

April 2026

4/9

Chess Knight Blitz

May 2026

5/14

Chess Knight Blitz

June 2026

6/11

Chess Knight Blitz

July 2026

7/9

Chess Knight Blitz

August 2026

8/13

Chess Knight Blitz

September 2026

9/10

Chess Knight Blitz

October 2026

10/8

Chess Knight Blitz

Link to Carlsen and Howell show how you can keep a game alive, how you can keep posing problems to your opponent, how you can recognize the first small mistakes, and how you can grind your opponent down until he cracks.

Grind Like a Grandmaster

November 2026

11/12

Chess Knight Blitz

December 2026

12/10

Chess Knight Blitz

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