The U.S. Chess Center is pleased to offer a new season of the Potomac Youth Chess League (PYCL), the middle school chess league we ran from 1997 through 2010 and from 2023 until the present. The league is open to all interested middle schools in the Washington Metropolitan Area.
The 2025-2026 season will kick off in in Fall 2025 and run for six (or more) rounds. Matches will be played Saturday afternoons at 4:30 pm ET on lichess.org. Teams consist of four players, not necessarily the same four each match, all registered students in their schools in grades 5-8.
Register your school to compete in the Potomac Youth Chess League at: https://chessctr.org/play/pycl-school
Four players from each school and their coach/sponsor will meet online on the following Saturdays at 4:30 pm ET.
Round 1: Saturday, TBD
Round 2: Saturday, TBD
Round 3: Saturday, TBD
Round 4: Saturday, TBD
Round 5: Saturday, TBD
Round 6: Saturday, TBD
Playoffs: Saturday, TBD with top 4 teams
Teams that have registered to participate in the 2025-2026 season of the Potomac Youth Chess League are listed above.