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Potomac Youth Chess League

2026 Potomac Youth Chess League Results and Standings

The 2026 Potomac Youth Chess League, the ongoing competition open to all middle schools in the greater Washington D.C. area, got started with Round 1 on Saturday, January 24.  
 
The League continues to grow with 18 middle schools registering to participate this year.  In addition to more than a dozen schools within the D.C. city limits, we also have schools from Potomac, MD, Beltsville, MD, Glenn Dale, MD and McLean, VA taking part.  
 
Games are played online at lichess.com.  Matches consist of two school teams of four students each, sorted in board order.  Each student plays their opposite number twice during each match.
 
Round 1 Results - 1/24/2026

Ingenuity Prep 4-4 McFarland

Alice Deal 8-0 Maret

Two Rivers 3-3 Martin Luther King Jr. 

KIPP Valor 2-2 Eliot-Hine

Our Lady of Mercy 8-0 Sojourner Truth

Sidwell Friends 4-4 Washington Latin AJC

DCI 8-0 Holy Trinity Episcopal

Columbia Heights Education Campus 0-8 Longfellow

BASIS DC 8-0 KIPP Key

Potomac Youth Chess League New Season is Underway

The 2025 season of the Potomac Youth Chess League, the online competition we run for middle schools in the greater Washington D.C. area, began on January 11.  Matches take place on lichess.com on Saturday afternoons. 

The League has grown to ten schools this year, with The Avalon School and Sligo Creek Middle School in Montgomery County, MD, Cooper Middle School and Longfellow Middle School in Fairfax County, VA, and San Miguel School in northwest DC all joining the competition for the first time.  Good luck to all the participating schools this season!
Round 1 Results - 1/11/2025

Two Rivers 0-8 Cooper

DCI 7-1 BASIS DC

San Miguel 0.5 – 7.5 Longfellow

Washington Latin 5-3 Avalon

Sligo 7.5-0.5 Ingenuity Prep 

Round 2 Results - 1/18/2025

Cooper – Sligo (match postponed)

Longfellow 7-1 DCI

Avalon 8-0 San Miguel

Ingenuity Prep 0.5 – 7.5 Washington Latin 

BASIS DC 8-0 Two Rivers

Round 3 Results - 2/1/2025

San Miguel – Ingenuity Prep (match postponed)

Two Rivers 0-8 Longfellow

DCI – Avalon (match postponed)

Washington Latin 5-3 Sligo

BASIS DC 4-4 Cooper

Round 4 Results - 2/8/2025

Sligo 8-0 San Miguel 

Longfellow 8-0 BASIS DC

Ingenuity Prep 0-8 DCI

Cooper 4-4 Washington Latin

Avalon 2-2 Two Rivers

Round 5 Results - 2/22/2025

Sligo 6.5-1.5 Longfellow

Ingenuity Prep 8-0 Avalon

Washington Latin 3.5-4.5 BASIS DC

Cooper 7-1 DCI

San Miguel 2-2 Two Rivers

Round 6 Results - 3/8/2025

Cooper 8-0 Longfellow

Two Rivers 1-7 Ingenuity Prep 

BASIS DC 8-0 Avalon

DCI 2-6 Sligo

San Miguel 0-8 Washington Latin

2025 League Standings

SchoolMatch PointsBoard Points (tiebreaker)
Sligo743
Longfellow639
Cooper5.540
Washington Latin536
BASIS DC3.525.5
DCI327
Ingenuity Prep324
Avalon113
Two Rivers05
San Miguel02.5

Potomac Youth Chess League Spring 2024 Season Has Begun

The Potomac Youth Chess League, the middle school chess league the Center ran from 1997 to 2010, has been brought back for a new season in Spring 2024.  Any middle school in the D.C. area may field a team.

The first round of matches took place last Saturday, January 13.  BASIS DC and DCI are the early leaders after recording 8-0 victories.

Matchday 1 Results

Capital City PCS 0-8 BASIS DC

DCI 8-0 Meridian

Capital Village 4-4 Two Rivers PCS

Washington Latin 7.5 – 0.5 Ingenuity Prep