The Arizona Scorpions (1 – 2) faces off against the St. Louis Bishops (0 – 3) this evening at Chad’s Steakhouse (NW corner of Swan and Ft. Lowell) at 6:00 pm (Arizona time). Both teams are looking to get back on track and are in near must-win situations if they want to keep their play-off hopes alive.

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So come on out to root on your Scorpions! We’ll be watching the match live in the Chad’s Steakhouse Lounge or you can watch all the USCL matches on ICC.

The Arizona Scorpions (1 – 0) look to continue their winning ways against the Seattle Sluggers (0 – 1) in this week’s match-up.

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The match will be played at the Unity Chess Club in Scottsdale. Those of you unable to root our Scorpions on in person can watch the games on the Internet Chess Club (ICC).

Go Scorpions!

For the Arizona Scorpions, the 2010 season ended in a tough defeat at the hands of the Miami Sharks in the semi-finals. As fate would have it, the 2011 season will begin with a chance for the Scorpions to avenge that defeat. The Scorpions and Sharks will face off this Monday at 6:00 pm (Arizona time) at the Holiday Inn – Palo Verde in Tucson. For those not able to join us at the site, the match (and all USCL games) are viewable on the Internet Chess Club.

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Come out to support your team!

See all the news of the week and vote for who you think will win on the Week 1 match page.

The Week 4 Monday line-ups have been announced. The Arizona Scorpions (3 – 0) will face off against the Dallas Destiny (1 – 2) in this week’s match-up. This week’s match will be played in Tucson on Monday at 6:00 pm. Come down to cheer on your team or you can watch the action on ICC.

Date: September 13, 2010
Location: Tucson, 6:00 PM Arizona time

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The Arizona Scorpions will face the Los Angeles Vibe on Tuesday, September 7. The USCL has announced all Week 3, Tuesday line-ups. The Scorpions will play in Mesa at Abstrax. So come on out and support our team. As always, if you can’t make it to the event, you can watch the Scorpions play live on ICC.

Date: September 7, 2010
Location: Abstrax in Mesa, 6:00 PM Arizona time

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The line-ups for the USCL Week 2 have been posted. Arizona will play on Monday against division rival, the Seattle Sluggers. The team will play in Tucson at the Holiday Inn – Palo Verde.

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As always, fans are encouraged to come on down and root on our team. IM Mackenzie Molner (and New Jersey Knockout member) will be on-hand to offer master-level commentary to the games in progress. The match starts at 6:00 PM Tucson time.

The 2010 USCL season is about to begin! Week 1 lineups have been announced for both Monday and Wednesday matches.

The Arizona Scorpions will face off against the Miami Sharks on Wednesday night. The team will play at Abstrax in Mesa. All games will be played on the Internet Chess Club (ICC) starting at 6:00 local time (9:00 Eastern Time).

Arizona will have the black pieces on boards 1 and 3. We will have the white pieces on boards 2 and 4. All games will be Game in 60 minutes with a 30 second increment per move.

Fans across the country have started weighing in on their predictions for the new season.

Ron Young
Ryan Polsky
Arun Sharma

Wear your red and come out to support your Arizona Scorpions!!

The line-ups for week 3 have been announced, including the Scorpion-Sluggers match, on the US Chess League website. Complete recaps for week 1 and week 2 are also available on the Scorpion site.

US Chess League Vice President Arun Sharma has reviewed all 14 rosters (not including alternates) and given a quick summary of possible best line-ups and reasons why teams selected certain players.

Now that the 2009 USCL Rosters are virtually complete, before the season begins, it seems like a good idea to try to give readers some insight into what each team seems to have in mind by doing some brief analysis of their rosters and possible lineups.

No guarantee that these are the line-ups we’ll see during the regular season (or even the play-offs), but take a look to see who’s on which team and why.

The Arizona Scorpions play the Miami Sharks this Wednesday in a key matchup for playoff contention this year. Both teams, as well as Chicago, are all very close to each other in standing and every match at this point is important. This match, like all of them, is very close in rating and strength and will all come down to the up and down swings of every match in the US Chess League.

Arizona Scorpions vs Miami Sharks

Board 1
IM Rogelio Barcenilla 2560 vs. GM Julio Becerra 2640

This matches up the two time MVP versus a very strong IM that had an incredible save last week in time trouble. With Rogelio having White and getting his form back this should be a very close matchup.

Board 2
FM Osmany Perea 2453 vs. FM Danny Rensch 2411
Perea has had a solid record in the league beating Irina Krush while drawing the rest of his games while Danny will try to break this undefeated streak. Looking at smoe of Perea’s games it looks like he is not afraid to mix it up which will make this an interesting game as Danny doesn’t avoid complications either.

Board 3
FM Robby Adamson 2377 vs. FM Charles Galofre 2326

Robby has done very good in the league with a +2 record and with White he should have good chances against FM Galofre. However, based on rating and strength this could be anyone’s game.

Board 4
NM Eric Rodriguez 2242 vs. NM Leo Martinez 2209
Eric Rodriguez is 4-1 in the league so far and has played extremely well to get there beating several masters, seemingly easily. However, he lost against Naroditsky earlier this season in a strange game. Like most matches this will be a crucial game.

Look for the games live on ICC at 6:00PM or visit the site for commentary on the games LIVE at the Abstrax Building, 2222 S. Dobson Rd, Suite 500 (Building 5), Mesa AZ 85202.