The Chess Club at UC Davis and Sosnick Chess, a non-profit honoring the late UCD Professor Stephen Sosnick, join forces to sponsor a weekend chess festival on April 4-6, 2025 at the UCD Conference Center. Grand Master Joel Benjaman will play a 25-person simultaneous exhibition game, lecture and provide game commentary to festival attendees. There is no charge to attend the festival. On each of Saturday and Sunday there will also be a US Chess Federation sanctioned tournament where Unrated players to International Masters test their skills in one of the four levels of tournament play. All ages are welcome. Sign up to play in the tournament is through https://www.kingregistration.com/tournaments#davis.