The Huntsville Chess Club 2005 Scholastic Invitational was held at the Tom Bevill Hotel and Convention Center on October 1 in conjunction with the Space City Open. Due to space limitations only forty students were invited, of which thirty-one were able to attend.

The six high school and middle school students were combined in the Open section and played a round robin (all play all). It was won by Sabiha Runa with a perfect score of 5-0. Second place was captured by Adrian Majerle, 4--0, and third, decided by tie breaks, was Nasiha Muna with 2 points. Also with 2 points were Joshua Clement and Teja Alapati. Nicholas Werline, competing in his first tournament, finished in sixth place.

The Elementary section (K-5) was the largest of the three and was dominated by Dennis Dergunov of Horizon Elementary in Madison with a score of 5-0. Second place with 4 wins was Blake Daiber and the 3rd place trophy went to John Weber who scored 3 1/2 points. Tieing for fourth with 3 points were Andrew Brown, Austin Lock, Mark Reuter, Mario Treiber and Haile Gill.

The Primary section (K-3) with eight players, was won by Einaam Alim with 4 1/2 points. Einaam gave up a draw to second place finisher, Elora Holland who, competing in her first tournament, was also undefeated and finished with 4 points, 3 wins and 2 draws. Third place in this section was Daniel Daugherty with 3 1/2, losing only to Einaam.