Chess Club Kick-Off

We had our first meeting of the chess club on Wednesday Sept. 24 Great turnout.
This is a rebuilding year - only 2 players left from last year's team and 4 or 5 who were in chess club last year. Lot's of 5th graders this year! In 4 years, with a lot of work, you will be champions. Hang in there - it's going to be a rough ride for a while.

Here are the ratings after today. If your rating went up into the 120's or 130's, next week you should play others that went up.

A tournament schedule can be found at schoolchess.org First tournament is Oct 18 way up in Champlin. The next two are also in the NW area of the Twin Cities. You're welcome to attend those if you'd like, but I'm not pushing those.

I'm looking at Dec 13 in Burnsville for our first tournament as a team. Usually I want your rating to be around 400 to participate in tournaments. We'll see who's ready by then.

Name	24-Sep
Frank	812
Josh	753
Thomas	560
Carter	379
Joe	350
Rohan	137
Oscar	137
Lucius	137
Bergen	132
Aidan	124
Isaiah	121
Nathan	105
Lucas	105
Quintin	100
Francis	100
Magnus	100
Emma	100
Bryce	100
Damien	100
Travis	100
Dain	100
Aidan	100
Luca	100

2014-2015 Year

CLUB: Chess starts at Friendly hills on Wednesday Sept. 24 in Room 123 from 3:20 until 5:00.
Format of a typical chess club session is a group lesson from 3:20 til 3:40, problem solving from 3:00 to 4:00 and competition from 4:00 to 5:00.

TOURNAMENTS: Periodically we attend matches or tournaments on Saturdays - there is a fee although the school sometime covers that. The tournament schedule can be seen at schoolchess.org although there are other organizations which sponsor chess competition i which we may participate.

RATINGS: I have a rating system which is useful for monitoring your progress, knowing who you should (or should not) play, and selecting members for a team when that is necessary.

PUTTING NAMES ON THE INTERNET: I use this blog to post ratings and news. If you do not want your child's name to appear, please let me know.