I still call the knight a horse

Whiz Kid

By Lori Rose | 5:55am

Whiz Kid: Second Grader Shines in Chess

This week, Patch introduces you to Emily Hartfelder, a second grader at Westchester Elementary in Kirkwood, who beat out a table of third graders in the annual district chess tournament.

She’s 8 and a half, loves to play kickball and tag at recess and, oh yes, she’s pretty darn good at chess.

Emily Hartfelder, a second grader at Westchester Elementary in Kirkwood, beat three third-graders to win her table at the annual Kirkwood School District chess tournament on Monday afternoon. She was one of only two second-graders to play “up” in the tournament of third-, fourth- and fifth-graders.

“I’m just happy that I got to skip math,” Emily said. “I do not like math.”

What she does enjoy is figuring out a strategy to beat her opponents at chess, a game she has been playing for only about a year. She joined the Westchester Elementary chess club, which meets every Tuesday before school, in first grade.

“When you’re just starting out it gets kind of confusing,” Emily said. “I still call the knight a horse.”

Emily, who lives in Kirkwood, comes from a family of game players. Her older brother and sister and her parents play chess, too. They also like to play UNO, Monopoly and Life, she said.

“Sometimes when there’s nothing to do we just play chess for no reason,” Emily said.

Emily said she wasn’t scared to play the older kids at the tournament because she regularly plays her brother, who is in fifth grade.

More here.

Middleschool chess dynasty?

Albion: A chess dynasty?
Middle School team finishes second in high school league
Wednesday, May 11, 2011 8:29 am | Updated: 8:41 am, Wed May 11, 2011.

Albion: A chess dynasty?

By Cheyenne Eagle Albion Middle School The Daily News Online

At the sound of a single word, the long game comes to an end. One team is giddy with the joy that accompanies a win. That team is the Albion team. What was that one powerful word? Well, that word would be “checkmate.”

Starting out five years ago, there would have been few kids that even thought twice about joining a chess club. The expectation for turnout was low, and nobody ever could have imagined how much this club would grow. Now in the fifth year, the Albion chess club has grown from a small unknown club to an enormous group. Ranging from 20 to 50 students participating per year, this club helps the students think fast and quickly avoid problems that suddenly occur. This year, everybody knows what name to fear in the world of chess, and that name is Albion.

Three years ago, the Albion Middle School chess team started competing in the high school league. The first year they competed they placed fifth, then sixth, but this year they shocked everyone jumping from good to stupendous. This year the middle school team earned second place! While the middle school placed in second, the high school placed in fourth.

“Albion is becoming a bit legendary,” says Explorations teacher at Albion, Mr. Keller. “We’re the team to beat.” Early on one of the advanced players was Joe Pearl; he won our first in-house tournament. The following year Cody Stymus and Nikiel Harden were two of the best players. Not to mention, the legendary Fitzak brothers, Nick and Alex. They were amazing then and continue to amaze now. They led their division to many wins this year. Nick also won the “Top Scorer” award this year. This year’s ninth grade class has an awesome group of chess players. These players include Brett Zicari, Robert June, Brandon Doyle, and Patrick Yannatone. Patrick secured first place for his team during the last match of the regular season.

Full article here.

Azerbaijani youths shine

Artwork by Mike Magnan

Azerbaijani chess players successful in world championship among school children
Wed 04 May 2011 12:55 GMT | 5:55 Local Time

The seventh chess championship among schoolchildren is run in Poland’s Krakow.

Azerbaijani chess splayers are also competing. After four rounds, several representatives of our country are among leaders. Khatun Bagirova is second with 3.5 points in the contests among girls below 15 years, just behind Diana Assanbayeva of Kazakhstan.

Meanwhile, Farid Aslanov (U-9), Oguz Abishli (U-11), Ulvi Sadikhov (U-13) and Kenan Izzet (U-15) are third in their age groups.

The championship will be made up of nine rounds and is to finish on 9 May. Champions will get the title of ‘candidates for masters’.

Elmir Aliyev
News.Az

Over 1,100 players at Washington State Elementary Championship

2011 Washington Elementary Championship held April 30 at Tacoma Convention Center
By Russell Miller

From information found at http://chess.ratingsnw.com/tournreports.html the following data was compiled. Tournament directors listed were Southcote-Want and Stensland. The order of finish listed below might not be the tie-break order used at the tournament for trophies. 1130 players took part plus 45 in the I Love Chess 2 sections.

Kindergarten 102 Players
Stanley Zhong 5-0 Cherry Crest School Bellevue

1st Grade 90 Players
Neil Chowdhury 5-0 Somerset Elem. Bellevue
Aryan Deshanded 5-0 Stevenson Elem. Bellevue
Jaden Zhang 5-0 Lowell Elem. Bellingham

2nd Grade 180 Players
Freya Gulamali 5-0 Bellevue Children Acad. Bellevue
Omakar Shetti 5-0 Challenger Elem. Everett
Richard Yang 5-0 Spiritridge Elem. Bellevue

3rd Grade 238 Players
Derek Zhang 5-0 Spiritridge Elem Bellevue
Michael Han 5-0 Apollo Elem. Issaquah
Jan Buzek 5-0 View Ridge Elem Everett
Michelangelo Barozzi 5-0 Open Window School Bellevue

4th Grade 194 players
Roland Feng 5-0 Thurgood Marshall Elem. Seattle
Bryce Tiglon 5-0 Louisa Alcott Elem. Redmond
Brendan Zhang 5-0 Creekside Elem. Issaquah
Zothi Ramesh 5-0 Meridian Park Elem. Shoreline

5th Grade Section 196 players
Nathaniel Yee 5.0 Springridge Elem. School Bellevue
Kyle Haining 5.0 Ridgecrest Elem. School Shoreline
Sangeeta Dhingra 5.0 Louisa Alcott Elem. School Redmond

6th Grade 130 Players
Samuel He 5.0 Thoreau Elem. School Kirkland
Trevor Johnson 5.0 Home Schooled
Faris Gulamali 5.0 Stevenson Elem. Bellevue

I Love Chess 2 Section One 33 players: Quinn Chow, Bush School Seattle 1st Grade and Jad Gorman, Epiphany Seattle 3rd Grade both 4.5-.5, they drew with each other
I Love Chess 2 Section Two 12 players: Dorian Clay 5-0, Cherry Crest School, Bellevue 5th Grade

Info provided by Russell (Rusty) Miller

Ninth annual Peel Chess Tournament

Searching for the next chess prodigy

2011-04-28 / Arts & Entertainment

Peel board celebrates ninth annual chess tournament

Nearly 950 students from approximately 80 Peel District School Board schools will participate in the board's ninth annual Peel Chess Tournament.

It’s being held this week (Wednesday, Thursday and Friday) at the HJA Brown Education Centre in Mississauga.

“When students play chess, they are captivated by the game as it engages their attention and imagination,” commented Gus Skarlatakis, event organizer and teacher at Brian W. Fleming Public School. “Chess teaches students how to problem solve and think logically and creatively.”

The elementary competition, involving students in Grades 2 to 5, took place yesterday (Wednesday), and the Grade 6 to 8 competitors will participate today. The morning play will begin at 9:45 a.m., with championship rounds beginning at 11:45 a.m. Each grade level championship match will commence at 1:15 p.m. Remaining participants continue to play chess throughout the afternoon in the school champions’ round. At 1:45 p.m. each day, an awards ceremony will recognize the tournament winners from each division and the schools with the most wins per player.

The secondary competition will take place Friday, beginning at 8:30 a.m., with the champions of the north division playing the champions of the south division. At 9:45 a.m., the qualifying round begins with championship rounds starting at noon. The awards ceremony will follow the championships at 1:45 p.m.

Source: http://www.caledoncitizen.com

Giving players a chance to shine

Tournament gives chess players a chance to shine
By natalie dicou
The Salt Lake Tribune

First published Apr 11 2011 09:45PM
Updated Apr 24, 2011 01:20AM

West Valley City • Jaxson Bailey knows exactly what he loves about chess.

“You get to kill your friends without actually killing them in real life,” said the West Lake Junior High eighth-grader, moments after collecting the first-place trophy at the initial Community Education Partnership of West Valley City (CEP) Chess Tournament.

Krista LeFevre enjoys the game for different reasons.

“I like being able to think hard and work really hard at winning,” said the Farnsworth Elementary sixth-grader as she clutched her second-place trophy.

Whatever their reason for loving the game with 64 black and white squares, 122 students from across West Valley City met last week at West Lake Junior High to showcase their chess skills and inaugurate a tradition.

Full article here.

Western Kentucky University Open Chess Tournament

Rice, Carmichael win at WKU chess club event
Tuesday, April 26, 2011 10:50 AM CDT

The Western Kentucky University Chess Club recently hosted its third annual R.J. Young WKU Open Chess Tournament. Players from across Kentucky and other states played in the Scholastic, Friends and Family, and Adult sections.

Local winners included Ben Rice and Chris Carmichael, who won $300 and $200 gift certificates from Morris Jewelry, respectively.

Students from Bowling Green area schools represented more than half the players in the Scholastic section. Participating in the Adult section were six titled Masters, including World Youth Chess Champions Jason Cao of Canada and Steven Zierk of California.

Source: http://bgdailynews.com

More than 100 students in inaugural chess event

West Lake Junior High School hosts chess tournament

By JM Martin

More than 100 students from eight West Valley area elementary and junior high schools participated in the inaugural Community Education Partnership Chess Tournament held April 8 at West Lake Junior High School.

The chess tournament was open to all students in the fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth and ninth grades that wanted to play. All of the students received a certificate of achievement for participation presented by West Valley City Mayor Mike Winder, and trophies were awarded to the top two competitors at each grade level.

Nickole Brown attended the after-school tournament with her daughter Monica, a fourth-grader at Monroe Elementary School. Brown said the opportunity to play chess once a week at the elementary school is a great opportunity for her daughter, who was excited to play chess in the tournament and meet the mayor.

"Anybody in the school that wanted to play chess could come [to the tournament], and I think that's so great," Brown said.

The chess tournament was sponsored and organized by the Community Education Partnership, a West Valley nonprofit organization dedicated to providing school community educational events, and Salt Lake Community College.

The after-school chess program is one of a number of educational opportunities for local students funded by grant money received from West Valley City, the Utah State Department of Education and the U.S. Department of Education.

West Lake Junior High School Principal Ike Spencer said students have been meeting to play chess before morning classes since the beginning of the school year and that school administrators wanted to see more kids get involved.

More here.

Kings in Central Falls

Artwork by Mike Magnan

Chess kings in Central Falls? Check!
01:00 AM EDT on Tuesday, April 26, 2011
By John Hill
Journal Staff Writer

PROVIDENCE — It was a Monday evening, the first day of spring vacation and the sun was starting to set. Across the state, teenagers were congregating, savoring freedom from homework and studying, looking forward to a week of staying up late and sleeping in.

Not so for the half-dozen Central Falls High School and Calcutt Middle School students who gathered in a second-floor room overlooking Wayland Avenue. Instead of watching TV or hanging out, they were getting ready for up to three hours of sitting.

Members of their school’s chess team, they were in training for the high school chess equivalent of college basketball’s March Madness, the national high school championships April 29-May 1 in Nashville, Tenn.

If Mount Saint Charles owns Rhode Island high school hockey, Central Falls owns chess.

Since the 1980s, the school’s team regularly appears in the state championships. This year’s state champion team was 7-0-1. Monday night’s visit to Jorge E. Sammour-Hasbun’s Chess Master Connections on Wayland Avenue was part of their training regimen.

Math teacher Dan Amadio and history teacher Frank DelBonis, the team’s coaches, set up a two-stage training session for the evening. Team members got a half-hour session with Sammour-Hasbun, analyzing a game move by move.

Full article here.

Pic of the day: Chess spirit

Matthew Song celebrates after he and Alan Sun, right, both 12 and from Canton, Mich., win a game of "bughouse" chess during a break...

Bughouse is played on two adjoining boards by two teams, each with two players. A player who captures a piece can pass it to a teammate to use on his or her board.

Source: http://www.dispatch.com

Turkish Children's Team Championship 2011

Turkish Children's Team Championship 2011
12-17th April in Kemer, Antalya
Chessdom

Turkish Children's Team Championship U-11 started in Kemer (Antalya) on Tuesday, April 12th, 2011, and will continue until 17th April. More than 1100 chess clubs all around Turkey were trying to earn the right to participate here. This year 288 players and 46 clubs are taking part in the event.

In comparison, the first such tournament was organized by the Turkish Chess Federation last year and gathered 165 players within 26 teams in total. After the start of the program "Chess in schools" few years back, thousands of young chess players appeared in the country. Statistic of the TCF shows that the number of children learning chess from 2005 till 2010 increased to 2.250.000 (two million, two hundred fifty thousand).

The Championship is played over 9 rounds of Swiss system, with time control 60 min per game +30sec from the 1st move. The organizers are providing live transmission of all the games in the tournament (96 boards).

Text and photo by Anastasiya Karlovich

Chess for all children!

Chess to be taught in Armenian schools

Thursday, 14 April 2011 08:29 |

TertAm Armenia’s government adopted a decision Thursday that will see chess being included in the syllabus of lower classes in public schools as a mandatory subject.

The move is perceived as attempt to boost children’s mental capabilities.

At a cabinet meeting on Thursday the government decided to allocate 177 million drams to Armenia’s Ministry of Education and Science.

The ministry is expected to deliver the money to the Chess Academy of Armenia.

The funds will be used for the acquisition of necessary property for teaching chess, as well as for publishing chess manuals, and organizing training for chess teachers.

Source: http://www.armeniadiaspora.com

Teaching youngsters right moves

Amity Chess Club teaches youngsters right moves
By Mary E. Young
Reading Eagle

Young or old, beginner or experienced player, everyone is welcome to join the Amity Chess Club.

"We're trying to stimulate more interest," said Richard Jokiel, club leader. "My goal is to provide a place for people from the community and kids to play the game and improve their ability to play."

Anyone can learn the rules of the game in a day, said Jokiel, 64.

After that, it becomes a lifelong learning experience even for seasoned players, he said.

"It's the oldest game in the world," Jokiel said. "There is always something new to learn."

That's because playing involves planning, strategy, tactics and anticipating the consequences of one's actions, he said.

And the game develops social skills and provides camaraderie for people who share a passion for the game, Jokiel said.

"This is why it's so good for kids," he said. "It's a template for life."

Full article here.

Chess Camps Series

Chess Camp is a new training system for beginning chess players, and for the parents and coaches who teach them. Starting with simple problems to illustrate key concepts, and then progressing to more complex positions, the student will learn by doing, methodically integrating new information with previous knowledge while building effective thinking habits at the board.

In this first volume, Move, Attack, and Capture, the student will discover how the chess pieces move; start to get a feel for the chessboard; learn to look for threats, captures, and elementary tactics; and develop an understanding of what each piece can do for his or her position and against the opponents.

The second volume in this series, Simple Checkmates, contains 618 structured problems, exercises, and fun puzzles that will help the student to: 1) learn basic checkmate patterns in the opening, middlegame, and endgame; 2) see when checkmate is imminent; and 3) understand that material isn't everything, as just a few pieces can defeat a whole opposing army.

In Checkmates with Many Pieces, the third volume in the series, the student will: 1) find his or her way to mate in more complex positions; 2) start to learn the chess openings and their respective typical checkmating scenarios; 3) begin to apply basic tactical tools such as the pin, discovered check, and double check; and 4) see the great difference that small changes can make in a position.

More info at http://www.mongoosepress.com

The Sparta Chess Club Success

The Sparta Chess Club opens ninth season
Updated: December 15, 2010

SPARTA — The Chess Club is doing well after entering a number of tournaments right away.

The club has players from kindergarten age through high school.

The high school team opened their season by winning the Pocono Tournament, defeating Pocono East High School.

Eryk Banatt went undefeated, and placed second. Ian Clark finished third with three wins.

The Sparta High School Varsity raised their match record to 5-0 with double wins over East Stroudsburg South, and Delbarton, and a win against Midland Park.

The club entered 33 players comprising four teams in the National Youth Action Tournament held at the Ocean Place Resort in Long Branch.

The K-6 team placed second in the speed event. Anthony Esposito and Ryan Ryersen led the effort with six wins. Keith Johnson, Daniel Bacon, Kayla Melgarejo, Philippos Christodoulou each had five wins.

The Sparta High School team placed fifth behind Adam Banatt’s five points.

The Sparta Middle School Team placed sixth. The K-3 team finished eighth, and the K-6 team finished ninth, behind Daniel Bacon’s 5 wins.

The K-12, K-6 and K-3 teams were the top New Jersey public school teams in the tournament.

Full story here.

Historic chess initiative in Texas

Texas Tech University and SPICE officially launched the UIL Chess Puzzle Solving Statewide Pilot in the state of Texas earlier today at Wester Elementary School in Lubbock, Texas. UIL is the largest interschool organization of its kind in the world!

More than 300 students, teachers, parents, administrators, and various media, etc. were on hand for the launching of this historic competition.

This will potentially provide excellent opportunities for millions of chess playing students in the entire state of Texas to compete and earn scholarships for years to come. This is the first time that Chess has been accepted as an UIL Competition in its 101 year history!

"The seeds of the UIL were planted in 1904, when Dr. S.E. Mezes, president of UT, decided the state's foremost university needed to be of service to the entire state.... Since 1910, the records and achievements of state high school participants have justified the decision of the University to support this program of public school service. The UIL has grown into the largest interschool organization of its kind in the world, and is the envy of similar groups nationwide. The UIL exists to provide educational extracurricular academic, athletic, and music contests. So successful is the program that one of every two high school seniors has participated in a UIL event prior to graduation. The initials "UIL" have come to represent quality educational competition, administered by school people on an amateur and equitable basis." (Official UIL Info)

Chess is like the moves we make in life

Harlem Street Chess from Makkada Selah on Vimeo.

Harlem Street Chess Targets Youth
By Makkada Selah on Dec 12th, 2010

Across from the Apollo Theater on 125^th Street, a group of chess players regularly hosts a sidewalk match.

Vincent Holland, 49, is a substance abuse counselor, spending one of his two days off playing chess.

Holland learned the game in the Tombs in lower Manhattan, where inmates are held before they go to court. He was 28; the inmate who taught him was much older. After six weeks of playing chess, the game’s reflective nature and his positive interaction with an older man helped Holland focus. He soon got out of jail, now works full-time and hopes to replicate his chess rehabilitation process for young people he meets here on 125^th Street.

“We get a lot of youth that are in trouble,” says Holland. “And they’ll stop and check the game out, and we get to say a lot of good things to them.”

Tehuti, 44, frequents the chess table too, and often lectures young men passing by. He, too, learned to play chess in prison, and says it helped him to acquire a cool head and to process his feelings in a healthy way.

“Playing chess teaches you patience, and you have to be a thinker,” Tehuti says. “Chess is about strategizing and thinking ahead. If you try to play with emotion, nine times out of 10 you’ll keep losing the game. You have to use the equation of I over E, you have to put your intelligence over your emotions. You have to calm yourself down and look at that board.

“And don’t be so close up on the board, either. Back up and be able to see the board, so you can see all the angles. Because if you look at the game esoterically or allegorically, chess is like the moves we make in life.”

Source: http://theuptowner.org

Chess is a great academic exerciseChess is a great academic exercise

Students in after-school chess program are nobody's pawn
By Gloria Bradley • Staff Writer • December 11, 2010

FAIRVIEW -- Some students at Kiptopeke Elementary School are joining a group that has included Ben Franklin, Edgar Allan Poe, Queens Elizabeth I and II, Christopher Columbus, John Lennon, and Al Gore -- they are becoming chess players.

Stefanie Hadden of Cape Charles is the volunteer coordinator for the newly formed Kiptopeke Chess Club that meets each Tuesday in the school library from 3:45-4:45 p.m.

Hadden had read about the numerous benefits of chess in schools for children including improving decision-making, problem solving, logical thinking and concentration.

"Chess is a great academic exercise," said Hadden. "It helps with impulse control because they have to stop and think before they make their move."

Hadden said there is no fee to participate, and the club provides the chess sets for the meeting.

Ken Miller, a math teacher at Northampton High School, donates his time to instruct the children in the rules of chess.

Miller has been a longtime chess player, and he helped start a well-received chess club at Yorktown Middle School. He said that 10 percent of the student population played chess.

"It was successful there, so I wanted to repeat it here," said Miller.

He said that the benefits of chess include helping teach children to think and improvement in their grades.

Full story here.

Love for chess leads to formation of chess club

One student’s love for chess leads to formation of a club
By Barry Lewis
Tuesday, December 7, 2010 11:21 PM EST

Sometimes parents are willing to do a little something extra to help their children, and in the process they may actually help others.

Darren and Rachael Jensen, parents of kindergartner, Jacob, volunteered to start a chess club at Sommer Elementary. The club, which is called Checkmate, meets every Tuesday after school for one hour and has approximately 15 students learning to play the game.“

It all started because our son loves to play chess and we thought maybe other kids would like to play or learn to play,” Darren said. “I have been impressed with the number of kids who have shown interest. We didn’t really know what to expect, but we figured we would give it a try. We are very happy there has been such a good turnout.”

Source: http://www.journalreview.com

2011 Texas Region VII Scholastic Championships

2011 TEXAS REGION VII SCHOLASTIC CHESS CHAMPIONSHIPS
SATURDAY, JANUARY 22, 2011

Hosted by Central Catholic Elementary
Sanctioned by the Texas Chess Association (TCA)

WHAT: USCF-rated 5-round Swiss in 7 sections: Kinder/1st (K-1) ; Primary (K-3)Championship & JV under 400 ; Elementary (4-5)Championship & JV under 600 ; Middle (6-8) Championship ; High School (9-12)Championship. Students must play in their proper section.

WHEN: Saturday, January 22, 2011. Schedule is as follows:
Check-in 8:00 am – 8:45 am Round 4 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm
Round 1 9:00 am – 10:00 am Round 5 2:45 pm – 4:15 pm
Round 2 10:15 am – 11:15 pm Awards ASAP Following Last Round
Round 3 11:30 pm – 12:30 pm

WHERE: St. Joseph’s Catholic School. 311 Dewey Ave. Alice, Texas 78332. Map

WHO: Students K-12 who reside in Texas Region VII may participate. Each participant must have a valid USCF ID number and current paid membership. No exceptions.

TIME CONTROLS: Rounds 1-2-3 GAME/30, Rounds 4-5 GAME/45. Chess sets and boards will be provided. Bring your own chess clock!

TIE-BREAKERS: In the following order: modified median, solkoff, cumulative, cumulative of opposition. January Supplement will be used for all pairings. In, the event of a tie for any Scholarships a 5/min. Blitz playoff will be played winner takes the Scholarship

ENTRY FEE: $16 per player if postmarked by January 19, 2011. Late entries are $21 per player if, postmarked by January 20, 2011. $1 will be given to the Texas Chess Association(TCA)
Do not mail anything after January 19th as that is the absolute deadline.

REGISTRATION: Complete the official registration form and mail it along with payment. Onsite registration will have a 1st round ½ point bye assessed. Email registrations will be accepted but not official until payment is received.

Email entries to: coachcris@yahoo.com Rule 11H1 will be in effect.

AWARDS: For each of the seven sections – Individual trophies to top 8 players and medals to next 8. Team trophies to top three schools. Teams must be comprised of a minimum of 2 players.

CONCESSIONS: Food will be sold on site for the convenience of our participants and guests. OTHER SALES: Chess equipment will be available for sale. Raffle drawings will take place between rounds for prizes such as chess equipment, and other fantastic prizes!


OFFICIAL REGISTRATION FORM

2011 TEXAS REGION VII SCHOLASTIC CHESS CHAMPIONSHIPS

JANUARY 22, 2011 –ALICE, TX

This form along with payment must be mailed and postmarked by 1/19/11.
Late registrations must be postmarked by01/20/11 and pay higher fee.

Name _______________________________________, _________________________________________
last first & middle initial

Address _______________________________________ City ______________________ Zip ___________

Tel.# ___________________

Gender (circle one) M or F Date of Birth ______/_______/_______ USCF ID ______________________
month day year

E-mail _________________________________________________ USCF expiration _________________


Grade ______ School ___________________________________ USCF rating ____________________


Kinder/1st Primary Primary JV Elementary Elementary JV Middle High School
Section (circle one) K-1 K-3 K-3 4-5 4-5 6-8 9-12
Championship Championship Under 500 Championship Under 700 Championship Championship

Requested bye: ______________ (One 1/2 point bye may be requested by round 2 all other byes will receive 0 points )

ADA accommodation requested: ____________________________________________________________________________________

Please, allow 48hours notice of any accomodations

*SPECIAL NOTE: Special REGION VII T-shirts will be available on a limited basis for $ 10.00. To Pre-Order please check size and quantity:
Check Quantity and size : _____Youth SM, _____YOUTH LARGE, _____ADULT SMALL, ______ADULT MEDIUM, ______ADULT XL

Amount enclosed: $_______________ $16 if by 1/19/11 ; $21 if by 01/20/11 ; plus T-shirt $10.00 each ________
One dollar of every entry will go to the TCA( Texas Chess Association)

Email entries to: CoachCris@yahoo.com all entries received will not be official until payment is received. Team entries please, send in Excel form include all the above information.

Make payable to: Cris Deleon
Mail to: Central Catholic Elementary
2011 REGION VII TOURNAMENT
ATTN: Coach Cris
1218 Comanche St.
Corpus Christi, TX 78401

For Additional Information contact: Coach Cris at : coachcris@yahoo.com or (361)883-3873 school.