fun final night of chess!!

Mr Matt and Evan face in blitz!   evan wins, Matt claims distractions, noise, sun in eyes, wind blowing across board ...  mikayla gave evan a great game!  so did several others.   

full results coming later in week

congrats to div 1 team for going 3-2 and placing 5th out of 14 teams.   congrats to our div 2 for going 2-3 and finishing in the middle of the pack.

special congrats to jason for going 4-1 and winning 1st place out of all second boards.

div 1 wins first round, D2 loses

the state tournament is off and running!

round 1, our div 1 team of evan, jason, reid, kolt and chris won the first round against milw rufua king

round 2, our div 2 team of jorin, chris, jacob, brian and john lost their first round.

round 2 is underway... we are up against one of the top teams in the state- new berlin eisenhower...

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Nathan and Will do Great at Badger

Congratulations to Nathan and Will, who both went 4-2 and took home the 3rd place Team Trophy for Mill Valley Elementary at the Badger open on Saturday!

Nathan also took home the 3rd place individual trophy (on tiebreakers).

Great job Will and Nathan! Next time hopefully we can have more MV participants!!

Nathan and Will head to USM

A real nice tournament shaping up at University School this Saturday! Many LDMS participants, just a couple for Mill Valley so far. Nathan and Will. Anyone else interested?

Never seen a tournament? Come on out to watch!

Lake Denoon Middle School will have a K-12 and a K-6 team for this tournament. Looks like just a K-3 for Mill Valley so far.

If you would like to register and you dont see your child on this list, let me know! List: http://www.wscachess.org/wscachess/custom/signed_up.php?id=25

New room for class- 538

FYI,
We are moving rooms for chess from now on. Time is the same. Wednesdays, 630-800pm. Room is now 538. This room is right near the front doors. In the main doors, turn to right, and it is the first room there, right off the commons area.
See you next Wednesday! PRACTICE! USM on Nov 20!

Awonder? He certainly is!

To all: (from Mike Nietman of the USCF and WCA)

Here is an e-mail I just got from Yingming ‘Will’ Liang. Awonder was paired up to board one and defeated the top seeded player in the section, a Vietnamese FM who is the Asian U8 Champ!

Note that they are using FIDE ratings and in that section especially, there are a lot of unrateds like Awonder. So, it’ll take several rounds to figure out who all the real players are.

Daily updates from the coaches will be on the headlines at www.uschess.org. In addition, the direct website for the event is http://wycc2010.chessdom.com/. Games start at 8 A.M. central time and top boards may be shown on the internet at a link on the USCF’s story page. It doesn’t look like they have all of the pages on the event site working yet but it is just day one.

Calendar updated

Please see chess calendar at bottom of this page. Updated thru November so far.
Several more tournaments will be available in Dec and Jan.

The first class of the 2010-2011 season

It was great to see so many Mill Valley kids at our first chess class on the 13th! There is a questionnaire that is going out to all parents which will give us good information for going forward with the class.
We will again divide into divisions. WHITE, BLUE and RED. White is the first division which is earned by learning the basics. Blue is our "middle" division earned by winning 2 games in a tournament. Red is the top division, earned by players who have won 4 or more games in a 6-game tournament.
We talked about the upcoming season, and did a demonstration and some puzzles. We played some quick games and had a lot of fun. Everybody admitted they were a little rusty after the long hot Summer! Thanks to all the parents and co-coaches who helped out, this will be a great season!
Next week, at the same time (Wednesday, 630-800pm at LDMS room 419), we will be focusing on ENDGAMES for all divisions.