Saskatoon - Kids Chess Spring Schedule

 

Meetings are from 10 am - noon on the following dates

April 23

May 14, 28

June 11 (tentative), 25

University of Saskatchewan -  Lower Place Riel

We offer beginner lessons and players of all levels are welcome. 

Boards and pieces are provided. 

For more information please contact michelgravel@hotmail.com.

No  meetings are planned for the summer but everyone is welcome to the Saskatoon Chess Club on Sunday mornings:

Scholar's Mate Magazine - free & online

Check out this excellent chess magazine for kids. Up until Oct. of this year this magazine was only available by a yearly paid subscription - now it is free.
http://www.chess-math.org/scholarsmate/

Regina Youth Chess Club

We have started a Sunday drop in chess club in Regina. As many schools do not have chess clubs several parents in Regina see a need to host a city wide chess club for kids and teens - to give Regina's youth a chance to play chess with their peers once a week. The format will be mostly informal - bring a chess board (if you can) and come play some chess. We hope to have occasional guest instructors and to eventually set up some scholastic rated games for those who are interested. For more info see the previous post. If you would like a printable copy of the poster please contact Lauri.

Regina Youth Chess Club

Chess Camp in Regina - This August

CHESS NUTS - Chess Camp 2008
WHEN: August 18-22, 2008
WHERE: Cathedral Neighborhood Centre, 13th & Retallack, Regina
TIME: Daily Monday to Friday 9:30am - 12 noon
FORMAT: Beginner (Raw Rookies to Novices) to Advanced (Tournament Players to Provincial Champs).
From: How do the pieces move? To: The nuts & bolts of the Albin Counter Gambit!
All levels and strengths welcome and will be accommodated.
WIND UP: Sponsored Tournament With Prizes & Pizza Party, Friday.

ITINERARY: Each day will consist of 3 sections:
1.Instruction on The Rules of Chess, Strategy, Tactics, Opening, Middle, & Endgame Theory.
2.Head to Head Game Play - Test out what you have learned.
3.The Lighter Side of Chess - IE: Tag Team Chess, Musical Chair Chess, Anti-Chess, Chess Relay Races, Atomic Chess, Siamese Chess, Replacement Chess, Rifle Chess, Centaur Chess, and more.

Each Child will receive a Chess Camp T-shirt, Pizza & Pop Party on the last day, a Wind Up Tournament, and personal instruction and tutoring from a Canadian Chess Federation Expert and Assistant Chess Instructors.
Plus - Miscellaneous random prizes throughout the week!

THE GOAL ?? Simple. To have MORE FUN THAN SHOULD BE ALLOWED BY LAW In an OVER THE TOP Chess Environment, AND, a better understanding & ability to play. (Parent Translation: To actually get them to learn something) 

THE COST ??: Early Bird Fee $129 Before August 10th, or $149 after.

For More Information contact: John McIntyre - 949-2249 checkmate@accesscomm.ca
Send Payable to: SASKATCHEWAN CHESS CHALLENGE
3419 Avonhurst Dr Regina
Enclose child’s NAME, ADDRESS, PHONE, AGE, EMAIL, TSHIRT SIZE

National Chess Challenge Results

Check the SSCA web site for Team Saskatchewan's results at the 2008 National Chess Challenge. The National Chess Challenge is a Chess'n Math Association event held once a year on the May long weekend. Each province may send one representative per grade to this National event. This year the tournament was held in Edmonton; and Saskatchewan sent a complete team to the event.

2008 Provincial Championship Report!

Although Saskatoon saw lots of snow on Friday night (and the highways leading into the city were bad Saturday morning), the big blizzard predicted did not hit, and 45 of 46 who registered showed up.

Our Tournament Director, Roger Blum (thank you Roger), had a tough job arranging pairings as most of the grades had an odd number of players. When the dust settled, these were the results:

In grade one, Fraser McLeod was first, and Olekso Wasylow came second:
In grade two, Avram Tcherni was the winner (and he got to play both grade one's at the tournament in a double round robin):
Grade three witnessed a new winner, as Kaden Nilson edged out two time winner Daniel Zhou. Daniel's second place finish was followed by Saif Marei in third place:

Grade four was captured by Quinn Taylor, with Howard Li second and Stephen Fisher third:
Grade five went to Vincent McRorie, his first provincial championship, with Dylan Wendel placing second followed by Josh Pechawis:
Grade six's champion was Nigel Reynoldson, with Levi Kirkby one point behind. Nathan Tanner captured 3rd place.
Grade seven was a two player match between last year's champ, Zachary Lintott, and the champ from two years ago, Maegen Krajewski. After 5 games, they were tied, each with two wins and one game drawn. Then in the playoff, Maegen won, to claim first place in grade seven.
In grade eight, Nic Carverhill overcame a bad reaction to a needle to narrowly claim first place. Josh Timm was second and Roarke Cheetham (who drew Nic), placed third.
Grade nine witnessed Keith MacKinnon winning his grade for the 6th consecutive year, with Remy Beaudet second and Riley Thomas third.
Grade ten saw Kevin Me win his grade for the 10th consecutive year, with Jordan Hoffus in second place.
Grade eleven was won by Dakota Wagner by forfeit as his opponent was unable to attend the tournament, and Ron Umpherville won grade 12 in the same manner. Ron as a past winner, and Dakota as a new winner, will have their work cut out for them at Nationals.

The parent meeting of the SSCA at lunch was lively with many good ideas about getting chess more exposure in Saskatchewan schools. The new Executive consists of Don MacKinnon as President, Al Taylor as Vice President, Camille Gionet as Secretary and Marusia Kobrynsky as Treasurer. Fred Titanich, Marley Tcherni, and Lauri Lintott are Members at Large.

Thanks again to Roger Blum and Tyler Janzen who assisted Roger doing the Tournament Directing. Thanks to Camille for handling registrations and thanks to Monique for getting us her school basically at cost. Thanks to the many parents who helped set up and take down tables, boards, etc. Thank you to all those parents who brought their children to the tournament. Lastly, thanks kids for behaving so well during the tournament.

Once the picture portion of the web site works again, I'll post some pictures from the tournament.
Keep playing chess!