| CalChess Annual General Meeting Date Set
Posted by tomlangland on Tuesday, June 30 @ 22:38:10 CDT |
 San Mateo Marriott |
The CalChess Board of Directors has selected Sunday, August 16th as the date of the next CalChess Annual General Meeting. The meeting will start at 2:30PM at the San Mateo Marriott located at 1770 South Amphlett Blvd., San Mateo, CA 94402. During this meeting the elections for the CalChess Board of Directors will take place. Candidates and voters must be members in good standing to be placed on the ballot or to vote. The current Board has defined “good standing” to include being a member 30 days prior to the election. This means you must be a member by July 17th. If you are interested in being a candidate for one of the 4 open positions on the Board, please send an e-mail to President Tom Langland at tom@calchess.org. If you need to check your membership status, please view the CalChess Membership List. This list will be updated before July 17th (and prior to the meeting), so if you would like to become a member, please fill out the Application Form soon!
Also voted on at the recent board meeting was the CalChess Open State Championship will be held over Thanksgiving weekend. This will be in addition to the annual Labor Day Chess Tournament held in San Francisco. |
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| IM Emory Tate - BayAreaChess Player of the Month
Posted by sazhar on Tuesday, June 30 @ 21:52:38 CDT |
 IM Emory Tate dances on the analysis boards |
International Master Emory Tate takes the game to his opponent with the elegance of an artist, the wizardry of a magician, and a execution of a surgeon. Emory Tate is globally known as one of the most enigmatic chess players for his clinical execution of so many grandmasters, lucid coaching sessions, and brilliant analysis sessions.
IM Emory Tate's every move is a threat and the best hope for his opponent is that the threat is not well-disguised. BayAreaChess is honored to have someone of his caliber to walk our halls.
On June 27, 2009, IM Tate did a little more than walking. He took the field exhausted from a long week ordeal and achieved a performance rating of 2638, one of the highest performance rating achieved in any tournament by anyone in California and perhaps the clear highest in a dual-rated tournament. For that feat and for total and utter domination of the open field, with a smile, International International Emory Tate is BayAreaChess Player of the month. |
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| The Chesspunks!!
Posted by tomlangland on Saturday, June 13 @ 22:56:13 CDT |
 Vignesh and Cameron |
by Rob Wheeler
Cameron Wheeler is eight years old and in the third grade at Regnart Elementary School in Cupertino, California. Cupertino is located in the heart of the “Silicon Valley” just 50 miles south of San Francisco. While winning the championship is a story in itself, I think the more interesting story is the fact that he played his good friend Vignesh Panchanatham for the title. Vignesh is also from Cupertino, although they do not attend the same school.
Cameron and Vignesh don’t have chess programs at their schools. Lacking the team camaraderie at tournaments that many kids enjoy, they (and other top kids in their situation) started hanging out together. The group became fast friends, sharing a love of chess. While they enjoyed each other’s company, they also are all intensely competitive and push each other to get better. Eventually the group pulled together to compete on the Internet Chess Club as a team. The team, dubbed the “Chesspunks,” contains top Bay Area chess stars: Tanuj Vasudeva (second grade), Wheeler (third grade), Panchanatham (third grade), Allan Beilin (fourth grade), Kesav Viswanadha (fourth grade), and Armaan Kalyanpur (fourth grade). |
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| Hansel wins Championship in Vegas
Posted by TomLangland on Thursday, June 11 @ 15:12:04 CDT |
 Hansel Teoh |
10-year old Hansel Teoh (Hansel at chess.com), from Monticello Academy (Sunnyvale) won the Polgar World Open Boys Under-11 Championship in Las Vegas this weekend (June 6-7) with a perfect 5-0 score and won the speed chess competition with 5.5/7. He raised his national ranking by more than 200 points in his best performance to date.
Although not seeded in the top 25 of the 79-player field, he swept away the competition at the South Point Casino/Hotel in Las Vegas without stumbling. He defeated competitors from Arizona, Texas and Louisiana. All of his opponents except one finished in the top 12, and all were ranked higher than Hansel. He won a trophy, a chess clock and a Monroi device for recording games at tournaments.
"Feels great to be #1. I love the big prizes especially the Monroi".
Hansel has played competitively for just over 3 years. He studies with chess master Eric Schiller, plays online at chess.com and trains at chessmagnetschool.com.
(submitted by Eric Schiller) |
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| BayAreaChess Summer... Summer... Summer Camp Service
Posted by sazhar on Thursday, June 11 @ 15:10:15 CDT |
If you are looking for a quality summer camp with the area's best instructors, you can consider the Full-day or Half-day (9am-noon or 12:30-3:30pm) with optional early drop or late pick-up for 1 or more weeks at the following camps:
Redwood City (Map): Weeks of 6/29, 7/6, 7/13, 7/20 Palo Alto (Map): Weeks of 6/15, 7/27, 8/3, 8/10 @ Fairmeadow Elementary Santa Clara (Map): Weeks of 6/15, 6/22, 6/29, 7/6, 7/13, 7/20, 7/27
Online registration at http://bayareachess.com/my/mtype. More information at http://bayareachess.com/camp
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