NO CHESS CLASS ON MON 1/26

There is no chess class scheduled for Monday, Jan 26, thank you.
- Mr. Seghers

New tournament - Schedule Changed

There is a new tournament added to our schedule. You will find our schedule below changes to include this tournament instead of the USCF tournament we had scheduled previously on this date.

New tournament is: Mar 28th - New Berlin Open - Independent and USCF - Saturday, Feb 28th, 2009 -Elmwood Elementary, 5900 S. Sunny Slope Rd. Flyer coming soon. Will have a K-3, K-5, K-8 unrated Scholastic. Also Rated USCF, I am still evaluating options. Might have a YouthFriend partnership awarrds categories. An adult could pair with a student for a team of two prize in each category. Any Lake Denoon parents who would play if their score could be combined with a child? Please let me know, thanks!

LDMS Flexes K-5 Muscles at St. Bernadette's

Our K-5 took First Place at St. Bernadette's large tournament in Milwaukee on Sat, Jan 17. Above is Kolt and Reid, who tied for first by going 5-0 !! Kolt took the first place trophy on tiebreakers. Playing for K-5 were Kolt, Reid, Rachel, Chris T, Josh, Chris M, and Jason. Chris did very well in his second tournament ever, winning 2.5 out of 5. Click here for full results.

Evan took First Place in the K-8 division, going 4.5 - 0.5 to tie with tough Gregory from Bay Lane. Unlike Reid, Evan took the tie-breaker over Gregory. Playing for K-8 were Evan and Jacob, who won 2 games in his second tournament and shows great promise as an up and coming player!

The pictures for this and all tournaments are on the online Photo Album, on the upper right hand side of this blog. Thanks! - Mark

LDMS Takes 2nd K-5 and 2nd K-8

At the Richards Elementary School Tournament in Whitefish Bay today, LDMS took 5 players to K-5 and 4 players to K-8, and took 2nd in both divisions.
Pictures are posted in the photo album to the right! Great Job Knights of Lake Denoon!
Next Saturday: St. Bernadette's in Milwaukee.

LDMS at Richards

Here are the projected teams for Richards (alphabetical order):

K-5
Brian
Jason
Josh
Kolt
Rachel
Zeke

K-8
Chris
Evan
Jacob
Reid
Willa

LDMS Heads to Whitefish Bay!

On Saturday January 10th, the LDMS Knights head to Whitefish Bay, to play at Richards Elementary School.
So far we have 11 kids signed up! 5 in K-8 and 6 in K-5. Should be a lot of fun. Congratulations to new tournament players Zeke, Jacob and Willa, who are putting it all out there on the line in one of their first tournaments! Next week, on the 17th, Chris M will join us for his second tournament.

Chess at Mr. Seghers

Pictures have been added in our photo album for the Chess Party we had last Saturday Jan 3. Click here to see them, or simply click on My Photo Album on the right and choose Chess Party.

It was a really fun event. We had 12 kids in the mini-tournament (counting Mr. Bartz!). Evan took first with 5 wins and Josh tied visiting Eric Rokni for 2nd place. Josh took 2nd on tie-breakers. Along with the mini-tournament, we also had an hour of instruction where Mr. Seghers went over Morphy's famous "Opera Game" <- click to see yourself or watch a youtube version of it below. The point of this instruction is that, while we focus so much on carefully building a structured game, and position, and material, sometimes it is good to remember there is NO PRICE too high to get that King! While a sacrifice is a concept that is advanced for most of our players, it's good to get a glimpse of a master with a method to his "madness."
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Order your T-shirts ASAP!!!!

Here is the order form! To order, either print this, fill it out and turn it in to me (the slow method), or just email me the info (fast method) to seghers@gmail.com. I can have shirts for you in time for the tournament on Saturday if you move fast!!