LDMS Knights Win Joust at Bay Lane

USCF Open Division (not pictured = Chris)
USCF U-700 Division

K-6 Division

Congratulations again to Lake Denoon Middle School chess team for a great tournament at Bay Lane Middle School. Two more 1st place team trophies, and a close 2nd. We also took home 6 more individual trophies.
Our cross-town rivals hosted their own tournament, and LDMS brought 14 players who divided into three divisions: K-12, K-6 and Under700 rated. Our K-6 team of Jason, Kolt, Brian, Anthony and Blake took 1st place.
Our U-700 team of Josh, Rachel, Jacob, Willa, and John also took 1st place in that division. Wins by Rachel and Willa in the 6th round iced it for LDMS. Way to go Girls!!!!

Our USCF Open (k-12) team of Evan and Reid, Jorin and Chris (k-3 unrated national champs a few years ago) tied for first place, but took 2nd place on tie-breakers to a very tough Eisenhower Middle School. Gregory Jr of Bay lane won the K-12 division by avenging his loss at Grade Level to Evan! Evan said "I didn't really blunder today... he really just outplayed me. He deserved it." This was a very tough division on this day!
Individual trophies went to Jason who went 6-0 to win the K-6 Division, Josh who went 5-1 to take 2nd in the U-700 division. Great job Jason and Josh!!!
Other individual trophies were won by Kolton, Brian, Evan, and Reid.

Kudos to Mr. Reese and the WSCA for holding a great, well-organized and fun tournament!
Full results can be found by clicking here: http://www.wscachess.org/wscachess/custom/results/BayLane2010.htm

NEXT UP: Elmwood on 3/13 and then the State Scholastic tournament on 3/20-21 !!!!

LDMS Takes 6th Grade State Championship

Royal Blue, plus Kolt in the Yellow hat

Congratulation to the Lake Denoon Chess Team, who won another state championship at the Milwaukee School of Engineering this weekend. The team of Evan, Reid, Jason, Kolt, Brian, Chris T., Rachel, Zeke, and Blake won first place in the state for 6th grade, scoring 13 out of a possible 15 points.
Evan went 5-0 to win the 1st place individual trophy. Reid went 4-1 to take 5th place trophy. In fifth grade, Jorin and Jacob G. didnt have enough for a team, but Jorin won the 3rd place individual trophy in 5th grade.

Click here for FULL RESULTS from the WSCF web site. Kudos to the WSCF for a well-run tournament and a great venue at MSOE. Best skittles room... EVER....

Great job Lake Denoon Chess Team!

Grade Level Roll Call

For Grade Level so far, we have the following players so far:
5 Jorin
5 Jacob G
6 Evan
6 Reid
6 Jason
6 Chris
6 Kolt
6 Rachel
6 Zeke
6 Blake
We are locked in at the $20 rate- please RSVP if you want to play and arent on the list above!!!

Next Up: WI Grade Level at MSOE

Next Saturday, Feb 20, is one of my favorite events of the year. Hundreds of kids around the state come together for the Wisconsin Grade Level Chess Tournament. Last year, with a team of Reid, Evan, Chris, Kolt, Jason, Brian, Rachel, Josh and Zeke, we won the first place trophy for 5th Grade, edging out University School and their amazing Expert-level leader Sasha. Click here to read about and see pictures of Lake Denoon's 5th Grade Level Championship last year.
This year, we have a great shot at both the 6th place, and also the 5th place, trophies, if we have good participation. So far, we have Reid, Evan, Jason, and Rachel signed up for 6th grade, and JacobG and Jorin signed up for 5th grade. This year the tournament will be held at the Milwaukee School of Engineering, 1025 N. Broadway 53202 <-click for map Click here to see the tournament flyer with all the details. I will be taking a van, and can take a couple more kids. To sign up, just RSVP via email to me at s e g h e r s @ g m a i l . c o m (without the spaces) and I will register you- please dont register yourselves.

Please consider joining us for this amazing, well organized, well attended annual event!!

Thank you.

Evan, Reid, Kolt and Josh represent LDMS

The team of Reid, Evan, Kolt and Josh will be representing LDMS in the annual US Amateur Team North tournament tomorrow at the Crowne Plaza Hotel.

Go LDMS Knights!

LDMS 6th Graders take Sheboygan K-12

Brian, Reid, Kolt, Evan

7 strong High School players came down from Southern Door High School to take the K-12 Division of the chess tournament at Sheboygan Christian on Saturday. Instead, four 6th graders- Reid & Evan Seghers, Kolt Otterbacher, and Brian Schroeder came up from Muskego Wisconsin and took home the first place trophy! Reid went 5-0 to win first, Kolt had 4.5 to take 2nd, Evan 4.0 to take 4th overall, and Brian had 3 out of 5 to take 9th.

Congratulations to the Golda Meir team who took the K-6 division.

LDMS In-Class Tournament Update!

So far thru 4 rounds, we have a three-way tie for first place: Evan, Reid and Rachel Gomoll each have 3.5 out of a possible 4. Following closely behind, we have Kolt and Jason at 3 out of 4.

In the 5th round, we have the following projected pairings (White vs. Black shown):
Round 5
Reid (3.5) Vs. Evan (3.5)
Rachel (3.5) Vs. Jason (3.0)
Kolt (3.0) Vs. Chris (2.5)
Brian Vs. JacobG
Jorin Vs. Blake
Josh Vs. JacobS
Zeke Vs. Anthony
David Vs. Ben
John Vs. Cassie
Willa - TBD

If Rachel beats Jason, then she will play the winner of the game between Reid and Evan for the 09-10 LDMS tournament championship! If Jason beats Rachel, then the winner of Reid Vs. Evan is the champion. If Reid and Evan Draw, and Rachel beats Jason, Rachel is the champion. If Reid and Evan Draw, and Jason beats Rachel, then there will be a three-way tie between Jason, Reid and Evan which will be played off in subsequent weeks. A tie breaker will not decide this tournament!!!