Monday, January 25, 2010

LDMS Tournament Pictures

The WSCA pictures are now available online for Lake Denoon
More coming up soon!

LDMS In-class Tournament!

We are holding a 5-round in-class tournament at LDMS.

The winner of this tournament gets their name on a plaque for 2010, that's already up in the chess room. This is the continuation of a great tradition put in place originally by the previous chess coach, Mr. Antoniewicz.

Below are the standings so far: (M=Miss, B=BYE, Wn = win against player #n, Ln= loss against player #n. Example: L5 = loss to rachel)

Round 3 is this week!!!

Standings after 2nd round (Place-Name-1- 2- 3- 4- 5- TOTAL)
1 -Reid -W10 -W13 -2.0
2 -Chris -W9 -W11- 2.0
3 -Jason- W7 -W8- 2.0
4 -Evan -M- W14- 1.5
5 -Rachel -W17- M- 1.5
6 -JacobG- W16- M- 1.5
7 -Kolt -L7- W16- 1.0
8 -Jorin -W15- L3- 1.0
9 -Brian- L2- W17- 1.0
10- Josh- L1- W15- 1.0
11- David- W12 -L2- 1.0
12- John- L 11-B- 1.0
13- JacobS- M- L1- 0.5
14- Ben- M- L4- 0.5
15- Anthony-L8- L10- 0.0
16- Cassie- L6- L7 0.0
17- Blake- L5- L9 0.0

Here are the projected Pairings for round 3!!

ROUND 3 (White shown first)
Chris vs. Reid
Jason vs. Evan
JacobG vs. Rachel
Kolt vs. Josh
Jorin vs. Brian
Josh vs. Kolt
Brian vs. Jorin
Ben vs. JacobS
Cassie vs. Anthony
Blake vs. BYE

Monday, January 18, 2010

Chess at Discovery World on 1/23 !!

Two experiences for the price of one at this tournament at Discovery World!
A discount admission price for participants of $15 enters you in this chess tournament and gives you access to all of Discovery World’s exhibits for the day. $10 Entry fee to Discover World for all adults and siblings accompanying participants.

This will be an easier, unrated, "fun" tournament with the added bonus of getting access to Discovery World! Family of players can get into Discovery World for $10 entry fee. One Year Family Memberships will be awarded to the Champion of each Division!

There are three unrated divisions: K-3, K-6 and K-12. There is also a K-12 USCF-Rated division. Click here for tournament details.

Entry $15 entry fee paid on site at day of tournament for preregistered players. To get pre-registered at the $15 rate, please reply to this email (seghers@gmail.com) and I will pre-register you - do not register on your own please! You can register at the tournament also for $20.
Cash and Check only Checks payable to: Discovery World

Discovery Times and Discovery World Exhibits

Registration will be open at 8:00 and access to the Reiman Aquarium, Great Lakes Future, The Challenge and City of Fresh Water exhibits will be open at 8:30. Other exhibits will open at the normal time of 10:00 am and all will be open till close at 5:00 pm. More info about Discovery World exhibits at http://www.discoveryworld.org/experiences.php

Please RSVP by sending email to me at seghers@gmail.com - that's all you need to do!

Tournament Dates for rest of season

Tournament dates to keep in mind this year (details to come):
Feb 6- Blair Elementary - unrated - Good beginner tournament!
Feb 20- Grade Level tournament - great tournament to play against kids in your own grade
Feb 27- Bay Lane Middle School -rated and unrated divisions, right here in Muskego
Mar 6- Fairview - unrated
Mar 13- Elmwood tournament in New Berlin!
Mar 20-21 - USCF State Scholastic Championships in Oshkosh WI
Mar 27 - St.Johns - unrated
Apr 10 - 5th Annual All-Girls Championship in Sheboygan
Apr 17 - Reagan tournament in New Berlin!
Apr 24-25 - WSCF State Championship at Kalahari in Wisconsin Dells
May 1- Mill Valley Tournament in Muskego!
May 7-8-9 National Elementary Championships in Atlanta!!! Seghers/Tillson going so far.

Reid and Jason lead the LDMS Knights at Home

On Saturday, Lake Denoon Middle School hosted our first scholastic chess tournament! With over 130 players in three divisions, it was a great event, drawing very strong players from all over the state! LDMS had 16 players compete in this very challenging USCF rated tournament.
LDMS won 1st place in K-6, and 2nd place in K-12. Great job LDMS Knights! In K-6, Reid Seghers went 5-1 to win the 2nd place trophy, and Jorin McGuire also went 5-1 to win the 4th place trophy. Kolt Otterbacher, Rachel Gomoll, and Josh Bartz went 4-2. Other members of the 1st place K-6 team included Anthony Gajeski, Zeke Baker, Jake Gomoll, Jake Stys, Blake Reeves, David Petak and John Bennett.
In the very tough K-12 Division, Jason Markowski led the way by winning 3 out his 4 games. Jason raised his USCF rating over 200 points, to 963! Evan Seghers had 2.5. Also in the 2nd place K-12 team were Chris Tillson and Brian Schroeder.
Everyone had fun, loved the school, and thought the WSCA did a great job running the event. Thanks to all the parents who helped, especially Glynis Grochowski who did an amazing job of orchestrating things.
NEXT UP: a tournament this Saturday the 23rd at DISCOVERY WORLD! The tournament fee includes a free pass to Discovery World! Details can be found by clicking here, and I will send more information today and tomorrow. As with all tournaments, DO NOT REGISTER ON YOUR OWN- I will register all players- all you have to do is send me an email saying you will attend!

Sunday, January 10, 2010

LDMS 6th Graders take Richards' K-8

Five Players, Five Trophies

In the first time our K-3 national champions, Evan, Reid, Jorin and Chris, have reunited in the same tournament, Lake Denoon Middle School dominated the Richards Elementary K-8 division with another first place team trophy. Jason also played, and the five of them ALL won trophies!

In the K-8 division, the team of Evan, Reid, Chris and Jason easily won the K-8 division. After 5 games, Evan and Reid were both 5-0, Chris was 4.5 - .5, and Jason was 4-1. Since there were no other kids close to them in record (that they had not already played, the WSCF made the unusual decision to pit team members against each other. Evan played Reid on board 1, and Chris played Jason on board 2. I have never seen this before. Evan edged out Reid in the endgame, and Jason beat Chris. Reid lost only to Evan, but mysteriously dropped to 4th place behind a girl he had beaten. Regardless of the odd 6th round pairings, the four K-8 players took 4 of the top 5 trophies in the division.

Jorin was alone in K-5 and went 5-1 to take 3rd place in a large division. Way to go Lake Denoon Knights!

Next week, Lake Denoon hosts its first-ever chess tournament at the school! We are putting together two very strong teams in the K-6 and K-12 divisions. If you have not yet RSVP'ed yet for the tournament, please do! Click here to see details