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

LDMS Wins K-6, Open at Community

Chris, Kolt, Josh and Brian Schroeder (not pictured) take K-6!

Reid, Zeke, Evan, Blake take Open Division

The LDMS Knights won first place team trophies in both the K-6 and Open Divisions at Community High School.
Taking first place in the K-6 division was the team of: Chris Tillson, Kolton Otterbacher, Josh Bartz, and Brian Schroeder. Chris, Kolt and Josh went 5-1 and Brian went 4-2. Chris took 2nd overall, Kolt took 3rd, and Josh took 4th! Congratulations to Christopher Hildebrandt for taking first place, and beating Reid. Chris Tillson beat CH in the final round, but it wasn't enough to overtake him in tie-breakers.

In the open division, our first place team included Evan Seghers, Reid Seghers, Zeke Baker, and Blake Reeves. Evan won first place overall and Reid 2nd place.
Way to go team!

LDMS Tournament Announced Jan. 16 !!!

Yes! We are going to have our own tournament!!! This tournament will be held at Lake Denoon Middle School on January 16, 2010. This will be a USCF event which will be assisted by the Wisconsin Scholastic Chess Association (WSCA).

We will need several volunteers!! Please email me at seghers@gmail.com if you are able to volunteer to help out at this tournament.

More details to come. Thank you!
Mark Seghers

Updated: USM Information

We have a rocking good team ready for University School on Saturday!

Here is the list of those registered so far:
Evan Seghers
Reid Seghers
Chris Tillson
Jorin McGuire
Kolt Otterbacher
Brian Schroeder
Josh Bartz
Rachel Gomoll
David Petak
Jacob Gomoll
Zeke Baker
Jason Markowski
Blake Reeves
Jacob Stys

Please call me if you are able to ride-share. Thank you.

- Mr. Seghers

T-shirt order forms due by Thanksgiving!!!!

Click on this form to see a clearer version you can print!

Please note- the HOODIES RUN SMALL!!!!!

Please fill this out and print, you can bring to chess class or scan email to seghers@gmail.com.



Thank you!

"3 Musketeers" Take Trinity K-8

We weren't going to do Holy Trinity, thought we'd have an open week before University School.

However, Kolt and Evan wanted to play, and so did Jason. We weren't able to add anyone else at such short notice.

Evan, Kolt and Jason got it done as a team! LDMS took 1st place in the K-8 division over the always-tough Golda Meir. Evan went 5-0 including a victory vs. 2nd place (1734 rated) Jordan S., Jason went 4-1 (his only loss being to Jordan) and Kolt went 3.5-1.5 (his only loss also to Jordan)!

Way to go LDMS knights, and thank you to the WSCF and the folks at Holy Trinity for making a very nice tournament for the kids.

Tommy Takes Goodrich!

Congratulations to Tommy Schneider of Bayside Middle School, who took first place in the Goodrich Elementary School Open Division.    Tommy beat Reid in the final match, a good game where Tommy promoted a pawn in the endgame under time pressure!   Reid took 2nd place in the Open Division.
LDMS had a strong showing as a team, taking 1st place in the Open Division BARELY to a very strong team from Bayside Middle School.   We will be battling them a lot this year, I'm sure.   They are good players and great competition; we'll keep each other on our toes all year!
Reid had 4 points in the shortened 5-game tournament as did Chris Tillson who finished 3rd, and Kolton Otterbacher who finished 5th in the Open division.   Josh finished 8th and Jason finished 11th.  Jason would have had 4 also but missed a back-rank mate move by an opponent he was beating!   (Happens to all of us Jason... trust me, I know...!)    Zeke had very tough matchups this time around, just the way it works sometimes... but he played well, and will be a strong contributor for us this year.