Windward Chess & Go Club in Action

After spenting all day along with 150 plus players at the Veteran's Day Scholastic tournament and just as many parents and coaches, I arrived late to our Monday Night Chess & Go club meeting, I had to stop and pickup dinner for someone I am a caregiver too! The group had one chess board setup and I had the rest, inlcuding the Go boards. As you see we have lots of reference material to review and purchase if we like and we hope to see you soon. But within a few minutes we had chess and go sets setup and ready to play, there was eight of us, thanks Joey for taking photo's!

We no longer have the 10 tables in Center Court at Windward Mall, but Borders Book & Music Store has been very supportive via close friends of chess & go members of the community, we have been welcome there to play chess & go. We meet on Mondays and yes most holidays if the Borders is open, we'll be there, from 6:00pm to 9:00pm. Also Starbucks Coffee which is in Borders also will alowed to meet there as needed, so we'll see you soon! Lets play Chess or Go or both if you can!

We be linking to Vet's Day results as soon as they are available at http://www.hawaiichess.org/ and CXR http://www.cxrchess.com/ and HICL standings at http://www.windwardchess.org/.

Charles Sonido won 1st place in the Open section with a perfect 6-0-0 score, congrats Charles and Pearl City High School Team again winning the team Overall honors with a score of 20 points out of 24. In the Novice section winning 7 out 8 games and promoted to the Open section forever was Shota Nemoto, congrats! There were a few players missing, but also seeing lots more new faces, thanks John Imperial & Lynn and the many folks supporting and working behind the players to get them to these events! Guy Ontai was TD and Randy Prothero was Asst TD. Next Scholastic Tournament is Dec 15 see HCF web site calendar for details. This week Mililani Chess Day Nov 17, Randy Prothero TD.

Windward Chess & Go Club now meeting again in Kaneohe!

Aloha Windward Chess & Go Club players,

We have finally moved again "just temporary" until its decided where to place us in Windward Mall.

Windward Chess & Go Club will be meeting at Starbucks Coffee in Kaneohe, across the street from Zippy's and Windward Mall! See http://chess.meetup.com/9 for map and details also see http://www.windwardchess.org/.

Border's Bookstore is open, but still arranging things and their Starbucks will not open until August 3rd, plus we are still waiting for headquarters & mall's approval, etc.

Windward Chess & Go Club has been away from the Windward Mall now for 16 months, it was only suppose to be or 12 months, but some changes have occurred and we are hoping to be allowed to meet somewhere near or in Border's. it will be similar to the Starbucks Coffee Shop that we are currently planning to meet in. So we'll just have to get used to it, Kailua District Park has be great to us, they given us plenty of room, just now we have few chess & go players coming out to play. Could be the summer vacation, could be we have less chess players, now, or it could be Windward Mall chess players only want to play in the mall. Whatever the reasons we hope to see a good showing at our meetings from now on.

Rep Cynthia Thielen has been fighting for us to get into Windward Mall, but so far its been a waiting game to see when the new Border's & Starbucks would open. So now that we are meeting in Kaneohe I hope to see some of die-hard chess & go players show some support for YOUR club. Last week there was only two us in this huge meeting room at Kailua District Park, unbelievable.

So starting this week (August 1st) we will be meeting at Starbucks Coffee, in Kaneohe at 43-23 Kamehameha Hwy, right across from Zippy's. This the same place the Oahu Go Club meets on Mondays and we have had a good showing from our Go players.

Also please join our Meetup group for Windward Chess & Go Club, that way you can be kept abreast of where WCGC is meeting weekly, should we move again.

Mahalo for supporting your local Windward Chess & Go Club. see links below for more information and maps of location of next meetings for both Windward Chess & Go Club and Oahu Go Club. And should be interested in boat safety and joining the U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary a group of volunteer's there a link there for that as well. I happen to be the web master as well for all these groups as well.

August 4th we are having our first "Warm-up Scholastic Chess Tournament" at Kailua District Park next Saturday from 1:00pm to 5:00pm, see http://www.windwardchess.org/ for flier an more details.

Also we hope to see you this Wednesday August 1st, at Starbucks Coffee in Kaneohe same side a Longs Drug Store and next to Jamba Juice.