June is almost over and the current leaders in the WCC Quad tournaments for winning is Nelson Rodriguez Doran (3) and Katie Tanabe (2) wins. Reminder, you have until the end of August to become the top winners. The Adult and scholastic players who win the most Quads (June to August) will qualify to have their entry fee paid for both the "Speed and Open or Reserve sections" of the Hawaii State Championships held during the Labor Day weekend Sept 3 to 5th, 2005. For a closer inspection of these Quad tournament results see www.windwardchess.org - Results section! You have two more months so come on out and try to qualify for these awards!Tournament Notice: July 4th Hawaii Chess federation Hawaii State Rapids Championships at Mililani Town Center see http://chess.meetup.com/9 for more details and map. This is a USCF rated tournament, for CXR players your results will also be rated by CXR, even against non-CXR players. That's one more thing that makes CXR ratings special! As for only USCF members (players) your ratings will not be effected by CXR rating these games. Questions email me at frank713@windwardchess.org.
Help Needed! We still need chess players to help give beginner lessons on Wednesdays either OTB - Over-the-board or on demo board. So come help a new player become a better chess player! Or if you need refreshing stop by and play some skittles games with our young players as well as our seasoned players. Hmm, if you want to play me, you have to wait until I'm done with the beginner lessons and running the Quad tournaments I run each week. Hope to see you soon!
Insurance Notice: State Farm has renewed our insurance policy for WCC , so we need your donations for this and other expenses, via our suggested $12 WCC annual membership donations per member is a good start. CXR - Chess Express, Inc. Russ Mollot info@chess-express.com has offered to donate 50 percent of the insurance cost if the club gets the other half via donations. We are still a little short! Checkout the article on page 45, spring 2005 of the new Squares Magazine called "Different Ways of Rating" by Russ Mollot! In the article Russ discusses the "parbables for not changing to better ratings system" and list examples of how CXR helps a chessplayer!
Why do we need insurance? GGP Windward Mall management requires this for any organization that meets at the mall. Our WCC web site has a "Make a Donation button" as well as WCC membership form for those who want to get on the email list and / or join CXR or make a donation to help the club!
Mahalo! To Windward Mall (WM), Chess Express, Inc. (CXR), Andrew Fong our State Farm Agent (808) 263-2290, J & J Seafood Store and others who have given their time and donations to help the Windward Chess Club continue to meet at the mall to promote chess for everyone! This will be WCC's fourth year coming this Oct 2005. We hope to continue growing and making chess more fun to play!
Notice: We have a related Go Club. Anyone interested in learning the old game of Go! A game older than 4000 years old that started out in China and continues to be played around the world. Kaneohe, Hawaii now has the new AGA - American Go Association affiliated "Kaneohe Go Club" that meets on Mondays 7:00PM at Starbucks (across the street from WM. To be sure you know where we will be meeting as we grow, we recommend you check http://go.meetup.com/179. Do you wonder who ever played Chess and Go, I'll start with "Emmanuel Lasker (1868-1941), World Chess Champions 1894-1921 and myself still a novice Go player! So if I can do it so can you, see you soon on either the chess board or go board! Or meet me at Kiseido Go Server or Chess Academy Server! my ID is frank713 at both os these servers! If you have not seen the realtionship between these two clubs its that I direct and play at both these clubs! So stop by and see what its all about!
Mahalo!
Paco
