Windward Chess News & Special events

Aloha Hawaii chess players, parents, & friends,

Windward Chess News: Windward Chess Club is on the move for (7 weeks and will be meeting at Times Coffee Shop- TCS starting Wednesday's Nov 23). The new Kailua Chess Group is growing with 16 young members and growing so join us on Mondays. Reminder of US STATE CHAMPION OF CHAMPIONS tournament playoff between Cornelius Rubsamen vs Chet Gionson held at Mililani Chess Club, rec #6, keep reading for more details!

Update I: Cornelius Rubsamen won last night's match with Chet Gionson 3 -1 to win the right to represent Hawaii! Game 1 was won by Cornelius using the Petrov opening, Game 2 was won by Cornelius using the Tromposki opening, Chet answered back with a win in the Game 3 with the Vienna opening, and Game 4 was won by Cornelius with the French Terrach exchange varition. But Chet did not make it easy after getting ahead in material, Cornelius made it diffcult to end the game and Chet ran out of time to win the match! Information provided by Randy Prothero and Cornelius Rubsamen!

Update II: Hawaii Representative Cornelius Rubsamen's place 4th in the ICC State Champion of Champions and for your review here's all the games played at ICC for this event, games provided by Randy Prothero to see these games go to this link: http://www.windwardchess.org/Montreux/m.html, see part II of ICC games to Hawaii's State Champion's games!

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Also like to remind everyone that Windward Chess Club - WCC had its last meeting for 2005 at Windward Mall last night. WCC meetings will continue at Times Coffee Shop across Kam Hwy at the corner in front of Safeway. It a very nice large meeting room. From Nov 23, 2005 to Jan 4, 2006 we will have our meetings there. TCS has an excellent menu and easy-going atmosphere for playing chess and maybe go if your interested. So checkout Windward Chess Club holiday hang-out and see what it is like to meet in a carpeted Quiet room where you can think about the game your playing and not put up with Mall noise! Lessons will continue and Go players are invited to join us. The TCS management is very happy to have us there. Just a reminder not bring outside food to the meeting room. Waitress service is available and your welcome to purchase anything on their menu and enjoy while playing!

Location: Map
Holiday home of the Windward Chess Club!

Times Coffee Shop
Kaneohe Bay Shopping Center at corner of Kam Hwy in front of Safeway Food Store across from Windward Mall
46-077 Kamehameha HwyKaneohe, Hawaii 96744
cell 294-4335

WCC Calendar: http://www.windwardchess.org/wmcc/Calendar.html

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Also as reminder for those who can't make the Wednesday Night chess meetings, we are also meeting at Kailua District Park on Mondays from 3:30pm to 5:00pm in the mutli-purpose room. We have 14 young players learning and playing chess and grownups & scholastic players are welcome to join us. We have 30 minutes of lessons and then have been playing skittles, using chess clocks

Kailua Chess Group
21 S. Kainalu Drive
Kailua District Park - Map

KCG Calendar: http://www.windwardchess.org/Kailua/Calendarkailua.html

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Notice: Friday Nov 18 from 3:00pm to 4:30pm at Holy Family Catholic Academy HFCA campus there is a round robin match between HFCA, Assets and Hanahau'oli 3 rounds G/10, eight boards! Stop by and checkout the quick action! Holy Family Catholic Academy 830 Main Street, Honolulu, HI 96818 (808) 423-9611.
Update: HFCA A Team won the round robin with 15 points, Assets came in second with 10 1/2 points and HFCA B Team came in 3rd with 2 1/2. We will have rematch early next year!

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Tonight, Thursday November 17, 2005

The match between our State Open Co-Champions is on!

Cornelius Rubsamen vs. Chet Gionson Game 10 – best of 5 (first to win 3 games)

Time: 7:00pm (doors open at 6:00pm)
Place: Mililani Chess Club
Rec. Center 6, Mililani Mauka

Winner to represent Hawaii in the US State Champion of Champions event. The winner will receive for participating in the next event a free year of membership on ICC (Internet Chess Club)

Spectators Welcome! Open Chess Play from 6:00pm to 9:00pm!

Randy L. Prothero
Hawaii Chess Federation
gambit7@hawaii.rr.com
http://www.hawaiichess.org/

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There are chess clubs all over the the island of Oahu so check HCF web site for location and meetings times of chess clubs at www.hawaiichess.org.

Reminder to our new chess players, checkout Chess Kids Academy at www.chesskids.com it has nine courses that start from beginner to intermediate level, its like having a coach and both you and your parent and or coach can use as a guide to learn to play by the rules of chess as well as learning about openings, tactics and end games, etc. Don't wait try it now!!!!

Mahalo,

Frank H. Alejandro
WIndward Chess Club Director
Kailua Chess Club Director
Chess Coach
Kaneohe Go Club Director
http://www.windwardchess.org/

2005 Veterans Day Interscholastic at Aliamanu Elementary

Open section Results:

The second scholastic tournament of 2005 - 2006 season has just been completed. Robert Lau a 9th grader set the pace with a perfect 6 point score to win 1st place overall with 93 players in the Open section. tied for 2nd to 4th on tiebreakers with a score of 5 points were Christopher Wong, John Iinuma & Ian Sakamoto! This win for Robert Lau has placed him at the top of the HICL ratings roster with a seaon high rating of 1480!

Billy Swartworth & Steven Yee came 1st to 2nd on tiebreakers in the Elementary division with score 0f 4 .5 points, Tristan Kaonohi, Ryan Hara & Mark Flores, came in 3rd to 5th with of 4 points each on tiebreakers.

Ryan Jose Palomares, Nathan Ulm, Ryan Young & Aaron Thomas, came in 1st to 4thplace on tiebreakers in the Middle School division with 4 points each.

Kevin Erick, Jesse Manufekai had 5 points each and on tiebreakers came in 1st to 2nd place , Danton Lee came in 3rd place with a score of 4.5 points in the High School Division.

Team Results:

Elementary School Div:: 1st Hanahau'oli School, 2nd Le Jardin Academy E, 3rd Maryknoll ES

Middle School Division: 1st Pearl City HIS, 2nd Maryknoll IS, 3rd Holy Family Catholic Academy

Overall Team winners : 1st Punahau HS, 2nd Pearl City HS, 3rd Hanala HS

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In the Novice section:
Overall winner was Evan de Luna with perfect 6 points, Tyler Oho-Watt, Jesse Ono, Thaddeus Padua, Lucia Amore, & Andrew Brabazon tied for 2nd to 5thplace . The Novice section had 51 novice players and the attendance mark set a record for this section.

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In the College Section: The newest section of these scholastic tournaments is for "Full time students only" and had 14 players, they played a blazing 14 games at G/5 for 7 rounds in a dual meet with each player they played. The winner was Paul Iinuma with an amazing 13.5 score, 2nd went to Scott Kira, and 3rd to Adam Victoria-Santarone.

Guy Ontai & Randy Prothero ran an outstanding scholastic tournament with 158 players in three sections, the players, parents and coaches all should be giving a big Mahalo and lets hope we contunie having these large tournaments year round! But with other events and sports happening that will not always happen so we'll see how the rest of the season goes! Next tournament is Dec 10 at Aliamanu Intermediate School, check www.hawaiichess.org calendars for details.

The Hawaii Interscholastic Chess League (HICL) ratings have been updated and are available at http://www.windwardchess.org/tourresults/HICL.html.

CXR Chess Express, Inc. www.chess-express.com again is rating our scholastic tournaments, so the players are actually getting rated twice, once by HICL a local seasonal rating system that gives out awards at the end of the year to the top performance overall to HCF scholastic tournament players based on HICL rating and via CXR a national lifetime rating system. Please check your ratings at both of these web sites to see how you stand against others. The unique think about CXR is that you get more than one rating you will also see over 40 stats once you are no longer a "Provisional player" and can can see how you stand against other players not just in Hawaii, but nationally and even Canadian players. There currently is 1366 CXR players of which Hawaii has 359 players adults and scholastic players.

For those interested in giving a donation to HICL please contact Frank H. Alejandro at frank713@windwardchess.org or 235-1567 these funds will be used to puchase awards for the HICL winners as well as for the entry fees we will award these players to enter the Hawaii State Championships held in Sept 2006. In case some players are not able to pay for their CXR membership we will be supplementing this dues payment from this fund as its only $5 annually per scholastic player!

Weekly Quads and match games at Windward Chess Club rated by CXR

Chess Game formats: Quads & match games held every Wednesday night! Meeting Time 5:30pm to 8:30pm. Quads (A group of Round Robin tournaments) four or six players per Quad by rating! To play register between : 5:30pm to 6:30pm. Quads Start: 6:30pm & 7:30pm if you want to finish a Quad the week that it's started, please bring your chess clocks and set to G/15. Otherwise we have no time limits per move! If in 4 player Quad - there will be 3 rounds! If in 5 / 6 player Quad - there will be 5 rounds! Match games: Both players must sign in before playing, to indicate date and time and at the end of game mark what the result was on the form! Match game Sign-up form will be on a clipboard by club directors area. USCF rules apply to all games played at WCC! The current in house club ratings can be found at WCC Weekly Events

Last few we had from two to four Quads running at various strengths, so come earlier and sign up, we normally have no entry fees, unless all parties agreed at start if there is to be cash prize! All Quads and match games at WCC are CXR rated! To encourage players to play in these CXR rated Quads we are announcing the prizes of free entry to the 2006 Hawaii Championship's for one adult players and one scholastic player from WCC, scholastic players also get a free entry into the Le Jardin Academy 3rd Annual tournament held next year on Sept 30, 2006! Windward Chess Club meeting calendar

November is seeing lots of chess tournament activity both scholastic and USCF tournaments, being held Nov 11 and Nov 12. See HCF calendar for details. both of these tournaments will have games rated by CXR! HICL will also rate the Nov 11 tournament which the second scholastic tournament of the season. See current HICL Standing - Hawaii Interscholastic Chess league! As a matter of fact from November to April, HCF has scholastic tournaments scheduled and the last of the 2005 for scholastic will be December 10, so be ready for more chess action the next two months in 2005!

Reminder tomorrow is November 7 and Kailua Chess Group will be having their first meeting at the Kailua District Park from 3:30pm to 5:00pm! Kailua scheduled meeting Calendar