Paul V. Smith returns to Hawaii Chess Circuit

The Town Center of Mililani

Hawaii had its first Chess tournament today in the new year 2008! And after a eight year absence PAUL V SMITH returned to chess tournament action. he had a little rough start losing to our regular tournament player DATRIS ANTONIO ROBINSON but won the next four games and won the small Mililani Chess Day Tournament. in 2nd place came ARTEMIO DELA CRUZ and 3rd place WILLIAM P SHEA. TD Randy Prothero! Randy mention it was great beautiful day to play chess at the town center!

With the Scholastic Championships around the corner, we would expect more scholastic players to play in these monthly USCF & CXR rated events, hmm as well myself! :-(

Next scholastic tournament is Jan 21 (MLK Day) at (new playing location) - Washington Middle School and next month on February 9th - State Action Championships G/45, see www.hawaiichess.org for details at the Town Center of Mililani! TD Guy P. Ontai for both upcoming events!

Suggestion: So better not only dust off the Chess & Go boards, but those chess & go books and chess & go programs, G/5 minute games is fun, but not good for slow championship games preparing! So the next step is to visit your local chess clubs otherwise the same players will keep winning these tournaments! Just like any other sport the more time quality practice time the better your performance over the chess or go board!

Mark Stitham mention a new (to me) a free web site for playing on-line chess at http://chess.com and Fred Haley mention another new web site for playing Go on 9x9 or 13x13 board program (standalone program) that is also free to download at www.gokgs.com. So no excuses if your not ready for the Hawaii Championships!

Hawaii Warriors were ill prepare for the Georgia football players relentlessness blitz, so don't get caught over the chessboard or go board the same way!

http://chess.com my ID is frank713 as well as at KGS, http;//chess.ac, and ICC

Hawaii Winter Scholastic Tournament - results

Dec 15 Hawaii Winter Scholastic Tournament was about to start and had about 112 players in both Open and Novice sections and TD Guy Ontai & Randy Prothero had everything under control to start the 6 round tournament.

But just a few minutes before the the player / coaches meeting, Guy was informed that there was another group scheduled to use the venue later in the evening, but the problem was they needed the venue sooner! So the compromise was a 5 round tournament and no scheduled lunch. With everyone's help the event ended in record time and all awards were handed quickly.

When dust settled the only undefeated co-winners in the Open section were John Iinuma and Marissa Wai both with 5 - 0- 0 records John winning on tie-breakers this time, at Le Jardin Academy he came in 2nd due to tie-breakers. 3rd place went Stephen Mau on tie-breakers with 10 other player with 4 points each. In the Novice section Joshua Hsi with 6.5 points out 7 won 1st, 2nd went to Duke Mailolo with 5.5 points, 3rd to Alex Rambaud with 5 points.

Top three teams were 1st place Pearl City High School with 18 points, Hanala 2nd place with 13 points and 3rd place Mililani Middle School with 12.5 points.

One other item that needs to be mention is that the next three tournaments will have a fourse awards sections in the Open section, K -3rd, K-6th, K-8th, and K-12th, so more awards and and we expecte lots more players hence the new the venue!

Believe everyone had fun and even had a little Go game action on side between rounds, as Hawaii will once again be having one of the eight U.S Youth Go Championship Qualifiers, held around the country. Will announce confirmation and additional details later!

The start of the 2008 Scholastic schedule is below, please note the next two tournaments are at a new location "Washington Middle School" and we hope to see you there!

2008 Hawaii Chess Federation Calendar

Mon 1/21/08 MLK Day Interscholastic G/25 TD: Guy P. Ontai

** New Location Washington Middle School

1663 S. King St. - Honolulu

Open Division - 9am check-in

Novice Division - 10am Check-in

Flyer and Reg Form - Adobe PDF Version

Mon 2/18/08 Presidents Day Interscholastic G/25 TD: Guy P. Ontai

Washington Middle School

1663 S. King St. - Honolulu

Open Division - 9am check-in

Novice Division - 10am Check-in

Flyer and Reg Form - Adobe PDF Version

March 14-15, 2008 2008 State Scholastic Championships TD: Guy P. Ontai

Details TBA

Sat 4/12/08 2008 Girl's State Interscholastic Championships TD: Guy P. Ontai

Aliamanu Middle School

3271 Salt Lake Blvd.

11:30am Check-in - 12:00pm Round 1

Flyer and Reg Form - Adobe PDF Version