Nelson Lopez II and Abby Marshall win the Denker and Polgar tournaments both with 5.5. points!

Nelson M Lopez II scored 5.5/6 to take clear first at the Denker Tournament of High School Champions. The tournament, which attempts to feature high school champions from every state, hosted a field of 46 young chess stars. Lopez, the North Carolina champion, entered the tournament as the 10th seed.

Alexander Chua, the top seed, finished second with 5 points, while four players tied for 3rd at 4.5: Evan Ju (NJ), Tyler Hughes (CO), Corbin Yu (OR), and Brian Goldstein (FL).

The Denker Tournament also has a counterpart for young female chess champions: the Susan Polgar National Invitational Tournament for Girls. This tournament brought together 44 top young chess minds for a closely contested six-round competition.

In the end, Abby Marshall of Virginia came out on top, winning five games and drawing one to score 5.5 points, good enough for clear first place. Abby finished a half-point ahead of both Louiza Livschitz of California, and Elina Kats or New York, who shared second place.
A complete crosstable for the Denker Tournament can be found here, while the Polgar Tournament crosstable can be found here. Marissa Wai was the girls Hawaii Representative this year, she was also the only Hawaii player to play in the U.S. Open this year! Also won the under 1200 blitz tournament.

To review the top games from these two tournaments go to the following link from www.monroi.com For more direct link to games (click here)

Also check Hawaii Denker representative - Robert Lau third round game using the French opening! Denker Round 3

To qualify for both of these National tournaments you need to play in at least the March 2007 Hawaii State Scholastic Tournament and win the High school Championship section for the Denker and for the Polgar be the top Girl scorer at the same event. Please review the Hawaii Chess Federation calendar to be sure to play in six HCF scholastic tournaments. www.hawaiichess.org .

All these tournaments will be rated by CXR - Chess Express, Inc. www.cxrchess.com and HICL - Hawaii Interscholastic Chess League a local rating for scholastic chess players who play in these events.

Why should you play chess, the winner of the Denker and Polgar tournament's both won - 4 year scholarships to the University of Texas in Dallas! Now that's a new award just for playing chess an winning a tournament!

So are you ready to try! Good, now breakout the chessboards & chess books and start practicing , NOW! Visit your local school chess club or any of Hawaii's public chess clubs!

The first Hawaii scholastic tournament scheduled is Sept 30, 2006 at Le Jardin Academy, for tournament details (click here)

UNITED STATES CHESS LEAGUE - August 28 - November 22, 2006

Aloha Hawaii Chess Players,

We do not have a Hawaii team, but in the future maybe we will have enough players that qualify, currently the USCL is adding two teams per year, last they started with 8, and this year they have 10. See last year's requirements for forming and getting approved to have a USCL team.

USCL 2006 Schedule is set! The Seattle Sluggers and Tennessee Tempo will kick off the season on Monday August 28th, while the rest of the league will start play on Wednesday August 30th. Once again there is a 10 week regular season, followed by playoffs, with an extra WildCard Round this season. Stay tuned all season for 4 great matches every Wednesday evening and new special feature matches every Monday.Below is the schedule for the first week of play: Click here to see the rest of the schedule or just keep reading!


UNITED STATES CHESS LEAGUE
USCL League Commissioner - IM Greg Shahade (gregshahade@yahoo.com/admin@uschessleague.com)

Official 2006 USCL Schedule - 12 teams with 4 players each
(Team Listed first gets white on boards 1+3)

Watch all games LIVE on the Internet Chess Club (ICC)!

WEEK 1 -
Monday August 28th 2006
1. Tennessee Tempo vs Seattle Sluggers 9:00 ET

Wednesday August 30th 2006
2. New York Knights vs Philadelphia Masterminds 7:00 ET
3. Carolina Cobras vs Baltimore Kingfishers 7:15 ET
4. Boston Blitz vs Miami Sharks 7:30 ET
5. San Francisco Mechanics vs Dallas Destiny 8:30 ET

WEEK 2 -
Monday September 4th 2006
1. Miami Sharks vs San Francisco Mechanics 8:30 ET

Wednesday September 6th 2006
2. Philadelphia Masterminds vs Boston Blitz 7:00 ET
3. Baltimore Kingfishers vs New York Knights 7:15 ET
4. Dallas Destiny vs Tennessee Tempo 8:15 ET
5. Seattle Sluggers vs Carolina Cobras 9:00 ET

WEEK 3 -
Monday September 11th 2006
1. Boston Blitz vs New York Knights 7:00 ET

Wednesday September 13th 2006
2. Baltimore Kingfishers vs Carolina Cobras 7:15 ET
3. Tennessee Tempo vs Miami Sharks 8:15 ET
4. Philadelphia Masterminds vs San Francisco Mechanics 8:30 ET
5. Seattle Sluggers vs Dallas Destiny 9:00 ET

WEEK 4 -
Monday September 18th 2006
1. Miami Sharks vs Baltimore Kingfishers 7:30 ET

Wednesday September 20th 2006
2. Carolina Cobras vs New York Knights 7:00 ET
3. Boston Blitz vs Philadelphia Masterminds 7:15 ET
4. Dallas Destiny vs San Francisco Mechanics 8:30 ET
5. Seattle Sluggers vs Tennessee Tempo 9:00 ET

WEEK 5 -
Monday September 25th 2006
1. New York Knights vs Seattle Sluggers 9:00 ET

Wednesday September 27th 2006
2. Carolina Cobras vs Boston Blitz 7:00 ET
3. Philadelphia Masterminds vs Baltimore Kingfishers 7:15 ET
4. Dallas Destiny vs Miami Sharks 8:00 ET
5. San Francisco Mechanics vs Tennessee Tempo 8:30 ET

WEEK 6 -
Monday October 2nd 2006
1. San Francisco Mechanics vs New York Knights 8:30 ET

Wednesday October 4th 2006
2. Carolina Cobras vs Philadelphia Masterminds 7:00 ET
3. Boston Blitz vs Baltimore Kingfishers 7:15 ET
4. Dallas Destiny vs Tennessee Tempo 8:00 ET
5. Seattle Sluggers vs Miami Sharks 9:00 ET

WEEK 7 -
Monday October 9th 2006
1. Miami Sharks vs Dallas Destiny 7:30 ET

Wednesday October 11th 2006
2. New York Knights vs Carolina Cobras 7:00 ET
3. Baltimore Kingfishers vs Philadelphia Masterminds 7:15 ET
4. Tennessee Tempo vs Boston Blitz 8:15 ET
5. San Francisco Mechanics vs Seattle Sluggers 9:00 ET

WEEK 8 -
Monday October 16th 2006
1. Philadelphia Masterminds vs Carolina Cobras 7:15 ET

Wednesday October 18th 2006
2. New York Knights vs Boston Blitz 7:00 ET
3. Baltimore Kingfishers vs Dallas Destiny 8:00 ET
4. Tennessee Tempo vs San Francisco Mechanics 8:30 ET
5. Miami Sharks vs Seattle Sluggers 9:00 ET

WEEK 9 -
Monday October 23rd 2006
1. Seattle Sluggers vs San Francisco Mechanics 9:00 ET

Wednesday October 25th 2006
2. Boston Blitz vs Carolina Cobras 7:00 ET
3. New York Knights vs Baltimore Kingfishers 7:15 ET
4. Dallas Destiny vs Philadelphia Masterminds 8:00 ET
5. Miami Sharks vs Tennessee Tempo 8:15 ET

WEEK 10 -
Wednesday November 1st
1. Philadelphia Masterminds vs New York Knights 7:00 ET
2. Baltimore Kingfishers vs Boston Blitz 7:15 ET
3. Carolina Cobras vs Tennessee Tempo 8:15 ET
4. San Francisco Mechanics vs Miami Sharks 8:30 ET
5. Dallas Destiny vs Seattle Sluggers 9:00 ET

Playoffs:Wild Card Matches -
Wednesday November 8th
1. 2nd place in East Division vs 3rd place in East Division (2nd place in East gets draw odds)
2. 2nd place in West Division vs 3rd place in West Division (2nd place in West gets draw odds)

SemiFinals -
Wednesday November 15th
1. Winner of East Division vs Eastern WildCard winner (Eastern Division winner gets draw odds)2. Winner of Wast Division vs Western WildCard winner (Western Division winner gets draw odds)

USCL Finals -
Wednesday November 22nd
1. Eastern Division Champion vs Western Division Champion (if tied a tiebreak will follow)

Click here to go back to the US Chess League Homepage

Hawaii State Championship Sept 2 - 4, 2006

Aloha Hawaii Chess players & friends,

Its that time of year again, who will be crowned the top Hawaii chess player the Hawaii State Championship is scheduled for Sept 2 - Sept 4, 2006, five rounds, at G/120 minutes see www.hawaiichess.org for tournament details as well as others scheduled over the next year. Its a Open tournament for all players, there will be no Novice section tournament this year, but a few additional prize awards have been added to encourage players to play in this event, from over 50 to under 10. This a USCF www.uschess.org rated event and CXR www.cxrchess.com will also be rating this event.

There will be no Speed tournament this year, but will probably be rescheduled for later in the year!

Hawaii CXR top players are as follows above 1200 rating who are current members, the rest can be found at www.cxrchess.com

Cornelius Rubsamen repeats as Hawaii Rapids Champion for 2006

Aloha,

Once again Cornelius Rubsamen Q 2059, CXR 2248, is Hawaii's Rapids State Champion for 2006 with a prefect score 0f 7.0 points, Chet J Gionson Q 1882 CXR 2005 came in 2nd with 6.0 points and Robert M Lau Q 1812 CXR 2043, Sujeet D Mehta Q 1604, & Gavin Ontai Q 1218 came in tied for third with 5.0 points. Had 31 chessplayers, of which 17 were scholastic players. All were U.S. Chess Federation players and 20 were current CXR members. CXR = Chess Express Ratings www.cxrchess.com. Note: July 16 the new CXR web site will be active, its currently undergoing final beta testing!

The Hawaii Rapids State Championship was held outdoors in the Mililani Town Center under the Gazebo TD was Guy Ontai, the weather was warm and so there were lots of fireworks on the Fourth of July "over the Chessboards". The giant chessboard was out and there was lots of action on it!

No chess notated games have been emailed to me yet, but will place them here as well any photos that become available!

There still lots of chess action left this summer before the Hawaii State Championships (details forecoming). See calendar below. Its may include a scholastic section this year USCF rated and CXR rated of course! This will count as the first HICL- Hawaii Interscholastic Chess League event followed by the Sept 30 3rd Annual Le Jardin Academy tournament.

Also please visit one of local chess clubs, Mondays -Honolulu Chess Club at Manoa Valley District Park, Kailua Chess Group at Kailua District Park, Tuesday - Pearlridge Chess Club at Pearlridge Mall, Wednesday - Windward Chess Club - Kailua District Park, Thursday - Mililani Chess Club at Mililani Recreation Center #6. There also the Waikiki Tables by the beach and several Starbucks have informal chess groups meetings at various locations!

Hawaii Chess Calendar for 2006 and start of 2007

Red = Rated HICL & CXR


Thu 8/3/06 6 pm Reg. G/5 Blitz Chess Tournament
TD: Guy P. Ontai
$3 for Open Section, Free for Novice
Mililani Chess Club - Mililani Mauka Rec Ctr 6

Aug 5-13, 2006 US Open Oak Brook, IL
http://www.uschess.org/tournaments/2006/usopen/
Denker Tournament and the Polgar Polgar Tournament
are held at the US Open location
(6 rounds, one per day at 11 am)

Fri 8/11/06 HCF Board of Directors Meeting
Contact: Randy Prothero
5:30pm Dillingham Sizzlers

Sat. 8/12/06 9am Reg Mililani Chess Day G/5
TD: Guy Ontai
The Town Center of Mililani - Near Gazebo in Center
Also Open Play, Free Lessons & The Giant Chess Set

Thu 8/24/06 6pm Reg. G/5 Bug House Tournament
TD: Randy Prothero
$3 for Open Section, Free for Novice
Mililani Chess Club - Mililani Mauka Rec Ctr 6

Sat. 9/2/06 State Blitz Championships
Details TBA

Sat.-Mon 9/2- 9/4/06 State Open Championships & Scholastic Tournament ???
TD: Larry Reifurth
Details TBA

Thur. 9/7/06 6pm Reg. G/15 Quick Chess Tournament
TD: Guy P. Ontai
$3 for Open Section, Free for Novice

Sat. 9/30/06 2006 Le Jardin Academy Interscholastic
TD: Frank Alejandro
9:30am Reg. 10:30am Rd1
$10 (includes CXR fee) if post dated by 9/23, $15 at door
(Turn left at Quarry Rd off of Kailua Rd coming from Honolulu)
from the Pali Rd.
Le Jardin Academy - Auditorium
917 Kalanianaole Hwy - Kailua, HI

Sat. 10/14/06 9am RegMililani Chess Day G/45 USCF Rated
TD: Randy Prothero
The Town Center of Mililani - Near Gazebo in Center
Also Open Play, Free Lessons & The Giant Chess Set

Fri 11/10/06 Veterans Interscholastic G/25
TD: Guy P. Ontai
$5 in advance, $10 at Door
Open and Novice Section
Details TBA

Sat. 11/18/06 9am Reg Mililani Chess Day G/45 USCF Rated
TD: Randy Prothero
The Town Center of Mililani - Near Gazebo in Center
Also Open Play, Free Lessons & The Giant Chess Set

Sat 12/2/06 Winter Interscholastic G/25
TD: Guy P. Ontai
$5 in advance, $10 at Door
Open and Novice Section
Details TBA


Mon 1/15/07 MLK Interscholastic G/25
TD: Guy P. Ontai
$5 in advance, $10 at Door
Open and Novice Section
Details TBA

Mon 2/19/07 Presidents 4x4 Team Interscholastic G/25
TD: Guy P. Ontai
$5 in advance, $10 at Door
Open and Novice Section
Details TBA

Fri/ Sat 3/9/07- 3/10/07 2007 State Scholastic Championships
TD: Guy P. Ontai
Windward Community College
Details TBA

Monroi a new technology for recording chess games & tournaments!

Aloha,

Its been awhile since anyone placed any more information about Monroi. The World database is growing but for games to be added from a tournament a Personal Chess Manager (PCM) and a Professional Tournament Manager(PTM) & Monroi S/W are needed at the tournament in question. PCM's are not used by everyone and normally only few are currently used. It you look at the June 16 to 18 Las Vagas National Tournament, there is about 20 games at http://www.monroi.com per round so more than lightly there were 20 PCM's in use. The cost is probably a factor, but hopefully that will go down as Monroi becomes a more popular to be used in tournaments.

So to answer the question, what about the games that no PCM was used!? Well hopefully someone turned in the chess notataion sheet and then someone else will inputed into a computer and it will showup someday at Chessbase or other database. The World Database is only for those using the Monroi equipment both PCM and PTM and software. As any new system or equipment you got to start somewhere! And I'm sure more upgrades will be coming soon as Monroi becomes better known and then maybe another company may come up with a better system in the future or Monroi will keep improving their equipment.

For now the cheaper route is the good old pencil and paper, just be sure you have a pencil sharper handy and an eraser, and hope you do not get into time pressure and then not write the last few moves of a game.

Some players actually used both pencil and paper along side the Monroi PCM, just in case! See http://susanpolgar.blogs pot.com/2006_06_01_susanpolgar_archive.h tml

Has anyone in Hawaii used a Monroi PCM, not yet but that is about to change, will it appear on World database? Not yet no PTM was purchase, plus who would want to see my games anyway at this time!

Cost is the main issue, but if you have a laptop or computer at home, or PDA, and cell phone these devices were all costly too! They are used to communicate and their prices have come down a little. Monroi has an idea to make chess games more interesting for everyone and to share these games not just in a database on the Internet but in realtime! I observe Hawaii's State Champion from 97, 98, 99 play Kong Liang Deng (2478) at the Las Vegas event even though I was in Hawaii. I believe ICC was offering this as well for the top 10 boards where do you think they were getting the chess notataion for these games in progress!

As a chess instructor for beginner's to intermediate this new tool will assist me greatly, Mahalo Monroi!

By the way pencil and paper work fine at a personal level and I will be teaching chess notation always to my students!

Windward Chess Club moves to Kailua District Park for 15 months!

Aloha Hawaii Chess Players,

Due to Windward Mall renovating the mall we were asked to move out of the mall! Unfortunally Kaneohe District Park also is being renovated and so they could not house us either, so Kailua District Park was kind enough to offer the space, trying my best to keep the meetings on Wednesday's since we have other Hawaii chess clubs that meet on other days of the week.

Windward Chess Club will be meeting at the Kailua District Park possibly for the next 15 months, we need you to come and support this club, so that the District Park sees there is indeed a large group of chess players that need a meeting place on the Windward side of the Island. Let others know we moved and check http://chess.meetup.com/9/events for location of Windward Chess Club (WCC) Wednesday meetings 5:30pm to 8:45pm as well as the summer chess classes at Palolo Tuesdays and Kailua on Mondays for begineer scholastic players.

The Kailua District Park meeting rooms are smaller, but if we show we can bring a larger group we may be able to get more space, so we need your support. No A/C just good ole Trade winds to keep us cool, bring your workout clothes, lots of other things to do at the Park, like start training for the Honolulu Marathon!!

WCC is the ONLY public chess club that offers CXR rated match games and Quads currently in Hawaii, For current Quad results go to http://www.windwardchess.org/Results.html. So if you do NOT see your name below, either you have not played in 61 days (to remain an "Active" players) or your membership expired, Scholastic $5, adults $12, see Frank Alejandro on how to renew! As you see CXR in not only a national club rating, its an International chess club rating, with Mexico and Canada in the rating picture as well!

Questions please email me or call!

And my question to you, if have your own chess club, why is it not listed?

For map follow this link http://chess.meetup.com/9/events

Like to play a another game besides chess WCC will also have nice wooden Go boards available for those interested in this game. So there you have another reason to come, Chess, Go and training your body for long games via sports of your choice at the Kaiilua District Park,

Mahalo,

Frank

Very important, please take poll at http://chess.meetup.com/9 concerning meeting location for Windward Chess Club! ASAP

Aloha Windward Chess Club (WCC) Players, parents, HCF board, and Friends,

http://chess.meetup.com/9 please take our location change poll at Meetup, ASAP!
Please let us know where you like WCC to meet to ensure you can come to the club! We have limited known possible locations. Due to the durations (15 MONTHS) I thought the district park at Kailua would be best and to keep it on Wednesdays or Tuesday's if we need to change the date. Also the main Kaneohe District park is preparing to go under renovations as well so we could not go there and they already have other events going on there on Wednesdays! Tuesdays conflict with the Pearlridge Chess Club, Monday with Honolulu Chess Club, and Thursday with the Mililani Chess Club for those that go there is as well!

I already have chess class (group) at Kailua on Mondays from 3:30pm to 5:00pm, so I know Kailua area has an interest in chess and many players do visit the Windward Chess Club on Wednesdays as well. this would encourage these players to come, plus its close to the beach and the rest of us can visit the beach before or after the chess meeting!

We have only two more meetings at Windward Mall (June 7 & 14) and so our first meeting away from the mall will be June 21. Right now I'm lobbying for Kaila District Park on Wednesdays 5:30pm to 8:30pm! But please take our poll and lets see what the majority say, if select another location that not listed please email ASAP with your suggestion!

Tomorrow night (June 7th) we will decided at our regular meeting as we are running out of time to find a new location!

Windward Mall has express an interest inviting us back on Sept 2007 when the renovations are over and this novation effects other activities at the mall not just the chess club. Please let the Windwared Malll we appreciated the last 4 1/2 years of playing chess at the mall and we hope to continue when the revocations are completed!

Mahalo,

Frank