Tuesday, March 19, 2013

Pre-register 3/20/2013

Albers Trevis
Albers Hailey
Allyn  Geordyn
Allyn  Mcya
Arramreddy Arramreddy
Botez Andrea
Caplazi Stefan
Caplazi Isabel
Cox Tylor
Ferner Cole
Jordon Pike
Lancaster Sophia
Lancaster Carter
Le  Patrick
Lew Masaki
Mancuso Connor
Maslen James
Maslen Arlo
Maslen Paul
Nelson Kay
Norton Jace
Petek  Jaidyn
Phelps Keegan
Phelps Joshua
Phelps Nolan
Roshu Cassandra
Roshu David
Severin Crisy
Strigul  Michael
Strigul  Alexander






































































































Happy Valley Chess K-8 Championship


Date: Friday, March 22, 2013
Start Time: 10:00 am   End Time: 4:30 pm
(Time Zone: US/Pacific)

Location: Happy Valley Elementary School

Category: OR-OSCF Champ. Qualifiers

Description


Time: Friday, March 22, 2013
10:00am – approximately 4:30pm.

Pre-Registration : To register, send your name/age, grade/school, and your NWSRS ID) to happyvalleychess@gmail.com with subject line: "HV Chess K-8 Championships". Registration will close on Thursday, March 21 at 7:00 pm. 
NEW: Late registration Friday between 9-9.30
You can check your ID here:

http://myrating.chess4life.com/nwsrs_players/search

Check in: 8:00-9:30am. If you are late, you still can play starting with round 2. You don't have to play all the rounds. In case you decide not to play in a round, please inform the Tournament Director ahead of time. Zero points for byes.

Cost: $20.00 payable on site

Description: Tournaments are a great way to help players apply knowledge and gain necessary practical skills to achieve success. This tournament will be held Swiss style, and will take approximately 5 hours.

Eligibility/Sections: This tournament is NWSRS rated and open to any kids up to grade 8. Players will be group in the following sections: K-2, 3-4, 5-6, 7-8. The kids participating for the first time in a chess tournament (no previous chess ratings) will have their own sections: Novice K-4 and Novice 5-8. Organizers reserve the right to make smaller adjustments to sections format.

Rounds/Times: Five rounds
Game/30 (25/5 for time-delay clocks)

Awards: Trophies for top 3 players in each section! Medals for anyone who has at least 2.5 points and no trophy. Chess gift for everyone with 2 points or less. Computer generated tie-breakers will be used to decide top 3.

Pre-registered players will be listed at:
http://happyvalleychess.blogspot.com/

** An adult must accompany all the participants under 12 years old. If the child is not supervised they will be forfeited and asked to leave the tournament.

Contact: Andrei Botez
Email: iushu@hotmail.com

More Info: http://happyvalleychess.blogspot.com/

Location Details

Happy Valley Elementary School
13865 SE King Rd
Happy Valley OR 97086

Contact: Andrei Botez
Email: iushu@hotmail.com

More Info: http://happyvalleychess.blogspot.com/

Location Details

Happy Valley Elementary School
13865 SE King Rd
Happy Valley OR 97086

Thursday, October 4, 2012

Tournament announcement

Clackamas K-12 Open

Date: Saturday, October 20, 2012 

Location: Clackamas High School

Category: OR-OSCF Champ. Qualifiers
Description
This tournament is open to all K-12 players of all skill levels and it is Clackamas High School Chess Club's first event. It will have multiple grade based sections which will reward individual performance as well as team performance. 

• All K-12 players of all levels are welcome to play.
• This tournament is NWSRS rated. No annual membership fee or prior tournament playing experience required. 
• Participation in this tournament counts towards the OSCF State Championship tournament attendance requirements.
• All sections are NWSRS rated. Latest NWSRS ratings will be used for pairings. Participants without ratings will be assigned a rating for pairing purposes of 100 times their grade (i.e. 6th grade x 100 = 600).
• Ties will be broken by SwissSys pairing system (Tie break order- Cumulative, Opponent’s cumulative, Solkoff, Performance of Opposition).
• Bring chess clocks, notation paper & pen/pencil. (Boards and sets provided.)
• Parents/coaches bring additional chess sets, book, etc... to keep everyone busy between rounds.
• 100% Pre-Registered Event. No on-site registrations accepted. Online registration through www.oscf.org
• Entry deadline is 11:59 pm, Tuesday, 10/16/12. Cost is $25. A family discount is offered. The cost for two siblings is $40 and three siblings is $50. Late registration is offered on Thursday 10/18/12. The cost is $40. There is no family discount if you register late. No extensions will be given after that time.

TO REGISTER, send an e-mail to Ed Addis at chessalot@aol.com. The Subject line should be titled CHS Chess and include the player(s) name, school, grade, and your phone number in the message. You may also call (503) 658-7809 with the information. 

HALF POINT BYE: Playing soccer in the morning or afternoon or simply cannot make it to every round, but you still want to play? Participants can request a Half Point Bye(s) for any round for any reason. All requests must be sent by e-mail to Ed Addis at chessalot@aol.com by Thursday October 18, 2012.

PAYMENT: Please send your check or money order payable to (Please note player name, grade, and school attending):
Clackamas HS – Chess Club
14486 SE 122nd Ave
Clackamas, OR 97015

All entries on or after 10/12/12 must pay on site by cash or check.

SECTIONS: All sections will play 5 rounds using the Swiss pairing system. We will avoid pairing team members against each other as much as possible (i.e, after 3 rounds the 3-0 score group has 4 individuals and 3 are from the same school). Tournament organizers reserve the right to add or combine sections depending on the number of registrations. 

HIGH SCHOOL SECTION: Students in grades 9th - 12th. Notation required.

MIDDLE SCHOOL SECTION: Students in grades 6th - 8th. Notation highly recommended.

ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SECTION: Students in grades 3rd - 5th. Notation recommended

PRIMARY SCHOOL SECTION: Students in grades K - 2nd. Notation would be great, but is not expected.

TIME CONTROL: For all sections is Game in 30 minutes with 5 second delay. Games started without clocks may have chess clocks placed on them when 40 minutes has elapsed from the start of the round with 10 minutes remaining for each contestant.

SCHEDULE:

8:15 - 8:45 am ---- CHECK IN
9 AM------------------ 1st Round
10:15 AM------------ 2nd Round
11:30 AM------------- 3rd Round
12:30 PM--------------LUNCH
1:30 PM -------------- 4th Round
2:45 PM--------------- 5th Round
4:15 PM----------------AWARDS

INDIVIDUAL AWARDS: For those finishing in 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place and all individuals with a Plus Score (3 points or higher) in each section. Additionally, there will be many door prizes donatated by local businesses.

TEAM AWARDS: Six Trophies will be awarded to top 2 teams representing a High School, Middle School, and Elementary/Primary School. The number of entries from any one school is not limited, but only the top four individual scores will be used to determine the team's total.

Contact: Ed Addis
Email: chessalot@aol.com
Phone: (503) 658-7809

Location Details

Clackamas High School
14486 SE 122nd Ave
Clackamas OR 97015 US

Monday, September 10, 2012

September 18th 2012 - first meeting for this year

Hello everyone,

Our first meeting this scholastic year will be Tuesday, September 18th 2012 at 16.15 at Happy Valley Elementary/Middle School Library.

Everyone is welcomed!

Tuesday, June 12, 2012

Summer chess

After our last club meeting in the Happy Valley Elementary library on June 12, 2012 everyone who wants to play chess over summer can go at Holgate Public Library on Saturday.

7905 S.E. Holgate Blvd.
Portland, OR 97206
 
 
http://events.multcolib.org/eventinstance/chess-library-48 every Saturday between 1:00pm - 5:30pm

Wednesday, May 2, 2012

Congratulations!

Five kids - five trophies at Oregon State Scholastic Tournament.

- Stefan - Champion Elem Intermediate Section
- Eddie - Champion Elem Prep Section
- Crisy - tie for 3rd place Primary Intermediate Section
- Andrea - tie for 4th place Elem Elite Section
- Connor - Blitz Champion Elem Advanced Section

Thursday, April 19, 2012

Oregon State Championship - Happy Valley Elementary invited players

I would like to congratulate (in no specific order) our players who qualify to 2012 Oregon State Scholastic Chess Chamionship:

Jacob S and Jacob D, Stefan, Andrea, Conner, Chrisy!

Congratulation!